Its National Infertility Awareness Week and this years theme is #StartAsking Every day people with infertility are asking questions. “Why me?” “How can we afford this?” “Why don’t you understand?” National Infertility Awareness Week® is not only an opportunity to raise awareness…
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National Infertility Awareness Week 2016
Tagged with: clomid, conceiving, infertility, infertility awareness, IVF, PCOS, Pregnancy, TTC
Posted in IVF/Infertility, Uncategorized
Posted in IVF/Infertility, Uncategorized
What is a “Rainbow” baby?
Someone asked me this question when I said I hope to get pregnant with our rainbow baby soon and it got me thinking that maybe there are people out there that do not know what a rainbow baby is… A…
Tagged with: broken heart, FET, grief, infertility, infertility awareness, IVF, Loss, miscarriage, Pregnancy, rainbow baby
Posted in IVF, Loss
Posted in IVF, Loss
So I had my RE appt on Tuesday…
and my lining went to 8.1mm!!! My RE did the sono herself and it was really interesting that she would move the probe slightly and it was 7.5mm and then it went to 9.6mm which was strange. She said she…
Katie Couric Show – Infertility: Stories of Becoming A Parent Against All Odds
Just thought I would share that Katie Couric did a show on infertility and the affects it has on different couples. http://www.katiecouric.com/on-the-show/2013/06/18/infertility-becoming-a-parent-against-all-odds/
Ten words that describe infertility
Someone posted this and I thought it rang sooo true. I wanted to share!!! Here are ten words I would use to describe how infertility feels: 1. Lonely. We saw couple after couple get pregnant before us, our best friends included.…
Tagged with: broken heart, infertility, infertility awareness, IVF, Loss, mental-health
Posted in IVF, Loss
Posted in IVF, Loss
I spoke too soon…I am ovulating I think?
So my CBFM stopped asking for sticks on CD 25 and for shits & giggles I said I would keep taking opk’s till I ran out in about 10-12 days. Good thing I kept testing cause at 3pm I got…
Saline Sono and Trial Transfer Done!!!
So yesterday was the big day. I had the saline sono to see if there were any issues with my uterus and a trial transfer for my FET in June. Both the trial transfer and saline sono were done with…
Tagged with: cervic, FET, infertility, infertility awareness, IVF, lining, mock transfer, saline sono, sonohysterogram, TAC, trial transfer, uterus
Posted in IVF
Posted in IVF
Join the Movement…
Dont you love all the funny ecards that relate to infertility and most of them you can relate to as well… How many times have you heard this? Dont you love the side effects of clomid? Ah fertility drugs…dont…
Tagged with: fertility drugs, FET, funny, funny ecards, infertility, infertility awareness, IVF, national infertility awareness week
Posted in ICLW, IVF
Posted in ICLW, IVF
I really ovulated?!?!
So I thought it was going to be a smooth journey with a plan to induce my period. I have not gotten it since we lost Olivia in February well I guess you have to throw the plan out the…
Tagged with: FET, infertility, infertility awareness, IVF, metformin, ovulation, provera
Posted in IVF
Posted in IVF
Holy Metformin!!!
This post is going to be TMI but I thought I would post anyway…so when I went to the RE to setup a plan for our FET she gave me a prescription for metformin…for those that do not know what…
This Roller Coaster Called Life... 