I am debating pushing the FET back a week due to a vacation and not wanting to have to drive an hour to have blood drawn. She is supposed to call in the morning and we will discuss this possibility.
Thursday, April 30, 2015
Nurses class done
I met with Terry the nurse educator for my FET yesterday. It feels weird being in that office and I am so scared we are doing all this and it won't work.
Tuesday, April 7, 2015
back again...
II feel I am so jaded to this whole process. I walked into the doors at my fertility doctor's office and just the emotions and memories washed over me. So much time and money has been spent at this place and I can't really complain because our wonderful son is worth every penny and moment. But there is this part of me that is like, why. Why can't we get pregnant on our own? For FREE? Oh wait. We did get pregnant on our own in January! Oh wait. Bad eggs. Miscarriage. Tears.
I doubt I will blog much more than just to keep record of the FET process. Do you know what that means? I wish I didn't have to. Frozen Embryo Transfer. Thankfully, it is a lot less stress, cost and drugs than a fresh IVF.
On April 6th I spent 10 minutes with my doctor getting the low down that I am about to share and then met with the financial specialist to get the costs for everything. Here we go:
The PLAN:
wait.
what? Wait?
Yup, wait till my cycle starts. I haven't had a period since the miscarriage so there is no telling when good old aunt flow will show up.
Then birth control pills.
What? Why?
The birth control pills are to get me on neutral. To get my body in timing with my RE's office.
After I start the pills then I have to schedule the nurses class and from what I remember from the IVF's nurses class this is where I get my calendar and prescriptions ordered. He, also, wants me to do a repeat saline ultrasound. Best to make sure everything is clear and ready to go before we transfer that precious embryo.
So, medicine:
Birth Control
Estrogen Supplementation to prepare the lining of the uterus (3 pills 3 times a day)
Progesterone (shots! HUGE needle!....never done this needle before)
Money: (doesn't it always come back to this? There would be so much less stress if it wasn't so expensive to get me pregnant)
$122.02 Initial meeting with Dr
$2600 to thaw, prepare and transfer embryo
$55 Nurse Education
$300 ultra sound and bloodwork (probably 2 before transfer)
$400 ultra sound and bloodwork (i think after transfer...info overload)
Medications $500-1000 to be billed from pharmacy
Saline Ultrasound $600
so. back to waiting.
I doubt I will blog much more than just to keep record of the FET process. Do you know what that means? I wish I didn't have to. Frozen Embryo Transfer. Thankfully, it is a lot less stress, cost and drugs than a fresh IVF.
On April 6th I spent 10 minutes with my doctor getting the low down that I am about to share and then met with the financial specialist to get the costs for everything. Here we go:
The PLAN:
wait.
what? Wait?
Yup, wait till my cycle starts. I haven't had a period since the miscarriage so there is no telling when good old aunt flow will show up.
Then birth control pills.
What? Why?
The birth control pills are to get me on neutral. To get my body in timing with my RE's office.
After I start the pills then I have to schedule the nurses class and from what I remember from the IVF's nurses class this is where I get my calendar and prescriptions ordered. He, also, wants me to do a repeat saline ultrasound. Best to make sure everything is clear and ready to go before we transfer that precious embryo.
So, medicine:
Birth Control
Estrogen Supplementation to prepare the lining of the uterus (3 pills 3 times a day)
Progesterone (shots! HUGE needle!....never done this needle before)
Money: (doesn't it always come back to this? There would be so much less stress if it wasn't so expensive to get me pregnant)
$122.02 Initial meeting with Dr
$2600 to thaw, prepare and transfer embryo
$55 Nurse Education
$300 ultra sound and bloodwork (probably 2 before transfer)
$400 ultra sound and bloodwork (i think after transfer...info overload)
Medications $500-1000 to be billed from pharmacy
Saline Ultrasound $600
so. back to waiting.
Tuesday, April 2, 2013
12 weeks
I feel bad I am not as involved in this pregnancy as my past ones. I am having an extremely hard time believing that I am really pregnant and that I will even bring home another baby. But yesterday I found the heartbeat on the home Doppler and today we are 12 weeks.
Today the baby is the size of a lime or about 2 inches long.
I am pretty much over the nausea, but still really tired especially between the 4pm-9pm then when it is time to go to bed I am wide awake. I am tossing and turning at night, my shoulders hurt from sleeping on my sides and I get up to pee about 2-3 times a night. I have still been very cold. Chris and I find this very interesting because I have always been the hot one in the relationship.
