Blood, Blood & More Blood

To get this journey started they gave me a list of all of the blood test's I had to have done before we started anything, 6 to be exact, HIV, Hepatitis, CBC, Cystic Fibrosis, Rubella & HTLV 1&2.The HIV and Hepatitis is required by the state of california in order to go through with IUI or an IVF procedure. My poor vein is yelling at me to stop. Thank god to day was the last day of the blood test and of course it had to end with a nurse that felt like sharing with me how fertile her family is, REALLY that is not what i wanted to hear! Thank you! ;)

Thank you

Thank you to my wonderful father who has pointed out all of my Grammar and spelling typos I apologize and as my 3 Sister in laws that are reading it (especially Cecily) I am sure they are thinking the same thing so please ignore it. Ha Ha :)

Thanks DAD!

Overwhelmed

So the first time i met with my Fertility Doctor, Dr. Kolb. They handed me my "folder" to keep all of my information in, I thought "Holy crap that is thick" I went home and started to go through it and it finally clicked "what have we gotten our self into" In the folder they have sections on all of the 8 Dr's at the practice,  Financial, Dealing with IVF, Medications, Procedures and Resources. Mark and i sat down and went through the whole thing cover to cover and after going over it with him made me feel not so overwhelmed.  With all of the paperwork and Medical records that we are receiving it is nice to have.

Who would have thought

It started back in October of 2007, Mark and i always knew we wanted to start a family as soon as we got Married never did we think this is where we would end up. After a year of trying with no luck i went to the Dr. She had me have a HSG test done and found out that both of my tubes are blocked and referred me to a Fertility Dr. In Pasadena. Mark was working so my Mom went with me, we sat down with the Dr and went over my history. At the end of my meeting with the Dr he said those words In vitro Fertilization, My heart just sank and couldn't be leave at 26 years old the only way i was going to be able to have a baby with the man of my dreams was through IVF. I went home and Cried to mark and explained to him what our situation was and him being the wonderful man he is said "Ok, Whatever it takes" So our IVF journey has begun...