Well its been almost 3 weeks since the devastating news about our failed transfer and it hasn’t been easy. We had the opportunity to go out to the lake, ignore the world, and just exist with our dogs so we took it. But even that didn’t start off well.. the first night we were there, our dogs were outside doing dog things and we fell asleep on the couch for a few hours. When we woke up around 11pm we decided to go to bed and went outside to get the dogs. That’s when we discovered Righley (our border collie) was no where to be found. Continue Reading
Hormones and Heartbreaks
My transfer day was amazing. Cliff, my mom, and Cliffs mom were all out of town on the day of the transfer so the person who accompanied me was Cody. Yes, I am referring to my teddy bear as a person. ðŧ I was 100% fine going through the transfer with just Cody and here’s the crazy reason why… After looking back at the last 2 1/2 years, I feel like I have come a long way. I am a strong person but in the beginning, I am not sure I would have been capable of doing that alone. The ability to go through the transfer on my own was a big deal to me. I was able to prove to myself how strong I have become in this journey. Having people to lean on is absolutely, without a doubt, a necessity when dealing with infertility. But this, I needed to do alone.Continue Reading
Good! Good! Not great…
So the obvious question is, how did the pre-transfer ultrasound appointment go?? The title of this post really says it all but let me explain..
One of the things they checked was the thickness of my lining. They were hoping it would be at least a 7 and I was at an 8.2 so that part was good! ððž When they looked at the top of the uterus where they want to transfer the embryos, they said it looked beautiful and were very happy with it.. so again.. that part was good! ððž The not great part came whenContinue Reading
3rd Times a Charm???
FINALLY the wait is over! My next cycle has started which means we are going to give this IVF transfer thing another try! ð I’m sure our frozen mini-me’s are wondering what is taking us so long to get them out of that freezer.. Surprisingly enough, my body decided to start this cycle all on its own and on time too! If you have been following me for a while now, you know how shocking that is haha Well, my doctor had me come in for a “baseline ultrasound” appointment and so far they said everything looks good. Since I was only on cycle day 2, I was glad to hear nothing catastrophic had happened in the past 48 hours.. Starting off strong people!!!
My doctor is changing things upContinue Reading
My love/hate relationship with May 15th
Yes, yes I know.. I was supposed to put up this post like a week ago. ðĪŠ In my defense, I have had TONS of adulting to do! Also, if this was posted last week, it would have been written with sad words and powered by my stream of tears. No one wants to read that and I for sure didn’t want to write it. So instead, I have chosen to wait until today to explain this current saga of nonsense with IVF/infertility. Why today you ask?? Because today was supposed to be our transfer day. ðĒ May 15th. In my mind, this was the perfect day because not only was it finally happening but its the day before Cliffs birthday and that made us happy. Soooooo once again, what happened??
Last Tuesday I had my ultrasound which was supposed to give us the “good-to-go” thumbs up from the doctor for transfer. Well,Continue Reading