Going for another FET!
After a lot of consideration I decided to try again to get pregnant and go back to the Czech Republic for a new FET (Frozen Embryo Transfer).
Now I’m just waiting for Dr. Stepan to let me know when I need to start taking Norethisteron and when I need to stop taking it to be able to have the embryo transfer some time during the week of December 7th to the 12th. That week is the best for me to travel to the Czech Republic for another round of treatment, otherwise I will need to wait probably until March.
If you don’t know what a FET (Frozen Embryo Transfer) is, here it is:
A frozen embryo transfer can be used to produce a viable pregnancy by first thawing the frozen embryo, and transferring it into an appropriately prepared uterus.
Frozen embryos is a term used to refer to those embryos that are not transferred during in vitro fertilization cycles and are subsequently cryopreserved.
November 8th, 2009 - Posted in All Things Fertility!, Czech Republic, FET | | 0 Comments
Interactive Reflexology
“Reflexology is the technique of applying pressure to specific reflex points on the hands and feet to stimulate the bodies own healing powers.”
I’m trying to see if reflexology is something I can do on my own and that could be beneficial to use before, during and after fertility treatment….
I will post here what I find out later!
April 5th, 2009 - Posted in All Things Fertility!, Fun Stuff | | Comments Off
Full Moon Spell for Fertility
I found this “Full Moon Spell for Fertility” at the Fertility Friends BB and I thought it might be worth a try!
I have modified it a bit by increasing the chanting to be repeated 9 times instead of only one and I also decided to leave 9 green leaves on the side to be added to the saucer pan one at a time during the chanting….
Here is what you need to do if you want to try this spell:
(THIS SPELL MUST BE DONE ON A FULL MOON)
Break an egg into a saucer and surround with green leaves (leave 9 leaves on the side to be used during the chant), sprinkle with salt and recite this 9 times, getting gradually faster and faster:
“I will have a baby, the goddess of fertility will bless me soon, before the waning of the moon.” Every time you repeat this chant add one of the 9 green leaves that you saved to the saucer pan, adding them around the egg.
And your spell is done!
After you are done leave the saucer in the garden for the evening.
Some people throw out the egg and leaves, on the following day, under a bush and let it go back to nature that way.
My dogs ate it all so it will go back to nature that way!
If an animal eats the egg during the night it is okay!!!
I will be doing the spell again next month…. The full moon will be starting May 8 thought May 9…. I think!
March 29th, 2009 - Posted in All Things Fertility!, Fun Stuff | | Comments Off
SURPRISED BY JOY
Sometimes fact is more mysterious than fiction. I clipped a newspaper article several years ago which tells a story that is strange… and beautiful.
Stan heard in church about a Denver, Colorado (USA) family facing a rather bleak Christmas holiday. Medical bills robbed them of any extras; they would not even have a tree. Stan’s pastor asked him if he would get them that tree.
So Stan and his son Jay headed up into the Colorado Rockies in the family pickup. However, the truck skidded off the icy road and hit a boulder that shattered the windshield. Jay was showered by glass slivers and suffered from shock and crash trauma. Stan was uninjured, though somewhat shaken.
Cars sped past that day — maybe 200 of them. Only two stopped to help. A gentle, dark-haired woman took the boy into her car to comfort him while her husband and another man helped Stan move his truck off the road. Then this kind couple drove father and son to Stan’s home and quietly left without identifying themselves.
Stan was discouraged that he was unable to cut a tree for the family that his church was trying to help. But later in the month, the pastor asked if Stan might deliver a food basket to the same unfortunate family. He found the house, but he could hardly find his speech when the door opened. For standing there before him was the same couple who had stopped to help him on the mountain road when so many others had passed him by.
There is a strange power in love. Some folks may call it an amazing coincidence. Others might say it was divine providence. But I choose to think that love has its own power, and that sometimes these kinds of mysteries are better left unanalyzed. Let them remain mysteries.
And enjoy the wonder of it all. For whenever we choose to be kind, we just might be surprised by joy.
– Steve Goodier
Used by permission - www.LifeSupportSystem.com
December 6th, 2008 - Posted in Food for Thought, Used by Permission | | Comments Off
Chemical Pregnancy?
I have been testing since 6dp6dt and got some great pink lines on days 7 and 8dpt but then the lines started to get lighter. The one today, even though still there, is so faint that it is starting to look like an evaporated line. So I think unfortunately I’m probably having another chemical pregnancy…..
Here is a close-up of the two last ones:
November 17th, 2008 - Posted in All Things Fertility!, Czech Republic, FET | | Comments Off
Our 6 day old Embryos!
I thought I should put a couple of pictures here of our embryos that we had transferred on November 6!
Aren’t they good looking?
November 13th, 2008 - Posted in All Things Fertility!, Czech Republic, FET | | 1 Comments
Back From the Czech Republic!
I’m back home after an almost 24 hour trip so I spent almost the whole Sunday (today) sleeping and now I’m feeling a little better!
November 9th, 2008 - Posted in All Things Fertility!, Czech Republic, FET | | Comments Off
Counting down…
It’s getting a bit real now!
October 3rd, 2008 - Posted in All Things Fertility!, Czech Republic, FET | | Comments Off
FET in November!
Well, it is official! I purchased the tickets yesterday for the trip to the Czech Republic so everything is set for the FET. I will be going along with my DD and we are leaving on October the 31st to Prague where we will spend two days. We’ll be going to Brno (where the clinic is located) on the 3rd of November and the transfer should be happening (crossing my fingers) on the 4th or 5th of November. We will be leaving Prague to go back home Saturday the 8th!
Hoping I will not have any problems since I will be there alone with my DD!
I talked with Dr. Stepan about adding steroids to my protocol and he agree with it but didn’t tell me which steroid he wants me to use but told me I will take it when I get to Brno. I am wondering if he will be giving me a shot of Medrol?!?!
October 1st, 2008 - Posted in All Things Fertility!, Czech Republic | | Comments Off