Today the baby is the size of a lime or about 2 inches long.
I am pretty much over the nausea, but still really tired especially between the 4pm-9pm then when it is time to go to bed I am wide awake. I am tossing and turning at night, my shoulders hurt from sleeping on my sides and I get up to pee about 2-3 times a night. I have still been very cold. Chris and I find this very interesting because I have always been the hot one in the relationship.
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
11 weeks
Today the baby is about an inch and a half. We had a hard time finding the heartbeat on the home Doppler, but did eventually after I started to stress. We had an OB apt and they found the heartbeat too. We decided to do the NT screening and scan and our next appointment is on the 8th.
Today I am pregnant and I love my little baby.
pregnancy symptoms include: some nausea and a lot of exhaustion. I definitely have some bloat and I sorted maternity clothes tonight. I have a full load that needs washing because they smell musty from the basement. I have a whole bin left of winter clothes (from Owens pregnancy) and the BIG clothes for the 3rd trimester that I can get out later. Thankfully, I was so hot when pregnant before I do have some short sleeved tops!
Today I am pregnant and I love my little baby.
pregnancy symptoms include: some nausea and a lot of exhaustion. I definitely have some bloat and I sorted maternity clothes tonight. I have a full load that needs washing because they smell musty from the basement. I have a whole bin left of winter clothes (from Owens pregnancy) and the BIG clothes for the 3rd trimester that I can get out later. Thankfully, I was so hot when pregnant before I do have some short sleeved tops!
Sunday, March 24, 2013
Really....this baby makin is never easy for us
I don't really want to remember Thursday night, but in true full disclosure and wanting to document this pregnancy like the others. Here it goes.
On Monday we had a great appointment and we decided we should get excited!! I had been feeling good. Nausea had almost gone away, yes I have been tired but we were almost into the 2nd trimester.
Thursday night was like any other night. We watched TV and went to bed. I was curled on my right side snuggling my king size pillow when "pop". I knew that feeling. It was like when Owen's water broke. I stood up and gush gush my underwear was soaked. I ran to the bathroom and it was pouring out of me like pee. Chris and I were in shock. I just knew my water had broken and we were losing this baby. As the night went by there was more blood and tears. I think I slept about 3 hours in one hour stints. I was exhausted by the time the doctors office opened and we ran out the door as soon as we got an appointment.
Our normal dr wasn't available, but the dr we saw was great. I was check internally and my cervix was closed and the bleeding had stopped. Then she brought out the Doppler....this was it we were going to find out our baby was gone. But then......whoosh whoosh whoosh!
We had a strong heartbeat!!! What in the world. Then we went to the ultrasound room where they found a large sack of blood next to the baby's bag of water. It is called a subchoroinic hematoma. We are still not out of the woods, this is still very scary as the blood sack can cause some issues. It can cause the bag of water around the baby to rupture or it can get in between the baby and the placenta. This SCH is caused by the placenta. Can we take a moment to talk about my history with placenta issues.
Pregnancy #1: twins shared a placenta and had a cord placement issue in the placenta
Pregnancy #2: had placenta previa, had to have a c/s
Pregnancy #3: c/p we will never know why
Pregnancy #4: SCH caused by placenta
We go back to see our normal dr on Tuesday and hope they do another u/s and that the blood sack is shrinking. Please pray for us if anyone is reading this.
On Monday we had a great appointment and we decided we should get excited!! I had been feeling good. Nausea had almost gone away, yes I have been tired but we were almost into the 2nd trimester.
Thursday night was like any other night. We watched TV and went to bed. I was curled on my right side snuggling my king size pillow when "pop". I knew that feeling. It was like when Owen's water broke. I stood up and gush gush my underwear was soaked. I ran to the bathroom and it was pouring out of me like pee. Chris and I were in shock. I just knew my water had broken and we were losing this baby. As the night went by there was more blood and tears. I think I slept about 3 hours in one hour stints. I was exhausted by the time the doctors office opened and we ran out the door as soon as we got an appointment.
Our normal dr wasn't available, but the dr we saw was great. I was check internally and my cervix was closed and the bleeding had stopped. Then she brought out the Doppler....this was it we were going to find out our baby was gone. But then......whoosh whoosh whoosh!
