IUI 2.0

Well IUI 2.0 was completed Sat morning. I went in on Thurs and my biggest one was 16 so she had me wait and give myself the hcg shot on Fri (well my boss gave it to me!). So Sat morning I went in at 8 am by myself (hubby was home with the baby) and everything went well. So we will see what happens now. Since my lutuel phase is usually 10-12 days we will know mid next week if it worked or not. Fingers crossed it did because I would rather not do it again. It's very hard to even talk to anyone about this so I would be happy to be done with it. Plus we would have to go on a 2 month break until June before we do one again due to schedules so here's to hoping!

In other news, I took my photography class after my IUI. It was down in Canton and so worth it!! I learned so much so that way I don't keep my camera on Auto  mode. I did get to put it to use at my friend's son's bday yesterday so I'm excited to upload the pics and see how they turned out. I will be doing that today :)

Not much else going on besides my hubby being gone again. So glad this is only for like 3 or 4 more weeks. I miss him so much during the week. This week he isn't coming home until Sat and so he will only be here Sat night and Sun during the day. The only reason he is coming home is because it's Easter. If it wasn't he wouldn't be coming home this weekend. Still don't know what we are going to be doing for Easter. I know we will go to Church but not sure where we are going for dinner. I know my MIL is cooking so we will probably end up over there.

I'm also pretty excited for my trip to Florida at the end of this month! My sister is coming with me which will make it even better. It's for work but I should have plenty of time to spend with her  too! Only 28 days until we leave!

It wasn't that bad

So I had a mini breakdown the day I found out I wasn't pregnant but I quickly realized that it wasn't going to do me any good to be that upset. It wasn't going to change anything. So I had some time to myself and moved on. We have decided to try another cycle this month. In fact probably Thurs. We will see. I had a ultrasound yesterday and she said my eggs aren't growing as quick this time around but she does see a few more than last time. So she debated whether Weds or Thurs I should come in and settled on Thurs. So I have an appt at 11:15 on Thurs to see how they are doing. She said something about it being free if I ovulated already? Don't know if she means that if I ovulate we will still do it to give me a chance but it will be free? Who knows. So we will see what Thurs brings.

I had a flooded bathroom last night and the back of the toliet hit my head so I'm not feeling all that great today. I can't wait til my hubby is home for good. On another note, we kicked his cousin out end of last week because he was not home like he should have been with me and the baby while my husband isn't home. He would rather run around with his girlfriend even though we gave him a free place to stay. This is the second time he has lived with us and we thought maybe he had grown up some but apparently not. he's more worried about being with his girlfriend then being home with me to help with little things while my hubby is gone. Oh well. I like the quiet and not having to worry about being dressed all the time haha!

Not much else going on right now. We did get a new kitchen table this weekend which is awesome. We have a small dining area in our kitchen and no standalone dining room. We had a regular sized table in there and it was just impossible to keep it because we had no room if you had the chairs around it. So we got a pub style table with 4 stools that actually go under the table when not in use. I LOVE it. We also spent some money and got 3 side tables, 6 chairs and a firepit for our back porch. I can't wait to use that firepit!

Didn't work

So after my last post we did end up going through with an IUI on March 4th. But I started my period last night so it didn't work. I'm super upset right now and Ben is in Vegas so I'm home alone to deal with this. It sucks. I really thought it was going to work...

TTC Update

So Ben is still currently working out of town. I think it is getting harder as the weeks go on not easier. Tricia was especially cranky yesterday morning and it was just not a good day at all.

On the TTC front though I saw my doc last Thurs and she was able to start me on Clomid. I haven't had much of a bad reaction to it, slight headaches but that's about it. I took that for 5 days. I go in for an ultrasound on Saturday. If everything looks ok they give me a shot of hcg and we do the IUI on Sunday. This is best case scenario since my husband would be leaving for MI Sunday night but if I'm not ready to get the shot on Sat then he will just have to stay home a day or two this week to do this. I'm kind of stressed about it because no one I know that I have told has given me much support right now with this (besides my online group of girls love them!). I told my mom, and a few friends. Haven't had the chance to tell my sister but I was going to. When I told my mom and all she said is I hope it works. Thanks me too, or else I wouldn't be doing it. So we will see.

