Hmmm

My temps are REALLY low. Today's temp was only 97.51. My Post O temps are usually 98.
Trying to not worry and tell myself that it's because I'm taking my temps super early, but it still worries me some. I know I ovulated obviously. Kinda difficult not to on the trigger shot and I'm not having O pains any longer.
I start progesterone tomorrow so if it's a problem, then hopefully the suppositories will fix it.
And we have all of our bases covered and then some with BDing.
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Totally forgot to take a photo of dinner last night. SIGH
It was the same baked chicken dish I made before though. Fixed skin on, bone in chicken breasts in the oven. 350F this time for around an hour. Took longer for some reason.
Seasoning was some coconut oil, smoked paprika, seasoning salt, pepper. Smoked paprika has a strong flavor to it but it was pretty good.
Side dish was stir fry veggies. Zucchini, carrots, onion, broccoli sauted in coconut oil, drizzled with tamari soy sauce, and sprinkled with some pepper and sesame seeds.
Made DH some for his lunch today. Carrots are on the bottom :P

Breakfast, I ate my first portion of pineapple core. BLEH, frozen then thawed out core is kinda gross. You're supposed to eat it in 5 portions over 5 days on an empty stomach. Sounds so ridiculous, like some old legend or wives tale heh.

DH wanted paleo pancakes for his breakfast. The applesauce one, not the banana (helps that we don't have any bananas).
I kind of forgot everything that went in to them, but got it basically correct. Made the batter from 1/2cup of unsweetened applesauce. 2tbs almond butter, 1 egg and a few drizzles of vanilla extract.
Heated up some coconut oil on med heat, and cooked. I let them sit a lot longer to try to keep them from falling apart and it seemed to work this time. One of them did fall apart, but the other 3 stayed a pancake shape. YAY!
Also made him some scrambled eggs :)

Feeling..... good :D

For a change! lol
I think right now I'm just so happy we have this chance that nothing else matters.
Totally not normal for me but heck, I'll take being happy over obsessive any day, which I'm sure will start to kick in in about hmmm... 6 more days (when the trigger shot should be almost gone).

Have a link for everyone! heh. It's all about diet, but it's still an interesting read :D

First up.... Saturated Fats and why they're not bad for us as we've all been brainwashed in to thinking.
http://www.marksdailyapple.com/saturated-fat-healthy/


Hmm speaking of diet, I keep forgetting to take photos of food! BLEH! Today was just leftover spaghetti sauce (and it was goooood). I'm a bit hesitant to make it again though b/c the ingredients are a bit vague on one of the things. One just says "spices". Really??? That's it??
Dinner yesterday was Boston Butt (DH's dad is part of a Masonic lodge and they were selling them smoked for $25), sauted asparagus, & a salad.
Tonight we're having the bone in baked chicken breast that I fixed before. Hopefully it'll turn out just as juicy and yum as before :D

I weighed myself today, and I'm up 2 more pounds! YIKES! It has got to be water weight right? lol I never thought that fertility stuff caused me to gain anything, but maybe it does.
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Oh and I got a call today from the pharmacy with an order for follistim to replace the one that I borrowed from the RE's office. Uh HELLO, I just brought one back YESTERDAY!
The nurse there is SUPER nice, don't get me wrong, but that woman is overworked and overlooks things like this all the time. Take for instance, YESTERDAY when I brought in the HCG and follistim. She looked at it and was like "Do you owe us a HCG?" Are you serious? You're the one that gave me the flippin trigger shot the day before! rofl
Anyway, they better get that straightened out.

BABIES!!!!

I've got babies!! At least 20 of them!

Awwwww, aren't they so adorable!

Maybe? Please?

I really think I may have ovulated from my left ovary as well. Really hoping so and what I've been feeling isn't just them growing in to cysts.
Fairly certain I ovulated last night or during the night while sleeping.
My temp is up some. It's not very high compared to other cycles b/c I'm taking it so early. For some reason, I'm waking up at around 3:30 in the morning, so I've been taking it then.
Feeling really great and really positive right now. TWW does a number on my sanity though so I'm sure the positive will quickly turn in to batshit crazy obsessive soon lol.

