Probably Pregnant

The last two days have been wonderful.  S and I both managed to get off work on Tuesday and Wednesday, so we could go to the insemination together and get to spend some quiet us time afterwards.  It was so nice.  On Tuesday morning I got up with S and went to her acupuncture appointment.  I read and drank coffee at a nearby shop while she did the appointment and then we went together to the RE’s office.  I’d never been before, so it was nice to meet the doctor and get to see the place where this was all happening.  We got a report on the second batch of baby brain batter and while it wasn’t as good as Monday’s numbers, the RE said it was more of a normal count while Monday’s count was through the roof.  So the count of motile sperm was 10.25 million according to the report.  The whole thing took about 5 minutes and we got to sit and hold hands and just really smile a lot at each other.  I’m glad I got to be there.  Afterwards, we went and got lunch and some snacks and watched movies all afternoon (including Look Whose Talking and the Lion King, ha), while S kept her butt up in the air for good measure.  Yesterday we did pretty much the same thing, lunch, movies, and relaxing.  

I’m convinced that S is pregnant.  She thinks so too.  We know that it’s way to early to tell, but we think that we have had some lucky signs.  To start with, our first insem the numbers were crazy good and it was a good friend’s birthday that day.  Also, we had this strange and wonderful cold front roll in the last three days, keeping the weather a lovely 75 and breezy most of the time, which is very strange for Austin this time of year.  And we got amazing parking every place we went and we went to get dessert at the grocery store yesterday and S found a $20 bill on the ground.   Plus with so many people thinking happy baby making thoughts for us, surely the universe will listen?  Anyway, we won’t know for sure until May 16^th, which feels like an eternity from now.  But we couldn’t wait and so yesterday, S took a home pregnancy test.  And while we knew that there was no way even if she was pregnant that she would get a positive, we still did it. And of course it was negative, but it was fun to try.  So we are probably going to test again on the 11^th, because our darling roomie is moving out that afternoon and we want to test again while she is still here, and then we will test again on the morning of the 14^th because it is the morning of my birthday party and it will make for such a happy party to know and then we go in for the final official blood draw on the 16^th.  I’m sure some of you are super good about just waiting it out and not testing early, but I honestly just don’t know how you can stand that.  Obviously, we don’t have that sort of patience.  And if it wouldn’t be a bit expensive and bit maddening, I’d have S take a pregnancy test everyday for the next two weeks.  I know that’s silly, but I just gotta know! 

Oh one last thing, good vibes/thoughts for all of us out there trying this month!  I really hope that we ALL get BFP this month and we can all blog and follow the amazing ups and downs of pregnancy together.  Wouldn’t that be amazing?

-Liz

3 Day Count Down!!

Well after one horrible night curled up in bed being miserable, and two days of S reassuring me that everything is going to be okay, I’m back to feeling excited about our upcoming insemination.  I can’t believe that we are so close.  Today is CD 12 or 13 for S (not sure off the top of my head), so S is diligently peeing on OPKs three times a day, burning her moxa, taking her prenatal vitamins, and getting acupuncture done.  She actually has gone a few times and goes in again tomorrow after work.  So we are hoping that our insemination date will be 5/1 or 5/2.  So close! 

I’m really hoping that it will be on 5/1 because that is a Sunday and I have the day off.  I work Monday-Friday, and I’m teaching a class that ends on 5/2 so I couldn’t go at all if it was on 5/2, but I have more flexibility on 5/3 and we both have off 5/4 to send the day together and possibly inseminate if needed.  Either way we are doing two IUIs, I believe 24 hours apart, so I should be able to go to one of the two, no matter what day it falls on.  The little swimmers arrived safe and sound on Monday at the doctor’s office so we are good to go there.  Our office has their own cryo-tank and lets us store the sperm for free, so that makes the shipping part of all of this super easy.  It’s all happening, after so much waiting and planning, the big day is drawing near.  

So if everyone would put good baby vibes out into the world for us this next 4 days, we’d appreciate it!  I keep chanting in my head, “One Hit Wonder” and will be breaking out my One Hit Wonders mix CD tonight to jam out to in the car for the rest of the week.  Can anyone think of anything else we can be doing to up the chances?  Any one know any old wives tales about eating something particular or anything like that?  Just wondering.

-Liz

Hey There Good Lookin’!

So we got the pictures today of our possible baby daddy.  And we think he is totally cute!  They sent us 11 pictures all together from infant to adult.  We had to sign a confidentiality paper that we wouldn’t publish the pictures or do anything public with them, so we can’t put them up on the blog.  If you know us in real life we will probably show them to you eventually.  Right now we don’t really want to show them to many people because it’s really no one’s business and also we just don’t want to hear anything negative about him.  He is what we were looking for, blue eyed, skinny, smart, and normal/cute looking. I was so excited when I saw the package at the door, I just about freaked out.  What a happy exciting week for us!

Now that we have all of our ducks in a row so to speak, it looks like May 1st is our tentative insem date.  S is about to ovulate in the next day or two, and so we don’t have time to do this cycle.  Plus our doctor wants to run a few basic tests on the 3rd day of her cycle before we do the insem, so if everything cycle-wise runs as usual, that puts it at just about May 1st.  I think that this is really exciting because my birthday is May 12th, so that means we could possibly know by my birthday if we are pregnant or not.  Wouldn’t that be a great birthday surprise?!  I did tell S though that her getting pregnant in no way was a replacement for a birthday present though, exciting as it may be.  Ha!  I wish it was going to be in April though, May just sounds really far away right now…
-Liz