Whoa, seriously?

Is it October already?? Well, tomorrow I mean. I couldn't let September go by without a single blog post, so even though I don't really have anything important to say, I had to write something.

Okay, wedding stuff... I've organised a make-up trial for the same day as my cousin's wedding; I'm getting it done at 10:30-ish, so I'll get to see how well it lasts and so forth. And I've lined up a meeting in a couple of weeks with the lady who will hopefully be doing my hair. I hope she doesn't have a heart attack over how thick and annoying my hair is. But then when I've had it done in the past (four times?) it's never been a huge issue to get it looking nice. I have no idea exactly what style I want, so I really need to try and remember to do some research in the next couple of weeks. And remember to ask how far in advance I need to grow my fringe out. I might go and get it trimmed for the last time just before Christmas, then let it go... that is going to be a big challenge for me! I will have to try and remember to get it cut again the day after the wedding if possible; as we're off on honeymoon very very early on the Monday morning.

Annoying issue with the bridesmaids' dresses; three out of four turned out to be the wrong colour when I picked them up last Saturday; obviously the "lux" chiffon doesn't take the Claret coloured dye as well as the normal chiffon, or it was faulty fabric or something... They looked a weird pinkish sort of colour, not at all like the gorgeous deep red that I chose. I tried to look past it, but I was just in denial I think. For the first time something in my wedding organising didn't go right, and I don't think my brain was prepared for that eventuality, hehe. So I took them back, and they agreed with me and said they would investigate for me. I am yet to hear anything. I've got my fingers firmly crossed that somehow I can get the gowns in the colour I want without too much hassle (and more importantly without paying a cent more).

As I stated in my first ever blog post, this is also going to be a place for me to talk about our IVF journey. We had our first appointment with our chosen fertility specialist a few weeks ago, and we really like her. She gave us a lot of hope that the IVF ICSI procedure would work well in our case, and even though I don't want to get my hopes up for an easy ride, it's nice to feel positive about it all. I am in the process of having a Ovulation Tracking Assessment Cycle, which means several times this month I have to go for bloods to work out whether my hormone levels are doing all the right things, and also an ultrasound on ovulation day to ensure that I had a dominant follicle ready to go (which I did). It was very cool seeing all my female bits on the ultrasound... she had a lot of trouble locating my right ovary, but eventually got there in the end after a lot of probing! So I apparently ovulated on Tuesday, and I probably only have two more blood tests this cycle; one this coming Tuesday to ensure my body is producing enough progesterone to sustain an early pregnancy, and then another a week later. This will be a standard pregnancy test, even though we are not even trying right now due to wedding/honeymoon stuff, but even the negative test will confirm that my hormones have gone back to baseline levels again.

Then, my fiance just has to do a Sperm Analysis, which will be interesting and nerve-wracking as he hasn't had one done for several years, so we will find out whether his condition has improved, worsened, or stayed the same. I'm also a little anxious about one of the blood tests I had done the same day as our initial consultation.. it's to measure a particular hormone which will show how high or low my ovarian reserve is. The specialist gave me the impression that early menopause is actually fairly commonplace, so I hope I've still got plenty of baby-making potential left in me. Although we'll be incredibly lucky to even have one baby, ideally we'd like more! Anyway, our follow-up where we get our results is on November 10th, so I'm quite anxious for that. Now that we've got the ball rolling for TTC, we have become extremely impatient and want to get started right away. But logic insists that I definitely do not want to be up the duff for my wedding and honeymoon, so wait we must...