We are now well into our first week of fertility stims. I had a good week as far as emotions go so thats helpful for everyone. HA! I woke up Wednesday and looked out my window to see 3 little bunnies jumping around my yard. I took that as a great sign for starting my treatments.
Wednesday - Day 1
My appointment on Wednesday went well. The nurse found 3 follicles on my left and 3 on the right. The follicles are what holds the eggs. In a normal cycle the body will have many and as the cycle goes on the strongest follicle stays and releases one egg. In IVF we try to get as many eggs as possible to retrieve so we can have a chance of creating embryo's to transfer. We have no control over the number of follicles we have to work with. So I was thankful to have 6 to start. The Dr. had stated at the beginning that it wasn't many, but it was doable. So we are going with it! We did blood work so we have a base to start with and to monitor estrogen and progesterone.
Day 2 - nightly shots - Gonel-F and low dose HCG.
Day 3 - nightly shots - Drew is doing good! He's a good shot giver.
Day 4 - 8:30 am appt in Warren. I don't really like the Warren office. I mean, it's different and not like the normal office I go to. It's a reminder that Dr. B isn't my doctor. But, I'm trying to embrace what's now. The office was very busy, buzzing with hopeful women and men. I wondered about their stories, if they were at the beginning or maybe the middle of their journey. And I pray God fills their hearts and homes with lots of Joy and Laughter. I had my ultrasound and they found 1 less follicle then on Wednesday. Sometimes things can change. Or maybe the person who did the first one didn't count properly. It's hard to say. But either way, that wasn't good. I got the results from my blood work that showed my estrogen isn't raising. If it doesn't raise then the follicles won't grow. She said we would have to have 3 good follicles to do retrieval. 3. That's not very many. Our first IVF we have 17 follicles and retrieved 10 eggs. By transfer day we had 3 embryo's and one of them stuck. - ASHER! WHOOP! But, as you can see, this time around the numbers are much less. Not impossible, but yikes. The nurse told us we are doing the strongest meds we can right now so that's good. So we keep going and see what happens.
Our prayers.
Our prayers are that God would give us CLEAR direction. That if this isn't the road for us, He would make it clear or impossible for retrieval to happen. Or if this is God's intent then we would see it CLEARLY. We know God has a plan for us, but we don't want to guess. We need Him to help us. Our next appointment will be Tuesday. We will continue to walk with confidence in knowing that God is faithful.
Thank you from the bottom of our hearts. We love you all.
D, K & A
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| And so it begins.... |
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| Icing it up! |
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| Asher helping make me a shot day paper chain |
