Today is Menopur day 4/10 and Cetrotide day 1/10… time is going so quickly! Woke up bright and early to do my first Cetrotide injection this morning – we decided to do it at 6.45am as I normally need to leave for work at 7am each morning. Today was a Saturday and so waking up … More IVF round 1 day 4 – Cetrotide and Emotions…
My strategy to get my period to start worked! (Read all about it here) It started as I woke up on Tuesday morning. I quickly rang the clinic and booked my baseline scan in for 10.45 on the Wednesday. I was so nervous and excited all Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday morning – hoping and fingers crossed … More Hurdle no.1 – the baseline scan
So I’m waiting (patiently? I don’t think so) for my period to start so that I can go in for my baseline scan and start these injections! Took my last birth control pill on Friday, and normally when using BC pills I start spotting on the second day and full blown AF on the third… … More It’s a waiting game….
Today was the day of the implications counselling session – something that we have to do as part of our IVF package. Essentially it was a two hour session where a lovely nurse took us through the whole IVF with ICSI procedure in detail, how to do my injections and signing TONNES of consent forms! … More Implications Counselling Session
I’ve now got 16 days or so until I start injections… Each day when I take the microgynon and slowly see the days count down I get slightly more excited and slightly more terrified! Excited because this is what we want, the chance of it being successful, all of the future bits to look forward to. … More Countdown continues…
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