Starting the pineapple core tomorrow. Was going to eat some today, but since my temp is still lower than usual, just going to wait to make sure.

Also think I've finally O'd b/c my nipples are getting REALLY sensitive. SIGH...... time for DH to torture me lol. He LOVES trying to tweak them when he knows they hurt.... bastard :P lol He gets his twisted pleasure out of it. It's revenge for me tickling him all the time.

Anywho, here are today's tests.
2dpt

Oh also, watched that program The Great Sperm Race on youtube. It was pretty interesting and really makes you wonder how on earth ANY of us are here with how much sperm have to get through and how many actually survive.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAnMymnJiLM

Scratch that...

What I said about not feeling any O pains. I THINK I may be feeling a little bit. It's not obvious and if I had my mind on something else I probably wouldn't have even noticed anything.
I've been feeling some aching on the left O. I don't really pay attention to it, b/c it could easily be bowel.
Just felt a quick ache on the right O though and still feeling just a little bit.

Going to try some pineapple core this cycle. If my temp is up tomorrow, I'll start eating it then. It's supposed to help with implanting so FX.


EDIT: I really think something is going on with the left ovary as well because I'm getting O aches. Pretty sure it's not just bowel. Can follicles even grow after the trigger is given? Looking up info on google, looks like they do in fact grow after the trigger is given. She measured one or 2 on the left at arund 13 and 14. So maybe they caught up enough! FX

Oh I forgot

To mention the "lovely" things SiL had to say yesterday.
We went out with her and her husband along with DH's parents and my 2 neices to the local state park.
Just a day out grilling and hanging out basically.

Everything started off fine. SiL wasn't being THAT annoying, but then her bitchmode turned on and it all went downhill from there until she started to feel sick and shut up.

Some of her lovely comments...

MiL started to talk about SiL having twins. SiL repeatedly said that she would sell the 2nd one. She obviously wouldn't, but she is very vocal about only wanting ONE baby and whenever multiples are brought up, she acts like it would be the end of the world. Thankfully during her u/s they only saw one.

She LOVES complaining about how bad her morning sickness is. Because she's so sick, she calls her baby "devilspawn".

MiL got on the topic of FiL mother who had multiple miscarriages. This is when SiL chimed in saying that she wishes she could lose this baby. I wasn't really looking at them but could see MiL in my periphal, and I know she gave SiL a look. When she did, SiL quickly changed it to she hopes she loses the baby when it's older. Whatever the hell that is supposed to mean.
I REALLY hope MiL hasn't told her about the recent m/c, b/c if she did, and SiL is still saying shit like that.... I dunno if I'm gonna be able to keep my mouth shut next time.


Thankfully it just only angered/annoyed me and didn't upset me as much as her stupid ass statements before.
Still, I just can't understand how she's SO ungrateful. She had been trying for longer than us, got pregnant naturally even though she also suffers from irregular cycles. She WANTED this pregnancy and she says crap like that.
I just don't understand. I can see being unhappy that you're sick, but to say the things she has...... UGH.

Solo

First up.... Thanks everyone for the support!!!

Next... I just took my first solo trip in 12 YEARS. I used to drive everywhere by myself when I was a teen, then it just stopped.
Anywho, I know that's not a big deal for normal folk lol. It's just a weird sensation driving by myself and actually going somewhere alone after so long.


So don't feel much of anything in the ladybits. I wish I were one to feel ovulation pain, but I don't. I may feel aching afterwards, but think that may be just b/c of cysts growing.
Really hope that's not the case this time since this cycle was a lot shorter compared to the others.

Anywho... just took my first opk and hpt to test out the trigger! Is it sad that I still like seeing the blazing positives even if they aren't real? :P

Sigh... one day... one day.....

