The girl who cried positive?

So after last night's excitement, i couldn't sleep... Which lead to a tea & snack at 1am... Which then meant i had to pee again an hour later... of course i dragged out a test, and it came up within a minute or so... Yay! Which finally allowed me to get a bit ofsleep... Only 3.5h though, and when i tested at 6 (bc now i'm addicted...) possibly the faintest of lines showed up... But not right away, maybe 10min? this was taken 20min post-pee, and shows 7pm, 2am & 6 am from top to bottom.

http://tweetphoto.com/24008186
 
I'm still counting 2am, as i KNOW it turned within a minute or so, and well dammit, i want to BELIEVE. I showed J. the 2am stick this morning, and he says he's excited, but was just waking up, and has other (read: work) shite on his mind. And then of course, I had to explain to him how the pg timeline works... DGT started Apr 19 (5 wks ago), ER was 2 wks ago & ET was 12 days ago, but yet we're considered 4 wks pg. no wonder the poor man was confused.
 
I will procure a digital test tonight, but will probably wait til the weekend to pee on it....
 
oh who am i kidding. i'll post again tomorrow :P

Ummmm

I could be making a big deal out of nothing, but this is from this
evening... http://tweetphoto.com/23974310
Too dark to be evap, no? I'm such a dolt. Peed, didn't see line
immediately, so turfed it and went downstairs. Few hours later, it's
time for bed and i check it jic (bad habit)... Et voila!
Now i don't know what to do - wait til thurs, as i've promised a
friend, or pee again with fmu and wait for the results...
Funny, i had a whole other pee-stick post forming in my head, but now
it doesn't matter (as long as this is right, anyway...)

Whew...

As I've mentioned, I'm a term employee at the moment. When we started looking into really going through with IVF, I checked out the gov. policies for leave & term employees... So, for the last oh lord, 6-8 months maybe, I've been under the assumption that as a term employee, I would be severely limited in the amount of leave I could take, before my seniority at work was reset. Basically, I thought that I could take no more than 60 calendar days of leave (yes, 8.5 weeks) for mat leave.

I was chatting with a good friend last night (who just happens to be a lawyer), and mentioned this whole 60-day thing. She was flabbergasted -"I'm pretty sure that's illegal!"... so I found the relevant parts of our contract & the term employee guidelines, and I'm quite happy to say I was wrong! *MUCH REJOICING*  Looks like I'll be entitled to the same leave as everyone else, and taking more than 60 days will not reset my 'counter' to zero*. PHEW. The plan is still for J & I to roughly split the leave, but it's just so much better that I won't have to go back so soon... y'know, if this whole thing works in the first place :P

*Another part of our contract states that if we have been employed cumulatively for 3 years, term employees automatically become permanent. I'm at 15.5 months right now, and if things progress as hoped, I will have about 2.25 years in when the baby(s) arrive. I didn't want to lose 2+ years of time, but didn't want to take only 60 days of mat leave either. Now? best of both worlds... :)

enquiring minds want to know...

100th post!  And for that, something special. let's call it "the sketchiest timeline evah". Because really, there are a LOT of factors that can affect things in here... But people have been asking what the timeline would be, and i'm happy to indulge in some positive thinking/dreaming...

Given the follow up from the OB is Feb 19, and my last cycle was 31 days (but average is closer to 40), let's say my 1st CD1 after OB appt is Mar 1.  We'll call that point zero. Starting there, sketchy protocol would be as follows... Suppression meds would start mar 22 (CD21). approx 7-10 days after get AF. let's say 10, so  so that's Apr 1. (CD1 - active cycle). then meds meds meds & lots of u/s to see how things are coming along. If all is well, trigger approx day 13 (apr 14 - PM) and Egg Retrieval 36 hours after that. (Apr 16).  If things are going as they should (and really, we're doing IVF + ICSI, the sperm don't really have to DO much), we'd do a 5 day transfer, so ET would be Apr 21. then approx 16 days til beta (which is like 21 DPO, really), so beta around may 7. baby = sometime january. My bday = Jan 30. The perfect bday gift? I think so.

ETA - that would be my 35th birthday... My mom was 35 when she had me (ok, 35 & 4.5 mos, who's counting?), and I swore up and down I'd never be THAT old when I had my kid(s). Oh if only I knew...

Testing - check!

J & I went to get our blood drawn today for IVF. That's the last part of the testing puzzle (I hope!) before we start the cycle. As requested, I called the receptionist at our clinic to let her know we'd completed everything, and to expect the results shortly. She confirmed that there is definitely enough time to get the blood results back before our follow-up on the 28th. WHEEE!

New Year, New Plan

Well, I got a call from the clinic on Friday, called back today and have booked a consult with one of the docs for Jan. 29th . I know that things will take time off the start, but I'm happy that I've finally gotten in and that maybe, just maybe, we might get some answers - or better solutions.

Now, just to work on my eating, weight and exercise. Easy, right?? :p