My blog began as a way to vent my frustrations surrounding our struggle with infertility. I am now ELATED that it has moved from an infertility to pregnancy blog and finally our baby blog! The scars of infertility will never fade completely, and truthfully I don't want them to. Infertility has impacted our lives in a way nothing else ever could, and I'm very grateful for all it has taught me. At some point we will probably be traveling down this road again in order to complete our family, but for now we are enjoying our amazing little guy! He's so much more perfect than we ever imagined he could be. I guess it's true what they say...good things DO come to those who wait! :o)

Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Ugh, the bloat!

I've been really quite happy with how everything has gone throughout our cycle. It's all seemed to go very smoothly. I was even happier that I wasn't putting on a bunch of weight from the meds, like some people have mentioned. Well, let me tell you I have that weight now! This has to be one of the most cruel jokes to EVER play on an infertile person. Since my ovaries are so freakin huge and full right now, my stomach is distended. When your ovaries are approximately the size of tennis balls there's not really anywhere for them go to but out. I seriously look like I'm pregnant! Not like big time pregnant, but early pregnant. It's not fun to look in the mirror! Even Matthew this morning was surprised at how much my stomach has bloated the last day or two. What's even more unfortunate, is it will probably get worse before it gets better. Oh well...such is my life right now. Let's just hope that it's successful so that all of this was worthwhile! Only 15 1/2 hours to go! :o)
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  1. Katie O'BrienApril 6, 2011 at 8:49 PM

    The bloating is awful. I actually got acupuncture treatments with my last fresh IVF cycle and it really helped with the bloating. Hopefully you won't need to go through this again though. Good luck in the morning.

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  2. MarianneApril 6, 2011 at 10:12 PM

    Good luck...I will be thinking of you!

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  3. The Sancken'sApril 7, 2011 at 10:00 AM

    Well, you should be in recovery now, if not already heading home. I hope that all went well and they were able to retrieve lots of good eggs. And I also hope this bloating goes away from you. Which I'm assuming it will since the eggs are out of the ovaries. Let's hope that all goes good from here on out and you get nothing but the best of news!!

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  4. LCApril 7, 2011 at 10:29 AM

    Sooooo excited for you - you should be recovering now :) Can't wait to hear how things went. XOXO!

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