Showing posts with label Post Transfer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Post Transfer. Show all posts

Saturday, June 20, 2009

Leaving it all up to Him now.

I have been reading/googling quite a bit due to my free time. Free time is not good especially not during 2WW. I have been reading quite a bit on early pregnancy symptoms but being on Pregnyl jabs, these signs and symptoms cannot be taken as real signs till at least 4 days after my last jab.

Today should be the first day of implantation. I have been feeling on and off crampings alternately from left to right. I would like to believe they are implantation bleeding. This time I knew I have embryos in me that can be potential children of mine unline all the past months/years when I wasnt even sure. The only thing that I am not sure of is whether the embryos have implanted themselves. I would like to believe so. I have done most of the dos and don'ts. N some thing I read today also make me fee very relieve and believe whatever is meant to happen will happen. It now depends to the ONE above... The drs have done their best, the nurses have done their best, so have I and hubby. Now whether it is gonna bear us a positive results or otherwise belongs to Him alone. With God's willing, I will get what I have been dreaming of... Let me copy for all of you part of the article I have read:

It's safe to travel 2-3 days after the transfer.

If you are unsure whether or not to do something, take the "path of least regret". Ask yourself - if I don't get pregnant, will I blame myself for doing this ? And if the answer is yes, don't do it ! - good point.

You may have some vaginal spotting or bleeding prior to your blood test. However, you must have the blood test done, even if you think your period has started. There are no symptoms or signs which will be able to tell you whether or not you are pregnant.

Many doctors used to advise "strict bed rest" after an embryo transfer. However, remember that your physical activity does not affect your chances of getting pregnant. Resting when you are well can be very emotionally taxing, and we encourage patients to lead as normal a life as possible. Many patients are worried that if they cough or sneeze , the embryo will "fall out". However, remember that this is physically impossible, and that if the embryo is going to implant, it will, no matter how much you exert physically. Remember that God has designed the human body with enough sense, that coughing and sneezing will not cause the embryos to "fall out". The uterine cavity is a "potential space", and once the embryos are placed here, they appose to the uterine wall and are not affect by gravitational forces. I remind patients that it's fine for them to do whatever normal couples would do after having sex - after all, how does it matter to the embryo that it arrives in the uterine cavity in the normal course of events, after the couple had sex, or after spending 2 days in the IVF laboratory and then being transferred into the cavity with a catheter ?

All those points in bold truly makes sense to me. I guess you just need someone to point it out to you before you actually believe it for yourself. ANyway I got this article from here http://www.drmalpani.com/book/chapter25c.html. Go ahead and read it if you want and take it with a pinch of salt ok...

Time for me to go and rest now... The crampings are coming on and of. Feeling a little tired too. Another progesterone injections tomorrow. Expecting the symptoms to be intensified due to the injections. Cant wait for last injection on Wednesday... Then whatever symptoms I fee will truly be from my pregnancy...

5dp3dt / I am driving myself crazy

5dp3dt / 8dpo. All these "fake" symptoms due to the medication (Pregnyl jabs) and all these waiting is truly driving me crazy. Not only have I been analysing all the little twitches and twinges, I am starting to analyse every word used by the nurses too... Hahaha... Pls pass by more quickly... Wake me up when July comes... I know, I know. The last time I wrote I said wake me up when June comes now I would like to change my mind...

The last 3 days was gd coz sis was accompanying me and she managed to make time pass faster somehow. Now that she is not around, I am a little more lonely. 5 days down, 11 more day to the blood test.

The symptoms I have been having since the day of my ET is here on and off basis. My lower abdominal cramp kinds of disappears today (or so I thought). As I was eating lunch and drinking, suddenly I had a sudden cramping in my lower abdomen. I had to stand and walk it off a bit before it went away. Since today is day 5 past ET, I would like to believe it is the first day, both my embryos have found a suitable place in the uterus and starting to implant themselves. See... I am thinking positively and visualizing a positive outcome. Hope it will bears me a positive outcome. Pls Pls Pls...

SYmptoms for today:
Boobs is still slightly sore to the touch, very very very tired, pins and needles in my legs, funny feeling in my mouth when I ate my favourite fried chicken yesterday and slight lower abdominal cramping that is on and off...

