Well, in case you couldn't tell by the title of this post, we are officially on the list for IVF! I called our RE's office this morning to let them know we made a decision. I left a message for the head nurse, Merry Kay, and when she called back she said they would put us down for the April cycle!
There are details we still have to work out, but at this point my instructions were to call them back when I had a new cycle begin. She asked when I was expecting it, but basically because of all the weird breakthrough bleeding I had in January, I honestly couldn't tell her when I was expecting it. She told me if I started in the next week to call back and let them know, but if I hadn't started by next Friday to also call, and they would give me medicine to induce a period. The first thing in an IVF cycle is going on birth control pills. In order to start them I need to be at the beginning of my cycle, not somewhere in the middle.
I'm sure you're thinking, why in the world are you taking birth control when you're trying to MAKE a baby not PREVENT a baby. As Dr. H explained to us, the first thing we need to do make my brain relinquish all control of my reproductive organs, specifically the ovaries. The birth control starts the process of letting the medicine control my ovaries instead of my body itself.
So sometime in the next couple of weeks we will begin the journey to the big egg retrieval and transfer! There will no doubt be more to blog about with an IVF cycle than an IUI cycle. Although, Dr. H did tell us several times that the things we went through for IUI are very similar to what we'll experience with IVF, so maybe there won't be too many crazy surprises!
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