Day Three

Today is day three!  Today Jared and I went into Huntington Reproductive Center (HRC) for me to have a couple of tests done.  An Estrogen test and a follicle stimulating hormone test (FSH).  I'm learning lots of abbreviations, haha.  They'll call me with the results later today and as long as everything looks right I'll start taking birth control.  Yikes!  Dun dun DUN!!!  Hopefully I don't turn into a psycho mess.  When I took b.c. before it was a low dosage and I didn't react too badly, but this is the normal dose stuff.  Pros - usually helps clear up my face.  Cons - I become an emotional basket case and my husband turns into a jerk.  Next Wednesday I'll go in for my Sonohysterogram and as soon as we get the result back from the genetic testing we'll be ready to move to the next step.  Yeah, that's right.  I said genetic testing.  I totally didn't want to do it but Jared has convinced me otherwise.  My position is, if we're supposed to have a baby that has down syndrome or a cleft lip or is retarded, then we'll have one whether we try and prevent it or not.  But Jared says that since we're going through this whole process to try and have a baby we might as well try to have a healthy baby.  So I agreed to the testing.  HOWEVER, there is no part of me that will ever agree to destroying any of the embryos whatsoever.  HRC was saying that any embryos that we don't want, they will destroy, so I asked about adopting them out.  I know that there are women out there that want the whole experience of having a baby, but don't have any eggs to have one.  Rather than destroying my unused eggs, I would want to give them to someone else.  I know it sounds so weird... the eggs would already be fertilized, which means that someone else would have a little Jared or Jessica running around in their life and we wouldn't even know them.  But I would so much rather have that, then have to live with the knowledge that I allowed all these future babies to be destroyed.

Anyway, we talked about all that stuff and then we met with the financial counselor to see about prices for everything.  Man oh man is in vitro expensive! haha This kid had better be perfectly mannered! haha j/k

We're thinking that we are going to do two round of in vitro.  If it doesn't work, then we'll regroup and figure out our next steps, but for now, this is where we're at.  Once we get the test results back from the genetic test we'll sit back down with Dr. Wilcox's nurse and figure out a schedule for the rest of this process.  Obviously, I'm nervous about this whole thing and earlier this week was really freaking out about what if it doesn't work and so on, but Jared is just being so cute.  He soooo wants to be a dad. :)  He'll make such a good daddy!

So here's our doctor

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He's super nice and we really like him :)

Oh yeah, and side note, I found a yoga class!  It's not fertility yoga (because the closest class was like 45 min. away and I figured that after dealing with the traffic and stupid drivers on the way home I wouldn't be relaxed anymore and it would have been pointless) but I absolutely loved it.  I bought a month of unlimited yoga (new student special) and after a month I figure that I'll know how many times I want to go each week.