#ttc iui

[operation-buninoven]

Well, we had an IUI on June 15th and now we have 3 healthy little babies!

[ttctedtalks]

Hi, friends! Just a PSA to block @/poirotfanatic because they’re going through the TTC tag commenting irrelevant and potentially triggering comments on TTC/infertility blogs. We’ll reblog a few examples for you, but just thought we’d try to save some pain!

-🧸 & 🐥

[kristyyyyyyyybee]

just crying together in the waiting room because we never realized our journey to parenthood would leave us here - a sterile office environment where we are poked and prodded and our bodies are manipulated.

missing the days of when we first started trying and laughed nervously in bed (our soft, comfy bed with a candle lit and lights down low) like two new lovers naked together for the first time.

[ren-writes-stories]

9dpo

AKA time when you know you’d be crazy to test, but you really want to anyone, believing you may be one of those people who gets a crazy early BFP. 

Someone distract me with interesting nerdy or cute stuff. 

[jasmarshae]

👶🏾👶🏾👶🏾👶🏾

Today was our mid cycle sonogram #2! It went way better than we expected!

1. My right follicle went from 14.5mm to 21.5!

2. My left follicle went from 13mm to 18mm.

3. My uterine lining went from 10mm to 15mm!

The doctor scheduled my IUI for tomorrow 1/15 at 11:30am and we couldn’t be more excited! She went over with us again about the possibility of having twins. I was so excited looking at all the twin items online. But now that it’s a real possibility I’m terrified. Just thinking of labor, school clothes and supplies 😩😩😬😬. But then on the other hand..two babies. TWO BABIES! Being able to just have two babies and they would be able to grow up together and it would be awesome.

Fingers crossed. Pray for us!

[ttcmisadventures]

Facts I’ve learned about beta hcg levels

1. In a normal healthy uterine (IUP) pregnancy beta hcg levels should “double” every 2-3 days in the first few weeks then it slows down and can even plateau as the pregnancy progresses

2. A rise of at least >53% in 48 hours is acceptable for a normal IUP

3. A rise of <35% in 48 hours signals big trouble

4. Hcg levels are the signal of a healthy pregnancy and there’s nothing you can do to help it rise and raising it artificially with shots will not delay or resolve the inevitable

5. An early slow rise in the first few weeks indicates a possible ectopic pregnancy whereas an initially normal rise that slows below the acceptable doubling threshold indicates potential impending miscarriage

6. Most miscarriages are caused by chromosomal problems and are just bad luck. It was doomed to failure from the beginning as soon as sperm met egg. About 1/3rd of embryos have chromosome issues that make them incompatible with life.

7. Hcg is an indicator for the health of the placenta and it also tells your body to make progesterone which helps you stay pregnant.

8. If your hcg level dips the odds of it rising again are very very slim. Usually a drop = miscarriage. Rare exceptions include vanishing twin syndrome where one twin fails and gets reabsorbed but the second twin survives.

9. Your hcg level has to be over 1,000 at a minimum to see anything on an ultrasound

10. Having a higher BMI is correlated with lower hcg levels however it doesn’t affect the doubling rate

[madewithl0ve-blog1]

Day one on Femara

And my trigger shot will be here tomorrow. I'm so ready for my IUI!

[papercranesandroses]

Eli: Dr. Kepner, you really think I can't tell when someone's in pain, too?

April: That's not... You don't have to worry about that.

Eli: So, what, I should worry about my wife not getting here before I pass out? Or the fact that my skin is giving up being actual, you know, skin?

April: I can give you morphine and...

Eli: No, no, listen, listen, the Talmud says if someone is sick or in need and you can take away 1/60th of their pain, then that's goodness. That's God. You can't take away a 60th of something if you don't know what it is.

April: That's not your job.

Eli: It is exactly my job, and I prefer to do it till the bitter end. Come on. You're not gonna deny a dying man's wish?

April: You're not...

Eli: Aren't I? Dr. Kepner, I've held enough dying men's hands in my career. I know it's mine this time.

April: I am sorry, Eli.

Eli: Don't be sorry. You're doing your job. Just let me do mine.

April: I'm not... I'm fine. I don't need anything. What?

Eli: You're a terrible liar. I like that.

April: All right, fine. What's that saying? "If I'm not for myself, who will be for me?" Well, I am taking care of myself, for once. That's all.

Eli: Oh, and you realize that that phrase is not an invitation for narcissism, right?

April: You're calling me a narcissist? Sure you don't want more pain meds? It'll knock you right out.

Eli: I don't blame you. You know, it's human nature. You face enough hardship, then you can't help but think that you're being punished, that you did something to deserve it.

April: I did nothing to deserve... Okay. My whole life, I followed His rules. I studied, I believed, I practiced what I preached. I did every single thing He asked of me.

Eli: And that guarantees you what?

April: Excuse me?

Eli: Well, where is the guarantee? In the sequel? 'Cause, I have to admit, I'm not as up on that as I used to be.

April: If by the sequel, you mean the New Testament, that's pretty funny.

Eli: No, no, where is it written exactly that if you do this or that, that everything in your life's gonna be good? Nowhere, in any faith, is there a guarantee.

April: I'm not asking for everything to be good all the time. But fair, I think that I...

Eli: Fair? Was it fair when Isaac went blind and then his child betrayed him? And where was the fairness when Sara had to wait 99 years before she had a child, and God said, "Sacrifice him"? And Moses couldn't even get past the bouncer to the Promised Land. And like I said, I'm not up on the sequel, but from what I hear, Jesus got a raw deal. Nobody in the Bible lived a life free of suffering or injustice, or it wouldn't have been a best seller. And if they lived lives like that, why should ours be different? Now, if people only believed in God when things were good, I guarantee you, after the Holocaust, not a single Jew would be a believer.

April: Okay. Well, see, now you mention the Holocaust, and anything I say after that makes me...

Eli: A narcissist?

April: I was gonna say jackass.

Eli: Faith wouldn't be real faith if you only believe when things are good.

April: Well, so, what? The world is just cruel and random, and there's nothing anyone can do about it?

Eli: Look, I don't have a lot of time here. Do you mind if I just skip to the part where I pretend I don't know what to tell you? I'm just gonna tell you, okay?

April: Okay.

Eli: You sound like a child.

April: What?

Eli: Terrible things happen. Terrible, wonderful, devastating things happen. Who the hell are you to know why? Who are you to know why some people live and some people die?

April: Children die. Children who didn't do anything wrong, children who were broken before they had a chance to be whole, who were climbing in their own front windows.

Eli: Right. And you don't get to know why any more than than I get to know why I'm dying from taking a pill that saves lives, that saves nearly everyone's life but it's killing me. So you can either believe in God and goodness, or you can believe it's pointless, it's cruel, and it's random. Whatever makes you happier. Are you? Happy?

April: It's not narcissism.

Eli: Then what is it?

April: Pain.

Eli: Unimaginable pain. Yeah, I know the feeling. God's not indifferent to our pain. Listen, tikkun olam. Tikkun olam means that the world is full of brokenness and it's our job to put it back together again. It assumes that the world is broken and in need and in pain. And it's our job to fix it.

April: Eli, let me let me give you some more morphine. I can I can take away the pain. 1/60th of your pain. I can do that. Please let me.

Eli: You already did.