07/27/2021
A day late for this post, but that’s ok! The last couple of months, I went on a major cleaning mode. As I was reorganizing my work space, I found all my petri dishes! I kept every petri dish from each transfer cycle. Anyone else? I stored them in clear sheet protectors along with a print out of our ultrasound, kept it tucked in the drawer for a future scrap booking project for our miracle baby one day. Decided to organize everything a little better so I put everything in a binder, categorized with tabs for medical tests, cycle monitoring charts and instructions, invoices, acupuncture receipts, etc. and I have this little cubby to host all these documents now instead of a cardboard box (See second photo).
Here’s a photo of our petri dish from our most recent transfer that happened in May. I know many of you have been curious about what’s been going on behind the scenes. I loved taking you guys along for the ride last year. Your strength and encouragement kept me going, but I’ll be honest, the process really took a lot out of me this time around so I decided to keep things quiet and just work through it on my own. (I’ll discuss about our protocol details in a later post if anyone’s interested). In the end, we only got 1 embryo so with just 1 embryo, we decided to proceed with a fresh transfer again. Sadly, after the (June 10th), my beta test came back negative 😔 Disappointed to say the least, but a part of me somehow already knew - maybe it’s because I didn’t experience any of the pregnancy symptoms I did last time and was spotting for a whole week.
It took me longer this time to open up and share with you all as I wanted to make sure I was in the right headspace to share. We need to take care of ourselves first before lifting others who are also struggling, right?
Update: for now, the hubs and I have decided we are going to stop and will look forward to the next chapter in this life. We are not sure what’s next for us but we will be happy with our little family of two ❤️
I hope to continue to provide you with encouragement, strength, and inspiration on this platform. I will always continue to advocate for fertility and my 💪