Bébé Maybe

Now that I've told people that I've done IVF, I've realized that most people have no idea what it it involves or what it's like. For those who are curious, this is what it was like for me. I've done 2 full IVF cycles this year- in July and September. If you scroll back on this blog you can probably find more information (although I have a lot of posts set to private). This is just a basic summary of the different phases of the process. Ovarian Stimulation Your body usually only releases one egg per cycle. When you do IVF, you take medications that stimulate your ovaries to release as many eggs as possible at one time. The amount of time you take the medications varies according how your body reacts. It's usually between 1-2 weeks. I had 12 days of stimulation meds for both cycles. It looked like this: Follistim: 2 shots/day for the whole stim process, stimulated the ovaries Low-dose HCG: started halfway through the stim process, 1 shot/day, helped stimulate th...

 6 months to go! I just hit 12 weeks. When I put it like that, it doesn't seem very far away. Baby is now the size of a macaron. I'm so in love with the fact that I found a pregnancy app that compares baby's size to French pastries. I had my first check-up with a "normal" OB a few days ago. It's so fun to see the ultrasounds but I wish they were longer! At little check-ups like this they just quickly measure how big the baby is and check the heartbeat and that's it. A bad quality image of a bad quality image... but oh well. Baby was exactly the right size and had a strong heartbeat. I could see them so much clearer on the screen then I can in the blurry picture they print out. I want a video of them moving around! It was cool to see the differences from my last ultrasound 2 weeks ago. I could tell that their body started to catch up in size to their giant head. 10 weeks on the left and 12 weeks on the right Other recent developments are- 1. We told everyon...