We're in that lull before all the activity starts again.
I'm on birth control until the 23rd of this month, then it will be time to start estradiol, ultrasounds, and blood draws. I found out last week that our transfer is going to coincide with the transfer of one of my favorite people! We're hoping with all our fingers crossed that both our transfers are successful, and that we will be pregnant together.
Since I don't have anything else super interesting today, I'm going to leave you with a link to something that made me laugh from one of my new favorite funny sites, Pregnant Chicken:
http://www.pregnantchicken.com/pregnant-chicken-blog/?tag=asshattery
Read the comments under the pictures...
Enjoy!
Lilypie First Birthday tickers
pregnancy ticker
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Friday, February 8, 2013
This is it...
... The Plan
I had my follow up water ultrasound yesterday, and everything looked much better. I also got to have a little impromptu consult with Natalie. Of course, my big question was "When can I start meds???"
My thinking going into the appointment was that maybe, if my ultrasound was good, I could still start my estradiol valerate on the coming Tuesday- like was originally planned- and we could still make our March 5th transfer. Natalie said that plan was a no- go. I have to start the estradiol within 5 days of the start of my period. Since I started on Saturday, if we were going to transfer this cycle, I HAD to start estradiol valerate that night (last night). That would push our original plan up a few days, and I'd transfer March 1st. The alternative was to go back on the pill again, have another period (my 3rd in 6 weeks and 4th in 8 if you count the miscarriage), and then start meds for a transfer closer to the 22nd of March.
Here is my ultrasound from yesterday.... I remembered to ask the doc to print me my own picture, so I didn't have to scour the internet looking for something close.
There is a little tissue left on the bottom edge, towards the left, but otherwise clear. Much, MUCH better than what we got last week. They were able to go back and print my image from last week. Here it is:
See all the lumps and bumps in there? The difference is pretty incredible.
So I started on the pill last night. I don't have my official med calendar from Natalie yet, so I don't know if I'll be on for two weeks or for three. I think just two. Then I will start my transfer meds. We're on the books for a March 20th transfer. Here's hoping that all goes (at least kinda) as planned.
I'm giving my uterus more little pep talks.... :)
I had my follow up water ultrasound yesterday, and everything looked much better. I also got to have a little impromptu consult with Natalie. Of course, my big question was "When can I start meds???"
My thinking going into the appointment was that maybe, if my ultrasound was good, I could still start my estradiol valerate on the coming Tuesday- like was originally planned- and we could still make our March 5th transfer. Natalie said that plan was a no- go. I have to start the estradiol within 5 days of the start of my period. Since I started on Saturday, if we were going to transfer this cycle, I HAD to start estradiol valerate that night (last night). That would push our original plan up a few days, and I'd transfer March 1st. The alternative was to go back on the pill again, have another period (my 3rd in 6 weeks and 4th in 8 if you count the miscarriage), and then start meds for a transfer closer to the 22nd of March.
Here is my ultrasound from yesterday.... I remembered to ask the doc to print me my own picture, so I didn't have to scour the internet looking for something close.
There is a little tissue left on the bottom edge, towards the left, but otherwise clear. Much, MUCH better than what we got last week. They were able to go back and print my image from last week. Here it is:
See all the lumps and bumps in there? The difference is pretty incredible.
So I started on the pill last night. I don't have my official med calendar from Natalie yet, so I don't know if I'll be on for two weeks or for three. I think just two. Then I will start my transfer meds. We're on the books for a March 20th transfer. Here's hoping that all goes (at least kinda) as planned.
I'm giving my uterus more little pep talks.... :)
Sunday, February 3, 2013
Mountainous Ridges
So this post is about a week late. I had to get over my own frustration before I could sit down and write about the latest.
I had my water ultrasound last Tuesday morning. You know, the last little chore thing that I had to do before I could get excited about that med calendar Natalie sent a couple weeks ago now. I've been anxious about the embryo thaw for our next round, and the transfer itself- but I knew this would be a piece of cake. It would be my third time around, and the first two had been textbook perfect.
So this is what the inside of my uterus looks like "normally" between days 6-16 of my cycle:
The black oval in the middle is the water that they inject up into the uterus so they can see what the uterine wall looks like. Pretty smooth in there, right? (This isn't actually MY uterus, but it was the closest thing online that I could find to what mine looks like...).
So, imagine my surprise, and the doc's, when she injected the water this time, and we saw something that looked a little like this:
Again, not MY uterus, but the closest thing I could find. Do you see the differences? In the top picture, the internal walls are pretty smooth and uniform. In this picture, the walls are kind of jagged and hilly. Well, in the inside of MY uterus, those "hills" looked more like mountains.
I *love* hearing the doc say "oh. Well, that's not what we're looking for".... Turns out all those hills and mountains in there were pieces of tissue- either left over from my last period/ the miscarriage or we waited too long to do the ultrasound, and my lining was building up again. In other words, the lining was too thick for me to start my meds.
Can you feel my heart sinking into my stomach as she looks at me and says, "well, I'm going to want you to have another period to see if this all comes out on its own. Then we'll do another ultrasound just to be sure." Which blows our chances of an early March transfer. At our clinic, the middle of the month (March anyway) is reserved for fresh cycles and transfers, so this will push us back to April probably.
Sigh.
Put on a smile.
"Okay."
I had my water ultrasound last Tuesday morning. You know, the last little chore thing that I had to do before I could get excited about that med calendar Natalie sent a couple weeks ago now. I've been anxious about the embryo thaw for our next round, and the transfer itself- but I knew this would be a piece of cake. It would be my third time around, and the first two had been textbook perfect.
So this is what the inside of my uterus looks like "normally" between days 6-16 of my cycle:
So, imagine my surprise, and the doc's, when she injected the water this time, and we saw something that looked a little like this:
Again, not MY uterus, but the closest thing I could find. Do you see the differences? In the top picture, the internal walls are pretty smooth and uniform. In this picture, the walls are kind of jagged and hilly. Well, in the inside of MY uterus, those "hills" looked more like mountains.
I *love* hearing the doc say "oh. Well, that's not what we're looking for".... Turns out all those hills and mountains in there were pieces of tissue- either left over from my last period/ the miscarriage or we waited too long to do the ultrasound, and my lining was building up again. In other words, the lining was too thick for me to start my meds.
Can you feel my heart sinking into my stomach as she looks at me and says, "well, I'm going to want you to have another period to see if this all comes out on its own. Then we'll do another ultrasound just to be sure." Which blows our chances of an early March transfer. At our clinic, the middle of the month (March anyway) is reserved for fresh cycles and transfers, so this will push us back to April probably.
Sigh.
Put on a smile.
"Okay."
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