A considerable part of trying to get pregnant is waiting.
I recently learned that the following may not be common knowledge for people that haven’t tried to conceive or for those that are regularly sexually active and “accidentally” got pregnant…
Every cycle, we have had to:
- Wait for my period to start
- Wait for my fertile window to try
- Wait for 2 weeks to find out if we were successful
Now that we got that lesson out of the way… Obviously, I’m not pregnant yet, so we have gone through this wait period every month for over a year. This current cycle’s wait period so far has emotionally felt a lot longer as I anticipate each next step of this fertility treatment process.
In the month of December, I have had to:
- Wait for my second fertility appointment (December 5th)
- Wait 2 weeks for my period to start (December 20th), then take a medication called Letrozole for 5 days to stimulate my ovaries
- Wait for my doctor to tell me when to do bloodwork to check my hormone levels (December 26th)
- Wait for bloodwork results (December 27th, Verdict: My hormones weren’t ready)
- Wait for my doctor to tell me when to do bloodwork again (December 30th)
- Wait for bloodwork results (December 31st, Good news: My hormones are ready!)
P.S. A handful of people have asked me when my next blog post will be. It’s nice to know that I’m not the only one waiting for something to happen! 😉