CD3 - IVF day 1

So, I'm really hammering the blog lately. Sorry!

We have to do the Gonal-f injections at the same time every morning, so as we get up at 6am during the week for work, despite it being a sunny Sunday morning and our last chance for a nice lie in after being up early yesterday, the alarm went off at 6.30am and off we trudged to the kitchen to do the very first injection.

Got the pen out of the fridge and attached the needle, which was at least twice the length of the one the nurse has given me to practise with so I was a little scared, given my past needle-phobia. I grabbed an inch of fat (or which there was a lot of!) and hesitated for around 30 seconds before plunging in the needle. I had my hand at the bottom of the pen as it felt safer to me (?!) so I had to ask Martin to actually press the pen to actually release the medication. A nice, Sunday morning couple activity, hey?!

So far so good, 2 hours passed injection and a slight headache, but that could be due to the heat wave and slight dehydration.

To make the most of our day we're going to head out for breakfast and do a spot of shopping. I also get to rock my new denim short dungarees - trying to make a baby while reliving my own childhood