Saffy- Whoo is it transfer day today? How did they do? Good luck sweetie
Tilygirl - I'm with the others, Clomid sucks it did nothing for me at all. As for having to be in the right head space I don't think that matters either, I have been positive, negative and indifferent and learnt that the TTC gods basically don't care they'll do what they want anyway. That said a break is always good and has often helped me to come back a bit refreshed ready to fight on. We all over think this stuff because we are just so committed to it, it is kind of hard not to.
Andie- I knew our AFs were off hanging out together I hope the yucky herbs and fish oil do the trick for you really soon.
Joeve - What day is EPU? Is is today?
Tasha - Good to see your name sweetie. I'm so sorry this journey has thrown you yet another curve ball but we are here for you any time
AFM- Well big news here sort of. I saw FS last wednesday and he has booked me for my Lap for 1st May. I was worried I'd have to shift it as AF was not showing up but she arrived in the night so its all systems go and my mum is coming down to look after me. Thats not the big bit. I asked FS what my honest chances are of a take home baby at my age and he said 10%, that is all, 10%, I was gutted! That means of 100 women aged 40-44 doing IVF only 10 get a baby, 90 get nothing! After a while of being completely flattened by the news I decided those were not good enough odds for me so I have decided to use an egg donor. I have 3 possible donors and I hit the first one up yesterday. She is 28, is a good friend and has a daughter. She said she will think about it but also needs to talk to her doc as she has very bad ebndo and PCOS and needs to know if the drugs will make any of that worse. I also need to check with my FS if that will affect her egg quality or EPU in any way. If she says no then I will ask the partner of the young donor I used a while back. She is only 22 and has 2 children. It will be trickier as she lives over an hour from my clinic but there is a sister clininc half hour from her I'm sure we can coordinate with. If not her then my bestie has already agreed to donate but she lives 2 hours away and there is no QLD fertility clinic near her so not sure what happens there. She is also 35 (only just) smokes and drinks. She also smokes pot which suprisingly according to all my google research has no impact on female fertility at all! Maybe we should all get stoned regularly I'm sure we'd all be a lot more relaxed about all this . So there's my news. I'd love to hear any success stories of donor egg babies if anyone knows any. According to the pregnancy predictor online my chance with either of the first 2 girls eggs shifts me to near 50% chance and with my besties to 25%, far more encouraging . I'll keep you posted.
Good news sunbeam- glad the 28yo is thinking about it. Lots of potentials. Iinteresting about the pot, I never really used to do that but I drank alot in my twenties and wonder if that has affected my eggs. 50% and 25% sound better than 10%! Good news about af too.
I got 3 out of 3 eggs fertilised dh is feeling proud of his swimmers, so now for transfer today, I always feel so nervous waiting for hte embryologist ot come in and deliver the verdict on the embies, I'm not expecting them all to get to this stage but hopefully 2 have so I can transfer them both, ekkk scary. Its at 1pm so send me your good vibes then.
Hi all,
I hope you don't mind me popping in. I haven't forgotten you all and still read all your posts. I just had to post because there's so much exciting stuff going on in here.
Joeve - congrats on your first EPU, so excited for you!! Fertilise eggies!!!
Saffy - Yay for being PUPO with 2 embies. I have my fingers crossed so hard for you!!
Sunbeam - good on you for doing your research and coming up with what sounds like a great plan. You must have amazing friends
Lot's of love to Andie, Tasha, Minnie and Tilygirl - looking forward to hearing good news from you all soon!
Hey girls we got 8 mature eggs which I was happy with after our hormone crisis last week that nearly stalled the process!! Fingers crossed we get some fertilized
saffy - great to hear you had 2 to transfer, and maybe even 1 as a backup - fingers crossed. i will be checking the tww thread for any developments... best of luck.
joeve - hope you're feeling ok after your epu & resting up, im sure you're being fussed over and pampered at home! hoping your eggs & sperm are busy making friends tonight.
sunbeam - wow, big news - you have been busy! i hope you get your choice of donor, although sounds like you have a couple of back up's on hand. sounds promising.
Wow, it's so quiet in here! I think most of us have headed to the LT TWW thread. Well I am almost there, currently CD10, should O in the next 4 or so days and then I will see you all in the TWW. I ended up deciding to give the Clomid another go this month. And I am committed to a DTD schedule (how romantic). As for being in the right head space, who knows. I may never truly be in the right space again, I am changed forever. I don't want to miss my chance of conceiving hoping my head will catch up. Like Sunbeam said, I have been completely confident, positive and in a good head space for other pregnancies and it didn't make a difference to the outcome.
So I am sucking it up and plowing ahead for know!
Sunbeam yay for lap things are happening for you! We had 4 fertilize and all were doing well at day 3, I am prepared for a different result tomorrow and hope we have at least 1 for transfer
Sunbeam- good luck for tomorrow!! Hope it goes really well, don't be nervous. I completely forgot to ring and check how our last embryo went, so I will wait for the letter, not expecting great things and really over this whole process. Let us know how you go with lap and hope you get ot rest up. xx
saffy - congrats on your frozen blast, what a nice surprise! i hope the tww is kinder to you this time around. fingers crossed for you & joeve.
joeve - congrats on getting to transfer & i hope your tww flies by. i will be stalking both you and saffy for any signs, symptoms, sneaky poas etc.
tilygirl - im glad you sorted out a plan. i can only imagine how hard jumping back into ttc would be for you, but i guess we have to be in it to win in. you are braver than i am atm. best of luck.
sunbeam - best of luck for your lap tomorrow. (did i miss something - are they looking for something in particular, or just a routine lap to make sure everythings ok?)
afm - just plodding along, cd 11 today. been thinking i should get back to ivf soon... just coasting on herbs & supplements atm. think i have been living in denial a bit & putting ttc on the backburner. providing my cycle sorts itself out this cycle, i will book a FET for next month. eeeek....
I hope the yucky herbs and fish oil do the trick for you really soon.
. So there's my news. I'd love to hear any success stories of donor egg babies if anyone knows any. According to the pregnancy predictor online my chance with either of the first 2 girls eggs shifts me to near 50% chance and with my besties to 25%, far more encouraging
. I'll keep you posted.
dh is feeling proud of his swimmers, so now for transfer today, I always feel so nervous waiting for hte embryologist ot come in and deliver the verdict on the embies, I'm not expecting them all to get to this stage but hopefully 2 have so I can transfer them both, ekkk scary. Its at 1pm so send me your good vibes then.
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