A Little Background

Most of you know that this is my fifth IVF cycle. I have had three prior fresh cycles (what I am doing now, where I suppress, stim and then collect the eggs) and one frozen cycle (essentially what Angie is doing now, suppression and lining building with estrogen patches and then using a thawed frozen embryo from a prior fresh cycle). I got pregnant with Fletcher during my frozen cycle. So, yes, for those that didn't know, Fletcher was "conceived" and then frozen for two months. My fertility clinic is attached to the same hospital in which Fletcher was in the NICU for three months. So he actually "lived" in the hospital (between the clinic and the NICU) for longer than he was in the womb.

I had kept some notes of IVFs 2 & 3 in a word document on my computer, and I thought I would copy and paste them here so I have all my records in one place. Don't feel obligated to read them all (as if you had any obligation to read any of this blog). I mostly just put them on here so they don't get lost. I guess I must have just gotten too overwhelmed with cycle number three, and I just stopped journalling the day prior to retrieval. I may have to go back and try to remember the rest of that cycle and write it down.