Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Second time around
We went in for a consultation with the RE a few weeks ago to talk about the last cycle and where we were going from here. Basically, again, we will never know for sure what happened during the first cycle considering that everything looked good up until the Monday before our pregnancy test. We asked about what the timeline looked like if we were to start the frozen cycle immediately. They would start the cycle with my next period and would start with birth control again and then I would be on a Lupron regimen. Three days before transfer, I would begin Progesterone and oil shots - which are now all intramuscular. Ouch. I have read horror stories about the PO shots and I foresee some bruised butt cheeks in my future. If I were to become pregnant, I would have to stay on these shots thru the first trimester. Ouch. Anyway, when we talked about the timeline according to when I should be starting my period, the transfer would have fallen around June 2nd. My sister's wedding is June 4th which wouldn't allow me to have the 2 days of bed rest so that wouldn't work. We didn't want to wait another month to start so we came up with the plan that they could keep me on birth control for 4 weeks instead of 3 which would push the transfer back to the week after the wedding. So now, we are just waiting for my period to start again to determine our process for this next cycle. I should be starting in two days (4/29) according to my Period App. The embryos would be thawed 24 hours before transfer so we won't know how many viable embryos we have to work with until we go in that day. That is a little nerve wrecking. Hopefully we get at least 2 to thaw with the hopes that all 4 make it thru the process. We are hoping that maybe last time my body was just stressed out and didn't allow for a good environment for the embryos to implant. Prepping my body for this cycle is much less intense and less stressful on the body so hopefully that will help. We'll see how it goes. Last try.....
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