If you didn't finish that with,
"Everybody's feeling fine,
Here we go now,
Yes, yes, yes, here we go!
N*SYNC has got the flow!"
Then there'd better be a dang good reason we're friends.
Kidding. Sorta.
Moving On.
So, yep, we're getting started again! We got to this point back in February and I never started the blog up again, even though I kept saying I needed to, but now things feel a lot better and I've decided to post! This journey will be different, mainly because the parents are local. Plano to be exact! I'm excited to be able to share this with the parents this time and really hope it all goes smoothly! I feel it will, they are both very sweet and down to earth.
I'm with a clinic out of Dallas and this Dr is waaaaaaay old school. Just the amount of supplements he has me on is almost as much as all the meds from the twins.
Currently my list of meds is:
Birth control (sticking to this one religiously so no more Ben's show up)
Prenatal
50,000 IU of Vitamin D
200mg CoQ10
Doxycycline (antibiotic 10 days)
Then as we get closer to transfer we take off the birth control and add:
Lupron shot (AM)
Estrogen patches (start with two, end up with 6 on at a time)
Progesterone suppository (AM)
Progesterone shot (PM)
Another round of Doxycycline
Medrol
Tomorrow I start Lupron. And I'm terrified. Chris was able to give me my PIO shots in my booty every night with the twins, but this go-round I have to shoot myself in the stomach every morning. Gulp. My loathing of needles hasn't gone away. I had an appointment on Friday with the nurse who showed me how I'm supposed to do this. I was slightly queasy, but managing, until she said, "Make sure the needle goes in at 45 degrees, or you can bend it and get it stuck in your stomach." I'm sorry, what???????!!! She says she has faith in me, but also requested I email her after I've given it so she knows it's done. Everyone tells me it's so much easier than progesterone, but I never had to see that go in. Ugh. I'm really not excited.
But, I remind myself why am I doing it and put my big girl panties on. L&S have been trying for many years and have had many failed IVFs. They had resigned to not having kids but a few things came up and then they found out they had three little embryos left, and here we are. With lots of prayers we will have two embryos to transfer next month, and then a sibling journey a year or so later! And on the transfer note, this Dr also requires four days of bed rest. At first, yes it sounds amazing. Four days to just lay around and do nothing??!! Sweet!! But no. I know by day two of laying flat I will be BORED OUT OF MY MIND. I'm trying to save some Netflix series and get some good books, but if you have other forms of entertainment, let me know!
