HERE WE GO!!!

Here We GO!!!
On Friday we turned in all of our consent forms and received our final calendar. It's official we start treatment now... So from this day on I'll start taking a prenatal vitamin (which I've been on forever now), Baby Aspirin 81mg low dose, & CoQ10 to help with healthy egg quality. These medication along with the Metformin, and two other medications will continue all the way through treatment. Below is roughly how our calendar will play out.

• July 20-27 I'll start the birth control
• July 24-28 Jeremy and I will both start a z-pack to clear any infection that may or may not be in our systems.
• July 29 I will go in for a baseline ultrasound & water ultrasound along with blood work
• July 30 MY BIRTHDAY!!! :)- August 8 I'll start two separate inject-able medications  
• Blood work days will be Aug 1 & 4 
• Ultrasound days to count and measure follicles Aug 4-6-7-8
• by Aug 4th We should have mulitple follicles and they say by Aug 6th my ovaries will reach the size of oranges. So by this day its pretty much try and stay as comfortable as possible and take it super easy.
• On Aug 4th we could possibly start a new medication to stop early ovulation like I stated in a past post we don't want my body to start ovulation early it will mess up the whole treatment plan. So this medication will stop it and then when all the follicles are ready they will do a shot of HCG and that will trigger ovulation.
• Aug 8 is the day we mostly will use the HCG to trigger 
• Aug 9 Jeremy will take another antibiotic 
• Aug 10 RETRIEVAL DAY-  on this day we will go to the our Dr. office and they will put me under lite anesthesia and go in and retrieve all the follicles surgically. Its about 45 mins or so then I'll be sent home to rest. on this day Jeremy will give his sample and they say about 4 hours after the retrieval they will inject each egg with a sperm through a procedure called ICSI Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection. 
• Aug 11 We will receive a fertilization report on how many eggs were fertilized.
• Aug 13 they will call us with a day 3 embryo report to let us know how our little embryos are growing and what their cell counts are.
• Aug 15 One last embryo report on how many made it through the 5 day incubation period in the lab and then they will be frozen. 
• Here is a link to our clinics webpage about the IVF fertilization process if your interested https://www.utahfertility.com/infertility-diagnosis-treatment/in-vitro-fertilization-salt-lake-city-utah/

After the IVF process we will be doing a Frozen Embryo Transfer (FET) which will take place 4-6 weeks after the retrieval day which is Aug 10. At this time I will be put back on the birth control to control my hormones. When its time I will be taken off the birth control and it will start all over again with a cycle day 3 baseline ultrasound but instead of the medication to grow follicles we will start medication to get my body for the Transfer of the embryos back into my uterus (ideally we are wanting to transfer two embryos but that is all upon contingency that we are able to freeze mulitple embryos on Aug 15).

Oh My Gosh we are so excited for this but totally scared. We have been staying positive and staying completely stress free. After such a long wait we have so many conflicting emotions from "Yes!!! We're doing this" to "CRAP we're really doing this" to "What if this doesn't work" to "Oh My what if it does". We can't really describe all the emotions we are currently feeling but we can tell you this we feel your love & your prayers. Your support is making this journey so much easier then it would have been if we would have done it alone.

We are truly blessed and so grateful for every single one of you who keep sending your love, support, and prayers. Thank You We can't wait to keep you all updated on our progress and as always keep an eye out for updates they will be coming more often now.

Love Jeremy & Shalamar 

Please if you ever have any question about stuff that's going on feel free to ask us. We seriously don't mind answering them.