A Big & Beautiful Adventure: Parenthood

After we found out that our first embryo didn't take, we decided to immediately start the process for our second and last embryo. We had our follow-up from our failed cycle on June 22. From there we scheduled our Frozen Embryo Transfer class (FET) and obviously we choose the first available which was June 29. The nurse was super encouraging and informative and gave us all the appointments for our transfer right then and there... or you know best case scenario because if I've learned anything about this process as calculated as it is, it is ever changing. She said we can get your baseline ultrasound on Monday, July 3rd--aka the day before my birthday, second ultrasound on July 11th, third ultrasound on July 18th and transfer on July 25th. It sounded great and everything was falling into place. I already had the next 6 days off because birthday weekends call for such. However, that whole national holiday in the summertime says otherwise. On Friday I got a call from Greenville OBG...

As of our final conversation with our fertility clinic a year ago, I needed to lose 50ish pounds to be at a BMI acceptable for them to put me to sleep for an egg retrieval. I finally reached that BMI goal January and we started preparing for the next steps. I requested an updated quote because a lot could change in a year and inflation was no exception.  Our new quote was for 15k and the biggest step would be coming up with a very large part of that money. We needed over 6k to even begin the process. We had received some donations to our IVF fund and we had saved a bit but we still needed thousands more. We started applying for IVF loans and were denied multiple times. We kept pushing forward and checking our options. We received an approval for a very high interest personal loan that we imagined was our last resort so we had to figure out how to make those payments. On a whim, I reapplied to the first loan option, Future Family, and we were approved. We like this option because th...