Hey Lovelies, Today I thought I would write another “ode to progesterone“. Progesterone and I have a long and complex relationship due to infertility and I have used it for three cycles (2 IUI and 1 IVF). Here are some
Hey Lovelies, So, last week I published an opinion piece I had written a while ago about Egg Donation. There has been a lot of talk about egg donation lately and I love it! I think egg donors are a
Hey there Lovelies, Update: This post was written before we embarked on IVF. As I have DOR I was incredibly concerned that it would not work out in our favor and that I might not get any eggs at all.
*Disclaimer: This post documents my Big Fat Positive. Please, take care of yourself. If you’re not in a good headspace to read this- stop now. No hard feelings, XOXXO.* Hey Lovelies, We did our IVF embryo transfer on March 30th
Hey there Lovelies, So, after transfer, started the longest two week wait of my life. You’d think I’d be used to the TWW by now. Being as I am, after all, three years into this hell. That’s a lot of
Hey Lovelies, So in the last post about the transfer I mentioned being PUPO. This is a term that is bandied about within the infertility community but is not a term that RE offices use and my councilor does not
Hello Lovelies, Embryo transfer was a very cool experience. It was so cool that I said to my therapist a few days later that I actually LIKED the IVF journey. And, without any hint of irony, I think I meant
Hey Lovelies, I want to take a really close look at a dichotomy I experienced during IVF. The idea of when life starts and what constitutes a human baby became very confusing to me this month. Let’s start this by
Hello Lovelies, First and foremost, thank you all for being such an understanding group of chicks. This has been a crazy-ass time and I was seriously thrown for a loop with my emotions this cycle. I still don’t know if
Hey Lovelies, Ok… time to come clean. I’m fucking losing it. The period between egg retrieval and embryo transfer is torture. When you know that, in a lab somewhere, your precious embryo-babies exist. Those babies that you’ve been aching for,