The big shots are back! 

Yep, it’s the dreaded progesterone. Oh how I missed them so! 😉 it did sting that’s for sure (more than I remember last time around) but I know it’ll be worth it! Big thanks to my wonderful hubby for giving me the shots. I would think that’s actually worse than getting them! 

Waiting in the doctors office this morning I felt a calmness. Not because I was super confident everything was going to look ok. I was calm because it’s nice to know we’re not the only ones. The waiting room was the most crowded I’ve seen it in a long time. There was a couple waiting, a woman waiting, another couple checking in, another woman getting a doctors note from her surgery last week, another couple checking out and last but not least another woman who looked so nervous because she was probably about to take a blood test to see if she was pregnant. I hope and pray that she is. We know that nervous feeling all too well.

You don’t know their back stories but you hear pieces of their conversations. A lot of things that Laryen and I have already been through or done when we started our infertility journey. It’s just nice to know we’re not alone. All of those people are at the fertility clinic because they want to be parents too and for some reason or another it’s a little more difficult than others. It makes you feel more normal. It makes you not feel so alone. It’s calming to see a part of the lives of the other 1 in 8 couples who have some sort of infertility.
And everything looks great! My lining was so close to the threshold last week and since they bumped up my estrogen meds it got 2 millimeters thicker in one week! So it’s 9 millimeters — needs to be 7 mm for the transfer so the home is good to go!

Transfer is scheduled for Tuesday! That’s when we’ll get both our frozen embies. And it looks like it doesn’t take long for them to thaw! I guess the embryologist start the process just a few hours before the transfer — so amazing!

Even better? I DON’T HAVE TO TAKE A SHOT TONIGHT!! But….tomorrow I start the big ol’ progesterone shots. So I’m going to enjoy this day off of the needles as much as I can!

Tomorrow we will hopefully know if Tuesday is a go for the embryo transfer! And for the first time since our IVF cycle, I’m getting excited! I can’t wait to get our little embies! 

The 4 estrogen pills are kind of a bummer. I’ve had a headache since I increased the dose and kind of dizzy. I googled (I know, don’t ever do that!) and looks like those are normal side effects. Hopefully they’ll subside soon.

Prayers for good news at the doctor tomorrow!

We’re not quite ready yet. We went to the doctor for our scheduled ultrasound and my lining isn’t at the thickness they’d like it to be. It’s almost there, just not where it needs to be. So our transfer is pushed back one week. Dr. Huang said this is normal and nothing to worry about!

So now instead of 2 estrogen pills a day I’m taking 4 – 2 in the morning and 2 at night.

I’ll also take the same one shot/day until I go back to the doctor. It’s so crazy how I’ve never had any issues with my lining before but once you turn off my hormones (that’s what the Lupron shot does) the estrogen doesn’t metabolize as fast. The human body is just so amazing. But one more week should be all we need to get to where my lining needs to be to hold onto those embies!

 

 

Ooh- and this is pretty cool!

We got a “report card” of our embryos! Once the embryos are fertilized the embryologist grades them when they become blastocysts. The first picture is the two embryos that were transferred after IVF, the second picture is the frozen embryos. The numbers are graded 1-5, (5 being the best) and the letters are A-F (A being the best). The numbers show where the embryo is in its stage of life. The first letter is the quality of the part of the embryo that becomes the fetus. The second letter is the quality of the part of the embryo that becomes the placenta.

So our embryos look good! Since we didn’t do the genetic testing we don’t know what the chromosomes makeup looks like but we’re praying they look good! Dr. Huang did a good job explaining that just because the 2 embryos didn’t work last time that has nothing to do with these 2. Just like you and me everyone has different makeup to make them them. So these frozen embies are completely different from each other and the other embryos. It’s just all so fascinating!