Frozen Embryo Daycare

My future babies are in daycare right now. We have custody of them and we have to sign release papers to let them out. We pay tuition and even a meal plan. Okay, maybe not a meal plan, but it is funny to think they are in some "daycare" ready to be thawed and transferred to their new home...my uterus.

This is not something I thought I'd ever be doing. It was always something you heard about on the news because someone messed up (thanks Mom for bringing THAT up). But it was always someone else's story and here I'm finding out that it is mine too. Well, at least part of it.

What do you tell your kids? Do you tell them how they came to be? I know we're okay with it. I hope my family and friends are okay with it...but will they be okay with it?

Perhaps it won't come up. :)

At least not until they are passed 40yrs old. Maybe then we will let them date AND tell them about how they came into this world.

Um...no...maybe 50. :)

Truth is, it doesn't really matter...especially at this point. We've been through so much and frankly they can come so many different ways.

We went to the nurse consultation on Monday to get our timeline (which is kinda vague) and some instructions on this cycle.

FYI...IVF has a TON more shots and meds but is a bit faster. FET cycles are less meds but take much longer to get through.

Oh and by the way, I'm expecting a period in the next day or two that has been waiting to emerge from its cocoon since the end of May.

HOLY CRAZY LADY!!! My hubs has already heard its wrath a little lately. Yikes. And the lava flow (sorry for the TMI) is expected to be a doozy.

You may want to evacuate now.

:)

Where was I going with this? Oh yeah...we were getting out of the car when my hubby said "Let's make a baby this time, okay?"

"Yes. 2 or 3 or 7. I don't care anymore." Well...something to that affect was my reply.

It was cute. The previous day we were having lunch and he said randomly that he is going to have a hard time making conversation with our kids.

See...I am fluent in some kid language. At some ages, NO one can understand what they are saying but you smile and nod anyways. lol

I teach, babysit, and have been doing camp this summer. I watch kid shows and do kid type things now and then. I am quite in touch with my inner tween. lol

So I feel like I can make a lot of conversation with slightly older children. Babies and toddlers just beginning to speak...well, that's a challenge to anyone with ears. Or sometimes only the parents of the child know what the heck they want.

But that's a challenge I look forward to...and obviously something my hubby thinks about.

While he definitely wants children, even more so now than before, he still sees the financial part that is kicking us in the butt. Literally. lol

We have GREAT insurance now but it's because he works for nothing except insurance pretty much. Long story there.

Anyways, he needs money for things like food, our mortgage, and other bills. So it's hard right now because we are relying on having this insurance to have children...the non-old fashioned way. 

So if our snow omelets don't make it...then it could be months or years until we are able to do another retrieval.

Anyways, I am trying to remain hopeful even though the doubt is there...It is always there.

So here we go...Lupron shots started Wednesday. Birth control pills stopped last night (Fri). I keep doing Lupron until August 31. I go in for ultrasound and blood work.

Then I will start Estrace most likely around that time and continue a lower dose of Lupron, After the transfer (which I will have a week's heads up about) I think I start the progesterone oil and Crinone gel (aka tampon of goo). I could be missing something in there or slightly off with something but I'm getting tired. :P


Either way, that is my update. I hope you are all enjoying your weekend. Take care!

Happy Baby wishes,

TheMrs