IVF Numero 3

I was suppose to have my third IVF cycle at the end of June beginning of July. But health insurance is dumb and said my BMI was not good enough. So I hopped on the treadmill, and had to change insurances, since I lost my job (thats a whole other story) and lost some weight and was able to start at the end of July.

We are using the Antagonist protocol again.

 

But with new insurance comes new meds. Insurance was giving us crap about the meds, they approved IVF but not the meds (at first), not really sure how much sense that makes, but I tend to not ask questions about the thought process of an insurance agency b/c they are ALL a mess. 

This time I have Follistim, Ganarelix, crinone, novarel trigger, menopur and estrogen patches.

The crazy thing is , I started stims on July 26th. It is the SAME day just a year later that I started stims for Josh and Zoe's cycle. This time I started with 300IU of Follistim, I am on day 6 unsuppressed tomorrow I go in for monitoring again. On Tuesday my Estrodiol was already in the 400s so I'm hoping this will maybe go a tad quicker this time, and maybe we will get some more eggs!

I'll update tomorrow if I get any fun information!!  

Fingers crossed and saying prayers that this is successful, I pray everyday that God will bless me with twins again. 

I'm bad at this...TAC surgery rundown!

I really should update you about my LAP TAC.

Surgery went FANTASTIC, April 15th, yes I was in Boston on tragic boston marathon day! Praise the Lord we were out before all the craziness.

So surgery was scheduled at 7am, we arrived around 5:45. They called me in to get all set up, I asked if my mom could come with me, they said they would get her later. I was given a jonny and told to sit on the gurney. I put on my jonny sat on the gurney and burst into tears. The last time I was in this situation I was losing my babies. I couldn't handle it. The nurse came in and saw me crying and immediately got my mom. So sometimes I guess it does get you what you want when you cry!

The "IV wizzard" got it on the very first stick! I was SO happy, since this is honestly the source of most anxiety. as I was getting all ready they let me bring my little Josh and Zoe hats into the OR with me, taped to my jonny. An OB who was working that day asked me if she could please stand in on my surgery so she could see it done and learn more about it. I am so glad that I could lead to this OB knowing more and more babies being saved through the TAC!

The doctor was late, but the nurse anesthetist was AMAZING she stuck with me, and calmed me, and gave me some "happy juice" early. She told me I was going to be the most amazing mother, and my children would be blessed to have me. I loved her. what kind words. I was finally wheeled into the OR at 7:24 I saw the heavy duty yellow and black stirrups for my legs and said "Oh my goodness, these are so fancy! I should just have these in my house, I spend so much time in them" and with that, I was out. HA.

At 7:48 the doctor called my mom and told her I was done, He said it was one of the most textbook LAP TACs he had done. I woke up all by myself in recovery. I asked for my mom, my throat was KILLING, honestly, it hurt worse than my belly! Dumb breathing tube! I asked the nurse how many times I had asked her what time it was, she chuckled and said "a few". For whatever reason I like obsess about how long my surgeries take, after both Egg retrievals I asked Bill like 47 times how long it took. I used the bathroom, proved I could eat and drink and got dressed and went home. Except we stopped at Panera on the way home, because duh, we needed soup. Hahaha.

And here is the "damage", honestly, I would do it all over again, the incisions and scarring are minimal and I was really only couch ridden for like 3-4 days. Heck I made guacamole that night!



I few weeks later I had some baseline testing done, and I finally got to see my TAC in place!

The line right above my thumb is my TAC the circle looking donut thing with the hole in the middle in my cervix, the TAC goes all the way around. 

Now my scars are barely visible and I am excited to give this puppy a try!!