Meeting with the RE

After the HSG test, I made an appointment with Dr. Schillings on 12/12/2007 at 9:30am. This time, I asked Steven to a day off to go with me. This appointment is basically for the doctor to go over all the tests that I had done and offered me with my options to get pregnant.

Before the meeting, on 12/7 and 12/10, I went to have blood drawn again.

At the morning of 12/12, we dropped off Cassandra at her school and went to see Dr. Schillings together. After we sat down, Dr. Schillings mentioned the tests that both him and I did were all normal. Steven had semen analysis done twice and I had numerous tests done. She said she was reading the operative report from Dr. Hurst, the doctor who did my c-section when I was in labor with Cassandra. She said by reading the report, Dr. Hurst couldn't see my ovaries during the surgery. I had adhesion and endometriosis. I didn't know what that meant. She explained to me that there were a lot of 'stuff' outside of my tubes that my parts are all stick together and that's what caused the infertility. She can perform a surgery for me called laparoscopic which she couldn't guarantee me that she can fix the problem. She will have cut a small incision and try to fix the problem, if the problem is too severe, she will not be able to do anything. This means the whole surgery is then wasted. Another option that I have is have IVF (in vitro fertilization). Since the embryo will put directly into my uterus that it bypass the ovaries and the tubes and that my insurance covers all the cost, it seems it was the best and easiest way to do. The only problem is because Steven has an active disease, Hepatitis B, that we will need to go to Columbia University Hospital in New York to do the procedure, which is going to be a pain because of the distance.

During the conversation, she basically told us that we were lucky to be able to have Cassandra. It's not that it is impossible for me to get preganant. My uterus, ovaries, tubes are all normal. It's just the chances for me to get pregnant is low.

She also asked me to go back to the office to do an ultrasound of my ovaries to just make sure that it's all good.