The Infertile Gynecologist: New Years Resolution

Friday, December 31, 2010

New Years Resolution

~~This year I am going to loose weight~~ . . naaahh . . . This year I am going to enjoy the process in becoming unbelievably pudgy! I will get fat. I will grow a big belly, jowels and kenkles and it will be awesome. I will be uncomfortable, constipated, swollen and short of breath and I will be thankful.

Thanks for playing 2009 and 2010, you were good to me in my personal and career life but I am leaving you behind for the promise of something better. 2011 is the year it will happen . . . this year I will get pregnant - that is my resolution!

Happy New Year Everyone!

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rebeccaJanuary 1, 2011 at 4:40 PM
Happy New Year and welcome to the IF blogosphere! Hoping 2011 is a much better year for many of us & that you're able to complete your resolution!
~LFCA
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foxyJanuary 8, 2011 at 10:42 PM
Bring it ON 2011!
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My life in a nutshell . . .

Chapter 1: Livin' life and building a career

2001: diagnosed with PCOS

2001-09: better living through chemistry (birth control pills)

Chapter 2: Unable to do anything myself

9/09 - got married and threw out the pills!

10/09 - spontaneous ovulation while husband out of town at a funeral (initial thought . . . thats okay - better luck next time)

11/09-6/10 - no ovulations, no periods, no pregnancies

Chapter 3: Time for some drugs

6/10 - clomid 50 with nothing

7/10 - clomid 100 with nothing

8-9/10 - hiatus while waiting to get into REI clinic

10/10 HSG with only one open tube on my stumpy ovary side

enter bout of depression #1

10/10 - clomid 150 - again nothing

Chapter 4: Shoot me up baby!

11/10 - follistim cycle #1 - 2 eggs out (good & bad side) - not pregnant - mild hyperstim

12/10 - follistim cycle #2 - 3 eggs out (all bad side) - still not pregnant

1/11 - follistim cycle #3 /IUI - 1 egg out (bad side)- really not pregnant

2/11 - follistim cycle #4 /IUI - 1 egg out (good side)- certainly not pregnant

enter bout of depression #2

4/11 - follistim cycle #5 /IUI - 2 eggs out (bad side) - I think you can guess the results

5/11 - follistim cycle #6 /IUI - go big or go home cycle - increased the meds just a pinch and ended up with 20 follicles. Cycle cancelled.

Chapter 5: Living in the now

6/11 - month of birth control pills in an effort to reward myself with feeling normal, and to shrink these ovaries down to an appropriate size

6/11 - diagnosed with anti-sperm antibodies

7/11 - IVF / ICSI with single embryo transfer

7/23/11 - Holy crap . . . BFP!!!!!! Beta 184!

Chapter 6: What's going on down there?

8/2/11 - little sac on sono, huge multi-cystic ovaries

8/9/11 - + fht!

9/15/11 - First trimester screening + nuchal = high risk for chromosomal abnormalities (1/11 chance). Plus a 6 cm solid ovarian tumor.

10/13/11 - amnio 46XX

19 weeks - bleeding, cramping and bedrest with possible shortening cervix

23 weeks - contractions began, cervix 3 cm

27 weeks - contractions continue, cervix 2.7 cm

30 weeks - contractions continue, cervix 2.1 cm

33 weeks - contractions really bad, cervix < 1 cm, bedrest initiated

38 weeks / March 2012 - Beautiful baby girl born :)

Chapter 7 - my new life as a mom

Work in progress :)