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The BIG Plan: Project Dream 2015
Since we had to sit out this cycle due to my HUGE 50mm cyst…yes, I typed that right….50 mm….weird how I can’t grow my freakin’ lining a measly 8mm but cysts I can grow to 50mm?! Arg! Anyways, I went in...
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New Cycle, New Protocol=New Results?!
O.K….it’s finally time to try something new! CD 1 has arrived and I had my ultrasound Monday on CD 3 to make sure that pesky cyst is gone from my last natural cycle…..and it is! Yipee!! Here we come...
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FET #5-Lining Update
So….just have a quick update. From my last post, some of you know that I’ve started FET #5 trying to grow my lining with Tamoxifen. I started taking Tamoxifen last Monday, Nov.10,CD3(or what I...
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FET #5-Lining Update #2
So…I’ve been feeling really good about this cycle. I’ve just felt different. Like a warmth in my uterus and I’ve been doing everything I can to help this lining along. Acupuncture. Baby aspirin....
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FET #5-Lining Update #3
Sorry I didn’t update yesterday but my appt was late in the day and then I had a dinner meeting after….so I’ll just make this a quick one. I pretty much gave up on this cycle…I mean, my lining was...
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The Waiting Room
So last week CD 1 showed and that means on CD 3, I make the visit to my RE’s office. I’ve been doing this for almost 2 years now..same RE’s office…same deal. For this entire year…the only thing I’ve...
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Giving up on…..Hope
I had high hopes for this month. I’ve been patient with both of my IVF cycles, all of my cancelled FET’s and cysts that have gotten in the way. A 40mm cyst last month just made me think, “Well, way to...
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IVF #3—Stim Days 1-5
Well, well, well….here we are AGAIN, Full IVF #3….it’s interesting to me when people count FET cycles as IVF cycles…because if I were to do that, it would be IVF #9 or #10…and that just...
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Infertility Awareness Week— I Believe
In honor of Infertility Awareness Week…I want to simply dedicate a song to all of you beautiful men and women going through this journey of a very misunderstood disease. If you have just started your...
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“You Are So Lucky”
Yep…that’s what someone said to me recently when I opened up about about my struggle to get pregnant. What? Lucky?? Exactly what I thought. WHAT?? I explained how we went through all of these...
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Part One-The Gestational Surrogacy Process: Finding Your Surrogate
If you’ve ever been faced with the gut-wrenching news that you may not be able to carry your child and have a successful pregnancy, I’m talking to you. I understand how you feel. It is overwhelming....
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Part Two-The Gestational Surrogacy Process: Step-By-Step
Part One of The Gestational Surrogacy Process was finding your surrogate. Now here is Part Two, the step-by-step process. I left you off with us finding our gestational surrogate, my amazing sister❤...
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Haven’t We Struggled Enough?
I’ve thought about this often battling this disease of infertility. The struggle. I remember when I first started trying to conceive, I compared myself to others. I would read about someone who started...
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Countdown to FET (Gestational Carrier/Surrogate)
I’ll admit…I’m a little behind….but I’m catching you all up on everything now…. All of this has taken SOOOO long, I feel like I’ve waited and waited and waited…..(o.k…I have) To finally get to a real...
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How Many To Transfer? FET (Gestational Carrier/Surrogate)
With our upcoming FET to our gestational carrier (my sister!) tomorrow!!!, we’ve been asked many times, how many will you transfer? I probably haven’t thought about this as much as most do because any...
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A Letter To My Embryo on the Day of Transfer (Gestational Carrier/Surrogate)
Dear Baby W, This is the day we’ve been waiting for. Honestly, I have been waiting my entire life for this. Over 38 years. You were created in January 2014…over 2 years ago. For those 2 years, you were...
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FET Transfer (Gestational Carrier/ Surrogate)
I meant to update you all yesterday but I’m still just processing it all. When we finally decided to go the gestational carrier route (o.k…let’s be real…I didn’t “decide”, it was my only option at this...
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Night Before Beta (Gestational Carrier/Surrogate)
I literally feel sick. I have no control. There’s absolutely nothing I can do now. Whatever is meant to happen, has already happened. And how about really having no control……this is not even happening...
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Beta Results (Gestational Carrier/Surrogate)
First, I want to thank you all so much for your support. So many times I’ve felt so alone in this nightmare…and other times when I read your comments and texts, I feel I have the greatest...
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Ultrasound (Gestational Carrier/Surrogate)
So here we are….ultrasound time. I’ve been a bag of nerves I tell ya…I mean, how can I not be?? I have no control. This baby is in someone else’s body. It’s a blessing that it happens to be my very own...
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