KitKat72 - It's great to see you have 2 Grade 1 embryos. I hope your blood test gives the BFP. good luck for Saturday.
babydownunder - I hope it's worked out for you, thinking of you
Lise - thanks for sending your positive words our way.
AFM - I will have last Gonal-F (follicle stimulating) injection maybe tomorrow or Wednesday and EPU on Thursday or Friday.
Have 3 really good follicles on the right and 2 more that may be big enough by EPU as well.
Timeforafamily - best of luck for your EPU this week!!
Puffsgirl - welcome and good luck. We have male factor issues, too, and luckily ICSI has held out promise for us (see above re: our 2 great embies thanks to ICSI). And yes, my DH doesn't like discussing this stuff too much, so this forum is a godsend.
Just checking in with everyone. I had my EPU last wednesday. 8 eggs retrieved, only 6 were suitable for ICSI.
Only 2 ended up fertilising normally. On saturday I received call to say that both embies were doing well, one with 8 cells and the other with 11 cells. They were graded good and fair. Was booked in for transfer on Monday.
When we got to clinic on monday, we were told that both embies were downgraded to poor as they had only reached early blast stage. They advised us to transfer both embies as neither would survive being frozen. Blood test is tomorrow week. My doc was very honest and said that she wasn't that confident & that she had to manage our
expectations. To be honest I am more prepared for a BFN, I think it's because we have been trying for nearly
18 months and you get used to being disappointed. At the same time, I am trying to be positive. DH is cute, he
keeps talking to the little embies and telling them to hang in there!
I've been following this thread as my husband and I also had our eggs fertilised with ICSI.
KitKat72- you probably have your results now and I really hope they're positive.
Babydownunder- Are you in the TWW now? How's it going?
Puffsgirl11- Welcome. I was rapt when i found these forums. They've been a helpful and reassuring in so many ways. Good luck!
Thanks for the encouraging words. You've probably seen it by now in one of the other threads, but yes, I got my BFP! I can't believe it! I realize we were very very lucky to get this result on our first go, and now I'm just praying nothing goes wrong. I really hope that your FET gives you your BFP this cycle.
Hugs,
Kitkat72
PS. I know this is totally anecdotal and therefore probably not of much real value to anyone, but in case anybody is wondering what exactly I did to try to support implantation/pregnancy, these are the things I did (in addition to taking Crinone after EPU up till today (still waiting to hear if I can stop it)):
1. Acupuncture once a week, starting the first week of this cycle, plus the "usual" sessions before and after ET.
2. Pre-natal vitamins (switching back and forth between Elevit and Blackmores Pre-Conception Gold), and a supplemental tablet of 75 mgs of Co-enzyme Q10 twice a day
3. I had 1-2 tablespoons of ground flaxseed in my yogurt every morning for the first 2 weeks after EPU since I read that there's some evidence that the phytoestrogens supplied by ground flaxseeds support the hormone levels conducive to implantation. I've stopped now since I've heard that, conversely, the phytoestrogens are NOT necessarily good in pregnancy -- they apparently can promote miscarriages. But I'm going to ask my FS when I see him in 2 weeks what he thinks. (NB: I had read the studies re: ground flaxseeds promoting higher pregnancy rates (in farm animals, at least - lol) online and did not ask my FS what he thought before taking them -- naughty, I know.)
4. Drinking tons of water.
5. Just generally taking it easy. I've really ramped down my usual exercise routine to just the occasional walk. Lots of sitting around reading books and BB! It helps that I work in academia and wasn't teaching this semester, so I was able to do most of my work from home = very relaxing.
Honestly, I don't know if any of the above made any difference or if it was all up to getting a strong embie. But who knows? Maybe some of this stuff helped tip the balance. Anyway, if any of you were looking to see what other people have done, then I hope this helps!!!
Last edited by KitKat72; May 14th, 2010 at 09:58 AM.
Hi all, just jumping in as newbie here... My partner had zero sperm I mean not one little swimmer, but after we asked for a biopsy we now have 9 straws frozen of nice swimmers.. Anyone who has male factor please look deeper into it as we suprised the doctors as well as ourselves... Hormone levels in the blood is an early indicator to proceed onto a little op to get those good spermies out... I am waiting to start injections on the 26th May and am on DHEA as well as accupuncture and elevit multi vitamins. I donated eggs many years ago and they all died before they attempted an icsi rescue... So am very worried this time around may not work for me due to frozen sperm,, plus my age and egg quality....
thanks for reading,,, only have 39 more posts before i can chat live with someone in a similiar boat as myself...
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good luck for Saturday.
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