Here we go again... on to baby 2!

After we had Jackson we knew we wanted more children but we weren't sure on a timeline. Throughout my breastfeeding Jackson I didn't get my cycle back until after a year of nursing.  Even when I got it back it wasn't very regular which I attributed to both hormone fluctuation with nursing and my PCOS.  We added a new medication called Metformin 750mg daily on in December 2015 after my Hemoglobin A1C (which looks at your average blood sugar over 3 months) continued to go up from the years prior in to the lower end of pre-diabetes range. More on Hemoglobin A1C here: Mayo Clinic- A1C

Once we started the Metformin my cycles became slightly more normal in that they would range from 35-50 days, still quite long but better than every 8 months.  So we did the for fun baby making, and sadly no pregnancy.  So we decided to start everything back up again with our frozen embryos in Omaha.  This time we kept this all a secret, the only people that knew that we were going to do another round were my parents and Derricks. We wanted to surprise everyone with a baby, little did we know the long process that we would go through again.

My little merman, enjoying the ocean

Family vacation in Hawaii 2016

Paddle boarding in Hawaii

We enjoyed the start of our Summer by going to Hawaii for a family vacation celebrating my parents 35th Wedding Anniversary.  We made a lot of amazing new memories as a family.  It was nice to get to spend time relaxing and taking it easy, knowing that we had busy months a head with getting ready for a frozen transfer. 

July 12, 2016 we went back to Dr. Maud in Omaha for another SHG to check my uterus and fallopian tubes for any changes.  We wanted to make sure it was a favorable environment for the embryo.  We also did pre-screening labs to make sure I was nice and healthy for everything we were about to start. 

Derrick and I are kinda freaks about planning, or shall I say I am for both of us.  I knew that if we tried to do a transfer in August that would give us a May baby and May is busy enough for us between Derricks birthday, Jackson's birthday, my mother in laws birthday, and my birthday.  So we opted to sit out one month and do a round of birth control to calm any cysts that might be there and start in September for a June baby. 

We now just had to wait for my birth control to be done for us to start our process of growing my uterine lining.  Since we already had the embryo's we just had to create a nice plush lining for them to implant and then transfer them similar to the fresh IVF transfer we had done with Jackson.  

More on Frozen Embryo Transfers (FET) here : Shady Grove - FET

At this point we were so overly hopeful, we were so confident that this first transfer would take right away and we would go on our happy little way and have a June baby.  Afterall, Jackson had an uphill battle being transferred when my estrogen levels were so high that it made implantation difficult and less likely.  We assumed we had it in the bag.  They say that the success rates for a frozen transfer actually are much higher for a person with PCOS, because my body doesn't have the stress of growing all of the mature follicles. During the weeks leading up I scaled back on alcohol, exercise and caffeine intake.