We had a strong heartbeat!!! What in the world. Then we went to the ultrasound room where they found a large sack of blood next to the baby's bag of water. It is called a subchoroinic hematoma. We are still not out of the woods, this is still very scary as the blood sack can cause some issues. It can cause the bag of water around the baby to rupture or it can get in between the baby and the placenta. This SCH is caused by the placenta. Can we take a moment to talk about my history with placenta issues.
Pregnancy #1: twins shared a placenta and had a cord placement issue in the placenta
Pregnancy #2: had placenta previa, had to have a c/s
Pregnancy #3: c/p we will never know why
Pregnancy #4: SCH caused by placenta
We go back to see our normal dr on Tuesday and hope they do another u/s and that the blood sack is shrinking. Please pray for us if anyone is reading this.
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
U/S #2
Yesterday we had our second ultrasound. To say I was nervous was an understatement. It was a very long appointments as we were doing several appointments in one visit.
Here's the breakdown:
1:30 arrived at office
1:40 met with financial advisor and paid $3k for prenatal visits
1:55 back in the big waiting room
2:05 called back and met with nurse; did pee test, weight/height and blood pressure
2:20 put in a different waiting room
2:45 had u/s, saw one "perfect" baby with heartbeat of 164!! I was 9weeks 6days, baby measured 10weeks 1day!! We like being ahead!!
2:55 back in second waiting room
3:05 met with another nurse went over care, was given paperwork
3:15 in 3rd waiting room
3:40 put into exam room
3:50 began physical exam, discussed VBAC and exercise while pregnant
4:15 checked out of Dr office WHEW!
It was a long day, but I don't go back for 4 weeks so that is good!
Here's the breakdown:
1:30 arrived at office
1:40 met with financial advisor and paid $3k for prenatal visits
1:55 back in the big waiting room
2:05 called back and met with nurse; did pee test, weight/height and blood pressure
2:20 put in a different waiting room
2:45 had u/s, saw one "perfect" baby with heartbeat of 164!! I was 9weeks 6days, baby measured 10weeks 1day!! We like being ahead!!
2:55 back in second waiting room
3:05 met with another nurse went over care, was given paperwork
3:15 in 3rd waiting room
3:40 put into exam room
3:50 began physical exam, discussed VBAC and exercise while pregnant
4:15 checked out of Dr office WHEW!
It was a long day, but I don't go back for 4 weeks so that is good!
Sunday, March 10, 2013
update on us
I am sorry I've been a bad blogger. I haven't been using my laptop as much since Christmas because we got an Ipad. It is so much fun, but not so much fun to type or blog from. Anyway, onto the update.
I am almost 9 weeks pregnant with one little bean. We had an u/s at 6 weeks 2 days and saw a beautiful heartbeat. Thankfully, after those first few days of bleeding/spotting I haven't seen anymore blood! I kinda feel like I was losing the second embryo and once that was over I stopped bleeding. I was scheduled for another ultrasound when my Grandmother was put into the hospital and then 3 days later she passed away. I had rushed to my mom's out of town to be with her when we found out the news. Then Owen and I stayed there until we left the state for her service. We were out of town almost a week. I have been trying to get our house and stuff back in order. Plus I have taken on babysitting a little 3 month old girl and some sewing projects.
Anyway, this part of the game is so very slow. I can't wait to be into the second trimester and feeling like things are "safer" and once I can feel this little one move I will have that reassurance every day.
My next u/s is with my OB a week from tomorrow and I will try and be better at updating.
I am almost 9 weeks pregnant with one little bean. We had an u/s at 6 weeks 2 days and saw a beautiful heartbeat. Thankfully, after those first few days of bleeding/spotting I haven't seen anymore blood! I kinda feel like I was losing the second embryo and once that was over I stopped bleeding. I was scheduled for another ultrasound when my Grandmother was put into the hospital and then 3 days later she passed away. I had rushed to my mom's out of town to be with her when we found out the news. Then Owen and I stayed there until we left the state for her service. We were out of town almost a week. I have been trying to get our house and stuff back in order. Plus I have taken on babysitting a little 3 month old girl and some sewing projects.
Anyway, this part of the game is so very slow. I can't wait to be into the second trimester and feeling like things are "safer" and once I can feel this little one move I will have that reassurance every day.
My next u/s is with my OB a week from tomorrow and I will try and be better at updating.
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