8 Days Past Trigger

(I’m just going to get rid of this 1/2 nonsense – even though it’s really 7.5 days past trigger.)

The second line on the Dollar Tree test this morning is so faint that I have to hold it to the light at various angles to be able to see it. I anticipate that the line will completely disappear by tomorrow or the day after.

Unfortunately, I don’t have any pregnancy symptoms besides the sharp side pain and dull little pains I had a few days ago. It’s still early though – 7 DPO – and if I am pregnant, I hope to have some symptoms, namely nausea, by 9 DPO. SIGH.

6.5 Days Past Trigger…

and that darn second line is still there on my pee stick! I’m hoping for one of two things: a) The line goes away and comes back again or b) The line never goes away and gets darker.

5 more days until the official testing day.

6 Days Past HCG Trigger

6 days past my HCG trigger – it doesn’t look like much with this photo taken with my phone but there is a faint second line there.

5 DPO – What the Hell

I don’t know if it’s the earthquake or the pills – but today I’m feeling super nauseated. What the hell!

Cycle 5 – 4.5 DPO

Tonight, I am getting these dull, stabbing pains on the left side of my stomach area. It’s gone on like this for the last hour or so and I’m hoping this is a good sign and not appendicitis or something.

Sigh – 7 more days until I get to test.

Cycle 5 – 4 DPO

Yesterday, I got a super sharp pain on my left side again, the same pain I felt at 5 DPO the last cycle I was pregnant. Not recalling that I received a similar pain before, of course, it prompted the search for “implantation pain.”

I am less optimistic this cycle than I was during the cycle I was *sure* I was pregnant. I mostly feel the horrible effects of the prednisone (crankiness, anxiety, nausea). Perhaps, it’s the prednisone that is clouding my brain – but I wouldn’t be surprised if we were disappointed this cycle. Of course, I am still hanging on to that hope that I am wrong.

HCG Trigger

At around 1:30 p.m., I received my HCG trigger. The small shot in my rear wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be – it was sore for about 5 minutes afterwards, but all is fine now.

I’m thrilled everything is finally coming together and I get to take a pregnancy test in 12 days (August 4)!!! I even have the beginnings of egg white CM!

I was telling my husband last night that I remember being so happy to be pregnant back in February. Everything since then has been a desperate attempt to get back to where we were – but it was so long ago that I don’t really know what it feels like anymore. All I know is that I’m driven to get back to where we were. I hope it’s everything that I think it’ll be.

Cycle 5 – Day 14

The cocktail of drugs that will make our baby stick!

Test

Hello… This is a test from my iPhone!

Baby Dancing Plan

I went in for my second ultrasound today and my follicle (just one) measured at 20 mm in my right ovary. My doctor plans to give me an HCG trigger on Wednesday and we are supposed to “baby dance” until Friday.

On Saturday begins the cocktail of pills: baby aspirin, Prednisone, and Progesterone. Yikes! Getting close…!