This page will be a work in progress - I'll continue to update it as things change.
September 2009: Jared and I decide to start trying to have a baby.
August 2010: I end up in tears in my ob/gyn's office. She assures me that I will be pregnant soon, but orders a Day 3 blood test anyway.
early September 2010: Ob/gyn calls to give me the results of my Day 3 bloodwork. I have High FSH (11.2) and Low AMH (0.1). Refers me to Dr. K, a Reproductive Endocrinologist.
end of September 2010: Dr. K orders a full work up of bloodwork and labs, including another FSH test, a vaginal ultrasound to investigate developing follicles, and an HSG, plus a semen analysis for Jared.
early October 2010: The HSG sucked.
end of October 2010: We got our test results. Dr. K recommends IVF with ICSI. We told him that we wouldn't make any decisions before the first of the year.
January 2011: We still don't make any decisions. Just keep trying.
2011 in general: Lots of babies on Facebook. Not helping.
September 2011: We decide that we want to move forward with IVF, and that we are willing to take my parents up on their offer to help financially.
November 2011: We have a very important conversation with my parents.
December 5, 2011: We meet with Dr. K, tell him that we want to move forward with IVF. He re-orders blood work, a saline ultrasound, and a trial transfer.
December 13, 2011: The sonohystogram (saline ultrasound) and trial transfer are not nearly as bad as the HSG!
December 22, 2011: IVF Orientation. We found out that both of our levels actually improved!
December 30, 2011: Payment for our IVF cycle delivered in full. Yikes.
December 31, 2011: A whole box full of drugs are delivered to our house. Double yikes.
January 3, 2012: Cycle Day 1.
January 18, 2012: Cycle Day 16. Start ten days of Cipro.
January 21, 2012: Cycle Day 19. Begin injections of Lupron, 20 units, at 6:30 every morning.
January 30, 2012: Cycle Day 1. Please be my last cycle day 1 of 2012. Please.
January 31, 2012: Baseline ultrasound and blood work at Dr. K's office. All looks good.
February 3, 2012: Reduce AM Lupron dose to 10 units. Add evening injection of 300 units of Bravelle and 75 units of Menopur, mixed together in 1 mL of sterile saline.
February 6, 2012: Blood work at Dr. K's office. Estrogen level at 50.6
February 7, 2012: Add 225 units of Bravelle in the morning, reduce evening dose to 225 units. Increased stims to hopefully increase estrogen level!
February 8, 2012: Blood work and ultrasound at Dr. K's office. Estrogen level at 229. 11 follicles seen during ultrasound!
February 10, 2012: Blood work and ultrasound at Dr. K's office. Estrogen level at 622. 13 follicles seen during ultrasound! Increase Bravelle dosage to 300 units.
February 11, 2012: Blood work and ultrasound at Dr. K's office. Estrogen level at 727. 14 follicles seen during ultrasound!
February 12, 2012: Blood work and ultrasound at Dr. K's office. Estrogen level at 1468. 15 follicles seen during ultrasound!
February 13, 2012: Blood work and ultrasound at Dr. K's office. Estrogen level at 1813. 16 follicles seen during ultrasound! Trigger shot at 10:00 PM
February 14, 2012: Begin Doxycycline morning and night, Medrol at night
February 15, 2012: Egg Retrieval - 8 eggs retrieved! Start progesterone in oil shots in the evening.
February 16, 2012: Fertilization Report: 6 of the 8 eggs retrieved were mature. One more matured in the dish, and all 7 successfully fertilized with ICSI!
February 18, 2012: Embryo Transfer of two Class II embryos. Five Class III embryos will be monitored to Day 5.
February 20, 2012: Embryology Report. One of five made it to Day 5, and has been cryofrozen.
February 23, 2012: Blood work to test progesterone level, which is 17.8. Dr. K wants it to be 20, so in addition to the nightly PIO injections, we're adding progesterone suppositories 3 times a day.
March 1, 2012: Pregnancy test
