Purchases
Posted: May 29, 2005 Filed under: Uncategorized 5 Comments »I want this so badly I can taste it in the back of my metallic, nauseated mouth.
When you read all the early pregnancy symptoms you can find on every pregnancy message board ever created, you will eventually start to have ALL of these symptoms. So for today, I will list:
* still with the constant peeing
* weird, unpleasant taste at the back of my mouth, making me salivate like crazy (if I hadn’t read the countless descriptions of a “metallic” taste in the mouths of barely pregnant women, I would never have thought to call it that, but there you have it)
* thirsty
* abdominal twinges, much like the feeling of losing gravity on a roller coaster or of being very excited (OK, yes, probably it is that I am excited)
Fertility Friend moved my damn ovulation today based on my temperatures – it strangely put it at CD15, which I would never have guessed myself. The thing is, if by some miracle I am pregnant this month, I will not give a flying fig what day I ovulated (except that if it’s later rather than earlier that’s just longer I have to wait to test). But if I am not pregnant this month (which is, after all, more likely – remember?), I would kind of like to know what the hell happened.
The question of the day: is it physiologically possible to have pregnancy symptoms before the egg implants in the uterus? Are all early pregnancy symptoms imagined? Does the egg have to implant before your body knows you are pregnant or does that little mass of cells emit some sort of primal, chemical scream to the rest of the body to announce itself?
As all thoughts these last few days, none of these answers truly matter – at this point, I either am or am not. Nothing is going to change that now.
But I did just order a whole SLEW of early-pregnancy-tests.com test strips because they are only .80 a piece and without them I will find myself returning to Target to stock up on more First Response Early Result – 2 for $10 is quite a deal.
So, let’s say for a second that you’ve beaten the odds and that you’ve managed to get knocked up in the first go around. I’m woefully uninformed on the process of purchasing genetic material, but I would assume you buy more than one attempts worth of, um, seed at a time. Bulk discount and all.
If that’s true, what happens to the extra?
No, we only bought one attempt’s worth (two vials, each the size of about a third of a lipstick tube, if that) because there are no bulk discounts. Sometimes they will do shipping discounts for bulk, but that’s it. And if you buy more and then don’t need it, they will buy it back at 50% of the cost, so that’s a lot of money blown. Because our donor is still fully stocked (brand new on the market), we are just buying enough for each cycle for now.
Shipping’s irrelevant to you, right, since your bank is local? Shipping is a big factor if you are not local – we usually bought multiple vials because shipping nearly doubled the price of a single vial. So for us, buying extra and storing locally made sense. Plus if we have extra, we’ll save it for a potential sibling.
Are FRERs on sale for 2/$10 at Target or is that the regular price? (I need more HPTs like I need a hole in the head but it is OH so tempting…).
And I share your bafflement at early pregnancy symptoms. As far as I can tell, there is NOTHING biological going on that could signal your body to start doing things prior to implantation. Yet with my brief pregnancy, I had indisputable symptoms at 5dpo. My breasts hurt in a way that had never, ever, happened in my life. Lo and behold, that was a real indicator.
Of course, THIS go round, I won’t be able to trust ANYTHING as I have seen so many women have powerful, utterly convincing, indisputable AND ENTIRELY PSYCHOSOMATIC symptoms. And now that I know about the boob thing as a telling signal for me, I won’t know if it’s real or invented (whereas when I didn’t know, I could trust it). Didja follow the bouncing logic? I hope so.
I love this sentence. It makes me picture a television car salesman, “The new, 2005 models have been released! And boy can these gametes swim. Check out the precision tails and extra hearty heads. These beauties will storm the fallopian tubes. Our lot is full, but don’t wait, these beauties won’t last forever.”
And, I was sort of loving the idea of your freezer being fully stocked.
“Honey?”
“Yes?”
“Have you seen the ice pops?”
“I think they’re behind the sperm.”
No, we’re not local – it’s coming from CA. But if I do get pregnant, we would be out $450 for each month we overbought. We are not going to be having any more siblings (we’ve got the gargantuan man-boy sibling already, of course) so as far as I can tell we wouldn’t come out ahead counting on the Buy Back program. We would have free storage for 6 months at my RE, though, so we’re certainly not ruling it out. I think it was sheer cockiness for this first go – if it worked, we will feel soooooo cool.
From what I could tell (which may not count for much given piss poor signage at the Target in downtown Brooklyn on Memorial Day weekend), the FRER price didn’t seem to be a sale – it was one of those two for the price of one boxes, not done by Target but but by FRER. I am glad that my gut feeling on a bargain wasn’t wrong!