3rd scan .......... Day 10 of our journey !!!

Not much happened today when I went for my scan. Cathi told me that I have several folliciles in each ovary but none big enough to measure. My cervix is getting thicker. It is a 9 today . Dr. Schenk increased my follistium to 150 iu. I will go back Monday morning @ 9:15 am to see how much they grew over the weekend.



Cost for the day:
blood work - $180
parking $3
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total - $183





grand total so far :
January 8th - $60
January 20th- $198
January 26th- $87
January 28th- $183
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total- $528

~ Nichole

2nd Scan ...... Day 8 of the journey !!

Today I went for my 2nd scan of my urterus. The goal is to have follicules that measure 18mm or larger because that is a mature egg which can be fertilized and become a baby ( or the twins I want ). I can't remember what the lining has to be but today it was an 8. I have several small follicules in each ovary but none that were big enough to measure.Today I had to do bloodwork to check my estrogen. I forgot how much I hate giving blood for that. I always ask them to draw it out of my hand cause my arm veins roll & the blood suckers always have to stick me more than once. Cathi ( my nurse) told me to continue on my 100iu of follistium and the prenatals & the 2000mg of metiformin daily. I will go back Thursday , January 28th to see how much they have grown. I actually brought my camera today so I thought I would show you what the inside of your urterus looks like and the machine that is used to see the inside of me ............

Isn't this where you would love to come several times a week so you could get pregnant ?? LOL

Cost for today:
blood work - $85
scan - $0
parking- $2
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total - $87



total cost so far :
January 8th- $60
January 20th- $198
January 26th - $87
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graand total - $ 345



~Nichole

1st scan ......

I went to the dr today to get my 1st scan. It was just a baseline scan of my uterus to make sure there are no old follicles hanging around. Carmen is the same ultrasound tech who has done my scans with both my other pregnancies. Aubrey came with me and sat in the chair when I was getting the scan and sang her abc's. It was so cute. Everyone always smiles when she is around. She's a pretty cute kid. My nurse Cathi was out so Gloria told me to start 100 iu's of follistium shots on Friday January 22nd. I have to make an appointment for another scan on Tuesday January 26th. I didn't have any blood work today so that was good. I really hate the bloodwork part. I usually have them get it out of my hand since my veins in my arms roll and unless they are really good, they usually miss the vein.

Cost for today
dr visit- $195
parking- $3
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total- $198

balances so far
january 8th- $60
January 20th-$198
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grand total - $ 258

~Nichole

So happy ...... FINALLY my visitor came

I never thought I would be so excited to start my period !!! Today is 5 days after I finished my last prometrium pill to make it come. I didn't realize it came until 5:15pm so I will have to wait until tomorrow to call my nurse to go in for my base line ultrasound to make sure I can start my follistium. I am so excited about this journey I am about to start. I keep telling my mom & Mike we are having twin boys !! When I refer to the pregnancy I am about to have I call it you know ...... when I have the twins !!! lol !! I know .......... I am CRAZY !!! How amazing would it be to be pregnany with twins this time ? I loved the pregnancy with the triplets . It was awesome being pregnant with 3 babies ...... really how many people do you know that have had 3 babies in them ? Aubrey was also cool to be pregnant with since she was a single baby which is the normal in pregnancy but I was stressed out with her because of losing the triplets 4 months earlier. So this time I decided to be pregnant with 2 babies I can handle and if they are boys , MIKE WOULD LOVE IT !!! Honestly either way we will be happy ..... boys or girls.......... we just want healthly babies !!!

~Nichole

waiting ..........

Not much is happening in my journey at the moment. I am just taking my prometrium waiting to start my period so I can start the scans of my uterus and begin my follistium !!! I'm so excited about having a baby. I think twin boys would be awesome !!

~ Nichole

Today is the beginning of our journey .......

Today was my 1st visit with Dr. Leah Schenk to start my baby journey again. I had a 10:15am appointment and I was so excited !! My mom & Aubrey went with me to the appointment. I really liked taking Aubrey back to see Dr. Schenk because without her I wouldn't have my precious little girl.

So....... We went into Dr. Schenk's office and started talking about how we are going to get this process started and what doses of medicine I was going to start with. She prescribed prometrium 200mg to me that I am suppose to take 2 pills for 7 days so that I can start my period. My last period was August 29, 2009. She also told me I have to take 2000mg of metformin daily which is 4 HUGE pills !!! I also have to start taking prenatal vitamins which don't bother me cause they are small. I hate taking pills but I will do anything she tells me to because I really want to have a baby.

Dr. Schenk also gave me some great news. In the past times I have went to Dr. Schenk to have a baby they do many scans on my uterus to measure the follicles. My insurance doesn't cover any of this fertility treatment and each scan/bloodwork is around $285 every other day until the end of the cycle. This really adds up so ........... Dr. Schenk told me that she will only charge me for 3 scans !!! I felt like this was just a small gesture from GOD telling me that everything will work out the way he has planned and I am so blessed and greatful !!!

So right now I am just taking the prometrium and waiting for my period to start. I have to go back to the dr on day 1-3 for my first baseline scan and then we will get this journey started !!!

I also want to see how much this journey is going to cost so I am going to keep up with the money each visit costs.

Today's totals

dr visit- $25

medicine- $30

parking $5

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total - $ 60

~Nichole