Awesome news Paula!!!

Great to see some new faces in here to keep us 'oldies' company. Hi to everyone else specially Loula - Hi Hun!

Hubby and I are off to stay at a hotel in the city tonight as we are doing an IUI cycle and he has to be at MIVF at 8pm to make a deposit but I dont have to be there till 10:30am too long to hang around but not enough time for him to drive all the way home and pick me up....plus I soooooo do not do mornings. To go from home we would have to be upp at 6am and after two of those starts this week for scans I really do not want another early start.

We have decided (and our specialist says okay shock horror!) to do a few IUI cycles and see how we go. After a few failed PGD cycles and the fact that the four times I have been prgenant have been natural conceptions we have decided that wew would rather be able to fork out the cash for an IUI each month and take the risk that we may have another miscarriage. Because at the moment to be honest having to wait twelve months to save up the required $8000 out of pocket for a PGD cycle is doing my head in. We had just saved up enough to go for a fresh PGD cycle and on Easter Sunday our 1 yr old fur baby got hit by a car and there wen $2500 on vets bills in three days....grrrrr. So we will IUI for a while using an atagonist protocol and the added prednisone and clexane protocol advised by Dr. Sacks and see how we go......fingers crossed!!

By the way I have just finished reading the most awesome book about the pioneering work done by Dr. Alan Beers in the area of repoductive immunology. He died in 2006 2 weeks before this book was published - I tell ya it is an awesome eye opening read and I highly recommend it for anyone who has been long term TTC.....It is called "Is your body baby friendly?" and was loaned to me by of all people my acupuncturist who had just got it as she now has two patients with immune related fertility issues.

It's a great read.....basically he is/was of the opinion that women with as little as one miscarriage should think about investigations and it goes in depth to explain how the immune system interacts in pregnancy and methods on how to deal with it...also some very interesting food for thought on egg quality and how to improve it etc etc.....very non mainstream but very interesting stuff!!