Buffy Happiness

Why I read fertility blogs

I’m a masochist?
To find out what we’re doing wrong
To find out what else we can do
To remind myself that we’re not alone
To give Vanessa an hour or two break daily from my TTC obsessing
Hope

No Belated Christmas Gift for us

I tested this morning, and according to the HPT, I am not pregnant. It’s at least a small relief to know that pregnancy probably does not feel like food poisoning, which is what I think I had. I don’t know why Shirley didn’t get sick, too. Maybe it wasn’t even the Chinese food. Maybe her [...]

PG or Flu?

I just returned from Target (lunch hour– I’m back to work) with a bottle of Pepto and a Clearblue Easy pregnancy test. Either I’ve got a stomach bug, or I’m pregnant. I lean toward stomach bug. My stomach has been upset ever since I had Chinese for lunch with my mom yesterday. It feels like [...]

This is just to say that there’s nothing to say

9 dpo, and I have the usual progesterone-related symptoms which could also be perceived as early pregnancy symptoms. I am not getting excited. Where TTC is concerned, I feel like I’m *nowhere*– neither up nor down. That’s actually kind of a welcome change from other months. It’s still early, though. My sanity will likely start breaking [...]

Pricing IVF– Just curious

I just found a breakdown on the cost of IVF. (Scroll way down on that page if you follow the link.) B/c it’s kind of tedious to wade through all of the stuff on that page, I’m summarizing here:

Screening lab: $300 (3%)
Ultrasound/lab work: $3,000 (30%)
Egg recovery: $1,500 (15%)
Fertilization lab: $2,000 (20%)
Embryo transfer: $1,000 (10%)
Ovulation drugs: [...]

Parthenogenesis is so cool.

I wish we could do this. Except for the Oedipal part that comes afterwards.

Post RE Insem

I’m up early this morning b/c between my sinuses and the persistent bloat (Is this Clomid finally working its will on me? I feel like a cow.), I’m too uncomfortable to sleep. Also, Buffy has diarrhea and keeps whining, so I got up to let her out. 3rd poop of the morning already! Poor baby. [...]

Vanessa and Melody try to make a baby

Looks like I ovulated a little ahead of schedule today. I went in for an u/s at 3:30, and my big beautiful follicles from yesterday had shrunk and there was “fluid in the cul-de-sac” behind my uterus, so apparently I’ve popped. Vanessa and I went ahead and did an at-home insemination the minute I got [...]

Just Checking Coverage

“Hi, yes, I need to find out if a couple of tests are covered. … Uh, yes, I need a gonorrhea and a chlamydia culture.”
Vanessa started this post but I (Mel) am going to finish it. The state of Indiana has this crazy law mandating that, if you get artificially inseminated with donor sperm in a [...]