Congratulations Renee! :leap:
How wonderful for you that you fell pregnant naturally. All the best for a H&H 9 months!
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Congratulations Renee! :leap:
How wonderful for you that you fell pregnant naturally. All the best for a H&H 9 months!
Ladies, thank you so much for all your well wishes. Unfortunately my Hcg is now down to 3, so definitely negative. There's something quite cruel in having positive HPT's and then this but I guess we all have out course to sail with this and few of us find it smooth.
I was touched by all your support though so big THANK YOU.
We're now waiting for AF to arrive so we can do a thaw cycle with one of our frosties. I wish you all the best!
Renee- hope you sail through the pregnancy, congratulation!
Mildez- I don't know if your question was for me. I didn't get a choice in anything, my FS said they only transfer 1 embryo initially and they only seem to do day 2's. I wasn't even asked. Hope it happens for you and there's no need for IVF.
glenny-c: stay positive. At this stage it's all possible!
Maggie
Maggie- So sorry for you, I was hoping you would have happier news. Positive thoughts for your frosty baby!
juniper76 thank you for the link. Ill check it out. Want to be imformed before signing consents etc not that I will probably get a choice.
Maggie I am so sorry the BT didn't show a miracle rise. I will :pray: for you that your thaw cycle with one of our frosties results in your take home bubba.
babytruj sending you lining grow vibes.
GL Renee and yes hope to see you in the pg threads soon.
Maggie ~ So sorry, I know how rough it is :hug: I guess it was a chemical pregnancy in this case, so you did get that little step closer so next time might be the 1! I truly hope so for you, Good luck for your FET, FX.
Maggie, I'm so sorry to hear that. :comfort: I went through a similar experience last year and try to take some encouragement from getting closer to a healthy pg than I'd ever been before. It doesn't make the loss any less upsetting, but it helps shine a little hope on the path ahead. I hope you don't have long to wait for AF.
Hi lovely ladies!
Maggie - :hug: so sad to read your news - this TTC madness is full of hope and disappointment and false starts, the benefit is that it makes us super-tough chicks. Take time out to grieve, and spoil yourself, you deserve it.
Juniper76 - I read that link you posted, thanks for that. You should push for a blastie if thats what you want. We were soooo confused as to what to do with this cycle (our first), luckily our embryologist sat with us for half an hour and discussed the pros and cons. We went for blasties in the end, glad we did.
Chekigal - hope your feeling well, and the wait isn't doing your head in! Sorry to hear there were none for the freezer.
Melissal - got everything crossed for you today!!!
Mildez - HI! :hello: and welcome
Babytruj - hope the lining is growing nicely, and Kelly Clarkson is good tonight!
HI :hello: to anyone that I've missed! Hope you're doing well.
AFM - had my day 5 transfer yesterday, got to see our beautiful blastie on the screen, hatching out. Soooo relieved! We were also absolutely stoked to have 5 for the freezer, after an anxious decision to let all the embies go to day 5. We know that we are lucky having that many (we started with 36 at collection). The downside of course is the OHSS risk, still keeping it at bay though with rest, diet and acupuncture.
Speaking of acupuncture, I must waddle off (the only movement I'm capable of making with my "swiss cheese" ovaries, as the nurse described it :o ) to my next appointment! Have a great day everyone, and good luck to those waiting for results.
Sorry for long post!
GL Leabie, hatching blastie is very positive, FX and enjoy your accupuncture.
You're lucky you got to see it on U/S. I go to a country clinic and they dont have good equipment so Ive never really seen much nor have I been able to get a photo or anything.
AFM ~ Still waiting for AF and now starting to wonder again. Ive had some lightheadedness (long word LOL) and constipation and little tummy niggles etc. Has me wondering whether I should do another POAS. One I did Fri was BFN but things starting to get weird. Perhaps just wishful thinking, :dunno:
I'd do another one Loops, to give you some peace of mind (I am an addict though, so you may want to take my advice lightly!)
Tx for your positive thoughts, yes, hatching blas tie -v. exciting! :crossfingers:
Hi ladies
Great to see some old faces back in here again getting back on the TTC journey.
