Infertility is a bit of a waiting game. Waiting for medical appointments, waiting for cycles, waiting in the hospital and of course the dreaded two week wait. Although admittedly patience is not one of my virtues, it is not the waiting that I mind that much. It is the insecurity. There is no take-baby-home-guarantee at the end. That is difficult.
All we had to do now was waiting for my next period. That was easy. During this cycle I have to go to the hospital to draw blood on three different days. Tomorrow I will have my day three baseline FSH level and my estradiol level determined. As a general rule, the lower the readings, the better.
Then some more waiting for the results. We have another appointment with the gyneacologist on 3 May. Based on the combined results of the blood test, he will decide the best course of action. Will that mean some more waiting ahead or will we be able to start our next round of ICSI soon? I really hope the latter.
Hope is what keeps us going. Our attentive readers will have noticed that the Hong Kong fortune teller predicted that we will have a baby boy next year. We always thought that we would have a boy, although we would be equally happy with a girl. We would just love to prove him right!
2 comments:
Dear Flo
You post this at my sons Birthday, I wish that is a good sign for you too. :-))
Love, Serap
hi Flo,
The 3rd of may is coming up pretty soon now!!!
Hope the results of the bloodtest are perfect and that you can start immediately, become pregnant (of twins), have a wonderful pregnancy and a painless (??) delivery....
And if not, we'll wait together....
We have our bloodtest half june, and then they'll decide to go on or wait again...
Listen, what is "normal" FSH level in your hospital?? And what level did you have the 1st time they checked??
I'll write you an email back...
love, Ilse
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