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[quote=Anonymous]Hi Nureen. I'm 10 days out from my retrieval, and this is the first day I actually feel "normal." Minimal bloating, my ovaries feel like they've finally shrunk back to their regular size and I feel as though I can go for a run comfortably this afternoon, FINALLY! (Which I'm sure will be slow and plodding, but I'm never fast anyway.)

I think the hardest part between the transfer and the beta is that you have to live in this sort of flat, emotionless state of being for 10 days. You can be hopeful while you're stimming, because you have to be, you know? You have to hope for lots of eggs, you have to hope lots fertilize, you have to hope they make it to blastocysts. You have to root for your body, to give it as much strength and support as you can. And then....you have to give it all up to the fates, the universe, luck, chance, biology, God...whatever it is that makes it happen. Because there's nothing you can do after the transfer, except for take care of yourself and heal from the awful process your body just went through. Being too hopeful sets unreasonable expectations. Being too negative does nothing for you, either, except for make you feel even lousier when you're trying to heal, physically. You have to restore yourself from the discomfort in your body -- and then live in that flat, steady emotionless place for a good one-third of a whole month so that the crash isn't so bad, if that's what happens...and so that the good news, if that's what happens, really feels good. That's the hardest part, for me.

I was actually thinking this morning that if I still lived in Florida and had a pool, I'd just float in the pool as much in possible in the days after the transfer, just hanging out on a float, suspended and weightless and blank, until my fingers were all wrinkly and I had to get out and face reality for a little while. [/quote]

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