hi everyone,

Bec good luck with the IVF and the adoption process. A teacher I used to work with adopted a child from overseas and the whole process took about 3 years. He told me there were many times when he just wanted to give up but his wife was determined. He explained that they do so many checks etc (including interviewing our principal and other teachers he worked with etc) that he felt like he was on trial. But in the end they got their little girl.
What I found interesting and sad was that they got her when she was 10 months old and she had spent her entire life in the orphange. It's a pity they couldn't have got her earlier so she wouldn't have had such a cold, lonely start to life. But all the red tape means none of the babies leave the country until they are atleast 6 months old. :-(

Possums, I'm glad to hear you are pregnant too. My blood test yesterday showed everything is going well and I saw one of the nurses who I have many times over the past 2 years and she was also the one at this last transfer. I felt alot better after talking to her because she told me that the extra progesterone should reduce my chance of miscarriage (to less than a normal pregnancy) so I should be viewing this as a positive thing that they discovered my low levels and are able to treat them. She explained that years ago they never even used to test for the progesterone levels.

I also found out that I only need to be on the drugs for another 5 weeks (not another 9 like the first nurse had told me).

Anyway my blood test results - last week progesterone was 56, yesterday it was 92 (which I was told is now within the lower end of the normal range?), HCG - last week it was 192 and yesterday it was over 3,400 (can't remember the actual number). So was told that is good. But wow your HCG was really high last week already and so was your progesterone.

Possums I hope you don't mind me asking but since you have had so many miscarriages in the past I wondered if you know what caused them and if this makes you worry more for this pregnancy? I guess I'm still feeling very nervous about my own pregnancy because with my daughter I fell pregnant by accident (whilst using contraception) and therefore it just seemed she was determined to be born... I never feared losing her. But since this one has needed so much medical intervention to get to this point I dont' get the sense that it is determined to be born? Does that make sense?

Lori - 37, DD 14
Started donor search Dec 06, started donor insemination Jan 09, Started IVF Feb 10, IVF #1 Chemical pregnancy, IVF #2 - BFN, FET - BFN, IVF #3 - BFP (2nd best christmas present ever - having my daughter only a few days before christmas all those years ago was the best christmas present).