Hello welcome!
Alright, so I promised I would give you an update for what's going on with IVF.
Jenna isn't here. Unfortunately, she's working, but I thought I would still do the video anyways.
Now...
today is June the 12th. I think. It's Wednesday, June 12th.
We've already kind of started the process. I'm sorry we're really so far behind
on letting you guys know what's happening. A lot has been happening. It's been crazy!
Okay., now we have decided to try a fresh transfer.
So we've just decided to not do any PGS testing.
The doctor just felt it wasn't necessary and it's quite expensive
and we just felt it wasn't necessary.
So, we decided to go ahead with a fresh transfer.
So that means that today...
Jenna just had her baseline ultrasound on June 10th.... so Monday.
Before that she was taking birth control
and then from when her period started
up until that day, she took birth control.
So that just kind of held her cycle
Then on Monday, she had her ultrasound just to double check that all the follicles are still all good.
Hers is good. And then...
I....
also.... we decided to do a fresh transfer.
Meaning I am gonna go ahead and take medication the cycle.
That means that... my period recently started on Saturday...
I think it was the 8th and so it started Saturday. So...
I informed the clinic. Well, really I had to wait until Monday
cause it was after 12:00p and they closed at 12.
I called on Monday and went in at the same time as Jenna.
They did an ultrasound of me just to check my lining
Really they don't care about my follicles, just my lining is important.
So they checked my lining and said for you know,
where I am in that cycle, it was good.
So both of us had our blood work done and
and.... that means
Jenna's blood work is just to check and make sure everything's okay. Her levels are all good,
so she can start her stim meds on Friday, June 14th.
Then my blood work was just a double check all my levels are good too
and I guess to just to check I'm not pregnant, which I'm not.
Okay, so that was on Monday and then for the rest of the time I'll let you know what we're gonna do.
Sorry, again on Friday the 14th
Jenna's gonna start her stim meds.
So she'll be starting with two subcutaneous shots, her Gonal F and Menopur.
Do that for I don't know really the whole time
but she will continue that until Monday the 17th.
Then she will go in on Monday. Unfortunately, I won't be there because I'm actually leaving for the weekend.
I know weird, but...
So she'll go in on Monday for another ultrasound
and just to take a look at everything and at that point they'll inform her,
you know, the growth of her follicles.
Then they'll inform her how they want to change her stim meds.
Whether it's gonna go up, down, stay the same.
That's Monday and then she will go back again on Wednesday for another ultrasound, which I will be there.
Again double check what the follicles are doing.
Again, at that point they might start her Ganarilex.
That's just uh, if you saw the other IVF meds video haul, that explains about that one.
So she might start that medication somewhere around... midweek-ish.
Then that medication puts everything on hold.
So then Friday she'll come back again.
Friday they'll probably inform her when she's going to trigger.
That's in the butt.
Then from there, once she has her trigger shot,
I think it's 36 hours later. She'll have her egg retrieval.
Because it's a fresh transfer that means that
I'm gonna have to take estrogen. I'm doing that right now.
It's just... a baby aspirin as well.
Then the day of Jenna's egg retrieval. I will start...
progesterone in oil, PIO shots.
So I'll start at that day and then I will continue doing that all the way up until...
we test for pregnancy.
So that means she'll have her... et me back up. So she'll have her egg retrieval.
Then typically, you know the standard, you wait overnight.
They let you know how many eggs fertilized or mature and then fertilized
and then day three and day five they will let you know.
So on day three they'll inform us how many are still going.
Then day five, that would be when we do the transfer
and they'll also let us know how many made it to day five
Plus, like I said, we will go ahead and do the transfer if everything works out
and I think that should be... think.. the 20th
Think June 20th. Um...
Friday? Friday? Monday?
Anyway, I don't remember but that day
I'm going to have an ultrasound it double-check my uterine lining,
just to make sure everything's okay, and we're still good and we can do the transfer.
If for some reason my lining doesn't work,
then obviously we'll cancel that and then we'll just wait for frozen, but hopefully it'll work.
Yeah, so that if all works out they will transfer on day five
and just transfer one egg or embryo.
Excuse me, an embryo.
Then wait two weeks,
see and test if we're pregnant and if we are pregnant,
I will continue with my shots for I think another six weeks. So a total of ten weeks.
Plus I also have to take like a vaginal gel.
I'll hav to do that for... I don't know for a while.
So yeah, that is kind of the plan.
It is starting soon in two days. Jenna starts her meds.
Then we just go from there and there's a lot of appointments
and a lot happening. It's gonna be crazy!
But it's exciting and overwhelming all at the same time.
I'm nervous for Jenna taking all their shots. I'm nervous for me and all my future shots, ugh!
So that is the update I'm trying my best really to keep you updated it's been really hard.
I know there's a lot of other things that we need to do and
sadly YouTube is like the last priority for me, but don't worry. I'm really sorry.
Yeah, follow me on Instagram. I'm gonna try to do more stories and things on there
to kind of update people if possible.
So instead of getting up vlogs, I mean I want to I'm filmed quite a bit of stuff. I just haven't released them.
So yeah, um...
oh and let me know if you're starting your IVF journey soon.
Have you guys decided to do a fresh frozen transfer?
Are any of you do in reciprocal IVF?
because I'm just wondering... cause that's what we're doing.
I know a lot of people do IUIs. I do know one couple that did R-IVF
But not a lot of people...
I don't want to say this like inappropriate... most like straight couples
or other people are just doing like IUIs.
So there's not many R-IVF. So let me know if you're doing reciprocal IVF.
I would love to know, especially if you have a YouTube.
Okay, thanks so much for watching. I'll see you in the next one. Bye!
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