About that Assisted Hatching

By the way, it turns out the reason I had assisted hatching was because I had a Day Six transfer. Apparently, they do Assisted Hatching on all day six transfers. Standard Operating Procedure. So… no dramarama. Nothing particularly wrong with George, other than he was a slow grower who, well, wasn’t particularly userful in the [...]

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Assisted What?

So I found out today that in IVF#1, Ye Olde Fertility Clinic did Assisted Hatching on George. Who knew? Well, my financial services coordinator knew. My nurse didn’t know, though. I had called to find out the status of my account, make sure I didn’t owe any more money (because based on the EOB’s I’ve [...]

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Fall from Hope

On December 19th, the first day I started taking BCPs in preparation for my first IVF cycle, I wrote the following: I know every woman starting an IVF cycle talks about the irony of taking birth control pills in order to get pregnant. I don’t think for me that I find it ironic. I’m struck [...]

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Seriously, people!

Will 9:30 tomorrow never come? And why, oh why, did I not make the 6:45 appointment instead? What was I thinking?? (Oh, wait, that’s right, my husband has to be at work at 0630, so I couldn’t go in at 6:45 regardless… it’s HIS fault!) Yes, I totally get that tomorrow’s vampire draw isn’t going [...]

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And for all those lingering optimists out there…

Just in case you were thinking that just *maybe* 14dpo might *just* be a little too early still and there *might* just still be a miracle waiting… let’s just assume that 15 and 16dpo is quite definitive, shall we? I’m still bringing J and Co. Snickerdoodles on Wednesday (beta day). It’s not their fault my [...]

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Reading Between the Lines

Get it? Reading between the lines? Like, if I had two lines and you had to rea… oh forget it, they always say that it’s not funny if you have to explain the joke. Onward and upward… ANYWHOZIT: The point, for those still reading (and I wouldn’t blame you if you’d stopped bothering after that [...]

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Thumb Twiddling

“So… how’s that bed rest thing going for you, dear?” my husband sarcastically asked me while watching me clean up the living room. Yeah. Um. So you know, now I totally get why it is that my perinatologist said that if I get pregnant even so much as with twins he’s admitting me to the [...]

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I will Love Him and Hug Him and Call Him George

So this morning was a complete whirlwind and nothing was going right for the first couple hours of the morning (all of which related to things best n0t discussed on an infertility blog), but things eventually calmed down and I was working from home before leaving for my transfer (this was part of what didn’t [...]

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Day 6

No transfer today. Moving to a Day 6 transfer (tomorrow). I, personally, think this is really all rather rude. I was waffling this morning about moving my afternoon meetings. If I moved them, for sure I was going to end up rescheduled, right? If I didn’t move them, I was going to end up with [...]

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Oh Yeah, and that other thing

I kinda left you all hanging about the embryology report didn’t I? While I was at Ye Olde Fertility Clinic today, I ran into SuperDoc and he told me we are likely a go for tomorrow for transfer, but no promises. It will probably be a last minute call, but for the moment I’ll assume [...]

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