I had intended to post an entirely different blog update today. One about my struggles to treat my body with kindness, especially with quarantine stress making bad habits look even more appealing than usual. However, a significant update in our fertility journey has taken precedence. Cycle day one finally came for me on Wednesday, and as the day was coming to close I got the all-clear call from our clinic. Yep, it’s happening! We’re starting another FET cycle, and hopefully this one will make it all the way to transfer day without getting canceled. I started taking BCP right away, followed by Estradiol, then Progesterone injections. It’s about a 40 day process from cycle start to transfer day, and in that time I expect the world outside to change quite a bit.
(PS, if all those acronyms are a little confusing, check out this handy guide)
I do have a little more trepidation this time around. I won’t be getting massage therapy or acupuncture as I prepare my body for pregnancy. Plus, after the false start of all false starts last time around, I’m not nearly as confident that this cycle will be “the one” - although I’m hoping beyond hope that it will be. I won’t be keeping my regular work or social calendar, which feels like a mixed blessing. On the one hand, I can focus much more of my energy on my health and fertility - but on the other hand, I want to be cautious of hyper-fixating on a process and an outcome that I still can’t be completely sure of. It’s a complicated range of feelings, but above everything else, I’m excited. We are so, so excited.
Happy Saturday! To those of you who are still waiting for good news from your clinic, I hope you get it soon. The number of positive updates I’ve been seeing on my feed, plus ASRM’s increasingly optimistic updates give me hope that the situation is changing for the better in the fertility world. Fingers crossed for all of us!
Have you gotten the go-ahead to start a new FET cycle yet? What are your clinic's conditions in order to move forward?
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