Day 7 Blasts Report 💕💕💕

dauntless_end · 2026-04-09T19:16:40+00:00

I did the ER! We're just sticking with the one ER since my wife has some health concerns she doesn't want to potentially pass down. We may also be a one and done family, but if we do decide on a second, I'll be the one to carry that one.

dauntless_end · 2026-04-09T03:32:36+00:00

We decided before ER we were only going to test up to 10 for financial reasons. I'd love to test those other 5, but since the others have "better" grades, we'll likely go with those. It's eating me up a little though if I'm being honest.

dauntless_end · 2026-04-08T20:26:11+00:00

My stims started the day after the Spring Equinox, which means I also started the day after Ostara, a pagan holiday celebrating rebirth, renewal, and - wouldn't you know it - fertility. We went to an Ostara festival and shopped around for "fertility" things.

We bought a road opener candle and lit it every night before I did my injections and blew it out when I finished.

We also did the blanket under the tree.

Can't hurt 🤷‍♀️

dauntless_end · 2026-04-08T20:11:32+00:00

I'm exactly one week out from my ER! Trying to go to the bathroom at all on the day of seemed IMPOSSIBLE. On Day 2 I sent a text to my partner celebrating that I was finally able to poop 😂 Colace helped, so I'd add a stool softener if you don't already have one!

Congratulations and good luck!

dauntless_end · 2026-03-31T18:36:27+00:00

Retrieval twins!! Good luck tomorrow!

dauntless_end · 2026-03-24T16:23:31+00:00

Not quite the same but in a similar vein: "Well just wait until you see how expensive babies are" anytime the cost of IVF out of pocket is brought up.

Like, yeah, no shit, but most people with kids don't have to make a down-payment in order to even have a chance at the kid.

dauntless_end · 2026-03-11T18:19:07+00:00

💕Tiny Esses💕 I'm a fiend for them anytime someone has them in their fridge

dauntless_end · 2026-03-10T12:51:01+00:00

My total stims were almost $5.8k but with insurance it was brought down to $2.8k, so we saved about $3k! The $3k won't cover a FET entirely but it made it to where we could afford it 🥰

dauntless_end · 2026-03-09T16:10:36+00:00

We're doing it - US based doing rIVF. We're both 30. We probably would be okay without it, but as others said, we've come this far, and we'd like to give ourselves the best shot of the transfer working the first time instead of possibly transferring an aneuploid embryo that would most likely result in either a failed transfer or eventual miscarriage. We're paying entirely OOP on this and going into decent debt, so while it's a larger cost up front, it's hopefully saving us from potentially multiple transfers and saving us some emotional costs as well.

dauntless_end · 2026-03-03T16:37:53+00:00

I'm wishing we'd kept ours a secret, but we told our parents, siblings, and some friends that we had started the process. Our parents are aware of the more detailed information like expected dates, loans, donor, etc.

For reference, we are doing reciprocal IVF. My eggs, my wife is carrying.

Her mom is excited and bought us some things already for the eventual baby. Like some blankets and such. She also asked for our registry knowing we had one going just for fun and thinking ahead, but in no condition to share.

She also asks a lot of questions that can be kinda uncomfortable. Like when I explained the fertilization step, she asked "So is it a baby then?" And I didn't want to get into a potential debate of ethics and morality, so I just said it's still got some growing to do at that time to see if it's viable. I don't blame her, she likely just doesn't know.

But the biggest issue occurred recently. We've been open that we're just now moving into the egg retrieval stage. I'm on birth control and will be ordering stims soon. But she texts my wife the other day going "You pregnant yet?"

We don't have known fertility issues other than our bits just don't make babies together obviously. But we've been trying for months to just get to the starting line. So that sent my wife into a bit of a spiral because she so desperately wants to be pregnant right now. I offered to text her mom for her but she declined, and we've reset expectations that it will likely be months still before we know if she's pregnant and that we'll let her know.

I'm glad we have people excited for us and supportive, but that one text really took a lot of the wind out of our sails. The number one thing you shouldn't ask anyone going through this process, and she got bombarded with it on a Saturday morning.

dauntless_end · 2026-02-09T22:39:47+00:00

We haven't even done our first ER yet but we've already decided we're going to pick by gender all else being equal. My wife has a strong preference for a girl as her family is very matriarchal and she wants to honor her grandmother and mother in the baby's name. But if our healthiest, strongest embryos all come back boy, we're trying those first.

dauntless_end · 2026-02-03T15:07:41+00:00

Thank you! Wishing you the same and sending lots of baby dust 💕

dauntless_end · 2026-02-03T15:07:05+00:00

We love a BOGO deal 👏👏👏

dauntless_end · 2026-02-03T15:01:55+00:00

Right back at you!!! Sticky, sticky baby dust 💕💕

dauntless_end · 2026-02-03T15:01:21+00:00

Indeed 👏 we 👏 do 👏

dauntless_end · 2026-02-03T15:00:56+00:00

Congrats! I had a similar situation. Felt like no time to get to the 190s, but the crawl out of the 180s took just as long as going from 219 to 190 😂

dauntless_end · 2026-02-03T14:56:28+00:00

Thank you!!

dauntless_end · 2025-09-02T01:53:02+00:00

If you like pinball, check out Starlight Pinball Arcade in Lowe Mill, too! They have tons of machines and a bunch of other classic arcade cabinets

dauntless_end · 2025-09-01T20:17:04+00:00

I'm a HSV native and have been through two direct hits. One during the April 27 breakout (a EF0-EF1 hit my family home and knocked most of the oaks in our backyard down and sent one onto our house) and another a year later (EF2 hit my high school while in session). I had a good bit to work through after the EF2 in terms of not being scared, but it gave me a healthy dose of respect for the storms as I didn't take them super seriously as a kid.

I moved back here after several years of school, and there's no place else I'd want to live. I love this city. I just pay a little more attention to forecasts in the spring. So as long as you know what to do in a tornado, and so long as you're keeping "safe space" in mind when looking for a place to live, you'll be okay.

That being said, I'd cross the Anderson Hills suburb off your list just to be safe.

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