Today is the 4th of July. It is not only Independance day, but also my husband's 33rd birthday. He is a firecracker baby and isn't shy about telling everyone that it is HIS day! Yesterday, we went to his cousin's farm to sit by the pool, hang out, and have a pig roast. It was fun, but it was humid and mosquito ridden! Both DH and I got bug bites on our cheeks which have swollen our face right below our eyes. It looks like we got punched! There was one little girl there that must have gotten attacked by a swarm of mosquitos. She looked like she had a very bad case of the chicken pox. Crazy!
DH's cousin had her 5th child seven months ago. With her kids, my 5 nieces and nephews, and various other children, there were 21 kids under the age of 10 at this get together. Needless to say, it was kid overload. It made both DH and I want one of our own even more. So, we took advantage of it and held the babies (got puked on) and played with the kids helping them do smoke bombs (by the way, kids will do ANYthing you say if you're about ready to light a smokebomb!)
And, just like DH is not shy about telling everyone that it is his birthday, he also is not shy about telling his family about our infertility struggles. So, I got approached more than once last night about our upcoming IVF cycle. The way they ask about it makes me not know what the heck they are talking about. A suggestive, "How is IT goin'?". How am I supposed to know that I'm supposed to respond more than just, 'fine' or 'good'? It's like they expect me to say, "It worked! I'm pregnant right now!". And, of course, I'm not.
So, because most do not know what IVF stands for, let alone how it works exactly (because why would anyone have to?), I have to simplify our process for them: "I will take drugs and have ultrasounds on July 8th, 16th, and 19th. Then they take out my eggs and inject his sperm. We go home for up to a week while the eggs fertilize, and then we go back to get them implanted. We wait a couple of more weeks to find out if it worked (meaning, pregnant). We won't know if it worked until the first or second week of August." This is my why of saying - don't ask me until at least the end of August. Ah, well. Everyone is well-meaning and they all hope for the best for us.
Happy July! I hope, I hope, I hope.
That's right around where I will be....I figure my beta should be between August 12 and 15th....tentatively. We'll be waiting together.
ReplyDeleteI hope, I hope, I hope too!!! I will be praying hard for you this week that this cycle gets kicked off without a hitch!!!
ReplyDeleteHappy Belated Birthday to your Hubby!