Blog..blog! It's NOT FUNNY!!

We finally got Mr. Smiley to let us know it was time to get swimmers. We were able to inseminate 3 times over the weekend! Well, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, but it still counts as the weekend, right?

Today is day 4 of the 2 week wait until we find out if the "super sperm" (thats what he says he has) worked or not. Fertility friend says that we were right on the money with the chart of temps and OPKs and such, but we all know that, that doesn't always mean you get pregnant. Obviously, since this is taken us officially a year to get to this point. Granted we did have to take a few months off here and there for medical reasons, etc.

Not trying to get our hopes up or anything, but for the last few days Sheila said shes been having twinges and such going on in her uterus. Similar to the first time when she got that pelvic infection. Here we are at day 4 and so far shes not doubled over in pain...could be a good sign?? Again not trying to get our hopes up! HAHA and I quote.."there's not any pain like the first time, so I don't think I have an infection, but there is weirdness, so something is going on in there!" She also says she has pressure like she has to pee, but not really having to pee. Interesting..veryyy interesting. o.O

We shall know for sure the outcome around May 27th. Wish us luck! I just want to be done with this part of the process already!!

Sheila wants you to see this. I was hoping to be able to post this video on the actual blog, but the people blocked it from being embedded. Bummer. It'll make this blog title make more sense..

-Amity

Back in the saddle again!

So here we are again! Actually back in the saddle. We've taken a few months off to collect our thoughts and stop being so discouraged over this process. Never imagined it would be a year since we first started trying, but "experts" do say it can take a year for healthy heteros to get pregnant. I know in the last post I mentioned about good news on the horizon. I waited a while to post, so people's feelings didn't get hurt and everything could be discussed before now. Anyway, we've found another donor! We're still going to use our current donor, but now hopefully by having another sample it'll help. I know wishful thinking...I think it'll also be good because then we won't really know who the biological guy is.

Sheila is currently on day 11 and according to fertility friend she should start getting ready to pop her egg around Monday. What fertility friend doesn't know is that she took Soy Isoflavenos to help aid this processes. It's like an herbal Clomid. Take 160mg for 5 days during Aunt Flo and voila! magic eggs are supposed to form! Haha yeah right, but it was worth a try.

Hmm..what else has gone on...We bought a new pack of Clear Blue Ovulation sticks and the little digital reader thing was broken! Sheila called the company and they're sending her a brand new box! It's like $40 a box, so that was really nice.

We were nominated for a Leibster Award a little while ago thanks to our our cyber friends, Jen and Meg (who are currently in the hospital having their baby!!!)

-Amity

The Liebster Blog Award works like this:

Say thanks to the blogger who nominated you, and link back to them.

List 5 blogs (ideally with fewer than 200 followers) that you feel deserve the Liebster Award and let them know by leaving a comment on their blog. Copy and paste the award to your blog.

SO...without further ado, here are some blogs that you might enjoy.

1. Wiegand Writes
2. 2 lesbians and the journey to make a baby
3. Married life of the rich and famous
4.  Our Baby Making Journey
5. Seasoned with Love

Oops...

Kinda let this fall off the end of the internets...still no good news. Haven't been trying in the last couple of months due to schedule conflicts. Possible good news is on the horizon, so everyone keep their fingers crossed until then! Tata for now!

-Amity


In honor of it being Tax Day I give you this:

Here we are again...

I'm running out of titles that don't sound like ones I've already used......

Anyway, the time has come again to inseminate! You guessed it...last time didn't bring us a cool birthday/Christmas gift. Try, try again and again and againnnnnnnn

I've been very lazy these last 2.5 weeks and haven't put in Sheila's temperatures in Fertility Friend. She's just been using the ovulation test papers and we look at them an determine if the line is dark enough. Makes me think of this Eric Church song.. just a little different. http://youtu.be/-Q8pFqXFAtI

Nothing has been going on that's super exciting. Random people that I've friended on Facebook for games or for my business page have announced they were pregnant recently. I think they need to rub their good luck off on us! Well, not necessarily ME, but Sheila. :P

I don't think I've mentioned it on here, but we got solar put on our house the day before Thanksgiving and finally last Thursday (1.5.12) everything meshed and it got turned on! It wasn't the solar company's fault it wasn't on sooner, but our electric company. They screwed up our paperwork and then made it sound like it was the solar people's fault and then they looked at the paperwork again and was like, oh looks like we had all the correct info after all, hehe. Sorry we put you a month behind now. I'm just glad it's finally over with and now they're paying me instead of me paying them!

If anyone wants to look into going solar, you can get a referral from me and we'll both get $500 when you get your system installed. I leased my system for 20 years, so I didn't have to buy the panels because who has $30,000 just laying around?? Not me. I only pay $60 a month for them and the electric company pays me for the extra electric the panels are producing that I don't use. So far, it's up to 87kWh that SRP (electric company) has to pay me for and it's only been on 5 1/2 days! The website is www.sungevity.com, but you can only get the $500 if you get a referral. Sometimes during the year they do a $1000 for you and me referrals. It's pretty awesome..I think.

Hmmm Hmmm Hmmm I think that's about it...like I said same ol' boring people here..nothing happening.

-Amity

Funny pic: I added the WTF bubble.

Why hello there!

If you actually thought I would be better about posting more, you were wrong! I have not only let the people down who read this blog, but my other blogs as well! You'd think I'd have SO much stuff going on that I don't even have time to breathe. That is not the case...I'm just a procrastinator...BOO.

OK sooooo we are on insem #5! 6 days in and 8 to go!

