Fun times up north and cycle day 11

This past week my husband had to go to Austin to present at a conference for work, so Brynn and I headed up to my parent's cottage in up north Michigan. I think she enjoyed getting ready for the beach more than she actually liked the sand and water.

Brynn loves looking at herself in the mirror and gathering all of the toiletries out of the bathroom.



She didn't really like walking in the water, although Brynn would sit and let her toes get a tad wet. She loved her sand bucket, which was never far out of reach.



Although the sky looked threatening at times, we never got a drop of rain the entire 3 days up at the cottage and Lake Huron was as calm as ever with barely a wave in sight. You could walk out really far and still be waist deep while seeing the bottom of the lake. Here's Brynn and my dad sitting down to cool off.



Brynn was a pretty good traveler in the car and the trip back home was a little smoother than the one up there. Once home she wasted no time to remember where her favorite snacks were. I swear the girl would live on golden Goldfish if I let her, LOL!



At the end of her snack Brynn is like, "Come on Mom...just a few more!"



Thank you for all of the good wishes for my lab work to be alright last week. It must of worked because early last week the nurse from my RE's office called to say my progesterone was less than one and my estrogen was within the normal range to start my meds for our FET. YAY!

So last week I began taking two Estrace a day and applied my Vivelle patch. I continue to take the Estrace daily and change my patch every three days. I also of course are taking some folic acid, and my RE's office has begun putting many of their patients on a daily dose of Vitamin D. Next Wednesday on the 18th I have another ultrasound to check my lining and some lab work to check my progesterone and a few other things. If all looks okay I'll start my progesterone shots, medrol steroid (since we used ICSI during our IVF cycle), aspirin, and Doxycycline antibiotic. That Wednesday night I'll also take two Ovidrel injections.

Then drumroll please.....our transfer should still be Monday the 23rd at 10AM. Despite all of my excitement for this transfer, I have to admit a FET is just so much simpler it seems than a fresh IVF cycle. There is so few ultrasounds, fewer lab draws, fewer needles, fewer meds...well.....just fewer of everything. It seemed like with our fresh IVF cycle I was forever waiting by my cell phone, checking it in between OR cases for a call from the clinic with lab results, or what my next dose of each injectable med was. There is none of that this time. Things just seem...well....calmer.

I am however, waiting anxiously for the doorbell to ring at the moment and for the FedEx man to bring me a package. My two ovidrel injections are scheduled to be delivered today and I have to sign for them since they are refrigerated. Did I ever mention how much I love getting packages and snail mail? I especially love packages from FedEx and delivery services. I had to giggle because I told my husband last night that the FedEx man was bringing me a package today and my husband just smiled and said he was excited for the delivery as long as the "FedEx man wasn't bringing you HIS package." Ah, I love how my husband thinks...mind always in the gutter, LOL!

Well, hope everyone is having a great week and thanks again for all of the good thoughts!