What I'm doing:
- Playing a TON of Gardens of Time on FB. The twins, especially N, really like this, and I admit it kills a lot of time...and it's free.
- Trying to remember to drink plenty of water.
- Avoiding the stairs, lifting anything heavy, or raising my core body temperature.
- Spending every spare minute I'm not working reading the blogs of fellow cyclers of the Tour de Crotch.
- Eating...a lot. The progesterone makes me HUNGRY.
- Feeling very upbeat and optimistic. :)
- Staring obsessively at the picture of my embryos. They really are beautiful.
- Taking estrogen, baby aspirin, pre natal vitamins, estrogen patches, and shots of progesterone in the upper quadrant of my ample buttocks.
What I'm not doing. (or trying to not be doing, take your pick)
- Obsessing every minute about symptoms or how I'm feeling.
- Checking the mail every five minutes to see if the letter from the clinic about the remaining embryos is there.
- Worrying about how what I'm doing or not doing, eating or not eating, is affecting the embryos ,chances of implanting.
- Acupuncture, pineapple eating, wheat grass drinking, standing on my head, or any other 2ww craziness.
- Giving into feelings of despair or hopelessness that this cycle is a bust. (at least not yet)
- Peeing on a stick. I will not. no no no no no.
- Drinking alcohol, more than one cup of coffee a day, drinking anything caffeinated other than my 1 cup of coffee.
- Sleeping very much.
What my embryos are doing (hopefully...fingers crossed)
- At six days post ovulation the embryos are most likely still expanding and collapsing like supernovas on crack. At some point, maybe today (please, oh please), the embryos will stretch and polarize. They are now blastocysts and they snuggle into my uterine lining, as they continue to grow, and split, and then IMPLANT. (Woot!).
Implant, little embies, implant!!!!! Somehow, I missed that you were doing a Day 3 transfer. At least they aren't making you wait forever for a beta!
ReplyDeleteMy "doing" and "not doing" list very closely resembles yours, if you replace "Gardens of Time" with "What to Wear" -- another horribly addictive FB app. :-)
The hunger this go round is ridiculous. I got up at 2:30 am last night to eat, ate again at 9:30 this morning, and my stomach is still growling. WTH? The progesterone is going to make me gain 20 lbs before I am even "officially" pregnant.
As for POAS, you know you wanna.... ;-P
Sounds good! I updated my blog post but in case you didn't see, it was a BFN as I expected. Onward and upward!
ReplyDeleteAgain, I'm sorry Lulu :( I don't suppose there is any chance that it is a late implanting embryo? *sigh* Hope is a bitch.
ReplyDeleteSounds like you are doing well so far...I'm so glad. The image of embryos expanding collapsing is so cool...I've never heard of that before...
ReplyDeleteSticky vibes, sticky vibes, sticky vibes...
Ever since you've started posting comments on my blog, I've had this nagging question - Where on earth did you get Chickenpig as your name?
ReplyDeleteMy name is weird, but there's an explanation. I chose the name Alex and changed my middle name that when I started on the internet (it was dangerous back in the day to be female online). MMR are my original initials since the username Alex is pretty much taken on every site I go to.
So tell us, Chickenpig, what's the story?
I still haven't heard back about my remaining embryos either. Wonder how long the will take to tell us? I'm still in the US so I've got some touristy stuff to distract me. So far I haven't been driving myself too crazy,,, but there is still plenty of time for all of that.
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