Round Two...Here We go!: Belly Progression

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)

Sunday, July 17, 2011

Belly Progression

So just for fun, I decided to cut and paste together a few of my belly pics to see if I could see a difference. I can definitely FEEL a difference in my belly size, so I hoped I could see a difference. The three pictures are from 7 weeks, 11 weeks, and 16 weeks. I feel like I actually look bigger at 7 weeks than I did at 11, but in the 16 week pic it's getting move obvious that my uterus is getting bigger and moving upwards :o)

1 comment:

E and RJuly 18, 2011 at 10:07 AM
Great idea - You look great!
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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