Let's Play the Waiting Game

So we are still awaiting the PGS results of our 2 frozen embryos. It has been approximately 2 weeks and 3 days and I am GOING NUTS! We were told it could take anywhere up to 3 weeks so I emailed my nurse and am awaiting word back from her. I am hoping with the Thanksgiving holiday we will have them by tomorrow at the latest. Either way I haven't been sleeping too great and I've been severely irritated/uneasy - I know its a mixture of the stress of waiting on these results and the hormones but I don't like feeling that way at all.

In the meantime I have been on birth control for about a week and a half now to make sure I don't ovulate this cycle. Never thought I'd be taking that anytime soon! My body has been all sorts of out of whack with all the hormone fluctuations and once we get news about our embryos I can proceed with the next step of the process which is getting ready for the transfer. The good ol' needles will start again and guess what...they are ALL intramuscular (they will go where the trigger shot went - lower back on either side). They have you take estrogen every couple of days and then start adding in progesterone once it gets closer to the transfer date. Oh and another great part - the cost of this phase was NOT included in our initial IVF fees (in case you end up with no embryos they don't charge you until after but they didn't tell us that) - so now we have to pay an additional deposit and cost of the new medications. Make it Rain!

As far as the actual transfer date I am deciding to keep that a secret as we really don't want to be in a place where we have to tell people the good or possibly bad news on the given date where they do the blood test. We want it to still be a surprise to most of our friends and extended family and honestly if things go the other way we will just need time to grieve. So either way you will all know at some point and I appreciate all your thoughts and prayers.

So my next post will hopefully be with happy news on the embryos but in the meantime here is an article I read the other day and I think it's worth a read!




http://community.today.com/parentingteam/post/to-the-girl-with-baby-on-her-christmas-list