I've been keeping an accounting of our journey to conceiving since we seemed out professional help. Tomorrow, were talking to our DR about <a href="https://glowing.com/glow-fertility-program">IVF</a>. I just decided to share some of my journaling, as it may help others. I wrote this 2 months ago after our first RE appointment.

Today, we had our first actual RE appointment. After tons of referrals, and 2 months of waiting, it had finally arrived.

We were late, of course. I decided that I should have eaten breakfast when we were already on the way, and I made the SO stop at a gas station so that I could eat something. The last thing I wanted was to be in the middle of our appointment and get low blood sugar while talking to the Dr or nurse. 

Prior to our appointment, we had to fill paperwork with our family histories and medical backgrounds so that the Dr could look it over and make a 'plan of action' to help get us pregnant.

Going into the appointment, I felt kind of, cautiously optimistic.  Wouldn't it be great if they figured something out today? Or how fantastic would it be if they did a urine spread and said that I was pregnant already? I knew it was highly unlikely... but still, I couldn't help but to feel the little flutter of hope in my tummy.

The office is in a Hospital on the north side of the building, and the parking, as seems to be the situation in all hospitals,  is awful. So, of course we could neither find the building the office was located in nor any place to park. SO dropped me off at the front (of the wrong building) while he kept looking for a parking spot. 

Finally we were able to get checked in. They took our pictures, to add to our files (which was kinda weird), and almost immediately we were taken back to the Drs office... like his actual office, with 2 big comfy chairs and a huge oak desk. He talked to us about the plan of attack very quickly, about the age of my eggs and how the testing can tell us they're health. The steps we'd take before trying <a href="https://glowing.com/glow-fertility-program">IUI</a>-interuterine insemination. Since I have been shown to ovulate, there's not too much we'll do before that. We then spoke with his nurse, who went over the plan a little slower and with more detail.

We'll start with more blood being drawn from me, a baseline ultrasound, genetic testing, and seaman testing. We'll have more day 3 labs drawn when Aunt Flo visits again, then somewhere between days 6-12 of my next schedule I'm in for a real treat when we'll do the an Hystersalpenogram- which I've heard just lovely, lovely things about.  After that, provided all things come back ok, we'll proceed to <a href="https://glowing.com/glow-fertility-program">IUI</a>.

After speaking with the nurse I was walked away to do a baseline ultrasound,  SO went to do his thing, I had some blood drawn and then... We were done.

I've already received an email that my TSH is low and they'd like to put me on medicine for that... but for everything else, we wait... and now it's just a waiting game until we get results or until my next cycle begins... so we wait.