Semen Sample Frozen

Plan

Today..... Met with nurse to go over next month's cycle, blood tests, injection training (like I needed it)...check.

Next week..... They'll order my meds.   (Update.... they didn't order my meds, hopefully next week.)

October 12-18..... Start period.  We'll just choose October 17th for the next tentative dates....

October 20th..... baseline ultrasound, start Follistim and Menopur.

October 23rd..... ultrasound and bloodwork to measure progress.

October 25th-30th..... ultrasound and bloodwork to measure progress.   Once follicles reach 13/14mm start Ganirelix to suppress ovulation.

October 30th..... Trigger with either Lupron + HCG or just Lupron (depends on E2 levels at the time).

November 1..... Retrieval

November 4th or 6th..... Day 3 or Day 5 transfer.

November 18th or 20th..... Official beta day.

Countdown Begins!

I FINALLY got my period....a week late of all things.  So the countdown can now officially begin to starting my third IVF cycle in October.

Next steps.... Mike and I go to Cleveland this Friday to meet with a nurse to sign the IVF paperwork and get STD testing AGAIN.  I asked if we could just use last August's testing from UH Hospital but the doctor said something about it needing to be 6 months current or something.  So that will be another several hundred dollars down the tube.  We don't have STDs people!   Quit stealing our money!    We will also get a tentative calendar on Friday and they'll order the meds.   We also have "Injection Training"...........no comment.  As if I don't know how to give injections yet.  Oh well.  We'll play along.  :)

I pray this will be our third and final IVF round.  I pray we get a healthy "take home baby" out of it!   Anyone reading this, please say a quick prayer for us.

Also, our loan also got approved through ARC for 11k and change.  I pray that is the last one we need to take out for making babies.

Oh!  And I start acupuncture today weekly until the transfer!!

$11,374.43

That's the loan amount we are about to take out for our THIRD IVF.  It covers 1 round of IVF and 1 FET.   We contemplated doing the $33,500 refund option where you'd get 3 IVFs and 3 FETs and are guaranteed a baby or most of your money back, however Mike and I realized that if we had any more than 2 frozen embryos with each IVF we'd have to pay 2 to 3k on top of that to transfer each batch of 2 over the 2 covered in the first FET following each IVF.  So in that scenario, we'd actually be penalized if we were blessed with lots of frosties.   So, we decided we are just going to gamble and do one IVF cycle at a time and pray an embryo from the first cycle works.

Latest Semen Analysis

IVF Egg Quality Supplements

UPDATE:
Best egg retrieval after these to date!!!
21 eggs
13 mature
12 fertilized with ICSI (92% fertilization rate)
8 made it to blast! (66% blast rate!)

Here's how I split them up throughout the day.... no rhyme or reason, just tried to balance it all out:

Breakfast

• Baby aspirin
• Co Q10 Enzyme 200 mg
• DHEA 25 mg
• L- arginine 1000 mg
• Maca 750 mg
• Myo-Inositol Powder 2 gm
• OmegaVia Pharma Grade Omega 3 1105mg
• PQQ
• Queen's Delight
• Vitamin C 500 mg  (1/2 of 1000)  No longer taking because 100% is in prenatal
• Seeking Health Optimal Prenantal Powder (with methylated folate) - label
• Not a supplement but I ate 3 scrambled eggs every morning for months.

Lunch

• Co Q10 Enzyme 200 mg
• DHEA 25 mg
• NAC
• Queen's Delight
• Vitamin D 2000 iu
• Iron (I forget the amount off the top of my head) - no longer taking interacts with synthroid.  
• OmegaVia Pharma Grade Omega 3 1105mg
• B complex plus - label

Dinner

• Co Q10 Enzyme 200 mg
• DHEA 25 mg
• L- arginine 1000 mg
• Queen's Delight
• Tumeric
• L-5-MTHF 1000mcg - label
• Vitamin E 200 IU
• Vitamin D 2000 iu
• OmegaVia Pharma Grade Omega 3 1105mg 

Bedtime

• Myo-Inositol Powder 2 gm
• Melatonin 3mg
• OmegaVia Pharma Grade Omega 3 1105mg