Tuesday, June 19, 2012

IVF Step 1

My amazing dad did some research and we decided to begin IVF through UCSD where we found the highest success rates.

We had a baseline ultrasound/consultation on May 23rd and began birth control pills that same day.

May 31- We had a saline ultrasound/trial egg transfer where the Dr. found polyps in my uterus and said they needed to be surgically removed prior to continuing the IVF journey.

Everything is on hold. 

2 comments:

Jessica said...

Why do you take birth control when you're trying to conceive?

Britnie said...

Long story but they put me on birth control to basically keep me from ovulating and releasing any eggs. My doc explained it like putting all of my eggs on a starting line so that instead of the normal 1 egg beating the rest out and ovulating I will have them all growing at the same rate so that when they go in to retrieve there will be several of large size/maturity etc.. We don't just want one we want to retrieve several to make embryos as soon as they are extracted.
make sense?? it's confusing but you just go on for 2 weeks or so...