Okay well I just got back from the RE. He was sad to see us and agreed with everything that my Peri said about my next coarse of action. I should do IVF and only put back 2 embryos.
He said that I will be at risk for OHSS and that I will be at risk for twins. Tony and I perfer twins so that is okay with us. I will be on much the same treatment as I was on before with my IUI cycle to get my last children.
So now I have to wait 16 days till I can go to the Nutritionist. I have to go on their diet and then have a blood test 2 hours after eating lunch for said diet. A week after that then I meet with my RE again to discuss IVF in depth. In the meanwhile I will get a phone call from the person who sets up IVF so that I can start doing the testing associated with just IVF. I am also going on a monitoring cycle next cycle and my RE strongly recommends that I stop BBT every morning but I am going to continue till I know I have ovulated (I am a bit strange that way).
Assuming that my testing (especially my 2 hour testing) is normal I will be able to start my IVF cycle around May with a Egg Retrieval around the end of May beginning of June. This means assuming that I get pregnant that I will give birth around this time next year, probably at the beginning of Feb rather then the end because of my not being able to go past 38 weeks rule. Ironically my sister who I haven’t talked to a quite a long time (her ball not mine) will be 19 on January 30 next year. How strange it would be if I gave birth on that day?! But I am getting ahead of myself.
In the meanwhile I have a book to read (not literally but it feels like it) of stuff that is both legal and informative to start the IVF process. It is amazing to me since I didn’t have to go through all of this for the IUI but now I have to do it for the IVF. Oh well!
My official RE consult for IVF is April 3rd. I guess I am expedited to a certain extent because of the fact that he knows me from when I got pregnant the last time. He doesn’t want me to start taking Avandia which I was on before to help me with my Insulin Resistance. So we will have to see if that will come in to play or not.
That is all I have to report! I may write more tomorrow once everything settles in my head.
Jennifer
Hi Jennifer. Sounds like you have alot to take in after your appointment today! Good luck with sorting everything out and with the reading. That should keep you busy for a few days I guess. I will pray that by this time next year you and Tony are talking about two full term babies!
Rowena