What is wrong with me? A pregnancy test. Really. (it was negative, of course)
Um, hello Nancy?
1) you are on birth control pills. You never miss them.
2) you are on cd18 (again, while on bcp). Even if you were the 0.01% that gets pregnant on birth control pills, you'd be like 6dpo best case scenario. And by O-ing on cd17 on average, you'd be 1dpo.
3) you obviously don't have this getting pregnant thing down to being with - hence you moving to IVF.
See, my boob hurts. Not my boobs. My boob. My left one. Enough to go to the doctor (which, by the way, couldn't find out the problem, so I have a boob ultrasound coming up). And what did she ask me? "Is there a chance of pregnancy?". Uh, no.
Then, I puked my guts out Saturday evening. Felt terrible all night. Okay on Sunday and then again on Monday. I had to take the day off I was puking so badly. Laid around like a slug. And what did like 4 people ask me? "Are you pregnant?"
Everytime someone asks me that, I want to punch them. No, I'm not pregnant. And even if I were, these would ~not~ be my early pregnancy symptoms. But yet I poas.
At least I buy hpts in bulk, right?
... Once (and still) Infertile, but still Schnarky as hell. This blog is dedicated to the daily ramblings from the mind of Nancy. It isn't about anything profound in the grand scheme of things, but it ~is~ about things in my life, schnarkiness always included. I have a second blog, listed in my profile, but the blogs will continue to remain separate.
"I'm aiming for heaven, but I'll probably wind up down in hell"
About Me
- nancy
- I am a 39 year old woman. I am the mother of two beautiful daughters and a handsome son. I am a career woman. As for my TTC world, it certainly doesn't seem like I am "infertile", but I fought for my pregnancies and my TTC/IF history is on the sidebar. I have two blogs, which are both listed in my profile. One focuses on my daily life - including IF, TTC, pregnancy, delivery and even some "children mentioned" posts. The second blog is ~soley~ posts directly about being the mother to my three children.
Belly Pics for #3 only.
Click stick figure to see the consecutive pictures from this pregnancy only.
My TTC History
- Jul 01 ~ married
- Jan 02 ~ First cycle off bcps and opk shows ovulation!
- Dec 02 ~ Went to pcp for RE referral
- Jan 03 ~ Testing commences. S/A perfect. HSG clear.
- Feb 03 ~ Lap #1. All clear.
- Apr 03 ~ Clomid cycle #1. BFN.
- May 03 ~ Clomid cycle #2. BFN.
- Jun 03 ~ Clomid cycle #3. BFN.
- Jul 03 ~ Supposed to be IUI#1, but we missed cd3 so natural cycle
- Aug 03 ~ BFP on C18.
- Apr 04 ~ Ella born.
- Oct 04 ~ decided to ttc #2 and went off minipill to see if I am ovulating. I am. Will start next month.
- Nov 04 ~ TTC#2 starts. BFP. Holy Crap. No freaking way. No way.
- Aug 05 ~ Allison born
- Oct 06 ~ IUD removed. TTC#3
- Jan 07 ~ Large cysts found.
- Feb 07 ~ Femara cyle #1
- Mar 07 ~ Started w/ RE. HSG #2 showed R tube blocked. S/A normal.
- Mar 07 ~ more cysts, up to 9cms.
- Apr 07 ~ more cysts, 3 @ 7-9cms.
- May 07 ~ IUI #1 cancelled due to more cysts
- Jun 07 ~ IUI #1 (take two) w/ Clomid. BFN.
- Jul 07 ~ HSS showed scar tissue in 70% of uterus. Diagnosed with Asherman's Syndrome. Uterine surgery #2
- Aug 07 ~ HSG #3 showed clear tubes.
- Aug 07 ~ IUI #2 w/ Femara. BFN.
- Sept 07 ~ Monitored w/ hCG trigger. BFN.
- Oct 07 ~ HSS #2 showed scar tissue in 30% of uterus. Uterine surgery #3.
- Dec 07 ~ HSS #3 showed tiny amount of scar tissue. Uterine surgery #4.
- Jan 08 ~ HSS #4 showed clear uterus.
- Jan 08 ~ IUI #3, C16. BFN.
- Mar 08 ~ IVF #1, Transfer Cancelled due to lining. Out of 15 eggs, 9 were mature and all 9 fertilized. I have named my 9 embryos "The Mod Squad" and they are in the freezer, waiting for mommy to be ready.
- Apr/May 08 ~ FET #1. C20. 4 embryos "The Fab Four" transferred on 5/05. BFP!!! Very Low Beta (15 at 11dp3dt) but the numers continued to double every 48 hours. Told it was "most likely not viable" and later "most likely ectopic" but we beat all the odds.
