Today I am feeling a little better.  Enough that I went to work, but not enough that I can actually DO anything at work.  It feels like I swallowed a little electric beach ball that every now and then decides to give me a ZING-say when I bend down, walk, reach for my water, or type the letter Q :).  But I am definitely feeling better than yesterday.

Now my daily regimen consists of one shot and 3 pills.  The shot is progesterone in oil.  During the second phase of a normal cycle, your body produces progesterone from the follicle that busted out the egg.  This signals the body to not shed the uterine lining, giving that fertilized egg a chance to travel down the fallopian tube and implant in the uterine wall 6-10 days after ovulation.  When your body stops producing progesterone, you start your period.  If you stop producing too early, the embryo does not have time to implant and is just shed with your period.  This is called Luteal Phase Defect, when the second half of the cycle is too short to produce a viable pregnancy.  So during the IVF cycle, they want to make sure this does not happen, so you take progesterone shots starting the day of the retrieval.  They are supposed to hurt and be very sore afterwords, but mine last night was not so bad at all!

We hear back tomorrow between 9am – noon on how all those little fertilized embies are doing.  I am so excited!  Praying for at least three to make it through this process.  We will then find out if we are doing the transfer on Friday or Sunday…I can’t decide which I prefer!  Ready for Phase 2!