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[quote=Anonymous]It is a huge emotional and physical suck. Make sure you pare down your life--no annoying relatives visiting, turn down invitations to dinner (unless they will be understanding and supportive), try not to have major work deadlines. Pre cook food or order out, do a big clean before you start stimming. Cut yourself some slack and just take it easy.

Prepare to be emotional, even if it's not the drugs causing it. You are just holding your breath every minute of every day. On the outside you will look like you are just going about living your life, but on the inside, every thought will be about--how many eggs are growing, how many will they retrieve, how many will fertilize, how many will continue to grow, how many will we transfer, then the horrible TWW.

The whole time will be a rollercoaster--hope, disappointment, hope, disappointment, repeat ad nauseum...

Your life will revolve around shots, medication, monitoring visits and calls from your nurse.

And if you can don't be PP and Google every number. It will be hard, but you will hear every story imaginable. For every 'I have low XX" or "I have high XX", you will find someone who was successful and someone who wasn't. You won't know whether you will be successful or not, until *you* are or not. Someone else's story will not be your story. So just let things unfold...

Make sure to have a strong support system whether in real life or online. You need IVF sisters to help you through the roller coaster ride. DH did his best, but it's just so foreign to them. They just can't understand the hormones, the shots, the doctor visits. And they feel so helpless, that often they resort to "stop worrying, there is nothing you can do about it" sigh...

Find something that makes you feel like you have some control (even though you don't and need to make peace with that). For me going to acupuncture (which also helped me relax), not having caffeine, eating well, etc made me feel like I has some control of something, even if it was false control.

Lastly, if there was one thing I wish I had done differently--see a Fertility Nutritionist. I started seeing Nicole from Pulling Down the Moon too late in the process to really make a difference for my IVF's. I should have started seeing her when I was doing the IUI's. The things I learned from her about the best nutrition for a woman's fertility has made me so much healthier. I used that knowledge to prepare myself for my DE cycle and now am 18 weeks pregnant.

Good Luck![/quote]

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