Day 3 post transfer

Monday, November 24, 2014

First day on my own. Jake headed back to work today. I am not so much laying down all day anymore. I've got stuff to DO. I'm still relaxing, and for everything that I'm doing, I'm sitting down for the most part. I feel like I could be MUCH more productive without this cold. It's also making it hard for me to scrutinize how I'm feeling, since the cold has me feeling blah anyway. The progesterone is also making it impossible to figure anything out. Any pregnancy symptoms that might pop up in the next week or two will be masked by the progesterone, since it is mimicking pregnancy hormones and symptoms anyway. My boobs have been hurting ever since I started injecting it (sorry tmi), so I won't be able to gauge that. I have been extra thirsty (not sure if it's from the cold or progesterone) and all of a sudden I can't sleep through the night without waking up to pee. I was extra sleepy at night (like not being able to keep my eyes open past 8pm) leading up to the transfer (most likely from the hormones), but ever since the transfer that's gone away and I feel completely normal at night (minus the cold). Maybe it's because I'm getting a little extra sleep in the mornings and resting so much during the day. I'm also SUPER HUNGRY all the time, like as soon as I finish breakfast, I'm still hungry. After I eat lunch, I'm still hungry. After dinner, I'm still hungry. Lying in bed at night, I'm hungry. When I wake up to pee in the middle of the night, I'm hungry. I'm hungry from the second I open my eyes in the morning. If nothing else, this progesterone is just going to make me FAT. :P I've been Googling symptoms of 3 days post transfer, and I'm sure I'll continue doing that every day (4 days post, 5 days post, etc...) until our blood test. I'm still having intermittent minor cramps and little twinges. I found this table which gives a general outline of what should be happening in there.

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

Since our blastocysts were already beginning to hatch at the time of transfer, I don't know if we're one day ahead on this chart or not. The hard part for me is going to be to resist testing at home once we hit day 6, 7, 8, 9 post transfer. Our blood test is not until 12 days post transfer. I feel like it would show up on a pee stick before then, if by some miracle this did happen to work. I'm just so scared of being disappointed twice. I have never seen a positive pregnancy test in my entire life. I can't even imagine the feeling.