First let me apologize - I took a serious hiatus! After battling infertility for as long as I had... I simply wanted to revel in motherhood for a while. Now I'm comfortably 4 months into motherhood and I'm ready to start embracing my fertility battle again.
So I guess it's time for some updates. For starters, my little one is just awesome! She's a feisty little thing, who hates to sleep in the day but sleeps through the entire night! She's healthy, vibrant and a pleasure to be around.
As for me - well the OB put me on the minipill for contraception. It was fine until I looked in the mirror one day and realized that my hair was falling out from my hairline! It was friggin bald in the front just like the picture to the left!!! I couldn't believe it. I instantly decided to come off the mini pill. DH and I will just take our chances with condoms for contraception.
So while I was lamenting the loss of my hairline - which has started to grow back - something awesome happened. A few weeks after my withdrawal bleed from stopping the mini-pill, I had a period. It was a regular 4 day period!!!!! I'm eagerly waiting to see if I get another period in a month but this is a friggin good sign. I haven't decided if I"ll try to conceive on my own or if I should use my frozen eggs. I hear so much about PCOS women with kids with defects, I can't help but think it's partly due to the out of whack hormones we have. Even though we can drop eggs, I have to question the quality of the eggs that we drop. That being said, I have perfectly good grade A inspected eggs in the bank..... I'm almost leaning towards thinking that it's irresponsible for me not to go with the more monitored approach....
Anyway this is just my post to step back into my blogging!
Showing posts with label AF. Show all posts
Showing posts with label AF. Show all posts
Monday, November 21, 2011
Thursday, September 2, 2010
Furious with AF
Well... after my BFN - after my first IVF, I was looking forward to a
long weekend. I had all kinds of festive activities planned. I was
anticipating AF showing up about a week or so after I stopped my
progesterone. In fact, I was expecting that worst case scenario, AF
would show up right around the end of my weekend. Giving me at least 2
days of fun in the sun. Not only that - but I was looking forward to 5
days where I could actually enjoy some sexual activity with Dh. But NO -
Mother Nature wasn't hearing any of that. 2 days after I stopped my
progesterone... AF shows up! So I've had 1 round of sex in i think 6
weeks. Ugh!!! And my nurse warned me that this will be heavier than a
normal period - as if a chick with PCOS knows what a normal period is!
So this is just my venting - because it's irritating that this is one
more thing I'll have to give up for this. Can't exercise during cycles
because of how sick I was, can't drink, can't take any caffeine, can't
eat naughty things, and can't have sex. Ugh... is there anything else
that this TTC mission hasn't taken away from me?
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