FET# 3

This one has to be our lucky time right? Lucky number 3?! I sure hoped so.  After our chemical pregnancy we stopped our medications immediately and waited for my cycle to start.  Unfortunately it took a while longer because my bleeding didn't really start until my hcg returned back down <5.  On November 14th we rechecked my hcg and it was 3, so we got the green light to start medications for a third time.

November 14-16: Estrogen pills 4mg
November 17-19: Estrogen pills 6mg
November 20-January 5: Estrogen pills 8mg
November 23: Ultrasound 9.8mm thickness
November 26-January 5: Progesterone 1mL IM

The morning of November 30th we got our typical pre-FET call and our embryo's looked good and survived the thaw.  That's right I said EMBRYO's! As in more than one!  We decided this third transfer to thaw and transfer two, knowing that it could increase our chances of one implanting.  The prior two transfers we had only transferred one knowing that Jackson's round he stuck and was the only embryo, and so we went with that mentality.

FET#3 2 of our 5 day Blastocysts

Once we got to Omaha everything went just the same as the other two rounds, we felt relaxed and somehow mustered up hope for these two little embryos that they would implant and become our little babies.  After the transfer we came home and took it easy for the rest of the day, Derrick went back to work that afternoon because they had a lot of big projects that were all coming due around the same time.

During our two week wait I really felt about the same as the other two transfers.  So I yet again tried to not read into any symptoms that I was having.  I tried my hardest to remain positive and pray for these little embryos.  We thankfully had a lot of our friends, family and co-workers praying for us which I really think helped us, and comforted us to know that we had all of the extra prayers.

On December 8th, Jackson and I went to the lab and had my blood work done. I brought our folded piece of paper home for Derrick and I to open together.  We opened it over lunch and it was 39... I felt so depressed and worried, it seemed low and I was so sure that it was going to be another Chemical Pregnancy just like the previous cycle.  But after speaking with the nurse she assured me that it is a good number to start at with a frozen cycle and that we do beta testing early at only 8 days after a 5 day transfer (8dp5dt).  The frozen embryos often are lower hcg to begin with and it is all about how the number doubles.  So we waited...

Saturday December 10th we did our second beta and it was 85!! Oh my goodness that number more than doubled! We were so over the moon excited and shocked.  We were official pregnant and everything looked perfect.