The Start of baby d

Today I had my first appointment for IVF. First I had blood drawn to look at my levels and then an ultra sound to check my ovaries and see how many follies I have growing. Today they counted 9 on my Left ovary and 12 on my right, thats 21 total. They said there could be some more hiding but 21 is a great number. Tomorrow I start the fun of injections. We had a 3 hour class today to learn how to do the injections the proper way, we will have to do both subcutaneous(in the abdomen) and intramuscular(back side) injections. I'm not looking forward to the intramuscular injections but I know the outcome will be more than worth it. So, tomorrow I start with 150 IU of Follistim, to stimulate the follies, and at night I do micro HCG to also help stimulate. Both are done in the belly with tiny needles so those wont be so bad. Plus Devin's really good at giving shots. My next appointment will be Tuesday the 28th. I wasn't given a tentative retrieval date but they did say you stim for about 7-14 days, so it depends how well I respond. At this clinic the do day 3 transfers, which means after they remove the eggs and fertilize them, they let them grow for 3 days. I was talking with the nurse who helps out with IVF and she said they may have me do day 5 since I'm prone to over stimulating and having fluid build up(very painful). We will see which path we go, either way we are so hopeful and positive we will be bring home a baby(s) in 9 month months :)

Another thing I wanted to add is that we choose to freeze any left over embabies that wont be transfered but are doing well. Since I am only 25 and have a good amount growing, they recommended that we freeze what we do have. This means I wont have to do another full IVF cycle if we decide we want another baby in a few years. Also, if we do decide to have another child later on, the eggs we have frozen will still be 25 years old, not 30 or 35 (or however old I am at the time) The quality of a females eggs go down dramatically as she ages, so its a huge advantage to save younger eggs.

Here is Devins ONE Medication....


And then there are mine, I havn't even counted the needles and honestly don't want too....Also this isn't all my meds there are more that I will be given.....