Jan 10-consultation with Dr. D
Jan 29- physical
Jan 31-ultrasound
Feb 2-cycle day 3 labs (blood work)
Feb 5- Jared Dr.
Feb 6- Jared's labs
My Hysterosalpingogram (which hurt very badly...)
Feb 7- Jared analysis
appointment with my OBGYN
Feb 8- My labs
sonohysterogram
Feb 16- Follow up consultation. He told us what was wrong and what our options were!
Feb 19- Follow up with my OBGYN
Feb 20- more blood work
Feb 23- consultation with the billing department$$$$$$$$$ This is where we decided to do IVF(invitro fertilization)
Feb 28- cycle day 3 labs.
March 13- blood
March 30- trial transfer and blood
April 7- group injection class ( this was a little nerve racking!)
April 12-ultrasound
April 14- ultrasound and blood
April 16- blood
April 20- blood
April 21- started ganirelex injection
April 22- ultrasound and blood
April 24- ultrasound and blood
April 26- ultrasound and blood. I took my trigger injection at 11:15 pm (this releases the eggs)
April 27- pre-op
April 28- retrieval!!!! I felt like a chicken. They retrieved 19 eggs! Which is awesome.
Fifteen of our eggs fertilized correctly, however because my lining was to thick we had to freeze and get that taken care of before they could put some back in. more waiting..........
May 11- blood
May 15- blood
May 16- started lupron injection
May 25- baseline ultrasound
May 27- ultrasound
May 29-blood
June 1- ultrasound
June 6- ultrasound
June 9- blood
June 13- TRANSFER eggs went back in (two of them!)
after that I had three days of bed rest (not as fun as I thought it would be) Where I could get up every hour for about 5 minutes! Long enough to pee!!!
June 18- blood
June 20- blood
June 23- Pregnancy test POSITIVE!!!!!!!
June 25- blood
June 27- blood
June 29 blood and ultrasound
and this is when my doctor came in and said " Here is baby A and here is baby B!!!!!" He patted my leg winked at me and left the room. I was so excited and so worried.
and this is when my doctor came in and said " Here is baby A and here is baby B!!!!!" He patted my leg winked at me and left the room. I was so excited and so worried.Any way for the next ten weeks it was more blood and ultrasounds. I continued my injections and medication until my body started to produce them on it's own. And when I was ten weeks along they released me to my own OBGYN. It was a bitter sweet day and there is not a day go by that I don't say a prayer of thanks to my fertility team, they are my family! And look many doctors later this was the result of my giant leap!
And in about eleven days my precious little fertility babies will be two!
Hey Bridget,
ReplyDeleteMy mom told me that you like to look at my blog so I did a little blog stalking and found you. Hope you don't mind.
It certainly seems like your twins were a little more difficult to get than mine, so I guess I will stop complaining! :) They are adorable! If you ever need some twin mom support let me know. We've even accomplished potty training which I thought would be a really difficult project. It is possible!
Amber (Hoyt)
Hysterosalpingogram's are the worst. I hated that more than anything. What a story though. I had no idea it was that intense.
ReplyDeleteCongrats on the accomplishment!!! I am sure it was well worth all the testing, and waiting! They are adorable!!
ReplyDeleteAmber, Thank you for stalking me (that's how I found you too!) I love to read your blog it gives me hope for the next stage! I have been so worried about potty training. Twins are AWESOME!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteMegan, I'm glad someone can sympathize with me on that one!(Jared sure didn't)
Cynthia, They were soooo worth it!
That's awesome! IVF is pretty amazing, it sure is crazy what they can do these days! I was pretty close to going to visit that fertility center myself.
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