Day 0 - October 22, 2014

I called this Day 0 because tomorrow, we start IVF. Just 2 days after my rant of being so afraid. Crazy how things happen so fast. I called the nurse when i started my cycle and she called back the next morning with my protocol and schedule. WHOA. We are starting in vitro. We. Are. Starting. In Vitro. I can't believe that. You don't envision that when you set out to start a family, but here we are; it's time.

I start birth control tomorrow. It's about an 8 week process. We should know by mid Dec if we are pregnant. That's less than 2 months away. I just had a heart palpitation. Not for fear; but for excitement that this could be it. In LESS THAN TWO MONTHS we could know we're pregnant. Yeah. We could also be really depressed, but no more of that thinking for now. We're going forward with prayers and hope and positive thoughts. I can't believe it.

Below is the schedule just for reference. I made this based off a conversation with my nurse earlier today. She called me back after some phone tag, and I was in Fresh Market grabbing lunch, and she asked if it was a good time; of course it was. She asked if i had a pen. I too quickly turned to the check out lady and asked for a pen and paper please, then proceeded to jot down all of my instructions, using their ice bag freezer as a desk to bear down on. So funny to me already. I was there for 30 minutes, writing and talking and listening. Then, i gave back their pen and it all started happening. Here we go:)



My schedule based on my notes below:) I wrote as much detail as possible. Things such as 'blood work for infectious diseases.' ha

DATE	Appt or To Do	Time/location
10/23	Amanda starts birth control
10/24	Follicle count	8:30am/baptist
10/29	Consultation; Matt joins; Matt and Amanda have blood work for infectious diseases; Amanda brings her  test results from Tonkin	3:30/ Baptist
11/3	Trial transfer; this is so the dr knows more about my body for the real transfer; arrive with full bladder	11am/ Baptist
11/4	Matt joins; injection teaching and practice; bring IVF consent forms and embryo freeze form	3pm/ Baptist
11/8	I start taking Lupron in the evening	Evening/home
11/11	Last dose of birth control
11/19	Baseline ultrasound and blood work	Arrive before 7:30am/ Baptist
12/1	Retrieval will happen this week; probably midweek; then for the next 3-5 days we get daily updates
After retrieval	Probably within about 5 days I will come in for the transfer; this could be any day of the week or weekend
After transfer	Bed rest for 48 hours

Toasting to the beginning. Birth control and champagne; it's a party!

My jotted down notes

More jotted down notes

And this was a deciding dialogue between Matt and me. We'd talked to the Dr back in February 2014 about IVF, took a trip to europe, then neither of us mentioned it though we knew it was our next step. Then, it got real. And we took action. This text was from September. By late October we were starting.