The pre-season

I saw Dr. L yesterday to get a schedule for the FET.

(And yes, following my track record there in fact was a baby in the waiting room, but in all fairness Dr. L is not exclusively a fertility specialist. He also has a regular OB/GYN practice, and one sees all sorts of people and pre-people in his waiting room. I found that it didn't bother me too much, other than a knee-jerk "yeah, that figures" response - probably because the FET feels less fraught than the initial IVF did. And also because after the Absolutely Unbelievable You Can't Make This Stuff Up Infant in the Office For My Beta Incident a baby in the waiting room is, like, so whatever. The whole Absolutely Unbelievable You Can't Make This Stuff Up Infant in the Office for My Beta Incident pretty much immunized me against all future baby and/or pregnant person in the office during my fertility treatment interactions.)

Anyway. We've got a schedule. I'm doing a controlled cycle, meaning on day 3 of my next naturally occuring period (that's CD3 for short) I start taking Progynova (estrogen supplements) starting out at 2mg/day and gradually increasing. We'll do an ultrasound to check my lining around CD14 and, assuming all looks well, transfer a single embryo a few days after that. Then we wait, wait, lather rinse repeat, and wait some more. Fourteen days of waiting and then we do the blood test.

And this time there'd better not be a baby there. And she'd better not hand it to me.