So, of course, I had a few questions to ask our nurse before we made a decision about the profiles. I e-mailed her today to ask her if CMV status and/or blood type mattered when choosing an embryo, if we would be able to reserve more than one FET worth of embryos to ensure that we would have biological siblings, and verify that one of the profiles that she sent us had, in fact, been frozen in 2001.
And, of course, the one that was my favorite was also DH's favorite and when I talked to the nurse, they only had 2 embies left from that couple. Needless to say, this lit a pretty big fire under our butts! While there was another profile that would yield children that looked more like us than our first choice profile, that one had a history of breast cancer in the maternal mother and grandmother which made me super nervous.
We didn't want these last two embies to slip away so we went ahead and reserved them! That's right, ladies and gentlemen, our embryonic children are waiting for us!!! Our nurse had already left for the day, but the financial coordinator told me that she would follow up with us on Monday. I spoke to my OB/GYNs office and found out that they can do the endometrial biopsy and SHG at their office which is awesome because I really didn't feel like getting another doctor involved if we didn't have too. I like my OB and would like to stick with that practice. As for the satellite monitoring, I found a clinic that's not too terribly far from my work that would handle all that once we got the orders from our nurse and they accept our insurance!
I was kind of disappointed that I couldn't work something out with one of the doctors at the hospital where I work. Being one of the best hospitals in the world, you would think they would have been able to handle something like this! Maybe that's my calling when I get out of nursing school? I'll expand the fertility center there to make it as world renowned as the rest of the institution! Dreaming big, I know!
The DH isn't getting his hopes up about anything but he lets little things slip sometimes that let me know he's as excited as I am and he's just trying to hid it so he's the strong one. I had dinner with my mom tonight too which was really good for both of us. She got her self all worked up and anxious yesterday about this whole thing. She said she didn't want us to rush into anything. I explained to her that while this answer came pretty quickly, we've been asking the question for a long time. We've had a lot of time to process all this information, weigh our options and most importantly pray about it. God took a little bit to give us our answer but I think He was waiting for us to get our butts into gear in some other areas of our lives before He showed us the path we were supposed to take. Once I explained to mom that this felt right to me and told her about all the little things that have happened recently that led us to this decision, she calmed down.
So there's officially nothing I can do on the baby front until Monday, so I'm getting ready to hit the books and do some last minute reviewing for my nursing school entrance exams tomorrow. I'm hoping I can keep the day dreaming to a minimum and focus on this test. Either way, I'm offering it up to Him and if it's meant to be, it will be!
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