Can you believe we're going to do this again??? One more time... Barry and I want our family to grow by one more. We have so much love to give!
We didn't prevent a pregnancy from the time Libby was born, but we haven't had any luck on our own. It seems I've just stopped ovulating all together. In the summer of 2016, we decided to start working with a Reproductive Endocrinologist. Our experience with Dr. Shah had been so wonderful that we were excited to start again!
Queue our first meeting with a doctor in Mobile. It didn't go well... He asked for us to jump through a lot of hoops, even with all the data from our last experience with Libby. I reluctantly went along with his plans for a baseline cycle with a few points of negotiation. When we went back to his office in August 2016, he had forgotten our points of negotiation and told me that I was the one who had forgotten the plan. Not to sound whiney, but I pay VERY close attention to plans - I'm a Project Manager as a career! He sees how many patients a day? I was so irritated leaving his office that I considered scrubbing the cycle all together. He called me that evening to semi-apologize and told me that we could move forward. We went straight to injectables on a cycle that looked like this:
August 2016 - 75 Follistim CD 5-15, ovidrel, 2 follicles ~ 17mm, TC, progesterone
And the progression didn't go according to plan. I never got to talk to my doctor again to discuss pivoting or changes to the course of action - only to the nurses who didn't seem to understand or care about my case. That cycle ended in miscarriage, and I was not only sad for the loss, but felt hopeless that I would not be successful with this doctor's approach.
In December, I went to my OB for my annual exam and expressed my frustration on the limited choices for REs on the Gulf Coast. He lamented with me and then suggested I try someone in Pensacola who had just started ramping-up her patient list. Barry and I met with Dr. Delaney in January and knew right from the start that she was compassionate, caring and willing to listen to our ideas. We started a cycle with her later that month that looked like this:
January/February 2017 - 7.5 Femara CD 5-9, 75 Follistim CD 10-14, ovidrel, 4 follicles 21-25mm, TC, progesterone
Now we are in the 2 week wait... Fingers and toes crossed that we get to share happy news this month!
