Monday, May 19, 2014

Time Warp!!

Guess what?  It’s Spring!  We scheduled our FET cycle to start in February.  Compared to IVF it has been a CAKE WALK.  I called Captain the day I got my period and she started me on estrogen to help the lining of my uterus get nice and thick so hopefully we could get an embryo or two to hang around this time.  My uterus took it’s time, probably because she had been out of commission for a while.  During our sabbatical I had taken the actives of my birth control consecutively so everything had been sort of shut down for nine weeks.

My body did eventually cooperate though.  A few weeks, two ultrasounds and a million tinny tabs of estrogen later, our transfer was scheduled for March 3rd.  I did have to start those pesky progesterone injections again, but at least I got to skip the stims, retrieval, and the whole bloating up to the size of a house thing.


The transfer itself was pretty much the same as last time minus the selfies.  I also practiced for about a week timing my bladder to figure out exactly how long it took for a bottle of water to fill my bladder and then how long after that I could hold it.  I was determined to fill my OWN bladder the natural way this time!  I even managed to hop into the chair like a pro!  Third time’s a charm I guess.  I was on bed rest again for 24 hours and then I put myself on a modified bed rest the following 24 hours.  I figured better safe than sorry.

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