So no one told me that the IUI procedure would hurt like the devil. My mother's response to this was "I think you're in for a rude awakening if you think that was bad. Just wait for the labor and delivery part." Basically, I've just come to the conclusion that I'm a wimp at the very thought of pain. Though to be honest, in the grand scheme of things . . . on the spectrum of pain . . . it really wasn't that bad. The worst of it was that my cervix is tilted and hard to get to so some sort of really fun instrument had to be used to pinch and lift my cervix. Doesn't that sound great! The on top of that was the all day cramping . . . fun times.
The best part of it though is that the IUI was done, my donor's counts were high and according to the nurse "looked great" and I'm on my way to finding out if I'm going to get pregnant. I'm officially in the two week waiting period. Sadly there is no cheating and finding out early with a pregnancy test. The HCG shot can give false positives so there is nothing to do but wait out the two weeks and see. If I'm a baby with pain, I'm not any better with patience. So I suspect it is going to be a very long two weeks. I'm not even sure what I should be doing in these two weeks. Is there anything special I need to do? Anything I need to stop doing? I just don't want to screw this up by something I've done. Any suggestions and advice from readers would be great!
I've mostly napped today and I'm headed back to bed soon hopefully. My waking dreams for the last five years have been about having a baby and now that I'm on the road to fulfilling that dream, I suspect I'll be full time dreaming about it. But that is okay since that is where my heart is.
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