Can I Just be a Brat right now?

[jessimi06]

Hopefully roommate #8 doesn't snore AND have stinky gas. That would be the worst. And as far as stinky has goes, I doubt someone could do worse than DH or our dogs haha.

I wouldn't sweat it - chances are they would never even know it was you posting .

[shytimes]

Feb 17, 2015 12:22:56 GMT -5 amshark said:

Feb 17, 2015 11:54:54 GMT -5 shytimes said:

Thanks for the update.... all that pizza talk at the top of the thread made me hungry, so now I'm curious what DH brought for Valentine's Day.

And I really hope you continue to vent here, because we're all here to listen and are rooting for you!

I told DH that he had to bring me "real pizza or something" on Saturday, and he went totally above and beyond, and got dinner from one of our favorite restaurants.  (Not our FAVORITE, favorite, because that's a sushi place.  *sigh* But probably our 2nd favorite place).

The food was from a Mediterranean place (think of a mix of Greek, Italian, Turkish and French foods).  DH brought fresh pita and hummus, a grilled octopus and vegetable appetizer, and then we shared a grilled  haloumi cheese and shrimp garden salad and a gnocchi dish with eggplant and tomato.  It was all really delicious, even on paper plates.  The chocolate chip cookies that DH made were from Alton Brown's chewy recipe.  (If you're familiar with the Good Eats episode on choc. chip cookies, you know what I'm talking about).  I still have a bunch of cookies in a big old tupperware.  I've been sharing them, but I might start getting possessive of them as the amount of cookies starts to dwindle.  

Another delicious-sounding gnocchi dish on GBCB... I definitely know what I'm getting for dinner!

[sugar4bri]

I'm so glad you had a nice Valentine's day! I'm still in awe of you and how you're handling everything. I'm not sure I'd do such a great job if I were in your position. Let me know if you need anything!!

[amshark]

Total false alarm on roommate #8 btw. They were going to move someone in, and then said maybe not. I'm not sure if she wasn't admitted, or if she bunked with another patient. I heard they were discharging between 10-12 patients today, so I guess I'm in the clear for a little while longer - unless 13 are admitted tomorrow. You never know.

[lilyharper]

amshark can I tell you how happy it just made me to see your ticker said 30 weeks? You're amazing. And yay for privacy for a little longer!

[amshark]

Feb 18, 2015 21:04:29 GMT -5 lilyharper said:

amshark can I tell you how happy it just made me to see your ticker said 30 weeks? You're amazing. And yay for privacy for a little longer!

30 weeks today - and I got the first half of the "rescue dose" of steroids.  Yippee!

[jessimi06]

Hooray for small blessings!

[amshark]

So, I guess 13 new ladies were admitted shortly after 12 were discharged the other day. I did get a new roommate after all. Roommie #8 moved in yesterday around 5 pm. I think she was admitted at around 1 am yesterday morning, and rather than move her into my room immediately, they had her in a labor room (which are not meant for long stays), and waited until they were less busy to move her in.

Here are the positives: Once again, she's really nice, and for the first time ever, she's not 10 years younger than me. She's actually, *gasp* a couple of years older than me and is also pregnant with boy/girl twins. She also already had a set of boy/girl twins 6 years ago, and they are visiting her now, and they are just cracking me up. They are just the most adorable little 6 year olds. When they first arrived, they were marveling at the room, and they kept saying, "This is so cool! I wish I could sleep here." I think the boy is impressed by the curtain - I can see how it might seem like a tent when it's closed.

In 8 different roommates, this is the first that also did IVF - actually, the first to have any struggles with in fertility. I think I read on Resolve.org that 1 in 8 couples struggle with fertility. Who'd have thought that the average would play out precisely in my own room?

[IFinTN]

amshark you are running a statistics analysis over there! I bet it is nice to have someone you can relate to for once. Here's hoping she is a quiet sleeper with even quieter bowels

[jessimi06]

amshark I'm glad that she seems so nice, and that you have a roomie you can relate to . Hopefully she's not a snorer.

