I’m nearing the end of my BCP, nervously awaiting the start of my first IVF cycle. I’m a planner and so when my RE told me that BCP were the first step I was relieved. I could plan. DH and I could prepare.
We went to the required two hour orientation and then met with a nurse to review our protocol. She had a handy calendar and mapped out when we’d likely have to come in for monitoring, when I would start each drug, when we should expect the transfer.
While I remember thinking – there’s no way I am going to be able to read this later – I didn’t take the time to translate what she was scribling all over the calendar after the meeting.
So now – several weeks later – when DH is trying to figure out when he can go visit some customers in MN – I find my self guessing what the nurse’s chicken scrawl meant.
And I thought doctors were supposed to have illegible handwriting….
When will you be starting your stims? I’m cycling without BCPs and I’m due to start the stim medication this weekend. Good luck! I hope we both get our BFPs!
I’m due to start in about 8 days. Fingers crossed that BFPs are in both of our future and good luck!
If there is anything I’ve learned about going thru IF treatments, and IVF in particular, is that you can’t plan. It was one of the most nerve-racking things about the first IVF, having to live with unpredictability. I was delayed a week due to high E2 and small cyst (after BCP & Lupron and before starting stims). No one really told me this could happen, or why it did, but it really threw me. The whole calendar they gave me was off. While I hope this does not happen to you, be prepared for things to occur that don’t follow that calendar. Call the nurse, and talk to her about the calendar, that’s what they are there to do – help you thru this process.
Sigh – I know. What I was trying to do is figure out relative times so we could see if DH would need to reschedule some work travel. While I really do want him here for the retrieval and transfer, there is truly only one day that he *must* be around.
On that note – after years of trying the old fashioned way, I do find it really odd that we could have a baby without having sex at all.