Back to bearing my girly parts for all

Hope that everyone had a great fourth of July weekend. We had a nice weekend at our house. Friday and Saturday I watched Brynn while my husband did some yard work spreading the 3 yards of dirt and a couple yards of mulch we had delivered. Then Saturday night we went to the fireworks at Lincoln Golf course in Birmingham. Brynn actually liked watching them and she said her ever cute, "oohhh ahhhh" I find so freakin cute! Sunday we spent the morning together and then I had to work the afternoon and night shift on the fourth of July. I was the only anesthetist in the OR and my friend was on as the anesthetist in labor and delivery. We luckily managed to grab some dinner together before I did a couple of trauma cases that came in. One was a nine year old with a mangled arm and leg that was a result of a motor vehicle accident. Then around 10pm we tried to repair the hand of someone who was a little silly with their fireworks.

Earlier this week I traveled to my RE's office to begin prep for our frozen embryo transfer (FET). I had to have some lab work drawn, and cultures that are mandated for all FETs. The FDA mandates that anytime there is a transfer of human tissue that the recipient is screened for communicable diseases - even through they're our tissue (embryos) being transferred back to us. It was back in the stirrups again and bearing the girly parts. My RE had one of the OB residents with him that was doing their rotation through reproductive medicine with him and asked if it was okay if she remain in the room. Being a former IVFer and spending lots of good old quality time in the hospital when pregnant Brynn I thought...hey what the heck. Sure, what's one more person seeing the girly parts, right? I kind of forgot when you do infertility treatments how many times you get to either have a date with the dildo cam (transvaginal ultrasound) or get to expose it all. The first time around I think I thought about it more but now I know it just comes with the territory. Did you guys find that to be true the more cycles you went through?

In fact I had to giggle because my husband, "Gosh you've been painting your toes really nicely lately." I smiled and said, "Of course and shaving my legs as well!" Although it is nice to have one more excuse to shop at Target (extra nail polish and shave gel :-)

Last week I started on my Premarin which I'll take for four weeks. In a couple of weeks I'll start on Provera as well. After this cycle will be the cycle that we ideally will do our FET. Tomorrow I get to bear the girly parts again because we have a mock transfer. Although I work tomorrow, my RE's office is in the same hospital so I just have to arrange my lunch schedule to coincide with my mock transfer. My RE said it would be interesting to see if the measurements he takes with the catheter in prep for this transfer are the same length, or different that the measurements he took for our transfer with our first IVF. Basically he measures with the catheter to see how far in he would place the embryos for our FET. He is interested in seeing if the measurement is different due to my uterus stretching from our first pregnancy.

Thanks for your input on ways to add protein easily into my diet. I've been trying to sneak some extra in for my pregnancy marathon training. Later tonight it's off to paint the toes again for my appointment and sneak in a power walk or run with Brynn. Keep your fingers crossed that maybe our measurements from our mock transfer will show a little stretch to the old ute from last time :-)