Melissal good luck for today hope you get some happy news
Maggie so sorry to hear that this wasn't your month but like others before me have said at least your one step closer, take time to grieve and be king to yourself
Loops12 do another test even if its just to put your mind at ease. I knowe that after my last cycle in Dec I didn't get a AF for 2 months I was stressing about it and thinking maybe it happened naturally and it wasn't till after I had a BT that I put my mind at ease. After what you have been through it may not be unusal for your body to just be readjusting
Sorry to all those I've missed hope your all still travelling well
AFM just waiting for Friday morning to come around for my next scan and to start testing for my surge going by previous experience FET should be in just under two weeks
Maggie - I'm so sorry to hear the bad news. That really sucks. I suppose it's good news that you got at least to the chem preg stage, but it still sucks.
Chekigal and glenny c - good luck in your twws. Glenny C, I hope you have cheered up since your other post. I was just reading the Crinone package insert's list of side effects, and it definitely sounds like the meds. Please don't be too hard on yourself.
Melissal - very belated happy b-day to you and hope your BT went well today.
Everyone else, hope you are having a great week and enjoyed the long weekend.
AFM, I had my EPU this morning. They got 6 eggs. I don't know how the quality is. Nobody said anything negative, though. I think I'm pretty happy that they got 6. I was freaking out that most of my 8 follies were going to be empty since I had very low day 7 E2 levels. There were 2 other girls in the recovery room at the hospital with me who'd also had EPUs today; one of them had 2 eggs retrieved, and the other only 1. So I felt kind of greedy with my 6. Now I'm just resting. I'm a little crampy, but it's not that bad. Must be the morphine pill they gave me - LOL. My dad arrives tomorrow from overseas for 2 1/2 weeks with us. Luckily I spent the whole day cleaning the house yesterday so I don't need to worry about it today. I *did* stupidly assume that I'd be able to make it to the supermarket at some point this afternoon or evening. Now I'm thinking I might just take my dad with me after he gets here tomorrow since it's so nice just resting here at home.
Well, getting achy. Might head back to bed now.
KitKat72
Hiya, just a quickie little me post. BFN which sucks but kinda felt it coming. DH was so sure that I wouldn't have the willpower not to poas so I was determined to hold out and not do one. I succeeded and gotta say, never again!!!! Why in hell would I put myself through two hours of crap waiting for the phone to ring to tell me something I'd know after 5 mins with an HPT? And that two hours is with me knowing people in th right places so I could get the call literally as soon as the results were off the machine!!! So, from here on in, I join the poas addict club :lol:. I must be getting tough in my old age because I am doing ok - it does help that we are booked in for round two which I am really pleased about with only a few months to wait so as far as a crushing bfn day can go, I feel ok.
Leabie - woohoo for an awesome transfer :dance:
Kitkat - yay for a great EPU result, rest up now hun :)
Melissal - sorry to hear about your BFN, I understand about POAS'ing, although I have to admit I don't use them after having a few chemicals. My clinic is fantastic and will let me have my BT early if I want, but I completely understand not feeling able to go through all that, esp. when (you think) you know it's a BFN. Glad to hear you are having a another one soon, hopefully that will be your well deserved BFP!
KiKat - Look after yourself, you'll need it for the coming nine months...
Terry - Hope the wait is going OK for you, and that the scan goes well.
Leabie - sounds great, I love that you got to see it! (I can't do that at my clinic) I hope that the 2WW (well much shorter than that for you!) goes quickly with a fantastic result.
Maggie - Sorry to hear your news, it's a good sign though that something happened, so hopefully soon it will be your turn :)
Loops - It can take quite a while for your body to get back to normal after what yours has been through, not that of course I am not hoping for good news for you.
Juniper - Hope you are going well.
Hi to the new ladies - I hope your visit is short and sweet!
AFM - No news, just waiting for my first BT which is only on day 8 as I am taking femara for the first time so we have no idea how I will respond.
Hey guys,
Just jumping in for a sec to wish everyone well on their journey at the moment. I am on a cycle break inbetween stim and stim cycles as my crappy, day 3, fragmented, solo, embie (unsurprisingly) didnt make it. Trying not to think about IVF at all im my gap cycle, but just couldn't help jumping in to take a peek at how all you guys are doing!
