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Happy Thanksgiving!
I don't know if it's our fear of losing control or what, but Kellen and I always seem to step up our fitness game around Thanksgiving time.  We started our Thanksgiving morning off with my brother, Josh, and his fiance, Jess, running 3 miles on the hilly trails of Hawthorne Park.  It was ROUGH and according to our smartphones we burnt 500 calories or so!
You know, it may not just be due to our fear of losing control around the holidays, but also the fact that our IVF shots start tomorrow morning.  My countdown to lazy, couch-potato, non-alcoholic, and non-crossfitting days is on and it's coming fast!  I'm already going through the "high school acne breakout" phase of IVF as a result of the birth control pills they started me on a few weeks back.  Apparently, those birth control pills were necessary to put my cycle on track with their IVF schedule for their December patients.  And now that we're right on their schedule, we begin two shots daily (tomorrow morning and evening) and we'll continue that for 2 days until we begin four shots daily for several days in a row.  Since I'm a 3 time IVF Champ, my experience tells me that the next two weeks will be the biggest hormonal rollercoaster of the entire process.  It's just not natural for a female body to produce 18-20 eggs (when we normally produce one per month), but that's exactly what my body will be doing after these very high doses of medication.  Kellen will be giving me 99% of the shots (which neither him OR I are excited about) and my good friend, Jill Kocher, will help when she's available.  Jill was with me in the hospital when Khloe was born and was my ultimate go-to during my pregnancy, labor, and delivery.  To coincide with today's holiday, I am VERY thankful for both Kellen and Jill. 
Please keep us in your prayers over the next few weeks.  I'll post after our check-ups with the fertility doctor to keep everyone informed on our progress.  We will know the official results around and most likely before Christmas Eve.

Love,

Jen

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  1. UnknownNovember 22, 2012 at 11:28 PM

    Jen, know that Chris and I will be thinking of you guys over the next couple of weeks. Turns out we just started our shots for our iVF on Tuesday. Our first one was a bust but hoping for some good news this time around. Looks like we'll be cycle buddies? Your success with Khloe has given us hope. :)

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  2. JenniferNovember 22, 2012 at 11:35 PM

    Oh my gosh, Julie, I hate this and love this all at the same time! Stay positive because we had a failed IUI and a failed IVF cycle before we got pregnant with Khloe (our 2nd attempt at IVF). Our success rate isn't all that great, but we're trying it again! We will have to stay in contact as we go through this. We're doing micro-lupron and gonal-f pens and our retrieval should be on Dec. 3. I'll pray for you guys. Gosh, I hope you get a positive test!

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  3. UnknownNovember 22, 2012 at 11:44 PM

    We'll definitely have to stay in touch! We are on micro-lupron and bravelle so pretty similar. I have a blog as well which I try to keep up to date. Hopefully good things are in store for us both this time around.

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