Good day

Today is a good day. No headache, just slight bloated stomach and a little gastric pain prior to lunchtime. I suspect my headaches were due to the medications (Crinone 8% & Utrogestan 100mg) that I have been taking. I stopped the Utrogestan from yesterday's afternoon dose and also did not insert the Crinone last night. Or was it due to a head and shoulders massage yesterday? Anyway, I think there's no harm for me to stop the medications for a couple of days as I have previously stopped for 5 consecutively. I shall resume the medications after my 13th subject's final exams this weekend.

Had a busy morning, had 7 visitors from our Philippines factory coming in to learn our operations using the logistics system. Apparently, they have already implemented the same logistics system in the Philippines factory but has not started using it fully. So, they are here to learn the efficiency of the system, our paperless picking operation and our customized customer label issuing and packing operations. We started the presentation and orientation at around 9:30am and finished slightly before 12noon. By that time, I was starving and started having gastric pains. The sea creature inside me was complaining of the lack of food!

Luckily, lunch was sumptuous. We had about 8 varieties of tim sum, mantis prawns and also steamed crabs with egg-white plus desserts. Felt so much better after lunch!

I have been emailing S who is also about 11 weeks pregnant about my morning sickness symptoms and apparently she had headaches too and she also found eating helps! So she gave me a tip. To drink isotonic drinks so that the glucose in the drink will "bluff" the sea creature that there is food and will not give me problems. Hehehe. I will try that later!

Headache...

Today's morning sickness involved headaches...not unbearably painful but a dull throbbing pain across my forehead since I woke up. What is that? I am trying to start drinking fresh milk to increase my calcium intake but it taste terrible. I just want to drink soda the whole day and suck on sour prunes...but I know it's not healthy for me, so I have to control my cravings and stick to a healthy diet as much as I can. It's really not easy being pregnant and it's still a long way to go...at least another 34 more weeks! Can't wait for the 2nd trimester to come...

Week 6

Super tired and sleepy after lunch today but I cannot sleep...just had a 10-minute nap before the bell went off and felt that I really needed a bed to lie down and snooze for at least another hour. There's really nothing much for me to do at the office...*sigh* Maybe I should go sleep in the toilet...

My morning sickness symptoms have not been too bad, at least I have not vomited anything out yet! My baby should be the size of a tic-tac and still looking very sea creature-like...I should be able to hear its heartbeat by now and its heart is suppose to be beating twice as fast as mine! Amazing! Maybe that's what been making me feel sick?

Anyway, can't wait to hear the baby's heartbeat at the doctor's next week.

The Final Number = 1

Yes, I have taken a scan today and the doctor confirmed one baby inside my womb. I asked doctor J what might have happened to the other embryo and this was her answer : "The other embryo did not implant so the body has naturally "removed" it as it perished." Interesting...so in another word, it came out from my body together with my vaginal discharge? ....

Anyway, I am happy with one baby, but at the same time I am also a little disappointed. I am not being greedy but I was thinking that since 2 good embryos were inserted, I should hope that they would both survive, shouldn't I? But I knew from the start that out of the 2 embroys inserted, 1 was better quality than the other, so I guess the better survived this time...I would forever wonder whether the other embryo would be a boy or a girl...Am I crazy? While feeling pity that the other embryo didn't make it, I am worried that this one won't too...I am getting paranoid.

The doctor told me that I am in my 5th week now and only by the 6th week at least will we be able to detect the heartbeat. I will be going back to see her on my 7th week for that check and at the meantime, I need to rest as much as possible, take good care of myself and not eat anything cooling or too cold. I have also purchased extra 2 weeks' medication to help me maintain my hormone level up. The Crinone 8% vaginal inserts and the Utrogestan 100 which I have to take 2 pills times a day. I am determined to carry this baby to full term and give birth to a healthy baby in March!

Tested Positive!

Thank GOD! Om Sai Ram! I have been tested positive today at the gynaecologist's clinic. So happy and relieved. Will see the doctor again in 2~3 weeks for ultrasound scan to confirm the number of baby(s). (^-^)

3 weeks...

*Sigh*...3 weeks back in Singapore went back just like that! I am going back to Hong Kong this morning and won't be back again until at least 3 months later. Missing my children so much already.

2 embryos inserted

About a month after I started my IVF cycle, I finally had 2 good embryos inserted into the lining of my womb yesterday. Now everything is in God's hands...the embryos need to hatch and attach themselves on the lining of my womb to get all the nutrients they need to grow into babies. I am praying hard for both of them to grow together and stay inside me for at least the next 38~40 weeks.

To be honest, I think the whole process has been not too difficult for me...at least I didn't any complications such as really bad headaches, mood swings and over-bloatedness as some people mentioned. I had minor headaches, no mood swing (my husband said that my mood seems better than before!) and I am not unbearably bloated. Didn't really like the injections and blood-taking though. I have needle marks all over my tummy and arms...*yucks*.

I am rather disappointed with the number of good embryos finally though...I had 10 eggs retrieved out from me and then according to the embryologist, 9 were mature enough for fertilization but after day 2, only 6 became embryos. Then on day 5, only 2 were good enough and the other 4 had to be discarded....That is to say, if I cannot get pregnant from these 2 embryos, I will have to start the IVF cycle all over again...And I don't think we are going to do that. It's too expensive. It's about SGD18,000 for the whole process!