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I am preparing for a FET (frozen embryo transfer) !!!! I know, I'm crazy, WE are crazy!! But I am sooooo excited about this!!! It's better than Disneyland to me!! This time around, we are keeping it all Top Secret! We aren't telling anyone! We want to surprise our families with an announcement! Hopefully!!! Fingers crossed! Toes crossed! Everything crossed!! We went to see my Dr. in November, after finding out that the cost for a FET has significantly gone down! I had an impression to check the website one day, weird...but you know, we make payments on the embryo and sperm storage, so it comes to my mind every few months...so not too out of this world weird! ;) when we did our first cycle, it cost us about $23,000. A LOT of money!! It was amazing how we were able to pull it off! A huge gift from our Heavenly Father entirely! We mortgaged our payed off car and went for it! I don't even know if we made as much as $30,000 in total income that year, or the year before that, or before that...? I know we had to have Jeffs parents co-sign on the loan with us because our income wasn't high enough for us to make the loan payments! But we've managed to make every single one!! We still owe a bunch on it... and I didn't think we would try again until we were all paid up, but now is the time, I just feel it... I am thankful we did it back then or we wouldn't have the cutest little twinner boys we have today!! Spending that money for our babies was so worth it to us! In fact, I feel in many ways it was meant to be! Back then-just a few years ago, the Frozen cycle (after the initial IVF cycle) would have cost us between $10,000-12,000. But when I looked things up, the cost had gone down to $2720 plus $500 for meds, and $400 for Dr visits!!! I was floored!!!!!! I wanted to jump for joy!! I wanted to tell everyone!!! Jeff couldn't believe it either!! He thinks I'm pretty crazy to want more babies, but he's just as crazy because he wants more too!!! Haha!:)
I called and set up an appointment for the end of Nov. It would be good for a year afterwards, so if we changed our minds or needed different timing, we would at least have that part out of the way. It was interesting too, because at Thanksgiving, my sister Em was telling me she was feeling like it was time for another babe in her family, and I wanted so badly to say that I felt that way too! But I kept myself calm and quiet! Which is good for me, since I'm the one who blows it every time!!! Lol!
We went to the appointment on Nov. 30th, Dr. Johnstone is my Doc this time. I saw her once before in our 1st IVF experience. Dr Hammoud our first doctor has moved...:(
They did a vaginal ultrasound, gave me a list of blood work I needed to get done at the lab in Logan, set me up with a calendar and the journey to baby #6 was underway!! I was surprised a bit when the Dr told me that we had 3 embryos frozen...in my mind all along I thought we had 2...it's kind of tricky though... One embryo is a higher grade -grade A or something...and frozen by itself, but the other two are grade B and both frozen together! So the dilemma is, do we thaw the A one by itself and hope it survives the thaw? And if it doesn't, we lose out on our $. Or do we thaw all of them? Then plan on transferring the one/s that survive? But what if all 3 survive? Do we dare transfer 3? If they all take that means triplets!!!! I say thaw all 3 and transfer all 3 --and I do hope they all make it...!!! Jeff isn't so sure, it is more risky...but how could I not? If they all survive?? It's a 50/50 chance for each one by the way....so we will cross that decision bridge when we get there, but I've already made my mind up! ;) Dr Johnstone didn't even seem worried about us transferring 3..which makes me wonder, is it because she doesn't think they'll all make it? Or because I had a healthy twin pregnancy? I don't know ...?
We decided we wanted to do an April transfer...it felt like the right time, after Christmas, after Disneyland, after our tax return... :) But I can hardly wait!! I started birth control in January, I have a very regular cycle, but for these things they like to have it all under control... My first Lupron injection was 10mls and started the Sunday evening we got home from our trip! I continued birth control with the Lupron until the 12 of March, then I stopped taking birth control. I am expected to get my period any day now...I think it's starting a bit today..(March 16th) but it's not full flow yet...And I also decreased lupron to 5 mls and began a 1/2 estrace pill twice daily. I will do this for one more week. I will call the office tomorrow and check in with the nurse to touch base and make sure things are going a they should be. :) I am blessed to have my awesome man to give me the shots! He does a great job and it relieves so much of my stress! The boys all know what we're up to, but they've been sworn to secrecy! I hope they don't take after their mama and prematurely spill the beans!! They are super excited!! Calvin and Ben and Tommy are the sweetest big brothers!! They all really want a sister this time! They would love another brother too, and would be ecstatic either way! ❤️❤️😍
Obviously, Jeff and I want a healthy baby no matter if it's a girl or boy! It would be awesome to add a girl to our mix! But how cool to have 6 boys!!?? I would just be the most blessed mama!! I just pray and pray that it works!! I know I would have a broken heart if it didn't. I'd be fine and I'd get over it, but I'd be sad for a while I'm sure...
So there's the update on us! Mostly for us to read and look back on! I'll try and keep things up to date. We go to have our ultrasound on March 29th, to check if the lining in my uterus is ready!!! It's coming up!! :) sparkling baby dust and baby wishes for us!!! ✨✨✨
