3DP3DT: Luteal Day 7
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Implantation can happen anytime from today to day 12...so I'm just waiting, on pins and needles for something, anything, to happen.
I've been having cramping on and off since yesterday, but it is likely just the progesterone making its presense known. But I ignore this simple possibility and, instead, imagine that my little embies are boring their way into my uterus, little trophoblast feelers sticking into the lining, draining my blood like little vampires.
I'm still riding the couch for the most part. I put a poll on Fertile Thoughts in the pregnancy section to see what women did after their transfer, if they indeed got pregnant, and an overwhelming number of women said that they stayed put and didn't do anything for days on end. Dr. Moustache may say that there's no data to show that staying still helps, but my informal poll shows that most respondants that got pregnant stayed put and rode the couch for days on end. So I'm going with what I've found. I'm feeling totally lazy, but I want those little guys to have every tiny little advantage that I can give them.
The worst part of this 2WW is that I'm scared to death to fart or crap. Everytime I go to the bathroom I shudder to think that they've possibly slid out with the waxy progestrone pussy pop stuff. My spotting is gone...I told Dr. Moustache that seeing it made me worry that the embies would somehow slide out with it. He reassured me that it wasn't coming form the uterus, but from the 18G or so needles that they used for the ER procedure. He kindly gave me a sterile rinsing out on the table in the OR (in front of J no less), transferred the embies, and then confirmed that the cathetar was totally clean, no uterine lining residue on it. I haven't seen a smidge of spotting since then so I guess he was right. I'm glad he gave me the rinse because I would surely be freaking out if I was seeing bits and pieces of tissue at the point in the game.
I think I should have nabbed some of those valiums they were handing out in the OR on ET day.
Back to the couch for me. There's a Jane Fonda special on this morning and Barbarella has already started. Classic!!
Implantation can happen anytime from today to day 12...so I'm just waiting, on pins and needles for something, anything, to happen.
I've been having cramping on and off since yesterday, but it is likely just the progesterone making its presense known. But I ignore this simple possibility and, instead, imagine that my little embies are boring their way into my uterus, little trophoblast feelers sticking into the lining, draining my blood like little vampires.
I'm still riding the couch for the most part. I put a poll on Fertile Thoughts in the pregnancy section to see what women did after their transfer, if they indeed got pregnant, and an overwhelming number of women said that they stayed put and didn't do anything for days on end. Dr. Moustache may say that there's no data to show that staying still helps, but my informal poll shows that most respondants that got pregnant stayed put and rode the couch for days on end. So I'm going with what I've found. I'm feeling totally lazy, but I want those little guys to have every tiny little advantage that I can give them.
The worst part of this 2WW is that I'm scared to death to fart or crap. Everytime I go to the bathroom I shudder to think that they've possibly slid out with the waxy progestrone pussy pop stuff. My spotting is gone...I told Dr. Moustache that seeing it made me worry that the embies would somehow slide out with it. He reassured me that it wasn't coming form the uterus, but from the 18G or so needles that they used for the ER procedure. He kindly gave me a sterile rinsing out on the table in the OR (in front of J no less), transferred the embies, and then confirmed that the cathetar was totally clean, no uterine lining residue on it. I haven't seen a smidge of spotting since then so I guess he was right. I'm glad he gave me the rinse because I would surely be freaking out if I was seeing bits and pieces of tissue at the point in the game.
I think I should have nabbed some of those valiums they were handing out in the OR on ET day.
Back to the couch for me. There's a Jane Fonda special on this morning and Barbarella has already started. Classic!!
Labels: IVF2
posted by linda at 1:23 PM
Comments on "3DP3DT: Luteal Day 7"
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Donna said ... (3:17 PM) :
post a commentI think some couch time is definitely in order. Our friends have the picture of their son as an 8-celled flower as their screensaver -- he turns 5 next month.