Wednesday, June 17, 2009

2dp3dt / Blastocyst

2dp3dt or 5dpo. According to my previous entry, my embryo is now a blastocyst. Tomorrow they should be hatching out of their shell and starting the implantation process. However today, when I went to the toilet and wipe, I notice pink spottings. Is that blood coz my uterus was iritated from the ET or was that implantation bleeding but isnt 2dp3dt too early for implantation? Well I am just praying for the best.

Today the whole day I did not feel any cramping feeling till in the cab when I started to quietly whisper to my embryos, " Pls show me a sign u are still in there doing what you are supposed to be doing." I know I sound crazy and I know it is too early for the embryos to understand me but seriously after spoke to it, I started to feel a little tingling pull/feeling in my lower abdomen. I would like to believe that that was a sign for me. At this moment, I take any sign I can get. I know I am making myself crazy from looking for symptoms but since this is my first time doing the IVF procedure and this is the closest I have been to getting myself pregnant, I am a little nervous, a little excited and lots of worry.

I have been talking it easy the last few days. Today a friend from JC came with her kid and looking at her baby, I just forgot about not supposed to carry heavy stuff. I was sitting on the chair and just hold the baby for less than 5 minutes. I hope that will not have any effect. Seriously the baby is really really cute. Look like a japanese baby. Well I am praying for one or perhaps two of my own. I am just praying everything goes well for me.

This 2WW is starting to get to me. I am just hoping time will past faster or at least I get to know the future. Both of which I know wont happen. Anyway, having my sister over is a really a blessing. We have so much time talking - that is when I am not sleeping/resting.

Symptoms for today:
(1) Boobs still sore. Nips are painful and very sensitive to the touch.
(2) Lethargy is ridiculous. I slept while waiting for my sister to arrive. Slept while waiting for both of my tuition kids to arrive. Was out for less than 2 hours and I was begging to go back. Slept again.
(3) Pinkish spotting when I wipe on the tissue.
(4) Lower abdominal cramping - just a little compare to yesterday.

So that is it for now. I will update again soon. I have a little plan for tomorrow with sis and hubby. Nothing much. Just going out for a walk to get some fresh air and to get some blood circulation.

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

1dp3dt / Green with Envy

I have always wanted to be able to write that down. Now I can. I was talking to hubby today after more than 24 hours of bed rest about how my butt is cramping from all that rest. Other than going to get my food and to the toilet, I have been sitting and lying down on the sofa with the tv as my companion.

I was telling hubby how I am green with envy with people who can go through pregnancy the normal way. I mean.. seriously after making love during their ovulation period, next day onwards, do you see them being careful etc? They go about their normal activity. SOme that got pregnant during their honeymoon even went hiking, mountain climbing, skiing etc yet at the end of the month, they find that they are pregnant. So why is there a difference for us who went through fertility treatment?

Hubby told me that I could always go about all the normal activity but... will I ever regret any of my actions at the end of this whole journey after spending all that money as well as going through all the pain emotionally and physically? Hearing that I decide of course I want to make sure I do my very best to ensure a healthy pregnancy and deliver a healthy baby at the end of the whole journey.

As usual when I do not have anything to watch on TV, I was seeking advice from Dr Google. N I found the following information base on a 3 day transfer:

1dpt ..embryo is growing and developing into a morula
2dpt... Embryo is now a blastocyst
3dpt....Blastocyst hatches out of shell on this day
4dpt.. Blastocyst attaches to a site on the uterine lining
5dpt.. Implantation begins,as the blastocyst begins to bury in the lining
6dpt.. Implantation process continues and morula buries deeper in the lining
7dpt.. Morula is completely inmplanted in the lining and has placenta cells & fetal cells
8dpt...Placenta cells begin to secret HCG in the blood
9dpt...More HCG is produced as fetus develops
10dpt...More HCG is produced as fetus develops
11dpt...HCG levels are now high enough to be immediately detected on HPT

Base on the information above, my 8 cells embryo would have continued to grow into a morula. Insya Allah (God's willing).

Symptoms (this is just for my own documentation):
(1) lower abdominal cramping on my left hand side
(2) constant need to pee (much higher frequency than usual)
(3) higher body temperature
(4) lethargy - just need to put my head on a pillow and less than 5 minutes I will be in dreamland)