I am already being hassled at work about what they are calling 'my situation'. Yes, apparently being knocked-up after years of trying will be given a term that I would usually use to describe someone who is pg at 15 or getting charged with some kind of criminal offense - the 'situation'.
I have loads of sick and vacation time saved up, enough for a typical maternity leave, but with twins I am sure I will need more, in that case I am legally entitled to 12 weeks unpaid leave. Since Greg has still to find a job I am not sure how much of the unpaid leave I am going to feasibly be able to take. But I have it, it is my right.
So the attitude about me being gone for possibly 26 weeks (woot!) is not going over well. But it is my right, I have the time and I can use it if I want to. I have never taken more than a 2 week vacation, and those were few and far between. My coworkers take at least two 2 week vacations a year. So they can all kiss my fat pregnant ass:)
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Our journey through infertility, to pregnancy, with a few bumps along the way.
About Me
- Andrea
- Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States
- After years of struggling with infertility we are finally parents to twins thanks to IVF#2! Learning through the difficult time of infertility, a multiples pregnancy, hospital bedrest, and a NICU stay that life is life, there is nothing you can do to control it. All you can do is try to make the best of it:)
Our Journey
- 10/05-Got married!
- 12/06-Began TTC
- 8/07-Diagnosed with Varicocele
- 10/07-Varicocelectomy
- 7/08-First RE appointment
- 9/, 10/, 12/08-IUI #1-3=BFNs
- 1/09 -IUI#4 =BFN
- 4/09 -IVF#1=BFN w/RE #2
- 6/22/09-IVF#2 =BFP!
- 1/15/10-Hazel and Elijah were born
Blog Archive
IF Success Stories
- Busted Babymaker
- Caroline-From Infertility to Baby
- Conceive This!
- Infertility Journey to Motherhood
- IVF on the Down Low
- Little Bluebirds Fly
- Make it Grand
- My Infertile World
- No swimmers in the tubes, no bun in the oven
- Not How I Planned
- Pieces of My Life
- Someday, Someway!
- Swimming Against the Tide
- There's a baby at the end of this, right?
Multiples
Infertility Blogs
Loss
Non-IF blogs I like
Money Spent on IF
- 2008-
- 7/23/08 -$323 RE office visit
- 7/23/08 -$727 cervical cultures
- 8/11/08 -$948 day 3 bloodwork
- 8/11/08 -$536 day 3 ultrasound
- 8/20/08 -$285 for IUI #1
- 9/5/08 -$194 Semen analysis and cryopreservation
- 9/08-9/09 -$150 semen storage fee
- 9/11/08 -$194 semen analysis
- 10/6/08 -pending $3,500 for HSG
- 10/11/08 -$285 for IUI #2
- 12/1/08 -$285 for IUI #3
- 12/27/08 -$285 for IUI #4
- 2009-
- 1/24/09-$248 RE office visit
- 1/28/09 -$412 semen analysis and bloodwork
- 1/30/09 -$542 mock-ET and bloodwork
- 2/6/09 -$3,966 for IVF & ER anesthesia
- 2/10/09 -$1,819.05 for IVF Meds
- 3/25/09 -$1,290 freezing embryos
- 4/2/09 -$293 beta testing
- 6/1/09 -$3,996 for IVF #2
Acronyms
- AF = Aunt Flow (menstruation)
- Beta =Beta blood test, tests for pregnancy hormone
- BFN = Big Fat Negative (on HPT)
- BFP = Big Fat Positive (i.e. PREGNANT!)
- DH = Dear Husband. Even when he's not being particularly dear
- ER = Egg retrieval
- ET = Embryo transfer
- FET=Frozen Embryo Cycle
- HPT = Home Pregnancy Test
- ICSI = Intro Cytoplasmic Sperm Injection
- IF = Infertility
- IL = In-laws
- IUI = Intrauterine Insemination
- IVF = In Vitro Fertilization
- LO = Little Ones (babies)
- MFI = Male Factor Infertility
- MoM = Mother of Multiples
- O = Ovulate
- OPK = Ovulation Predictor Kit (tells when you O)
- Pg = pregnant, pregnancy
- PIO = Progesterone in Oil shots
- POAS = Pee on a Stick (take HPT)
- RE = Reproductive Endocrinologist
- SA = Semen Analysis
- SIL = Sister-in-Law
- Stims = Stimulation hormone shots
- TI = Timed Intercourse
- TTC = Trying to Conceive
- TTTC = Trouble Trying to Conceive
- WTF=What the fuck? -why didn't this work
9 comments:
26 weeks.... whoopppiieeedooo!
That is amazing and heck take it... take it all and enjoy every minute of it.
That is so awesome! You take all of the time you have off...they'll just have to figure things out without you!! :)
You tell 'em!!!
Geeze oh pete! 26 weeks? I know you're not a nurse; they'd never let us have off that long without firing us.
WOW 26 weeks is awesome. Don't you dare feel bad about taking that much time...it's yours, you've earned it, tell them to eff off.
he he he!!!
for the love of all....what is with people these days?? i swear that no one that i knew had to deal with stuff like this when they were pregnant. now? all of a sudden people are reacting so inappropriately!! arg!
xoxo
I'm so sorry you're being hassled about this. I'm terrified to tell my work for this very reason! Thank goodness for your sick/ vacation time, though (although I totally get why you want to take more than that!) - we don't have any paid time off at all, and it's terrifying to think of going so long without a paycheck. ((Hugs))!
26 weeks is awesome! Ignore them... they'll be easier to ignore when you aren't there for 26 weeks!
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