Not happening

Don't want to get into details but even though I'm at peak ovulation according to my monitor yesterday and  today we won't be trying...so frustrated...

His ticker keeps on tickin'

So Ben had his heart surgery on Thursday. We got to our children's hospital at around 7:30 am and registered. Then we headed to the pre-surgery waiting area. Ben changed and we were only there around 15 mins and they took him back to start getting his stats. We saw the doc and the anesthesiologist then before I knew it they were sending me to the waiting room. Very different process from an adult hospital. I didn't know until Thurs morning that the surgery could be up to 8 hours. I was really surprised by that because no one had mentioned that sooner and his last one was about 3 hours and they said they said ti would only take 3-4 hours. To hear this one was going to be 8 hours was a shock. But good thing they prepared us because it ended up lasting 6 hours. There was about 2 hours that were kind of nerve wracking because they weren't sure that they were going to be able to get to the area that was causing the issue in his heart. Luckily they did finally get to it. We found out that he does have a hole in his heart which was one of the ways that they tried to get to the area but were unsuccessful. The hole is not a big deal and 10% of adults have them. We did find out though they had to change his EKG in order to get this SVT to stop. Not sure what that means - I'm assuming that means his heart beat pattern? Anyways they let us back in to recovery and he was really out of it from the anesthesia. He was really anxious and irritated though when I saw him even though he was really in and out. Then by the time we got upstairs he was pretty much out of it but he was still getting nauseous from the meds. So we did end up getting him so food around 7 pm and he did eat some of it. But then he started feeling nauseous again and also some tightness in his chest. His oxygen levels also were getting low (only around 86%) so they put him back on oxygen for the night. After that I did come home to the baby for the night. Then i went back the next morning and they took him for his final testing. We got to leave around 1 pm. Got home and got settled in and he has just been resting since! The tightness in his chest is back and I did call the doc and he thinks it's related to being in the anesthesia so long. So we are just keeping an eye on him!

As far as a update on our trying for #2 - we will see what happens. I did end up getting a peak reading 2 days in a row on the monitor and then high the next day. So shortly after Thanksgiving we should know something.... : ). I'm not counting on it this time around because it's only my second real cycle in 2 years and things may still be out of whack. More to come though!

Unexpected

So I have been doing my monitor every morning (well except for yesterday morning) but when I did mine this morning it came up as peak fertility? That was unexpected! Not sure what's going on with my cycles because my last two have been pretty long (42 days) and so I was planning on getting a positive until mid next week. So it's like 10 days early...so I will test again in the morning and make sure. I did see a slight increase in my temp but not crazy. And didn't really see much of a drop but I'm new to the whole temping thing so I don't know what's within range for me and whats not. We will see what happens! Time to jump my husband though I guess...;-)

Charting, Temping and Testing Oh My!

So now that I have gotten somewhat of an idea of my cycles I have decided to jump in full force and start temping and charting for our journey to TTC #2. I also purchased a digital fertility monitor to use off of a friend. Got a good deal compared to everything else I can find online. I didn't get it until after I started my cycle so it's a few days off but that's ok because I am running on 6 week cycles anyways. So today is actually CD14 but the monitor says cycle day 6 so this morning was my first day of POAS (according to the directions it will have me start testing at day 6). After using another one because I thought the first didn't work (turns out it was user error! :/) I got a low fertility reading. Figured as much.With a 6 week cycle I'm not due to ovulate for another 2 weeks so that's a lot of tests I will have to use this round but I should be able to time things better next cycle and hopefully not use as many tests. I am hoping that maybe it becomes smarter and doesn't have me test until later since my cycles are longer??? If not, I will just wait longer to restart the monitor - maybe not until CD 21. I am a bit overwhelmed by all of it but after 9 months of not being able to do anything about TTC I am all in to get it going as quick as possible. I hope we don't have a long road ahead. I think given our history the doc would be willing to jump strait to IUI but I want to avoid any expense associated with that if possible. So we will try a bit on our own and I probably won't consider that until Tricia turns 2. So here's to being very hopeful that things work out!

Still pretty nervous about Ben's surgery next week even though we have kind of been through it once already. He will have to stay overnight so that is a bit of a change. I may see if my sister and mom can take the baby next Friday night and keep her so we can get some rest. I'm sure Ben won't get much sleep while he is in the hospital so I know he will need it when he gets home.