I kind of don’t know where to begin. Our whole year had built to a fevered pitch of tension and stress. Disappointment after disappointment was the order of the day and it was hard to even know how to think about what lay ahead back in August or so.
Amy and I had conversation after conversation about, [...]
It’s been about a month since I tried my hand at this. Most days I would at least consider feeding the blog – emptying my mind of what was going on inside me. Each day, though, I would look into the void and I saw nothing but darkness. I could not quite grasp how I [...]
And……we’re back. After a bit of a self-imposed hiatus trying to wrap our heads around exactly where we are and what we’re supposed to do in light of the (perhaps) expected and (certainly) disappointing negative results of the first IVF cycle.
We went on vacation. We talked to family. We talked to each other. We saw [...]
We had our follow up appointment with Dr. Rosen today. As we waited and prepared for this post-failed-first IVF appointment, we reasoned that we were just going to be told the process for the “frozen transfer” since we were well aware of the the two frozen embryos we still have in reserve.
Interestingly, he took a slightly [...]
I think I’ve come to terms with the fact that it was always unlikely that we were going to be successful on the first go-round through the IVF process. As you go through it, though, and overcome so many hurdles of the different appointments and master the drug regimen, you’re not thinking that the odds [...]
Today is T minus 4 days until we get the official blood test to tell us if all of this effort is going to pay off for us. The wait has been a little harder on Team Jensen than I thought it would be, but perhaps I was being naive. It has certainly been a [...]
I have read that this “two week wait” from the time that you find you “could” be pregnant until the time you can actually test it is the hardest part of the process. I think people go a little crazy being trapped in their own minds with no new data to process. They want it [...]
Amy did an excellent write-up of her day already so if you have read her account then this may not add much, but I didn’t want to skip such an important day just because it had already been recounted. Here is the Partners Perspective, for what that is worth.
It had been getting increasingly tough for Amy [...]
Good news today from the Doctors today. Her follicles have progressed to the point where they’re ready to do the egg retrieval, so we “trigger” tonight at 7:30 pm with the HcG. Thirty-six hours later the eggs will be harvested (Saturday morning at 7:30 a.m.) and they will attempt to fertilize as many good ones [...]
Amy just called me from the doctor’s office for her latest ultrasound appointment. Looks like we’re not quite “there” yet and the doctor is saying it will probably be two more days of meds and monitoring.
Since she was in stirrups she didn’t take very good notes on how the follicles were coming, but she did [...]