Anxiously Waiting For Implantation Time

Friday was an easy day. I woke up feeling sooooo much better. I had some spotting and cramping throught the day, but nothing like I felt right after the egg retreival. I was suprised at how good I was feeling.

I got a phone call last night about the next step. We will be putting the embryos in on Tuesday morning. I won't know until Monday sometime as to the exact time. I will have to be on complete bedrest from Tuesday through Thursday. This is going to be hard. I can only get up to go to the bathroom. I can sit up no more than two pillows under my head. I have to even eat at that angle. They told me that I could sit up at a table to eat for a VERY short time, but since we don't even have a table right now, I won't be doing that. The doctor really didn't want me to anyway. I am doing everything exactly as they tell me because I do not want to risk anything. We retreived 24 eggs and they injected each of them with the donor sperm. 18 took......that is A LOT!!!!!! I couldn't believe it when they told me how many. We thought maybe 8 or 9 would take, but 18....oh geez!

Today I start taking another pill. I am now taking an antibiotic, vitamin supplement of folic acid, and the new med. I will also start progesterone injections. I will do these injections until we take the pregnancy test. We are looking to take the test around the 28th. I will go back in for bloodwork every other day after I am off bed rest. I never imagined how complicated all of this is, but I will do whatever it takes to be able to have a little miracle of my own. I think about how amazing it is that I get this opportunity to do this. Years ago, they didn't have the research and technology that they have now to even do this process. Many people have asked why I go through this instead of just adopting. I have thought about adoption and it is an awesome thing. It is important for me to be pregnant and to carry a baby. I want to do whatever possible to go through all that first. I don't want to just give up. I might love being pregnant and wouldn't have known what that was like.....then again, I might hate it. Either way, I want to have the chance to know what it is like. For me, that is important. When we first learned that Chris had issues, he didn't understand why I didn't just jump on adoption. He said it wouldn't be his DNA anyway. No, but I had to explain the importance of going through pregnancy and how much I desired to do that. I think it brought a whole new prospective to him.