Hi I’m Jenny!  And when I was 35 years old I froze my eggs with the country’s leading fertility and egg freezing specialist, Dr. William Schoolcraft of CCRM.  In fact, I was one of the very first women in this country to undergo egg freezing with vitrification (i.e. fast freezing).  How cool is that??

Fast forward ten years, at the age of 45, I used those frozen eggs and in February 2021, I gave birth to a beautiful baby girl.  (insert grateful emojis here)

I tell you all this because, first, I’m an open book.  But two, I have been studying, learning and been involved with this process for over a decade now.  I’m wildly passionate about it and want to help as many other women as I can. 

THE SUBCUTANEOUS SHOT TUTORIAL (i.e. the tummy shot) – no matter where you are in your fertility journey or what medications you’ve been prescribed, everyone will have to do “tummy shots”.  So it doesn’t really matter what the medication is, it’s still the same process.  Lupron is a classic example of a medication that’s a “tummy shot”

THE INTRAMUSCULAR SHOT TUTORIAL (i.e. the butt shot) – For the first half of IVF you don’t have too many of these…primarily just one right before the retrieval called the “trigger” shot.  However, once you’re ready for the transfer and for the following three months after a positive pregnancy test, we fertility ladies have the pleasure of undergoing the “butt shot” every other day for many months…don’t do the math.    And I’m not going to lie and pretend it’s nothing.  It’s something.  So, I go through ALL my tips to make this shot a little less annoying and I show you a video of my husband giving me the shot!

PROGESTERONE VAGINAL SUPPOSITORY – yah, sounds awesome doesn’t it?  Well I’m not gonna sugar coat this one either.  But the good news is that this one doesn’t hurt, IT’S JUST REALLY ANNOYING.  So I give you some tips for this one…no video, sorry.

HORMONE PATCHES – Sounds simple as they are just hormone releasing stickers…but I learned the hard way that they don’t stay on as well as you’d think UNLESS you follow my tricks.  And these little effers are really expensive so you don’t want them falling off. 

MEDICATION CALENDAR – lastly, I remember one of the biggest things that stressed me out was the medication calendar the nurse handed me.  IT WAS SO COMPLICATED. 

• Start this drug on this day

• stop that other drug on that day

• then take this third thing every other day starting on the 13^th day of this calendar

• then on this day start to do it two times a day

• then on that day start doing it three times a day…..WTF??

The nurses (who are amazing by the way…see photo below) are so used to this whole process, they could do it blindfolded in their sleep.  But for those of us doing it for the first time, it’s REALLY overwhelming.  So I created an excel spreadsheet calendar to help me.  I will give you my exact calendar so you can see how I did it and then I give you a blank one so you can fill it in with your specific days/dates and medications. 

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