IVF: Keeping the Results Simple

In case you haven't been able to figure out the "cryptic coding" over the last few weeks on Facebook, the IVF process has worked for us.

thought I would start out the day with another vague status that read "Big Day Today." Again, most people who have known that we have been doing this should have known what that meant. By the 10th (or so) response, anyone who came across my status could figure out what we were talking about, even if they have not been in the loop.

After working in the morning, Leandra and I had lunch with some of my co-workers and then did some stuff in preparation for the big bike ride. At 3:30, we headed over for our ultrasound.

As I have been joking around in preparation for this day, I have been saying that this test was to determine if there were "one or two heads in Leandra's belly." We headed to the back room to see the results.

Even though Leandra's levels implied that there may have been twins, the ultrasound only showed one. Being this early in the process, there wasn't much to see, except for a tiny heartbeat...but there was only one. (The arrow in the picture shows where the heart is. It's not determing gender...which we decided we don't want to know in advance so don't bother asking.)

But that's OK. We still have two more eggs stored away should we want to give it another go. We have another ultrasound scheduled for late October and there should be a little more to see by that time.

Keeping with tradition, my Facebook status only said "One." Seeing the response I got, I think everyone figured it out...except for the couple of "A Chorus Line" references. Funny, I did that show in high school ("I Can Do That").