Three Posts In One July 18, 2006
I had my nuchal translucency scan today. Apparently everything looked ok, but the odds won’t be calculated until my blood work results come back. That should take about a week.
After I walked into the ultrasound room the first thing the tech asked me was, “Is this your first pregnancy?” I replied that it was actually my fourth. She then asked, “So, you have three kids at home then?” Um, no. Gotta love being a freak.
After the tech was done with all of the measurements she asked if I wanted to know the sex. She then said that she “thought she saw something down there.” She printed me a picture of it, and there’s definitely something. Still way too early to know for sure, of course.
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Saturday we received an invoice in the mail from our clinic. It was for the storage fee for our frozen sperm. The letter said we could pay the $300 or sign the enclosed form to have the sperm disposed of.
We only have one vial left, but it’s still a vial of hard won sperm. Dan had to go through surgery for us to get that.
It didn’t take us long to decide what to do. $300 is a drop in the bucket to keep our options open. I think that if this cycle hadn’t worked then we would strongly think about having it disposed of. We would be moving on to other options anyway. Having this cycle work (so far-knock on wood) changes that.
We don’t know if we’ll actually get a kid out of this, and we certainly don’t know if we’ll go insane enough to jump back on the damn IVF roller coaster to try for a sibling should things actually work out. It’s good to know that we have the option to do so if we so choose, though.
All I know is that I can’t even wrap my brain around the current situation. There’s no way I’m about to make any major decisions about future plans. I consider that $300 a way to postpone any major thinking on the issue.
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I found out yesterday that my brother and SIL have found my blog. My brother sent me the nicest email about wanting to respect my privacy, etc. He said that he was glad that I’ve found such wonderful community of understanding women. So am I. I still haven’t emailed him back. I don’t know quite what to say. At least it’s not as strange of a situation as when my in-laws found my blog.
- Posted in : Post cycle #7: Trying to stay knocked up, various other ramblings
- Author : amanda
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Congrats on everything going so well!
And that is hard when someone finds your blog (my biggest fear), but at least he is being really sweet about it.
Amanda, I am sdo glad things are going well for you guys…and I say go for the $300. You never know if you want to try for #2. About the blog - some of my siblings found mine and probably told millions, but I never really obsessed about it. It’s my blog and by clicking on my site they take the risk of knowing me. So far, nothing has come from my rants and raves…time will tell, I guess.
So glad the scan went well today! That’s crazy that the tech thought she knew the sex. Very exciting.
Like a nightmare to me to have family find my blog. They know nothing about who that side of me is. I dont like when family and friends find others blogs either. They tend to write differently knowing theyll be read by RL people.
So glad that all is going so well for you so far; and I’m with you- spend the $300 and don’t think about it again for a looooong time!
“So, you have three kids at home then?”
Egad, can you believe there are medical professionals who do this?! A nurse at my RE’s office asked me the same thing. “You’ve been pregnant three times?” Yes. “Oh, how old are they?” Welllll…
At a reproductive endocrinologist’s office, for crying out loud. If anyone should be aware of the, er, issues, I’d think it would be they.
And $300 well spent, I think.
I am glad that everything is going well!
The things people ask… three kids at home… uuggg!
My worst fear is someone I know finding my blog, that would be awful. Yikes.
Take care
Amanda, I’m so happy that you had such a great appt today. How exciting to have seen “something” to possibly identify the gender!!!
Phew- glad the nuchal went well. That must be a relief. Why why why do dumbass nurses/techs always assume that pgs=children? Sorry you had to witness such idiocy.
I usually lurk, but feeling like commenting today. I am glad (well, mad, really) to hear that others have gotten the ignorant nurse assuming all pregnancies lead to children back at home. You would think experience in the field would expose them to the wide variety of outcomes that are possible. Anyway, glad to hear things are going well! And that $300 will be well invested.
Amanda, so glad to hear things are going well so far. I believe in keeping options open and really compared to what you have paid for fertility treatments, what is $300.00. Family finding my blog is my worst nightmare, I think I would seriously stop writing. If I wanted my family to know this shit I would talk to them about it.
I am so pleased that things are progressing well! And yea, the $300 - peace of mind in a strange way.
I too worry about family/friends finding my blog, but then I have a hard time figuring out how they WOULD. How in the world did you SIL find your blog - was she *looking* for it? Weird. At least your brother is being kind about it.
Amanda, good going on the nuchal - and I hope the blood tests come back great and put your mind at ease. I think I would keep the sperm frozen, too, you never know what you’ll want to do in the future. I dearly, dearly hope that it will be used to bring a sibling for the current possum. Knock wood!
Oh, and holy smokes about the tech’s comments - I wish we could all be so blissfully ignorant about miscarriage!
I wonder HOW they found it? Were they searching for infertility stuff?
Congrats on the nuchal test coming back all good! And I would do that same thing re: keeping that vial of sperm. $300 bucks is a small price to pay for a little bit of peace of mind about the future. I mean, not to get ahead of ourselves or anything, but that big ole’ house you are moving into would be even cozier with two rugrats. I know, you are going to tell me to bite my tongue and you are right.
But I’m just saying. :-)
to nurse - DUH! Glad everything is so fantastic!!
I’m sure I’m naive to think that no one has found my blog! I have my nuchal translucency on August 3rd. Sounds like everything is going well for you.
As for the nurse, don’t you just love that?
Q: How many times have you been pregnant, including this one?
A: 7
Q: How many children do you have?
A: none (while holding your stomach as if the nurse just kicked you).
So far so good. I’m praying for you. And kudos to your brother for being awesome!
$300 well spent, that’s for sure.
hmmm. I haven’t given any thought to the fact that, duh, our families could “find” our blogs! oh well . . . . .
Fantastic news that everything is looking ok, I hope the detailed nuchal results bear that out (and it looks like they will). I would have decked the sonographer, but, well, that’s me.