Below is technically what should be going on in with Boom Boom and Pow right now. I have put them in God's hands and constantly pray that they are thriving and doing their thing down there! I have not really had any weird happenings until this morning. I began having intermittent sharp pains in my uterus that shot up throughout my abdomen, and the boobs are getting pretty sore and swelling. However, the progesterone can cause all of these same side effects, so I don't want to get my hopes up!
I have been asked if I'm going to POAS (pee on a stick) this week and the answer to that is, um, hell yeah! I mean, seriously? I'm a peestickoholic. I didn't spend all of this money to torture myself for another two weeks. I haven't decided exactly when I will test...probably sometime this weekend. Even then it may be too early to get an accurate HPT. Our beta is scheduled to be drawn next Wednesday, July 13.
I just want to remind you that if you know me in real life, please keep everything you read on my blog to yourself. We have not told many people that we are going through with this again, and if it works we will not be telling anyone until we are far enough along to feel comfortable in making an announcement. It is very stressful to openly talk about it all of the time, not to mention having to "un-tell" people should something go horribly wrong...which often happens when dealing with these fertility treatments. Thanks again to all of you for understanding, and for all of your love, prayers, and support:)
5-Day Transfer
| Days Past Transfer (DPT) | Embryo Development |
| One | The blastocyst begins to hatch out of its shell |
| Two | The blastocyst continues to hatch out of its shell and begins to attach itself to the uterus |
| Three | The blastocyst attaches deeper into the uterine lining, beginning implantation |
| Four | Implantation continues |
| Five | Implantation is complete, cells that will eventually become the placenta and fetus have begun to develop |
| Six | Human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) starts to enter the blood stream |
| Seven | Fetal development continues and hCG continues to be secreted |
| Eight | Fetal development continues and hCG continues to be secreted |
| Nine | Levels of hCG are now high enough to detect a pregnancy |
5 comments:
I'd like to give you some food for thought re: POAS. Not saying don't do it, just some information to inform your decision about when to start.
My husband pressured me into testing in the evening 5dp5dt, and it was a BFN. (Breaking my cardinal rule to only test with first morning urine.) I was OK because I figured it was too early, but he was pretty bummed.
He asked me not to test at 6dp5dt, so I didn't. I POAS'd in the morning 7dp5dt and got a BFP. My first beta, drawn at 11dp5dt, was 546, so I figure my hCG level was well over 100 at 7dp5dt.
My experience in being on lots of blogs and message boards over the past two-and-a-half years is that hardly anyone sees a + until after 10 DPO. Obviously there are always exceptions to each rule, but that's been my observation.
Good luck! :-)
Glad to hear that things are going well so far! I had to POAS too - I did not want to get the news over the phone! Thinking of you and praying for your BFP!
I did not want to POAS at all last round. I think it would be more torture than just waiting. If it came out negative, I would be wondering if it really was negative or if I just did it to early. Then I would end up doing it every day and repeatedly letting myself down and getting depressed. I wanted to know that when I heard positive or negative, it was ABSOLUTE. I give anyone a lot of credit for having the strength and nerve to POAS. I also enjoyed being PUPO. I was full of hope and possibility. I was happy thinking that I might be pregnant. I did not want to end that small happy period any sooner than I needed to. Now I am back to the misery of BCP...and soon stimming. Good luck to you! I hope this round is it for both of us!
I vowed I wouldn't POAS but I folded like a lawn chair...from one POAS-a-holic to the next...my everything is crossed for you!! But don't do it until like 7dp5dt...oh and check out my 7dp5dt story...LN10's first POAS was dug out of the trash can by A and at the slightest light/angle/squint of the eye you could barely make out a second line. So my vote is to NOT do it until like 7dp5dt.
Thanks for the advice ladies! I was definitely waiting until about 7dp5dt...we got our positive last time at 7dp3dt, so I'm not sure if my body would react the same way? That was 10dpo, so we'll see!
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