Tag: infertility journey

  • How It’s Going

    How It’s Going

    Last week, I shared about my FET schedule which was really a one-sheet of color-coded madness. When I saw all the meds I’d be on and there would be multiple types of estrogen, I was a little worried it might make me moody or hormonal.  So far, I don’t think that’s been the case, but…

  • Color-Coded Madness

    Color-Coded Madness

    Once we knew we were moving ahead with a frozen embryo transfer (FET), my new FET nurse emailed me my schedule and sent in all my prescriptions to the pharmacy.  Folks, as the blog title implies, the schedule is pure, color-coded madness.  And I thought egg retrieval was a crazy process with lots of medications…

  • Another Regroup

    Another Regroup

    Recently, we had another regroup appointment–this time with Dr. C. (Our first regroup appointment was with Dr. G. in our first cycle.) In the past, we’ve done our appointments with Dr. C. virtually since it tends to be more convenient. This time, though, we wanted to meet in person.  The regroup went really well. I…

  • Focus

    Focus

    A couple weeks ago, I shared about my anxiety surrounding the frozen embryo transfer (FET) phase, and you might be wondering, am I doing anything about that anxiety? The answer is yes; I’m trying really hard not to stew in my concerns and worries.  But I’ve also been trying to shift my focus. I’ve been…

  • The Hand-Off

    The Hand-Off

    In the last week of June, my IVF nurse told me to pick up a new birth control packet and gave me a day to start it. And then she said a short sentence that gave me more anxiety than I anticipated: “Let me know on your cycle day one, and I’ll transfer you to…

  • Fourth of July!

    Fourth of July!

    I know I mentioned last week that I’d be back to the IVF journey this week, but I completely forgot about the holiday, so let’s talk about the Fourth instead. I’ll plan to jump back into IVF next week.  Growing up, the Fourth of July was the biggest celebration in my little Indiana hometown. They…

  • Family Vacation

    Family Vacation

    I’ve mentioned it a couple times on here already, so I figured it’d be good to do a blog about our recent family vacation to Orlando.  We were there June 10-17, and it was a much-welcome getaway. Especially after we got such bad news from our most recent egg-retrieval procedure.  We shared a house with…

  • The Next Step

    The Next Step

    The next step in our IVF journey begins, and it all starts with three procedures.

  • Quick Update

    Quick Update

    Hey readers, sorry I missed regular blog day yesterday. I’m actually on a family vacation in Florida right now. I plan to tell you more about our vacation and share some photos in a couple weeks. I did want to go ahead and share a quick update with you, though. Once we get back from…

  • Floored

    Floored

    Last Thursday, we got our Day 5 update on our embryos. As a reminder, we’d started with at least 15–potentially 19. It was a new record. The nurse said we had three nearly at the blastocyst stage and one was still at the previous stage–the morula stage. The rest were still somewhat progressing, but the nurse…