If you get the chance to non-awkwardly ask her why she decided to do ivf again after having twins, it'd be greatly appreciated. Not that I'm judging her in any way- it's more for insight. I'm 99% sure that we're done after these two get here (given that we're having two and the complications so far), but we're not 100% sure. And I wanted to see what her response was, because we've discussed doing another IVF cycle after I'm done breast feeding to do a freeze all so that we would have embryos made with younger eggs to use for later. But I'm not sure that I want to do it, will we even want more, will we change our minds, etc? And since we're OOP, it makes me more unsure.

[amshark]

jessimi06, I talked to my roommate earlier about her history. When she did IVF for her first set of twins, she was able to freeze 5 embryos. Five or six years later, when she decided to have more children, they started by thawing and implanting one, but it did not take. She lost another one that did not thaw properly, and on her RE's recommendation, implanted 2 at her 2nd FET, and both took.

I didn't have anything to freeze, but if I had, we wereoo planning on trying for a third. I can see how something like this could have happened to me too.

[snarkysparklefart]

I love reading your updates on this!! Also glad you got a relatable roommate. I hate to say I hope you get to keep her for a but, but if she has to be kept and rooms have to be shared, she sounds pretty alright!

[lib1974]

Keep us posted! I may not be super active on here but I do like to read and catch with everyone when I have time. Been working a ton lately and the docs are letting me do more things now I am 35 weeks. I am so glad you are at 30 weeks! Yipee!!

[jessimi06]

amshark that makes sense. We don't have any frozen embryos left either, but I'm sure that if we did we would try for a third (originally DH wanted 3 kids).

[lib1974]

Yeah I had no frozen either. Might be one and done for me.

[runcici]

glad to hear you're holding up over there amshark

jessimi06, it's an interesting topic you bring up about "going for twins" on the second pregnancy. It doesn't seem like that was her aim, but I guess it just goes to show how little control we have over this stuff! ***Loss Mentioned*** DH & I were THRILLED when we found out that both of our embryos implanted, and then completely devastated when we lost one at 8 weeks. Of course we are grateful for the little boy growing in my uterus right now, but I had always thought that I would be a twin mama. We have four frosties waiting for us from our DEgg cycle, and (if my heart can handle it) we will transfer two again on the next cycle and pray like hell that they both make it!!

[jessimi06]

Feb 21, 2015 10:26:19 GMT -5 runcici said:

glad to hear you're holding up over there amshark

jessimi06, it's an interesting topic you bring up about "going for twins" on the second pregnancy. It doesn't seem like that was her aim, but I guess it just goes to show how little control we have over this stuff! ***Loss Mentioned*** DH & I were THRILLED when we found out that both of our embryos implanted, and then completely devastated when we lost one at 8 weeks. Of course we are grateful for the little boy growing in my uterus right now, but I had always thought that I would be a twin mama. We have four frosties waiting for us from our DEgg cycle, and (if my heart can handle it) we will transfer two again on the next cycle and pray like hell that they both make it!!

runcici it wasn't really about 'going for twins' as it was about what made her decide to try again after she already had twins. It was really just out of curiosity/insight for me. DH and I can't decide if we should do another OOP cycle (freeze all) so that we have embryos made with younger eggs for later on (if we decide that we want more). We feel so blessed to get these two and feel like we'll be done after they're here, but we're not 100% sure. It'd be another story if we still have snow babies, and would probably try to another later down the road.

[runcici]

jessimi06, ahh, gotcha It's crazy to have to think this way, isn't it?! For me, I'm putting it off because I'm pretty sure that I'll end up changing my mind when the time comes anyway. I'll have to peek at your siggy, but are you AMA? Do you have egg quality concerns?

[jessimi06]

runcici our dx is PCOS and MFI, but my ovaries don't like responding to stims (1st cycle was cancelled due to poor response, and the second ended with 6 eggs after 10 days of high level stimming). Our RE just recommended to do another cycle sooner than later and freeze all if we felt that we wanted more kids later on.

I'm leaning towards waiting to see how we feel and cycling later on if we want more, and if it doesn't happen then it doesn't happen.