FET#1.5 - Lining Check

Today was the dreaded lining check. OMG, would I pass this time? I spoke to my lining the entire way to the clinic, demanding that it cooperate and have a nice thick triple pattern.

I had blood drawn to check my estrogen level and then was sent back to the waiting room to wait an hour. I'm normally a very still person, but today I was a bundle of nerves and couldn't stop fidgeting. I sat back and watched couple after couple admire their u/s photos. One couple found out they were having a boy. One just found out she's pg. I just smiled and thought, my day will come!

Finally I was called back. They started with an abdominal u/s and spent a quite a bit of time there. I was absolutely dying for them to quit looking at my ovaries and get to my lining.

Next they had me empty my bladder for the vaginal u/s. When I returned, the sonographer and sonographer-in-training were laughing hysterically. She was teaching her how to put the condom over the u/s wand. She couldn't get it right and said "your wand is a lot bigger than my wand". I hopped on the table and watch these 2 ladies laugh and discuss condom techniques. Quite hilarious!

We got started on the vaginal u/s and I immediately asked if there was a triple pattern. I got the standard annoying answer, "I don't know, the doctor will have to tell you after he reviews it". Fortunately I'm pretty good at reading the u/s and saw for myself that, yes, there was a triple pattern!!!!!! But the nerves didn't stop, I needed to hear it from them.

During the u/s, someone knocked on the door and they shouted, you can't come in right now. I said, boy, they'd get quite a view if they walked in right now. After they were done I headed to the bathroom to get dressed while they let the person in. When I came out, Kerry was sitting there. I was so shocked to see him there. He wanted to surprise me and be there for me. So sweet!

We got to leave admiring my u/s! What a pretty lining I had. I wonder if anyone in the waiting room was envious of my lining?

As soon as I returned home, my results came in:

Estrogen: 816 (>300)

Lining: 9.7mm TriLayer (>8mm)

CCRM just called and said everything was perfect and I'm on for an Oct 5 transfer!!! Wahoo, I passed, I passed!!!!

In other news...

I've served in the church nursery for several yrs now. After I failed my 3rd IVF, I stopped serving as it was too painful to be surrounded by babies. I always said I would start again after I was pg. Well, I'm not pg yet, but I'm proud to say that I made the big step last Sun to start serving again. For the first time, my mom served with me. We had 7 little ones between the 2 of us. She got to see me in a mom role and I got to see her in a grandma role. It was great. We both left smiling in anticipation for the day when it would come true, me a mom and her a grammy.

SIX days to transfer!!!!