Progesterone Day 1- 2WW Day 1?

Five months ago, at the start of my IVF/PGD journey, a good friend of mine sent me a care package. I first talked about it in my Sharing The Love post back in September. You can click on the link above to read the original story, but to sum it up, she sent me a care package with 14 individually wrapped packages for every day of the 2 Week Wait, with an inspirational quote on it.

Gifts

She sent it to me right after my first egg retrieval so I would have it for my 2WW, but then we decided to batch my eggs and do another retrieval before proceeding with PGD, so I put the box with all the packages away in my spare room (hopefully soon to be nursery) and waited. Now five months and a new year later, I am finally ready for my transfer! However, I wasn’t sure how the 2WW works with FET because my embryo is already a 5-day blastocyst and we’ll be transferring her on Friday after I’ve been on progesterone for 6 days, so I figured since today is the first day of the progesterone suppositories and the medication is mimicking what my body would be doing if I had just ovulated, that this would be the start of my 2 Week Wait. Also, I talked with my friend the other day and thought about waiting until my transfer day and then opening the first 6 packages all at once since by then my 2WW will only be 8 days or so, but I really wanted to do it 1 day at a time as she intended, so I decided to begin today 🙂

Package 1 Quote:

“Be faithful in the small things because it is in them that your strength lies.”
— Mother Teresa

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I haven’t done a Sudoku puzzle in years! This will be great for keeping my mind busy while I’m laying around after my transfer on Friday and on the 2 hour car ride to Temecula, Californa for the wedding the next day. I cannot thank this dear friend enough! She has gone through her own long journey to becoming a mom, and I can just image the amount of thought and emotion that went into putting this together for me. I was completely surprised and overwhelmed with emotion when I received it and again tonight when I finally opened my first package. I can’t believe I’m finally doing this! It’s so amazing and so scary all at the same time! Thank you my dear friend! You know who you are! This is so amazing and really will help keep me distracted during these next 2 weeks. I love you more than words can say!

21 thoughts on “Progesterone Day 1- 2WW Day 1?

  1. Love it! And as a side note–Temecula is a really pretty town, and it’s too bad the name sounds like “Tarantula”, because tarantulas are creepy (that’s my “Jack Handy” thought of the day). XO

    1. 🙂 You just made me laugh out loud! So funny! I am super excited to get out of town and I think it will help distract me from wanting to test right away. The wedding is at the Wilson Creek Winery. I’m not sure how close to town it is, but should be lovely. Too bad I can’t sample all the wonderful wine that will be enjoyed by every other guest. Not that I’m complaining. We’ll just have to go back there at some point down the road 🙂

      1. We passed through a couple times when we went from Vegas to Cali to visit friends, but I never visited the wineries (if I hadn’t been ttc I probly would’ve)–maybe take some pics of the winery so I can see what I missed! XO

  2. This is such an incredible idea!! How wonderful to have a friend who truly understands what you might need during this time even though it is five months later. I love it!!

  3. Wow! What an incredibly thoughtful friend! This is so awesome and you are very lucky to have such support! I’m looking forward to your posts! Good luck this cycle! I have my fingers crossed this is your time!

    1. Thank you so much hon. Sending you a big hug and prayers for your little one. I’m praying so hard for option 4. Things really could be fine!

    1. Thanks hon. Sorry I’m only replying now. It’s been a crazy month and I only just found your comment in my pending box! I really am lucky to have this friend. So sorry about your failed IUI. My IVF cycle failed too. It just sucks.

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