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Lunch today is nothing special. About 5 slices of ham and a few spoons of some greek yogurt w/ sliced strawberries and frozen blueberries. Was going to eat more of the yogurt, but going to let the fruit mix a bit more to sweeten it.
You can definitely tell that this yogurt is full fat. It's a lot thicker than the other one I had gotten. Plus it has a much richer flavor. Not too shabby.

Surprise!

I got the trigger this morning!!!
That was a total shocker!
I had a feeling that I was going to have a couple that were close, but thought I'd have to stim for a couple more days.

She only measured one being mature on my right O at 18mm. Little disappointed but I will take it. One is still a chance and that's all I want at this point.
It did however look like there was another on my right O that was just as big, but she didn't measure it as so. I'm sure she knows what she's doing, but to me, it just looked a lot bigger than what she measured.
My left O was still hiding so difficult to see what was going on there.
Looked like there were a few smaller size ones, around 12-14mm, but nothing matured.
She said with the one at 18mm already that I'd probably ovulate it before the others had a chance to catch up. I hope they do catch up some just to give us more of a chance. Either way though.... YAY!
Was just in such a good mood there, and even seeing that it's just the possible one.... I'm in a GREAT mood and feeling really positive about all of this.
I'm sure the TWW will totally suck that right out of me though lol.
Oh and my lining was 13mm so no problems at all there :)
This is the shortest injection cycle I've had so really hoping that the egg quality will be a lot better this time around since I keep reading that longer ones MAY produce poorer quality? Not sure how true that is but it still feels good knowing that I got to trigger a lot sooner than usual.
Plus I've been taking the Royal Jelly that is supposed to help with egg quality as well so FX!

Pleeeeeease let this be it!!
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In other news... we had a nice 2 days of cheating. Dinner last night, we went ALL out. Got some chili cheese fries, a salad with ranch dressing, steak w/ mashed potatoes (DH had a loaded baked potato), and dessert was the chocolate cake thing at Longhorn. YUM.
It's time to get back on it now though.
Since it's now after the 30 days, I've decided to add back in Greek Yogurt.
It is DIFFICULT trying to find some that is full fat! Almost all of the other ones were made with non-fat milk.
This is the kind I finally found that used full fat milk. It was the only one left so woo! heh Big container and not too expensive either.

Lots of sugar in it though. I mean no added sugar, just natural, so can't have too much of it.
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Just got a call from the RE, my E2 is only at 276, so guess it is just the 1 follicle. Kind of disappointed in that, but still... as I said, I will take one over nothing any day :)

I think the right one

...has taken over production again. Must've been bowel I was feeling on the left, b/c my right ovary is twinging and aching like crazy!!!
I'm also starting to get EWCM. It's still a little creamy, but it's starting to stretch and apparently there is a lot of it.
I say apparently b/c we BD'd last night and I really wasn't in the mood, but did it anyway, and DH commented on how plentiful CM was (a little bit more raunchy, but you get the idea lol).
Really hope my scan tomorrow morning shows something awesome!!

Zoo!

We went to the zoo today! YAY!
It was kind of last moment. I had suggested it the other day, but it was already too late to go and it has been raining almost all week. Today was predicted to be clear so we went today with MiL and my youngest neice.
It was fun. Zoo is a lot smaller than I remember it being.

I did have a blood draw today to check E2. We told them that we weren't going to be home when they called so they just left a message.
When we finally got home, I came home to a message saying that my E2 is 249! WOOOOOOOOO
I was expecting maybe 120 at best so 249, YAY!
Go back in on Sunday for an ultrasound and another blood draw.
Thinking I have maybe 2 or 3 b/c I'm feeling something on both ovaries.


Eating today was AWFUL. Before I knew that we were def going to the zoo, was just expecting to cheat for dinner, maybe breakfast, but it was an all day event.
Breakfast was a croisandwich from Burger King. Lunch was french fries and jalapeno poppers at the zoo, and dinner was a Chinese Buffet where everything is coated in a sugary sauce.
I felt fine until dinner. I think all of that sugar is really doing a number on my stomach.
Other weeks will definitely not be as bad as this thank goodness lol.