Mid July Jared and I decided to have our follow up appt with our IVF dr. The purpose of this appt was to discuss how my pregnancy with Wyatt went, for the good dr. to be able to meet Wyatt, and to touch on what he expects for the next pregnancy.
Before we went to the appt. Jared and I discussed what we wanted for this next pregnancy. We decided that we wanted to try for twins again. I know... the idea of trying for twins again freaked me out. We didn't know if our dr. would even agree to it because, bottom line, it might be too dangerous, but we wanted to at least try.
So we get there to meet with Dr. Wilcox and when he came in the room he actually remembered me! I guess I shouldn't be surprised because he did see me 2-3x per week for 2 months straight and I can't imagine IVF dr.'s have tons and tons of patients... but still, I was impressed. :) We told him about my catastrophe of a pregnancy and gave him the low down about what is going on with Wyatt.
Then I got to what I really wanted to know. What should I expect for my next pregnancy??? I told him that we wanted to try for twins again and before I had even finished the sentence the expression on his face told me what his answer was going to be. Not going to happen. He told me that it's his job to not only get me pregnant, but to get me pregnant in a way that I can have a full term pregnancy. With how everything went with my first pregnancy he doesn't think my body is built to handle twins and that something similar would happen, or I would lose both babies.
He wants to transfer one embryo at a time.
The thought of only transferring one embryo at a time is a little disheartening. In my mind it means it'll take 2 or 3 transfers before we're successful. The embryos that I have left are lower quality and because they're frozen they have a slightly lower chance of growing. And I've kind of decided that I don't want to have to do full blown IVF again, so I'm hoping to be able to get at least 2 more babies out of the 6 embryos that we have left. I guess we'll see what happens!
Anyway, we're looking to start our frozen embryo cycle in February. I'll go in one month before and we'll figure out exactly what our game plan will be and get everything on the calendar.
Not gonna lie though... the idea of having 2 kids under 3 freaks me out a little bit...
So we get there to meet with Dr. Wilcox and when he came in the room he actually remembered me! I guess I shouldn't be surprised because he did see me 2-3x per week for 2 months straight and I can't imagine IVF dr.'s have tons and tons of patients... but still, I was impressed. :) We told him about my catastrophe of a pregnancy and gave him the low down about what is going on with Wyatt.
Then I got to what I really wanted to know. What should I expect for my next pregnancy??? I told him that we wanted to try for twins again and before I had even finished the sentence the expression on his face told me what his answer was going to be. Not going to happen. He told me that it's his job to not only get me pregnant, but to get me pregnant in a way that I can have a full term pregnancy. With how everything went with my first pregnancy he doesn't think my body is built to handle twins and that something similar would happen, or I would lose both babies.
He wants to transfer one embryo at a time.
The thought of only transferring one embryo at a time is a little disheartening. In my mind it means it'll take 2 or 3 transfers before we're successful. The embryos that I have left are lower quality and because they're frozen they have a slightly lower chance of growing. And I've kind of decided that I don't want to have to do full blown IVF again, so I'm hoping to be able to get at least 2 more babies out of the 6 embryos that we have left. I guess we'll see what happens!
Anyway, we're looking to start our frozen embryo cycle in February. I'll go in one month before and we'll figure out exactly what our game plan will be and get everything on the calendar.
Not gonna lie though... the idea of having 2 kids under 3 freaks me out a little bit...
I think its a good idea to do one embroy at a time because i wouldn't want risk loosing another child or children.
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