It has been a while and I hope you have all been doing well in the meantime.

Post MC was not fun and it hit us a lot harder than we had thought.
Both DH and I are practical, fairly resilient people. But knowing that we were pregnant and then lost it was a little hard to swallow. It did not seem as such as first. DH was hit first and then me a few weeks later.

But in the end our wonderful family were there for us and it was the most important thing.
The difficulty for me was that with the exception of my boss and HR, I had not really told anyone at work that we were going through IVF and therefore I had no one at work to vent on with. In addition my boss was a big jerk in the week that I was MCing. He was the world biggest “tosser” (excuse my french).

It did not help that the crux of the MC came when I was away with work overnight and not at home where I could just slide into bed and not have to think or be responsible for anything.

So the the two weeks of the MC, the week during and the week immediately after were not fun at all.

Post MC, we went and met with our IVF consultant who was ok as far as consultants go 🙂
We were given three options:

fresh cycle
natural FET meaning no down regulation drugs and
FET with down regulations drugs

He also advised that he was happy to start the FET cycle after the next bleed which would make it two bleeds counting the MC as a bleed.

That made us happy, meaning we would not have to wait a long while to get our next treatment.

However it was short lived as our nurse then said “I am not sure that is correct as Oxford likes to have three bleeds”. And I thought “yeah but the consultant said two bleeds so we will go with two bleeds” thinking I cna call up then and get the transfer process started after the second bleed.

So roll on second bleed, give the clinic a ring and on consultation with Oxford, the nurse was right!

I was furious and annoyed at both the nurse (unreasonable I know!) and at Oxford for advising they will only do so after the third. It meant another long wait as my last bleed was a little longer than it should have been due to MC.

So another wait ensued.

Third bleed arrived and the natural FET was then started.

But that is another post in it self.

Thanks for reading and see you soon.