Round Two...Here We go!: 17 Weeks!

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)

Saturday, July 23, 2011

17 Weeks!

One more week and we go back to the OB for another check up! The next appt will be with one of the doctors in the practice. So far I've only seen one of the midwives. I'm sure it will be another fairly uneventful appt. Most of them in the middle seem to be that way. On a very happy note though, we have a month left until the big anatomy scan where we will (hopefully) find out the baby's gender!

Well enough rambling, since I don't have too much news to update with :o) Here is the week 17 belly shot!

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Some infertility/IVF terms

2ww - Two Week Wait, two weeks between ovulation and taking a pregnancy test
A.R.T. - Assisted Reproductive Technologies
b/w - blood work
BCP - birth control pills
beta - blood pregnancy test
BFN - Big Fat Negative (negative pregnancy test)
BFP - Big Fat Positive (positive pregnancy test)
ER - Egg Retrieval, removal of eggs from the ovaries. A needle is inserted into each follicle individually to drain fluid and extract the eggs
ET - Embryo Transfer, putting the fertilized eggs (embryos or blastocysts depending on the day of transfer) back into the uterus
ICSI - Intercytoplasmic Sperm Injection: The embryologist fertilizes each egg individually by injecting one sperm into each egg, bypassing "natural" fertilization
IUI - Intrauterine Insemination otherwise known as artificial insemination
IVF - In Vitro Fertilization
Lupron - suppression medicine used to stop homone production from the pitutary gland, prevents follicles from forming on the ovaries until necessary, and prevents ovulation until the desired time
OHSS - Ovarian Hyperstimulation Syndrome; Potential side effect of stimulating the ovaries, fluid builds up in the abdomen causing breathing difficulty, fever, sudden weight gain. Can be life threatening if not treated.
PCOS - Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome
PIO - Progesterone in Oil, big OUCHIE shot given in the butt after the embryo transfer until around the 10th week of pregnancy (we hope!)
RE - Reproductive Endocrinologist (fertility doctor)
stims - drugs used to encourage the production of many follicles and eggs
Trigger - hCG injecting given to force ovulation
TTC - Trying to Conceive
u/s - ultrasound

Saturday, July 23, 2011

17 Weeks!

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