FET#1 - Onto the Next Phase

I'm making good progress on the FET, but of course not without some drama from AF.

After stopping BCP, I'm supposed to wait for AF. Once she arrives, that is considered cd1. Then on cd3, I'm to start estrogen patches which will make my lining nice and fluffy. Because I was on BCP and Lupron (which basically shutdown my hormones), I had no idea what to expect from AF.

I had 2.5 days of red spotting and that was it. I had no idea if that was AF or if she was still to come. If she was still to come, I had no problem waiting. The problem was that if the spotting was considered AF, then I was already late starting the patches. After leaving my nurse a couple of messages asking what to do, I finally heard back yesterday. She said it's not uncommon for AF to be very light when the hormones are suppressed and to consider this AF. She told me to start patches, reduce the Lupron from 10iu to 5iu and start baby aspirin.

I ran and slapped on a patch and swallowed a baby aspirin as fast as I could. I'm amazed at how much better I feel already getting some hormones back in my system. The headaches have disappeared too, thank God!

I'm starting to get excited about our Lucky Seven, mixed with a dash of anxiety. If you missed my previous post, our embryo was labeled #7 by the lab, therefore we refer to it as our Lucky Seven. Part of me doesn't even want to transfer it because as long as it's frozen, I have hope. As soon as they transfer it, that's it, I either become overwhelmingly happy or the exact opposite. Dear uterus, please accept my little embryo! I have an appt coming up soon to help me through this fear and anxiety, but I'll save that for another post.

Seven has become quite the happy number in our family. Kerry and I have had this little thing between us for years where every time one leaves or when we go to sleep, we give each other 3 peck kisses. I have no idea how this came about, but we're both anal about it, it has to be 3. Last week before we went to sleep, we leaned in and gave each other 7 kisses, neither of us knew the other was going to do this. We just grinned and now it has to be 7 every time and always ends with us grinning ear to ear. Yes, we're weird!

The other day my mom calls me unbelievably excited, I could barely understand her she was so excited. She looks for 7 everywhere she goes. Apparently she looked in her side mirror and the truck behind her had a huge 7 on it taking up the entire grill. It was encased inside a blue circle. She yells, I saw 7 and it's going to be a boy! I love how excited she is for us. Oh and she's as weird as us.

2w5d until we transfer! I'm continuing the acupuncture, eating healthy and exercising. The stress level is coming down nicely, now I just need to find a way to keep it down. OMG, it's going to be here before I know it! Dear Seven, I'll be there soon, can't wait to bring you home!