Going Nutty

On a side note.. having some weird lower abdominal pain over the last couple of days. Feels like it's my bladder. I need to "go" all the time & even 1 min afterwards I feel like I need to go again. I feel like I'm about to burst! I hope it's just lots of happy follicles waiting for the doc to suck them all out. Also feeling quite tired. I'm sleeping quite long hours, despite waking a few times to go to the loo.. which is VERY unusual for me. I normally have a cast iron bladder & used to be able to wait for hours!

I went to the shops yesterday & bought some more potions. I succumbed & bought some prenatal vitamins - "Elevit with Iodine". I know my doc didn't think I needed to bother but I'm worried I might be missing out on an important mineral in my diet, so I may as well take them all as a kind of insurance.

I also bought some Metamucil as one of the nurses suggested, to ward off the inevitable constipation. But after I got it home I noticed one of the ingredients is aspartame. I've read a lot on the net about this nasty substance & how it can cause miscarriages & birth defects just to mention a few side effects! So needless to say DP & I decided I shan't be taking it. I'll be investing in bags of prunes from now on I think!

I also bought some new tea - Rooibos (pron. Roy-boss), which is naturally caffeine free. I've heard other caffeine free teas use nasty chemicals to remove the caffeine & they often have a small percentage still left anyway. So I started on the new tea yesterday & today. Shocking headache yesterday! I think I was going through withdrawal!!! But today all good. I bought the one with "a hint of vanilla" and it's lurrrrrvley!! I don't even need sugar so it's like a two-for-one!

On top of all that I also bought some sunflower seeds & pepitas. They apparently contain some awesome vitamins that are useful during conception. I've mixed them into my breakfast cereal. Unfortunately I've run out goji berries & blueberries at the moment so will have to go back to the shops tomorrow. Who knows what I'll come home with next! No wonder they say IVF is so expensive - it's not just the clinical stuff, it's all the other rubbish you convince yourself you absolutely NEED as well!! Gawd, I'm such a nutter! ;-)