Celli the second

Today we had embryo transfer.
Before we left I asked Benny if he thought I should call the fertility clinic to make sure at least 1 of our four embryos had survived and he told me not to, it would be fine. Luckily he was right, the first embryo thawed perfectly with all its cells intact (sometimes some cells die and it's still usable but not as good quality) so they put in its cozy home and we cross our finger that it likes it so much and decides to stick around for 9 months

Trigger shot

 After 14 days of puregon injections, 5 blood test and 3 ultrasounds I was relieved to finally be given the thumbs up to do my trigger injection yesterday. I was very excited until she said I had to do it at 9pm. Benny finishes work at 11. hmm
Iv'e done all my puregon but i'd not done a proper syringe injection which looks scarier. I'd heard this one hurts a lot more and someone on an internet forum had said that with this needle ';makes it feel like your piercing through armadillo skin compared to puregon'. Yay, thats just the encouragement I needed!
So anyway, it may have taken me 45 mins to work myself up to it but i did it. The needle going in was fine, the liquid stung like buggery. And there was a lot of it
As a reward for my bravery they said I don't have to do any more needles this week. Because their kind like that :) (...and also because no needles are necessary at the moment. But mostly as a reward i'm sure)
On Monday I'm having embryo transfer. I'm excited!

These are completely unrelated photos of some 'cakes with icing' that a little day care girlie made today. Just because their cute and remind me of my childhood sand, water and flower concoctions that I used to have so much fun making

Since my last blog post I've-
*enjoyed a month off of IVF treatments
*knitted
*spent time with great people
*said sad goodbyes to my beautiful aunt who passed away unexpectedly
*thought of her often as i've gardened and drank tea (two of her favourite things :)
*welcomed new day care kids
*discovered an organic food home delivery that delivers to my area
*loads more things that i've now forgotten about seems I didn't think to blog them!

I've started my first IVF frozen embryo transfer (fet) cycle. Im on day 12 so far. Normally people don't need injections for fet cycles but because I don't know if I ovulate I have injections again.
I'm doing the same injections as my IVF but on a smaller dose (50u instead of 125u)
Tonight will be my 8th injection and i've also had 2 blood tests and a scan so far. The first one took me a little while, seems it had been over a month it took me a few mins to work myself up to it but all the others since have been fine. I can't believe how much easier it is second time round! I'm not thinking about it constantly and dreading egg collection (and wont be if there is a next time, it really wasn't that bad) I'm just living normal life and then doing a quick injection in the evening.

My day care is going great, i've started a few more kids for thurs and fridays which is great. Their mum told me about organic foods home deliveries that she gets which I was super excited about. Like ridiculously excited!
reasons why-
*organic food is really over priced at our supermarket and there isn't much variety
*i hate going food shopping
*i'm able to review my cart before paying so I don't end up with all sorts of random things that seemed like a good idea but I don't really need
*i hate going food shopping
*its supports a small family owned business and local farms
*i hate going food shopping
*i can take my laptop in the kitchen and check what we do and don't need when ordering rather than writing a shopping list and forgetting to take it (or my usual not even bothering to write a list and accidently buying things i don't need because it didn't look like there was much in the trolly...)
*i hate going food shopping

I'm ordering loads more fruit and veg then I used to buy and taking advantage of the 'juicing' carrots and apples. They apples have marks and some of the carrots are a bit wonky but their cheap, tasty and I love that their not getting wasted just because their not 'supermarket perfect'
I've gone on a bit of a health kick making lots of soup and veggie juices and i'm glad its coinciding with my fet cycle, hopefully it will help. I've also got to ring about accupuncture which is supposed to be great with IVF

 pumpkin- sweet potato soup

perfectly imperfect apples

 my new favourite juice- carrot, beet, apple

 Our new daycare sandpit