So, here's what's been going on.
Baby is crawling like a mad woman. I turn my head for a second and she's halfway across the room. She loves outlets and our computer modem (it sits on the ground), which is a problem. She also loves to pull herself up. Imagine my surprise the first time I looked at her on the video monitor and found her standing up staring right back at me. And then watching her reach out and knock the video camera over!
On the (in)fertility front, hubby and I had a sit-down with our RE this week to chat about what the process will be if we want to try for another baby. We do have ONE embryo frozen so we'd do a FET. And, since I have regular periods, we'd do it as a "natural cycle" which would entail just one shot. Sounds good to me! And the RE assures me that they only freeze very high quality embryos that have a good chance of implanting. Obviously no guarantees, but still good to know.
The RE wants me to do it as soon as possible - once I'm done breastfeeding - because he is fearful that, if it doesn't work, I'll be that much older in attempting full-blown IVF (which I'm not convinced we want to do again regardless). He says that Emma is a "miracle baby" given my ovarian situation. I think we know full well she's a miracle!
I'm thinking maybe next summer at the earliest. We'll see. And even though we'll have moved out of the area by then, it will only entail one trip back up here for the embryo transfer. Everything else will be done remotely (bloodwork, monitoring, etc).
We did change our insurance to another provider offered by hubby's work because we almost exhausted the $15,000 lifetime cap with Aetna. Now we'll let Anthem have some fun. Thankfully they have a separate $15,000 cap. Hopefully they won't require me to do a bunch of the same crud again before they let me move onto the actual procedure.
So, that's probably enough for now. I'll end with one little photo. This is what we used for our Christmas card. I just love it!
What a precious picture! She is getting big and still very adorable!!
ReplyDeleteI've been thinking about you and wondering how you were doing. See. . . you were missed in the blog world! :) Your daughter is beautiful! I love her outfit. Wow! What a beauty. :)
ReplyDeleteI wish you a lot of peace in your decision on how to move forward with kids. It's such a bummer that we can't just decide to grow our family when we want, and bam, we're pregnant. We have to work a little harder for our children, but of course it's worth it. :)
Oh. My. Gosh. I adore that picture. The colors are so perfect and she is so adorable too!
ReplyDeleteI was excited to see that you had posted... so maybe I missed you (and Emma) a little. :)
Glad to se you again! What a cutie. K's still not crawling, so we've got some catching up to do.
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