- May 16, 08 ~ 11dp3dt (4w0d), beta #1: 15
- May 19, 08 ~ 14dp3dt (4w3d), beta #2: 43
- May 23, 08 ~ 18dp3dt (5w0d), beta#3: 213
- May 27, 22dp3dt (5w4d), beta #4: 1,073
- Jun 08 - Ultrasound showed one heartbeat at 7 weeks.
- Jul 08 - Had CVS testing. Chromosomes are normal and it's a BOY!! EDD: 1/23
- Aug 08 - Jan 09 ~ High risk due to: 1) Velamentous Cord Insertion, deemed biggest risk 2) Previous Placenta Accreta 3) Previous rapid degraged placenta 4) IVF alone can create weak placenta 5) AMA - Advanced Maternal Age. -- All resulting in almost 30 u/s and lots of testing, which ended up saving my life.
- Jan 09 (38w0d) ~ Karl is born! -- Crazy 3 days in hospital. Manual version to flip baby from breech to head down, Labor, Delivery, Emergency surgery due to cord detaching from placenta, Scary heart issues from losing over 40% of my blood supply, and then a blood transfusion due to the extreme loss of blood. Whew!
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15 comments:
I hate it when people ask if your pregnant! It can be the slightest thing like being tired or peeing a lot and people are asking me. I just want slap them and tell them how stupid they are. Even though they are just making conversation its like.... ya know that can actaully be hurtful when someone is asked that question. -Jayme
And what did the magic stick say?
Hope you're feeling better soon. Better enough to punch, anyway.
I was going to POAS tomorrow morning but I can't for the life of me find those 2 IC's I have left over from my last obsessive pee stick mode =P
I had the "maybe you are pregnant" line today too because I haven't felt well this past few afternoons...I'm pretty sure it's because it has hovered around 80 in my office since sunday, but then again, what do I know, right? lol
And ouch about the boob! I hope they found out what is causing it!
Nice!
Always fun to check for the hell of it. I am so curious how you would have felt if you really truly did have "your" preggo symptoms...right after getting your med shipment (by the way, love the image of your daughters by the meds....)!
I think if I had been in the same situation I would have POAS too, hoping I would be one of those 'flukes' people always talk about! I hope you are feeling better.
This may sound bizarre, but recently I had the flu, and I had upper chest and breast pain, along with stomach ills. I hope you feel better soon.
I hate it when circumstances demand a pregnancy test, even when you know there's a snowball's chance in hell you're expecting. For me, it always feels like a slap in the face.
Honestly, I guess I would've done the same thing. But yeah--it's annoying when people keep asking if you're pregnant. Know-it-alls. Sorry you were puking your guts up though! Good luck on the boob. ;)
They probably asked if you could be pregnant as they don't want to do a mammogram on pregnant women as they don't want to cause harm to the fetus. Last year, I had to put off my routine mammogram as there was a slight possibility I was pregnant.
Also, BCPs made me nauseas (sp?) the first month I was on them, although I actually didn't get sick. - Tori
It irritates me to no extent that people assume that because we're in the child-bearing years that if we sneeze or get a little queasy (or get hungry are need to pee) that we must be pregnant. They could at least keep their assumptions to themselves!
I hope you feel better and have better results with HTPs in the near future!
I hope the mysterious boob pain goes away. Unless its like some delayed growth spurt, and only concentrated in one boob, which would be weird if it only grew and the other would be jealous...
Feel better soon!
I especially hate it when ignorant people who know nothing about getting pregnant (because they just sit where there husbands sat and they get KU) ask "Are you Pregnant", My friend asked that the other day and I said I'm not, she says "How do you know, you never know, some people bleed while KU...Bla!Bla!Bla!" It's like, I dont have the time, energy, patiends or will to give her a crash course in my fertility/infertility and TTC life. I wished they could just understand that I really do know when I'm NOT ku.
ROCK ON for POAS Girl.
ToriLou - this was not before a mammogram. This was the first thing she asked me when she walked in the room.
Anywho - the reasonings behind the question isn't what i'm talking about. it's just the question to a woman like myself! :)
Even my husband occasionally asks me that, always sounding hopeful. Which is a little strange, considering I'd have to have slept with somebody else in order to be pregnant. I think the line must just be programmed into people or something.
Go punch them all.
Begging to be smacked, I would write something like, "are you really really sure? You should test again tomorrow."
It sucks--I've done that too.
I totally woulda done the same thing. And I hate that question. A couple weeks after my IUI, I had a friend (actually Josh's boss) ask if it worked and then his wife was like, well it could be implantation bleeding. And then comes the advice--"have you tried....?" "my sister swears that...." etc.
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