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
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
All the things!!
You know how when you are trying to complete a project it always seems to take longer than you anticipated?? IVF can easily be added to that for me. When we made the decision to do IVF last December, I never expected our first go at this would take 5 months… But we are finally getting somewhere!! We are still crawling the whole way but getting there none the less!
I have recovered from my 4th surgery just fine and had a fantastic post op check up. My doctor was so so SO happy with how everything looked after the surgery which made me feel awesome. So now that we have all the surgery nonsense out of the way and my uterus is “baby ready” (as my doctor called it), what are we doing now?? Continue Reading
Healing and Soul Food
Well I survived and can honestly say surgery #4 was my best surgery! Along with the one ginormous fibroid, my doc ended up finding and taking out 2 smaller ones as well. I mean hey, he was already in there so why not right?? The fact that the actual surgery went well is awesome but its not why I am so happy about it.. drumroll please!Continue Reading