Gabby Writes

It has been a hot minute since I posted. I guess I needed time to cool down and all that from the failure of my last IUI cycle.

I’m starting all the IVF shit soon. I have a Zoom consultation with them tomorrow and then on Friday I have another Zoom consultation with genetics people, so that’s fun, I guess. I also have a telehealth appointment with my therapist tomorrow, so I can talk about all those feelings I’ve been having lately.

I watched all the educational stuff today and signed some documents.

So, now I know all the medications that are involved as well as the risks. Currently, I’m on birth control, which is part of the suppression stage of all this. Eventually, I’ll stop the birth control and be put on other medications and I think a daily injection. The aim is to have about 10 eggs that they can retrieve from me. They’ll inseminate, but not all of them will fertilize, so they’ll lose some eggs. Not all the eggs will reach the ideal phase for implantation and some may have chromosome issues, which causes the loss of more eggs. The goal is to have one to two eggs to implant in me.

They don’t want any more than that because they want to avoid multiple babies. Because those are high risk pregnancies. Although, I wouldn’t mind twins. I always kind of wanted twins, and since I’m probably not going to go through all this again to have a second kid, a two in one deal would be nice.

This is all going to cost me more than $5,000 to do. So, I hope this whole IVF thing works. I don’t want to have to do it a bunch of times before it works. And I’ve already spent so much money on my wedding and the new house.

Wish me luck.