We are thrilled to have 6 excellent-quality embryos that are currently being cryo-preserved (frozen) at our clinic over in Europe. It’s crazy to think that on April 18th two of our little embryos will be thawed and transferred inside me where they will hopefully get comfy for the next 9 months.
FET prep is much easier, physically, that egg retrieval prep. I’m currently only taking estrogen pills, progesterone and three ovidrel injections, far less medication than a stim cycle. Lots of bloodwork and monitoring is involved in IVF so it’s essential to find a local specialist that will collaborate with your medical team abroad. I found an outstanding Reproductive Endocrinologist (RE) in Westerville, Ohio to manage a range of responsibilities such as monitor follicle growth, administering ultrasounds, prescribing emergency medication if needed, exc. We’ve been navigating outside of insurance with our local specialist, paying cash for IVF monitoring appointments. I’ve been working with Dr. Jain at RGI. This is really funny to us since our Czech doctor is Dr. Jan.
Dr. Jain and Dr. Jan. My husband thinks it’s a sign that we’ll get pregnant with twins.
Dr. Jain 
Dr. Jan
Today I had my final local IVF monitoring appointment before the Frozen Embryo Transfer (FET) next week. The results of this appointment were favorable. I am on track to travel back to Prague next week and transfer two of our highest quality embryos into my uterus on April 18th. This is a particularly exciting date for a scheduled FET because if this IVF cycle is successful, we’ll have a Christmas due date!
I admittedly did not know much about in-vitro before starting this process. Most surprisingly, is how long the IVF process takes start to finish. We started our first cycle of IVF in February. In February I took birth control to sync my body up with the travel dates for surgery; In March I had the ovarian stimulation injections and egg retrieval surgery; In April, we are finally transferring the embryos. They say “The day you plant the seeds is not the day you eat the fruit.” This is absolutely true with IVF, I’ve been working on my patience and feeling of gratitude to have made it to this step in the process.
I’ve had a lot of people ask me how I am doing (THANK YOU, you guys are the sweetest). Surprisingly, I am doing really well. We are cautiously optimistic that our first FET will be successful. We are confident that we’ve made the right decision proceeding with the double embryo transfer, our likelihood of success is automatically increased by transferring two embryos rather than one. We’d be thrilled at the possibility of twins, which is statistically much higher that average. We are hoping for a healthy pregnancy and have been (insert non-religious synonym for praying) daily that one or both of our embryos make it.
Getting Prague-nat 