Oh Injections!

So if you look to the right these are my meds for 10 days! We had to clear a shelf in our fridge just to fit them all. When we did our IUI's we only used one box of Gonal-F so when this load arrived I cried. It looked like SO much! 2-3 Injections a night. Along with Oral Meds.

For the first 5 Days I felt fine, not much had changed since starting the oral meds. Headache, Tired, my stomach got a little more up-set and increased Nausea. Day 6-7 Show to the right here I really started feeling it. I have some slight bruising thats hard to see along with all the tiny little dot/scabs. My stomach is getting tender from all the needles, and my Ovaries are tender. If I stand wrong I little jump from a shooting pain down my leg. When I lay down in bed I can literally feel the weight of my tender ovaries and it's very uncomfortable. Day 6-7 I have also been a lot more nauseas and super super tired. I fell asleep at 7pm last night on accident, and take naps not on purpose cause I just am so burnt out. Not to mention my toddler has decided to stop napping, and keep waking up all night long! So that doesn't help. But honestly its bearable, I'v done worse for worse. I just keep praying this actually brings us a baby. Below was todays ultrasound, STIM day 7! So we all have follicles not eggs, and then each month 1 follicle will mature into an egg. So below you can see I have 5 almost mature eggs growing in my right Ovary. Yes this is an ultrasound of Inside my body haha. The two bigger ones on the right and left are more mature. We will continue to do injections to help them get more mature and next week they will harvest them. Which is a surgery, I'll be completely under thankfully! Once they remove the eggs they will be fertilized doing ICSI and then grown for 5 days, frozen, and samples of each egg to get the genetics tested. Majority of the eggs won't survive to the last process but whatever ones are we will save and put 1 lucky blastocyst inside me next month.

This is a super cool photo of a blastocyst, not mine but wanted to share what the "end" process will be until grown further inside me!