15 Weeks

Total Weight Gain: Not really sure. Maybe 2-3 pounds.

Maternity Clothes: Nope, definitely don't need these yet.

Sleep: Not sleeping that well due to two factors: 1) crazy dreams; 2) getting up to pee 4-5 times/night.

Gender: TBA

Movement: I can't feel any yet, but all of our sonograms have showed a jumping, kicking squirming baby!

Food Cravings: Lemon-lime soda.

What I Miss: Coffee, lunch meat, and the occasional glass of wine.

What I'm Looking Forward To: Anatomy scan in exactly 3 weeks when we'll find out the gender of our baby!

Milestones: I'm quite sure this doesn't count but we took a trip to Babies r Us over the weekend. Let's just say I wasn't a fan.

Symptoms: Fatigue, sensitivity to smells, increased urination, increased appetite.

My IVF Stats

If you are reading my blog and have either undergone, are undergoing, or are thinking about undergoing IVF, you may be interested to hear what my stats are. So I'll lay them out for you:

Protocol: Microdose Lupron Flare Cycle (Previous failed IVF and FET were Long Lupron)

CD 2 - 8

• 5 units Lupron (sub-q)
• 150 units Gonal-F (sub-q)
• 75 units Menopur (sub-q)
• .5mg Dexamethosone (po)
• 1 baby aspirin
• prenatal vitamin

CD 9-11

• 5 units Lupron (sub-q)
• 37.5 units Gonal-F (sub-q)
• 75 units Menopur (sub-q)
• .5mg Dexamethosone (po)
• 1 baby aspirin
• prenatal vitamin

CD 12

• Trigger @ 11:30pm
• 5 units Lupron (sub-q)
• 1 baby aspirin
• prenatal vitamin

CD 14

• Egg Retrieval
• 10 retrieved
• 10 mature
• 9 fertilized via ICSI

CD 19

• Embryo Transfer

• Day 5 transfer.
• By day 5 we had 3 "excellent" blasts, 2 morulas, 2-3 six or eight-celled, and a few others that didn't look so great. All 10 embryos has survived until day 5 though, which is terrific.
• We decided to transfer the 3 blasts, since we'd previously transferred 2 "excellent" day 3 embryos in our failed IVF and FET cycles.

CD 19-27

• .5mg Dexamethosone (po)
• 1 baby aspirin
• prenatal vitamin
• Crinone 8% 2x day

BETA Numbers

• BETA #1 (10dp5dt) = 38
• BETA #2 (12dp5dt) = 92.3
• BETA #3 (17dp5dt) = 1,606
• BETA #4 (26dp5dt) = 10,154

Very First Baby Picture

See these beauties? These are the three day-five blastocysts that we transferred during our second fresh IVF cycle. One of these little guys/gals became the baby that is growing inside me. Pretty amazing stuff.

The First Post

Hi! Welcome to the blog that will document our journey through pregnancy and beyond. We'd intended to start this sooner, but life got in the way. So here we are at 14 weeks, 6 days pregnant. We'll just pretend this is the beginning!