New York City and cycling day 2

Thank you for all of the birthday wishes! New York City was a blast. We celebrated our 9th wedding anniversary there, ate at some great restaurants, and saw this show which was both funny and entertaining enough to keep my husband awake for a broadway show :-)



I was proud of myself for only calling home 4 times to check on Brynn and our doggie Neela. My parents kept both of them so busy I doubt our daughter even realized we were gone. In fact when we arrived home Brynn acted a bit stand offish for the first hour or so and acted like she was ignoring us only going over to my mom and dad to be held. But three rounds of E-I-E-I-O and This Little Piggy Went to Market later and I was back in her good graces. It was a fun trip, but it was good to be home.

This past weekend I worked both days and both the OR and Labor and Delivery was a zoo. On Saturday we were so busy that no one got a lunch break until like 2:30, and I was about ready to start popping open the IV bags of D5W and (dextrose and water) and start chugging away, LOL! Sunday was a little better but it was kind of one of those crazy summer weekends where everyone comes in for bizarre reasons. And I don't even think it was a full moon?

I was delighted when my sonohyst went well and that my uterus looked squeaky clean. Last month my RE had me on premarin and then provera to have a cycle prior to our FET cycle. Technically you should not ovulate while taking this combo, and technically I've never been known to ovulate anyways during any of our cycles trying to get pregnant with Brynn. So last week when I had stopped taking my provera and was having some bleeding I assumed it was the start of my period. I phoned the office and went in for cycle day 3 lab work an early morning date with the dildo cam (aka a transvag ultrasound.) My lining looked thin, no cysts were present (horray!) and the nurse said she would call that afternoon with my lab results so that I could start my Estrace that evening along with my estrogen patch. Later that day the phone range and my favorite nurse said NOT to start my estrogen because the bleeding I was having was not the start of my cycle. Rather my progesterone was still a tad high because low and behold I had obviously ovulated this past cycle while on Premarin. Go figure. When I take meds to ovulate trying to get pregnant with IUI cycles in the past, I don't ovulate. Then I take meds to not ovulate prior to our FET cycle and I do ovulate - causing our FET cycle to get postponed. UGH!

I should have known nothing goes quite as scheduled in the world of fertility treatments, but I was just chomping at the bit to get started. Yesterday I did however start having what seems like a period again (although I've been spotting for 2 weeks now) and tomorrow morning I'll have lab work drawn again. I'm anticipating things looking good, my progesterone and estrogen being where they should be, and me being able to start my estrace and patch, along with my aspirin. Now I'm really getting excited!

My husband is gone all this week to Austin to present at a nerd conference. It's what we call electrical engineering conferences :-) Since I worked the weekend I have a few days off - so I'm going to pack Neela and Brynn up after I get back from having my lab work drawn in the morning to spend a few days at my parent's cottage up north. Their place in on the water so it'll be fun seeing Brynn's first trip to the beach. It's one of the things I love about Michigan, is all of the sandy shore with having the Great Lakes nearby.

Well hopefully we'll get to enjoy a few days of sun and sand while the hubby is away, and hopefully I'll be able to post that my labs looked good and that we're off and running with our FET. That would give us a transfer day of Monday August 23 for our embryos! That's not that far away!