7 posts tagged “fet”

Thank you so much for your kind words.

As I thought, this third miscarriage has hit me harder than I thought.  But we're looking forward to our next shot at IVF, probably in 4-5 weeks.  It sounds like an eternity from now...

Third miscarriage.  I don't quite know what to do with myself tonight.

D&C on Friday.

We had our first ultrasound this morning, and I'm not very hopeful.  There was a heartbeat, but it was hard to find.  On the up-side, it's not small like last time.  The doctor didn't measure anything, so I have no idea where we're at.  He did pull out the sonogram from last time and you can immediately tell the difference.

But this heartbeat thing is freaking me the crap out.

I've got to stay away from Google.  Everything I've read says that there should be a strong heartbeat by now, and that a weak one nearly always means miscarriage.  A third miscarriage is going to hit me much, much harder than the other two.  Let's just hope it doesn't come to that.

It's hard to stay positive sometimes.  A hungry cat was pacing on my head at 5 am, which woke me up and left me lying in bed thinking, "oh sweet elvis, I've lost my symptoms!"  Which of course is silly.  They are going to come and go, but it won't matter because this round IS GOING TO WORK.

I'm going to refrain about posting about the octuplets, other than to say that I don't care if the freakazoid has 14 kids - lots of people have ginormous families and sketchy support systems.  I do care that the doc thought it was OK to transfer 6 embryos at once.

My current book is "Reading Lolita in Tehran", and Azar Nafizi put it so well: "It was the sort of anger one gets high on, the kind one takes home to show off to friends and family."

Beta #2: 328 (doubling time = 1.81 days)

So far, so good!

Next beta: 2/16

This one is going to work.  Positive thinking, positive thinking, positive thinking...

104.  Still to early to celebrate, but we're headed in the right direction!

We did a frozen embryo transfer (FET) cycle this month.  Three were thawed, two survived and were transferred.  I'm in the two week wait.  Beta is scheduled for Feb 6th.

There's been nothing to post on that front: I went for one ultrasound and bloodwork, and a week later they did the transfer.  The only drugs I'm taking are oral estrogen and vaginal progesterone.  No needles, constant blood testing, or daily transvaginal magic wanding.  

Rather boring, wouldn't you say?

We became the live-in can openers for two 14-year-old cats just after Christmas, and one of them has decided this week that my life is far too boring.  He has decided to protest Elvis-only-knows-what by peeing on the dining room table and pooping near my husband or his proxy (yesterday near his slippers, this morning on the windowsill behind the sofa where he was sitting).

What a nasty little man.  Too bad for us that he's too flippin cute and we are already in love with him.  Why does his teensy, cold heart not have room for two goofy bipeds?

Mr Twinge thinks they are mad because we kind of kick them around a bit when we are sleeping.  A goofy biped might think that sleeping next to big feet in a small bed is not optimal.  Perhaps the felines feel that we are impolite guests in their home.

I don't want to pay for more IVF psychological counseling if I don't have to (freakin expensive), but now I have to dish out for a cat psychologist.  I'm literally pussy whipped.