Sparking Litherland Life

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

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

It’s My Money!

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I know what you are thinking.. its been forever! Where have you been?!? Well.. the last time I went MIA it was because Cliff was home and spending time with him is always the top of my priority list (I’m still #sorrynotsorry about that btw 😎 ). This time I can only partially blame my blogging absence on him. He’s been home but I just haven’t slowed down long enough to post an update. Lets play a little catch up..

Quick IVF update.. Due to my body not cooperating in January (shocking, I know 🙄 ), we had to put IVF on hold for about a month. Luckily, everything is going fine this month so we have started over with all of the IVF prep. I am back on meds and those daily shots that I complain about all the time. Today is shot #89. Crazy right?? I guess I should use these to mentally prepare for the week of fertility shots where I get like 3-4 injections daily. For now, I am still working on just breathing through my one per day. Side note –> my shot strategy consists of reminding myself to not hold my breath and repeating “do you want to have a baby?” over and over in efforts to finish the whole shot and not give up. I think its working pretty good so far!

As fascinating as my daily struggle with stabbing myself is, that’s not the focus of today’s post. Today I want to talkContinue Reading

It’s Gonna Be Okay!

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This Christmas I was given an unexpected gift. Now I wish I could tell you that I found out we were pregnant.. but nope that’s not it (bummer right??) Before Christmas I had blood work done to prepare for IVF and it came back with elevated hormone levels so they wanted to recheck. When the next set of blood work I did a few days later came back with the same high levels, they told me we couldn’t start IVF for at minimum a month so they could get those hormones under control and normal. Due to the fact that I have never had this problem in the 2 years of blood work I’ve done, my doc Continue Reading

I’m going to need more glitter for this update…

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There is no easy way to start this one so I’m just going to jump right in.. after healing from the 3rd surgery, we have had 5 months of trying to get prego with fertility treatments. All unsuccessful.. obviously.. So we have now officially jumped on the IVF bandwagon. Our doctor is getting concerned that if we wait too much longer, my fibroids will start coming back in a way that will prevent pregnancy and the last thing I want to do is have surgery #4.

Over the past few days we have been telling our friends and family that we are starting prep for IVF and I got the same first questionContinue Reading