Sunday, October 24, 2010

October 2010 (Monitoring)

Okay so finally I'm catching up!!! This month has been very uneventful, no plans for insemination. I've been reading this book and learning new things... Making Babies: A Proven 3-Month Program for Maximum Fertility In the book it talks about the different fertility types, My type is actually 2 (stuck and tired) and from reading, it means my blood is stagnate and my qi (Ch'i) is stagnate too... So I decided to go have acupuncture (if you haven't notice yet I will try anything once!) and it was great!! Found this place in Bloomfield Hills and it's owned by this lady and there are 4 other women that works there too. My acupuncturist name was Monica (specializes in fertility issues) and from just taking my pulse and looking @ my tongue she was able to diagnose that my blood is stagnate and I have blockage in my liver area!! Amazing that she said the same things that the book said....

Okay so this weekend (October 16) I found a fertility monitor on craiglist, and we went to pick it up (nice Sweetest Day gift, huh?) So starting next month I will start using it and hopefully it will help me more..


October 18, I went in to see my RE because I was getting frustrated and I had lots of questions after reading the book. So after all my concerns he decided that we should change my meds to Letrozole tablets (2.5 mg). We also discussed having laparoscopic surgery (look below for details). He wants me to try the new meds and inseminate 1 more time before jumping to surgery, I would rather just jump in!! But I'll try the meds 1st.. I also found out today that my doctor was voted "the best RE in Michigan" (In this months "The Hour Magazine") So that was very reassuring..


Well, this morning (October 21) @ 7 am I had to be @ the doctor's office for my monthly monitoring, Michelle really doesn't like getting up this early!! This month is a little different because I knew we wasn't inseminating this month because our donor is out of town so I didn't take any Clomiphene (ovary simulator). So my follicles weren't mature, I had only one "getting" mature follicle (11 mm, CD 11) so I did learn that my follicles don't develop well without the medicine... Also, the xray tech said that it looks like I already ovulated because she saw a collapsed follicle in my left ovary. But she would have extra blood work done to check...

Nurse called this afternoon, and from the blood work and sonogram it looks like I'm either in the process of ovulating or I ovulated yesterday... lucky for me we're not inseminating this month... But I still will check my cervix mucus tonight...



Laparoscopy is direct visualization of the peritoneal cavity, ovaries, outside of the tubes and uterus by using a laparoscopy. The laparoscopy is an instrument somewhat like a miniature telescope with a fiber optic system which brings light into the abdomen. It is about a big around as fountain pen and twice is long.


So the plan for next cycle is to start the new meds on CD 3-7, start the fertility monitoring and inseminate as many times as I can!!! I also learned about Pre-SeedPre-Seed Personal Lubricant - Multi-use Tube So as we speak I'm click "place order" on Amazon.com... Thanks B and J =))))....



I will end each blog with this disclaimer "I'm not a Doctor or expert on this subject. Anything I say is just informational and you should always speak with your doctor before doing or trying anything I say medically."

Saturday, October 23, 2010

September 2010

Okay so now we're into September and still not pregnant, but very hopefully now because I have found this book that is excellent!! From reading this book I've learned so much... Like every month we have been doing everything right, but never heard of "hostile cervix mucus" but that's when your cervix mucus doesn't get clear and like egg whites. So for the past 2 times we were inseminating Michelle kept saying your mucus is cloudy what does that mean?? I don't know, I told her... Having "hostile cervix mucus" mean that your cervix mucus is thick, cloudy and doesn't get clear and that it kills the sperm before it makes it to your uterus. Some kinda birth control huh?? But from reading this book I've learned that Clomiphene can cause "hostile cervix mucus", so using Mucinex can help thin your cervix mucus (like it thins your nasal mucus =)), or using Robitussin.

So now it's September and it's time to inseminate and our donor is so great that he said he would come over everyday if need be but we decide on every other day. So, from day 10-15 we inseminated 4 times!!! All was in vain because @ the time I should have been fertile my CM was cloudy, it's like I need the Clomiphene to ovulate but after taking it for so long that's one of the side effects....





I will end each blog with this disclaimer "I'm not a Doctor or expert on this subject. Anything I say is just informational and you should always speak with your doctor before doing or trying anything I say medically."

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

August 2010

Okay so in August we had a lot going on but nothing exciting happened, couldn't inseminate in August for 2 reasons, I had a training in Chicago, IL and on the day I would need to inseminate Michelle had to go to the hospital (all is well with her). So we didn't get pregnant that month but we still had our monitoring appt and my follicles were great! I had 3 mature follicles (20 mm, 18 mm, 16x2 mm) and if you remember previously I told you that any follicle over 15 is mature but over 20 is great! Well for this month I had to go in early for monitoring because I would be in Chicago on day 11 or 12, so we did monitoring on day 9. So for me to have good size follicles on day 9 shows that my body is responding excellent to the medicine (Clomiphene, ovary simulator). And on day 22 I went to have blood work to show that I did ovulate for August.


So again no pregnancy for August, but not upset because things happen and we can try again next month...


"I will end each blog with this disclaimer "I'm not a Doctor or expert on this subject. Anything I say is just informational and you should always speak with your doctor before doing or trying anything I say medically."

Update.... July 2010

Okay so I haven't been on here in a while an a lot of things have happened in the months that I was off. I didn't stop trying to get pregnant just was so busy with life that I didn't have time to update you guys. Well, I have so much to tell you, but this time around it may be a little different because I want to give you more information about the ups and downs of trying to get pregnant through insemination. All summer my friends have been coming to me asking me questions about my process and I've learned that it's a lot of information out there that us as women don't know. So all this week I've been thinking how to incorporate information into this blog along with my experiences, I'm still trying to figure that out. But, while I figure that out I decided that I would update you guys about what I've experienced all summer.


Okay so let's start with July 2010, remember how I was saying it would be so good if we had a known donor that would give us sperm? Well, we got him!!! We have this wonderful friend that has decided that it would be a wonderful gift to give us by being our donor. That not only helps us financially but also it gives us some peace of mind because using a sperm bank doesn't really allow you to know your donors personality (nor his mental state?!). So, now we have a "known sperm donor" and that brings a lot of other things to the table. We had to draw up a contract spelling out all the things that both parties wanted. Like, we wanted a donor that wouldn't want any parental involvement and he wanted to make sure he wouldn't have any financial involvement =)). I went on this website www.rocketlawyer.com looking for ideas on how to format such an agreement and to my surprise they had an agreement! All that we had to do was insert our names and information and then we went and had it notarized. Then he went to our doctor's office to "donate" sperm so we could have a sperm analysis and everything was great!

So, after we did all that paperwork it was too late to try for July but we wanted to practice, so he came over did his business and Michelle tried =)))... So I went to the doctors 7 days later to make sure that I ovulated for the month and I had.....


So no pregnancy for July so now we wait to try again in August....












I will end each blog with this disclaimer "I'm not a Doctor or expert on this subject. Anything I say is just informational and you should always speak with your doctor before doing or trying anything I say medically."