Sunday, September 5, 2010

G I F T

Met with the RE again....it's a new guy in the practice, who has been on our side of the fence.

Our insurance covers a procedure called GIFT - Gamete IntraFallopian Transfer - and we're hoping to attempt it soon. I have 4 cycles covered by my insurance. We're paying for the coverage, why not use it?

GIFT = I do the whole injection process to get my eggs ready. On the day of the egg retrieval, I'll be put under general anesthesia, they'll retrieve the eggs, pick the most developed ones, R will do his thing...and they put my beauties & his little guys separated by an air bubble into a tube. The RE will laparoscopically insert the contents into my fallopian tubes.

It's not IVF, but our RE is willing to take us down this path. He's made it very clear that we have less than a 5% chance of success, but, hey, this is better than what's been happening the past 2 years. Continuing on our current path our chance of conceiving a child is less than 1%.

They're hoping to finish up licensing with the hospitals at the end of this month. I should be starting injections by this time next month!