Hi Ladies,
Just a quick note to let you all know that I've just heard that of my 6 eggies, only 2 fertilized despite using ICSI. Apparently the largest egg distintegrated during the insertion. The embryologist thinks that egg was from my "huge" follicle, which was already at 22 mm 4 days before EPU. It must have been too mature. She's still keeping an eye on the other 3 to see if any of them fertilize late, but it sounds like that is not very likely.
In the meantime, we've decided to move me up from a day 5 transfer to a day 3. The embryologist says that the thought is to try to culture the second embryo to blast. But, as I think things through, this leads me to a number of questions. First, if it gets to blast, can I transfer the 2nd embie then (ie, do two separate transfers in the one cycle -- one on day 3 and one on day 5)? Or do I *have* to freeze it (with the attendant risk of it dying during the freeze/thaw process)? Secondly, I was going to only transfer 1 embryo (assuming at least one survives to day 3), but now I'm thinking that, if they both live that long, maybe we should go ahead and transfer both of them at day 3 instead of playing around. Decisions, decisions! Any thoughts appreciated . . .
KitKat72
KitKat72 I have never heard them doing two transfers a few days apart. In theory it sounds like a good idea although I wonder if there is any chance that implabting the blastie could jeopadise the 1st transfer if it was starting to implant. Doesn't the blastie go into the uterus with some fluid so perhaps that could know the other out of the nest or something althhough by day5 it probably shouldn't have implanted. I can see decisions, decisions. Worth asking but I think they would probably say no. It would be good to know there reason behind not doing it anyway wouldn't it? I wish you have a few more fertilize although ti does only take one. Hopeing the two that are looking good now continue to grow and divide and be your future bubbas.
Leabie :dance: for your hatching emby been put back home. And :dance: for your 5 little snow bubs.
Mummawannabe hope everything goes smoothly for your next cycle and results in a sticky BFP.
Me probably bringing forward IVF till July/August now. Will see the Gyno in another 6weeks and see about starting. DH keeps changing his mind. He wanted to wait but when AF arrived last time he said no he doesn't. I think he the Gyno is suppose to put me on the pill first to make it all happen on a specific date as IVF Australia apparently only operates on certain days. I guess thats when the wait will really begin. I am looking forward to starting but nervous as about EPU and the following few days after waiting to see if we have anything to transfer. And wondering how much it will hurt having ovaries full of larger follies. Even one follie I can feel for a week before O what will it be like with lots more in there?
hi Girls,
kitkat - your situation sounds so similar to mine recently. I have had numerous ICSI procedures. My last cycle produced 11 eggs of which only two fertilised. I must say I was devastated. I had only ever had blastie transfers both fresh and frozen, one at a time, for no result. Because of my poor fertilisation rate my clinic this time suggested I have a day three transfer. With my two eggs they said one looked good at day three and the other didn't and was not likely to progress to the freezer. So we had the same big decision to make - transfer one or two. Eventually we decided to transfer them both. I couldn't bring myself to give up all together on one knowing it was unlikely to make it past day three but........ nobody knew for sure. And almost two weeks ago my test confirmed it had worked. I wont know how many stuck until my scan in a few weeks. What I hope to convey, after the toughest cycle emotionally we had success, after we had almost given up. Good luck with your decision kitkat, go with your gut feeling. fingers crossed for you. x
Just a quick one ...
Hi Kitkat,
It is tough when faced with a decision like yours. In regard to your question, I haven't heard of them doing 2 separate ET's in the one cycle.
Everyone is different, and you have probably already considered:
How comfortable you would be with having twins
Time/age and financial constraints
Your clinics freeze/thaw processes
Although blastocyst is becoming more prevelant, don't forget, many bubs have been and continue to be conceived with 3 day embies.
That's the tough thing about this whole process, we are all in different bodies and different situations, but I hope you are able to reach a decision you are comfortable with. :pray: your emby/ies continue to thrive.
To everyone else, Hope you are doing well.... ;)