Better Late Than Never

Just for the record... it is still "this evening." Sorry my post is a little late. I had the pleasure of watching Anya today after work... she's walking! So I just got home about a half hour ago. Anyway... Here's the run down of today's appt. ***Caution... potential for Too Much Info***

Dr. Shamma = awesome. I do not have to have the laparoscopic surgery or my tubes removed as Dr. P thought may be the case. I am kind of partial to my tubes even if they suck. Dr. Sh said that we are excellent candidates with a 60-80% chance of conceiving with our first attempt. That's huge. Yesterday, we were at a maybe .5% chance of conceiving accounting for a miracle... today we are as high as 80%. For a normal couple and normal conception, there's only a 15-25% chance of conceiving each month. So that percentage, as I said, is huge!

Here's how the next two months will look.

Cycle one (now): birth control (I know... right?!) and we'll do a Sono Salpingogram which is almost the same as that awful HSG only with water instead of radioactive dye and ultrasound instead of xray. The SSG will kind of be like a test run for the transfer and to make sure there are not abnormalities with my uterus.

Cycle two (in three weeks): We'll start the hormones to overstimulate the ovaries to produce as many eggs as possible... between 10-20... which is a lot! A couple weeks later when the eggs are ripe they'll harvest the eggs. That same day they will be fertilized, then three to five days later, they'll do the big transfer back into my uterus. Two weeks later we'll go in for the pregnancy test.

So August and September will undoubtedly be exciting and scary and exciting and scary (yes I meant to say that twice.)

I have not yet decided how to go about blogging during this time. I want to keep my family and friends updated, but at the same time, its very personal and private. I mean who else gives their family and friends the play by play of conceiving their children. Ha. What I might do is keep a log and publish it after IVF is over or maybe give very basic updates and save the details for later. And I want to make sure that if IVF doesn't work, I'm not overwhelmed immediately by having to inform the world... it failed. I don't know.

Anyway... It's already 11:30 and I have to be up at 6:30 so I'd better get to bed. Today was definitely a day for many thanks to God for whatever it is He is doing in our lives.