Try #3 ended with AF like I thought. Try #4 was uhmmm...interesting! I was thinking that maybe by the time we get the lil swimmers home, that they're too warm from Sheila holding them or they've been in the elements too long or whatever, so we got our sample and inseminated in the car! What? People get pregnant in the car all the time! Why can't we?? Wasn't a very well thought out plan might I add! We knew we were going to do it, but didn't bring anything to aide in the awkwardness of not being able to see, it being friggen cold (in November) and afraid someone might see what we're doing. After the deed was done, I had to drive home while Sheila had her legs in the air, trying to balance on her head, while I was trying to avoid bumps, dips, etc, so she wouldn't fall over! I'm so glad it was night time because it would've been pretty odd in the day time! I can only image the looks we would've gotten. No pictures from that adventure...well because it was just weird anyway. We kinda had a bad feeling about it not working from the start, and of course, it ended in AF.

As I said before, we are on try #5. Didn't do anything crazy this time. Got the sample and came home and did the ol' routine. I have been really good during the process, but I seriously was gagging and dry heaving to the point where I almost puked on Sheila and my eyes were watering so much that I could barely see what I was doing! I just had to think about something else and just do what needed to be done. Sheila's temp has been pretty steady, but took a little dive this morning. It's been said that during implantation, your temperature goes down for a day and then goes right back up the next day, so I guess we'll see. I also read from someone on Babycenter, that boy sperm (Y chromosome) swim faster and girl sperm (X chromosome) live longer. I don't know how true that is, but I thought it was interesting. So here we sit in the middle of the waiting game. We should know if it worked or not on Christmas. What a cool present that would be? Although...not a very cool gift for Sheila if AF comes to visit.

Anyway, you guys do know that if there were exciting news like a BFP (big fat positive), I'd definitely post an update. If I don't get to post again before the holiday I hope everyone has a good one! Keep your fingers crossed and us in your thoughts!!!!!! :)

-Amity

3rd times a charm??

I bet you're wondering where the post is for the 2nd insem...I actually had to go back and read a little bit of our last blogs to find out what we've talked about... THAT'S how big of slackers we are!

OK a bit of recaps...or to catch myself up that is. I know I will probably mention things that we've already posted about, but in case you're just tuning in, you'll be on the same page as everyone else..hopefully. Think of it as the beginning of Glee where the guy talks really fast and tells you what happened on the last episode.

-We did our first insemination (months ago) and it ended in Sheila getting a pelvic infection because her doctor thought she may be allergic to our donor's sample. She was put on antibiotics to get rid of it before it did more damage and risk never being able to get pregnant. During that healing time, her next month's cycle was all screwed up and she actually never ovulated. Her body was stuck in cooking mode (estrogen) which means, her body kept producing eggs and growing them and growing them since the progesterone never told them to stop growing and producing and to pop out of the ovaries. When Sheila went in for her follow up appointment they checked and she had some HUGE follicles on both sides and there were smaller ones still growing. The doctor was shocked to see SO many and asked Sheila if she were on fertility drugs. We decided not to inseminate after her body popped all those eggs because we didn't want to end up being the Octo-Moms!

-After her body was all healed we were able to do our second insem which was last month. We got some bendryl for her to take just in case she is in fact allergic. I don't really recall all the details, but I do remember I was REALLY tired! We did the insem around 10pm Sept 3rd.

I don't know why she was so happy looking because I definitely wasn't...

We also did an insem the next day and I was looking a little more happy after being able to sleep..

We waited our 2 weeks and were getting slightly excited since the red lady was a couple days late only for her to burst in the door and crush our hopes. Sheila also had no complications this go around, so either our new way to transport the sample is cleaner or the benedryl is doing it's job.

OMG SIDE NOTE...As I was just typing, I hit a random button that wasn't delete and everything got erased from this post. Thank goodness for Ctrl Z!!

PHEW! Going on...

After the red lady came for a visit we were gearing up for the next 2 weeks. Making sure our donor was good to go and we had all the supplies we needed since after 2 times things start getting low. That 2 weeks went by and we were tracking her ovulation like crazy. She never got 2 full dark lines, but she's getting better at trusting her body, so we went ahead and got a sample on Oct 5th and did our 3rd try. After updating Fertility Friend it showed that she ovulated right on that day, so it was pretty good timing. We forgot to take pix this time.. :(

She's at day 9 today and her temp is slowly coming down, so I'm not too sure it worked, but we'll keep trying until it does eventually work. She's been kind of nauseated, sore boobs, and been having headaches. Those are all the same signs as the red lady is coming for a visit, so we will have to wait a few more days to see. Fingers crossed!

I had a funny thought that it would be crazy if some how I ended up getting preg from inseminating her. We're usually on or near the same cycle and I always manage to get the stuff on me! I scrub up before hand and Sheila is allergic to latex, so I don't use gloves. I always wash after, but wouldn't that just be SO weird if that actually happened?? Freaky!

I think that about does it for getting everyone caught up. I'll have to get better at updating sooner. I've just been finally working a lot, so I'm too exhausted to do anything! You don't believe me? You should see how dirty our house is!

-Amity

OK time for a funny picture....



What a bunch of slackers!!

I have been wanting to post a blog for over a month now since I don't think we've posted in like 2 months. This is basically a post to say that I'm going to post a real one most likely tomorrow. Haha I know we suck and you have to wait longer. I will tell you that Sheila is 8 days past ovulation today and we did 2 inseminations! Who0t!

So yeah...hang in there a little longer until I can gather everything I want to write about. :)

-Amity