Mock Transfer Report

Today Dan and I made it through 3.5 hours of LA traffic in the rain (plus 2.5 hours on the way back) to the FET Dr.'s office for our mock transfer.  In the mock transfer he maps out my insides so he knows its shape and how far to place the embryos.   Good thing because apparently I have a very crooked uterus.  (TMI I know. . .)  Then he did an ultrasound and blood work to check the lining of my uterus to see if my meds are working.  The lining was not getting thick enough so we had to increase the dose of my delestrogen this week and we will check it again next Monday.  I did find out that if my lining is not the right thickness next week that my transfer may be delayed by one week.  We will know at the Oct. 11th appointment if Oct. 18th is still our transfer day.  If my lining is good next Monday we will begin our progesterone in oil (PIO) shots on Oct. 13th.  I will only have to take them once a day through the first trimester.  (Yea! because I thought I had to take them twice a day for some reason.)   Looking forward to meeting our babies in two weeks (hopefully)!  I hear that Dr. K will get a picture of the embryos before they are transferred.  Before we lost our baby in 2008 to miscarriage at six weeks we had gone to an Ob/Gyn for an ultrasound when I was having bleeding.  We got to see our baby before it died and she took it's picture and put it in our file.  I have always been glad that we got to see the picture of it but sad that we were not given that picture to keep.  I will be glad that we get to keep a picture of our embryos even if they don't make it to birth.  AND if the embryos do make it to birth that picture will be a powerful testament to the precious lives that they are.  Life begins as a small cluster of cells and grows to become a baby.  Amazing.