So relatively soon, my wife is going to have to inject herself daily for a month, not only will she have to do this, but the injections will force her in to menopause for the first two weeks and then for the following two weeks, will over stimulate and cause a surge in hormones. She suffers terrible side effects from hormones (she cried yesterday because we couldn't find a picnic table to eat at in our local park!) and is not likely to have a very good time of it. Besides the hormones, there are also physical effects of the injections, bloating, soreness, cramping. She's doing all this so that she can put a wee baby in my tummy (Ugh, I'm getting all emotional now!!)
Loves her, I do!
Anyway ... I have decided as a way to help her through it, I'm going to get her a little gift for every day, and wrap them all up and number them, a bit like an advent calendar - for her to open each day following her injection. In some i'll just put little treats like a ferrero rocher, I've seen a cute little fertility bracelet on etsy, I've bought some 'lucky' orange socks (orange is the feng shui colour of fertility) for her to wear on egg collection and me to wear at embryo transfer (you're not allowed to wear much else in the room!) I'm going to get her a couple of massages to have weekly while she's on the injections and I thought about putting in a little voucher for a nice dinner out one night, I thought maybe a cute little letter or two for a few of them .... can you guys think of anything else? I want to come up with some original ideas of things to surprise her with ... I need 28 (cheap!) ideas!
