HSG – Take Two!

Hello! Em here. Monday was HSG day and I thought I would share my experience especially since I had a very different experience than Lyn. She had a relatively uneventful HSG and some cramping to follow.

New Plan

Hello folks! It’s Em. So the last month has certainly been a rollercoaster ride with many ups, downs and tight turns. It also came with that anxiety that happens as soon as you get strapped in a roller coaster and there is no turning back. That might be a little too dramatic… Anyways, after the miscarriage, we got hit with another delay that could potentially keep us from trying again until the first of the year. This was unsettling after all of our momentum so the gears started turning and we devised a new plan.

The 36-Hour Day

Hello! This is Em. We’ve been radio silent for a little bit because we got hit with some bad news. The day before we left for our anniversary/graduation/birthday vacation to Hawaii, we learned that the baby was slightly underdeveloped measuring at 6 weeks instead of 6 weeks and five days. More importantly, they couldn’t find a heartbeat. While speaking with the nurse practitioner, she said our chances of successfully continuing the pregnancy was about 50/50. In this instance, they would typically want us to come back in a week and do another ultrasound but we’d be in Hawaii and gone for roughly two weeks once the Memorial Day weekend was lumped in. She said we could go to an OB/GYN in Hawaii but ultimately decided that we didn’t want bad news from a stranger. That evening was not good and the worst part for me was this looming sense of helplessness. There was absolutely nothing that I could do. Neither of us were particularly thrilled to jump on a plane the next day but we did.

HCG Update & Thoughts after BFP

Short Update on Beta HCG

13DPO: 124.4

16DPO: 286.5

22DPO: 3,700

So, the beta is still increasing nicely! We are scheduled for our first ultrasound on May 15th.

Thoughts after the BFP:

Swing and a Miss

Hey folks! Em here… Sadly, I’m here to report that our TWW ended with a visit from AF and a slew of negative pregnancy tests. It was hard at first–we really felt good about that cycle. But we are now on to the next cycle. We had our baseline appointment last Friday and we got the green light to go forward. The silver lining of it all is that we didn’t have to wait. For the past couple months, we’ve had so many hiccups that we were both just used to being told to wait. But after Lyn’s cycle started, we called the doctor and got right to it which helped us move on.

Fertility Fiasco

After a stressful past 2 days, we are officially in the Two Week Wait! It wasn’t without concern as we were in quite a bit of a panic and chaos leading up to the IUI.  We’ll give you a run down of how it all went down.

Fingers Crossed

At the discovery of my cysts at the last baseline ultrasound, I was prescribed 3 weeks of birth control pills to take before coming back. Last week, I finished the pills (well… I skipped the last two) and was able to get another baseline ultrasound appointment for this past Thursday.

CD1 & Fertility Diet

It’s cycle day 1! We will be calling the fertility clinic tomorrow morning to schedule our baseline ultrasound appointment for this week. If all goes well, we will be moving forward with our first IUI this cycle.   

As you all know, making a baby is not easy or cheap so we want to do all that we can to conceive in as few rounds as possible. After a lot of research and reading lots of blogs, here are a couple things we are trying out with our first insemination.

The Green Light

Hey guys! So as of the last blog post, we were scheduled to go in for a post-surgery consult with our fertility doctor on Jan 15th. Unfortunately, we got a call 2 days before the appointment that our doctor had come down with the flu and needed to reschedule. We were able to get an appointment for the 19th, which was CD14 for me (i.e. the day I ALWAYS ovulate). We were super bummed knowing that our January cycle was not going to be an option anymore, but shit happens, and you can’t really be mad about someone getting the flu.

The Last Hurdle

This past Friday (Dec. 15) I had my hysteroscopy, D&C (dilation and curettage), and polypectomy. This surgery was (hopefully) the last hurdle before we can start our inseminations! I had general anesthesia, so I don’t remember the actual procedure, but I’ll give you guys a run down of the pre and post surgery experience.