OUR IVF IS SCHEDULED!

I just scheduled our IVF, and you'll never guess our retrieval day... March 3rd! Which, as many of you know, is my Great Grandmother's birthday.

I'll start giving myself injections in the abdomen on February 22nd. Then I'll have an ultrasound on February 25th to see how many follicles I have.

On March 3rd, my eggs will be removed and fertilized. Our doctor will not transfer any more than 2 embryos, so don't worry, we won't be one of those couples having sextuplets. If this round doesn't work and we have any left over embryos they will be frozen and preserved for a second try. The great thing is that no matter when it happens, our future child(ren) will be conceived on Great Grandma's birthday. That has to be a good sign.

IVF Here we come!

As many of you know, we have been trying to start a family for quite some time now. We stopped using birth control in November 2004. In May 2005 my OB-GYN sent me in for a test to see if my tubes were open, which came back inconclusive.

The test had to be re-done by a Reproductive Endocrinologist (fertility doctor), which was done in August 2005. Everything looked good. The doctor told us to wait another three months and if I still wasn't pregnant to come back and see him. We waited until April 2006. Since then we've tried a few different kinds of medications and 5 artificial inseminations, our last one in April 2007.

We decided to move forward with In-Vitro Fertilization (IVF). I have an ovary condition known as PCOS, so I will need to be on birth control pills for a few months. We are looking at mid-March for our egg retrieval.