Our First Appointment!

     Our First appointment we signed our consent forms, blood work, and ultra sound. The consent forms were a little intimidating, because there was so much to decide/sign. We had to decide if we were going to freeze the embryos that we didn't use or throw them away. I had already decided that we would freeze the embryos, but my husband was struggling spiritually about the decision. My husband was concerned about having "babies on ice". He didn't think it was something that God wanted him to do. The nurse left us alone to discuss, which before this day we had talked about it a million times. I explained to him that if this doesn't work the first round, I would want to try again. I also explained that the frozen embryos would be given a chance to live. If we were blessed with 6 embryos, then We would put every single one of them back into the uterus to hopefully survive. We are only aloud to put back 2 embryos per cycle. My husband then voiced his opinion about how we should only try this one time. His reasoning was because if God wanted this for us, then it would work the first time. Now before this day, my hubby had not researched anything concerning IVF. He was just going on whatever everyone else had told him. I explained that our RE will take the eggs out and place the sperm inside the egg, but he doesn't make the embroyo stay inside of me. God decides if my body is ready for a baby or not. The doctor doesn't make me pregnant, he just gives us the highest chance of becoming pregnant. I also stated that throwing away embroyos, was never an option for me. I believe if we were blessed with that many embroyos, then they all get a fighting chance. Once my husband understood exactly what we were doing, he signed to freeze our embroyos:)

      Next we both had to have blood work done! I had to have about 4 tubes of blood taken and My husband only had 2. They were checking for diseases, infections, and my estrogen/progesterone levels to make sure everything was in good shape. Everything came back perfect and we were ready to start the stimulating process, but first an ultra sound...
      Our first ultra sound was to check the lining of the uterus and that my ovaries were at complete rest. Everything looked good and were had some follicles forming. I had 4 in my left ovary and 3 in my right. All were measuring around 6mm, which we were told was perfect. A follicle is what produces the egg each month and they look like dark fluid sacs on the Ultra Sound. They want them to get to a size of at least 18mm and then they would retrieved the eggs inside:) After the Ultra sound we went over my medications I would be starting for stimulation/Stims process of IVF!