IVF Consultation

This morning my husband and I attended an IVF consultation with our RE. We really have no idea why our IUIs are not working (with the exception of the first one that resulted in the ectopic pregnancy). We are hoping that IVF will give us some insight as to what's going on. So, we're moving forward with this next part of our infertility journey and thinking of it as more of a diagnostic stage than anything. (Although we really hope it results in a take home baby or two!)

I just started a new cycle last weekend, so tomorrow I'm going to begin taking birth control pills. I'll probably be on those for about three weeks and we're looking at an egg retrieval sometime in mid-February. We're going to do IVF with partial ICSI so that we can learn as much as we can during this process.  That means that we'll be attempting to make embryos in two ways: 1) many sperm with an egg in a petri dish letting fertilization happen spontaneously; and 2) injecting one sperm directly into an egg. We will be doing a 5 day transfer, as my clinic sees the best results by selecting an embryo at that stage. Our RE has left it up to us to decide on if we want to transfer 1 or 2 embryos, so that's something we'll be discussing over the next few weeks.

So, the next steps are for me to add in CoQ10  (600 mg) to my daily vitamin mix and set-up an appointment for another sonohysterogram and a mock embryo transfer. Oh, and get all of the meds ordered! The nurse is going to call me early next week to schedule those and also go over ordering meds. So, I should have more to report after I hear back from her.

In the meantime, I'm just working on eating as clean as possible and taking good care of myself.  And working on reading and signing all of the IVF paperwork that we were given today.  It's going to be quite a ride these next few weeks/months -- hopefully with the end result being Baby Nest in Progress in our arms. :)