Now it is September and we are i the middle of our prep for our 2nd frozen embryo transfer. Our first baby is 10.5 months old and we are going for baby #2! I feel slightly crazy for going for #2 so soon, but the infertility world is so uncertain. We have 2 frozen embryos waiting for us. If neither of these take and we have to do another retrieval my eggs (which ended up being the issue: old before their time) will be even older and in worse shape. Sooo we just going to go for it and are hoping to have little babies close in age! #2under2
We will be doing our transfer in October.
For our prep I have had a new pap smear, new sonohysterogram, cultures, trial transfer, and infectious disease blood work (both myself and husband).
I started on birth control pills after my period in July. I only had 3 periods after having the baby in October. I got my first in May after weaning at 6 months. My clinic uses BCP to control the timing of cycles and to calm the ovaries.
Here is my current protocol. I'm currently in the patches/lupron phase. SO much fun! The headaches, the hot flashes, the night sweats. Love it! :)
As for non-medication related prep I'm doing a low/moderate carb - high protein diet as recommended by my RE. I want to keep my blood sugar nice and stable. The problem I'm having is getting enough calories! Losing the refined carbs isn't a problem, but replacing with enough calories is tough. I'm not trying to lose weight at all so I'm trying to figure out tasty ways to get protein in without the carbs/sugar.
I've also cut out caffeine (except for today apparently, when I forgot to make my coffee order a decaf. oops).
I will do the pomp juice, pineapple core, brazil nut, warm foods, crazy shit I did last time. It worked then, so I might as well do it again, right?!
Currently I'm still exercising, running/fast walking 45 minutes, 5 days a week. Once we do the transfer I'll stop such strenuous exercise and just do casual walking instead of the fast, blood pumping kind I'm used to.
I'm so excited, anxious, nervous, and terrified. I'm so scared our transfer won't work. Our first baby has been such a wonder and joy and we know how amazing parenting and babies can be, so if it doesn't work out I think I may be more devastated then the last time. With our first fresh and frozen transfer we were still striving for our goal. We wanted a baby and wanted to be parents but didn't know what it would be like. But now we do. I'm so hopeful it's going to work. All we can do is follow our protocol and wait.
