Doc. Appointment went very well

At my doctor appointment yesterday the cathater test went really well. She said the cathater went in very easily which will make it easy to transfer the embryos. All in all I'm really excited about that. After that appointment I had just enough time to gets some lunch with my husband before we had our injection class. The class was very overwhelming and informative. I have 4 different medications that I have to inject on a daily bases througout my whole cycle. We even got to practice and I must admit Rich did a wonderful job. He was a little nervous but got the job done without hurting me LOL.

Today I got all my meds in and I'm so overwhelmed. I must have 100+ needles and 100+ viles of drugs. Is all this necessary? My God I hope it's worth it in the end and we get blessed with more children.

My next appointment is Monday at 8:45am. I'm curious to know what will happen at that appointment?!?!?

IVF is set to go.....

We are all set-up for IVF as of today. We signed all the paperwork and had over an hour long meeting with the doctor. She is awesome. I love her. She never rushes us, answers all our questions and gives tons of advice. We are actually hope to make my November cycle and IVF cycle but I will not know for sure until tomorrow. At my appoinemt tomorrow she is doing a cathater test to see how well my body does. If all goes well we are all set this month. I also have an injection class I have to go to tomorrow. Rich will have to give me injections daily. OMG I'm not looking forward to that. "Honey Please Don't Hurt Me"

If we do get to do the IVF cycle in November I will have to have the embryo's transfered back into my body by the 16th of November. This is because the hospital only does the transfer 2 weeks out of the month. It is possible I could miss that 16th day if my eggs are not ready but we will have to wait and see.

We decided to freeze and store any extra embryos that are left over. We will not know how many are left over until they pull all my eggs out. They will only transfer 2 embroys and in the very rare occasion that both split we may have to terminate 1 or 2 of the babies. The doctor said carrying twins is fine but 3 or 4 can be dangerous. The nurse said they will fertilize the embryos for 5 days before putting them back. She said she would call me everyday to let me know how many babies have developed and how well they are growing. They will then transfer the 2 best babies into my uterus in hopes that at least 1 sticks and becomes a viable pregnancy but if we ended up twins we would be thrilled beyond belief.

At this point I'm just praying that my appointment goes well tomorrow and we are able to do the IVF in the next 2 weeks.

*****FINGERS CROSSED*****

Getting Excited

We have decided to do In-Vitro Fertilization

After 4 years of trying to conceive and 2 miscarriages, 2 failed IUI's my doctor had me do an HSG. An HSG is an x-ray of my fallopian tubes to see if they were blocked or damaged. The x-ray came back that both my tubes were swollen and completely blocked. We opted out of surgery to repair the tubes do to the decreased chance of getting pregnant. When the doctor told me I had no chance of conceiving on my own naturally I was devastated. Our only option for more children is IVF (in-vitro fertilization). Over the next few months I will refer to in-vitro fertilization as IVF. Our process officially starts at my next appointment which is scheduled for Wednesday Oct. 28 at 10:30. At that apppointment I will have a greater understanding of what is to come over the next few weeks of this very detailed process of trying to get us pregnant.

I will be using this blog to post our journey through this stressful, exciting, mind boggling event. We are both very nervous, thrilled, anxious and scared so please keep us in your prayers and we travel this journey to a healthy pregnancy and baby/babies.