Sparking Litherland Life

Infertility blog about our struggles and the hope that keeps us going

Archives for March 2018

Surgery #4 here I come..

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Yes you read that correctly.. yours truly will be having her 4th surgery next week. ∗sigh∗ I’m still in a little bit of disbelief right now. But how did we get to this point? Lets go back and start the story from right after retrieval day..

(insert 90s sitcom flashback music 😛 )

After egg retrieval and the freezing of our potential offspring, they told me I should start feeling better in a few days as my hormone levels normalized. That sounded great! I was SO ready to go back to having normal human sized ovaries. Welllllll 4 days goes by andContinue Reading

Eggs and Special Men

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I have wanted to post an IVF update but decided to wait until I had a bunch to fill y’all in on.. Well its finally time and I have LOTS of pictures hooray! Remember that pic I posted on social media a little while ago when all of my IVF meds arrived?? In case you missed it, here it is again..

One of those is just a bag of needles… A BAG OF NEEDLES PEOPLE! As someone who hates needles, I have seen that bag show up in my nightmares numerous times. Anyways.. The first thing our doc needed for this IVF journey to baby Litherland was a sample of Cliff’s special men and a bunch of eggs from me. For Cliff, this required one visit to the doctors office where he gave them the special men while I, like a 10 yr old, giggled in the waiting room. 😛 For my part, it was an entirely too complicated process because Continue Reading