First IVF+ICSI appointment

On Monday we went down to our fertility clinic for our very first IVF+ICSI appointment. It was just an education session.

This is so much more involved than just an IUI with injectables cycle. All the shots, two -possibly three- different injections plus a trigger. Lots of scans where with IUI there was just one - two scans. Not to mention the egg retrival, the transfer and that side of things. Oh and the waiting. So much waiting.

It's just so overwhelming. I'm yet to read the information book, I'm still just trying to process and come to terms with moving on to IVF. My nurse is going to call me on either Friday or Monday with the type of cycle my FS has decided on.

Come January we'll start our first cycle. I'm scared, anxious and feel a bit out of my depth.

And to top it off, I have to go in to the clinic tomorrow morning to have a repeat cystic fibrosis screening blood test. I had this test done back in August along with my AMH. I had to redo my AMH blood work as the lab told my clinic there was a batch failure with my test. But now after my lovely nurse has spent a week trying to track down my CF results the lab has said they don't know what happened to my results. Everything else came back fine, just not the two extra specialist tests. Said tests cost us over $300. I'm not impressed. I know it's not the clinics fault. I watched my nurse label all our tubes of blood and put them together into the collection baggie which was also labelled. I just can't believe the lab lost either the blood or the results. And that it took them so long to get back to my clinic.

5th Wedding Anniversary!

Friday was our fifth wedding anniversary. I wasn't feeling the best, I was headachy and crampy and just generally a bit cranky. My husband surprised me with flowers, a gorgeous pair of earrings and a card with a sweet message inside that made me tear up.

We had a dinner reservation at a nearby restaurant for 7pm and spent the day running errands, we did some grocery shopping and started planning Christmas.

Dinner was perfect as ever, I really love this restaurant. We went there for our third anniversary and we've been there for my birthday two years in a row now. The menu is perfect, just enough seafood and steak to keep the husband happy but yummy options for me too! (I'm not a fan of seafood and if we're all dressed up going out to a fancy dinner, I want something more than just a steak!) It's right on the water and in warm weather they open up all the doors so you can look out at the passing boats.

Oh, did I mention the cocktails that are practically the size of my head?

The last few times we've been the weather has been rainy but on Friday it was a warm spring night, we had a window table so we watched the boats going up the river and heading out to sea. There was live music and it was just a really nice night.

And because I was looking at our wedding photos and reminiscing about the day, here's some bonus photos!

Being goofballs, we'd been pulling faces at each other under my veil.

Take just as we were getting ready to walk into our wedding reception.