Say Hormones 3 Times Fast!!!!!!

I decided to share a little about the last year and a half sequence of hormonal changes throughout my body. May seem a little strange but I find it quite humorous so I have to tell you! I'll start at the beginning around February 2011:

Healthy 21 year old with the normal amount of raging female hormones

March 2011 - becoming pregnant (change of hormones)

June 2011 - final stretch of planning our wedding (enough emotions and stress for anyone without the changing hormones of pregnancy)

December 2011 - delivering a baby (hormones hormones hormones is all can say) nothing describes the emotions and amount of crazy feelings/moods going through a woman after giving birth (We blame that on the hormones as well)  (Ladies Am I Right?!) Please back me up so I don't seem psychotic! Ha!

January-March 2012 - hormones getting back to normal after pregnancy and my cycle getting back on the regular PMS schedule. =]]]]]]]]]  [btw, PMS absolutely refers to putting up with men's ****, enough said ;)]

April 2012 - choosing a birth control [with hormones in it!] Again, altering my regular routine of normal raging hormones!

July 2012 - going off the birth control [due to not being able to have an IUD in place during pre-screening process]

Okay, now the cycle is getting back on track again from being off the birth control...

NO WAIT! August 2012 - going back on birth control to regulate my cycle with the fertility clinics transfer schedule! Just kidding body, are you having fun yet!? lol

September 2012 - then the start of fertility medications [altering my hormone levels by stopping my ovulation cycle halting the estrogen in my body] for 3 weeks.............

and then...........

BAM! Flowing Miss Estrogen back into my system with new medications to help my body form a thick uterine lining. Seriously, every time I put the estrogen patches on, about 15 minutes later I get a rush sensation throughout my body and I am oddly getting used to it. It is like my veins are on full fast blood flow for another 15 minutes or so. Weird Right?!

Now I will continue the heightened estrogen and hopefully get all those pregnancy hormones continuing to flow.

Don't even get me started on how emotional I have been lately! [Blaming the hormones!] I can't even watch a single T.V. show without bawling my eyes out over the smallest things! I can just start talking about our surro journey to someone and immediately have tears in my eyes! COME ON! Ha!

Lets just say emotional t.v. dramas are off limits for a period of time! hehehe

Officially 1000 page views! These 3 months blogging have truly helped me focus on each small thing and each huge thing we have experienced. This is going to be a great way for others to get information and a wonderful diary per say for me to look back on. (: Thank you to everyone for all of your support and following us through the start of our journey!

Here are a couple videos that many have discussed their curiosity about:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgLhX1M55No&feature=endscreen&NR=1 (Great View of the embryos going into the catheter from the petri dish. The fertility Dr. will in a way suck up the tiny little embryos and you can see them in this video going one by one. E and I were able to see them do this with embies 1 and 7 and let me tell you it gave me chills. The rest of this video isn't a good view of the ultrasound where they show the embryos placed so I have posted a different video for that. In this one you can't seem to see much of anything after the embryos go into the catheter.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqUmMYgAkKY Video of an IVF ultrasound during an embryo transfer. It seems like you are looking at a blank screen for about half the video and then you see the glowing catheter make its appearance and then quickly leave. After you see the glowing 2 embryos placed in the uterus. It doesn't give the real experience any justice but for the most part this is what our screen looked like. (:

Love,


P.S. Extremely looking forward to Tuesday for the beta-hcg blood test!!!!!!!!! All of us are trying to stay distracted and I'm sure it is much worse for E & A not being able to first hand experience things but we will all know for sure soon! 2 1/2 more days!!!!!!