LT TTC & Assissted Conception Mar-Apr 2010

woohoo brunette I do believe this is the first BFP I have ever witnessed in here woohoo congrats.
Melissa: yes headaches are not a good thing they seem to sort of get stronger and weaker like a wave through the day I have only been hvaing hot flushes at night time and I wake up in sweat pools. other than that I am super super emotionally teary. been having tear filled breakdowns at least oince a day. yes the things we do just to get that precious life changing pink line....
all worth it i'd do it a million times over if it meant getting it.
hello everyone else hope we see some more bfp's in here soon goodluck everyone fx for those in the tww list I know what you mean by dh/dp wanting to put us in cotton wool on strict bed rest I will be apparently for at least a week... am planning on making the baby presents for my sister and sister in laws soon coming bubs that should keep me busy

Hi Ladies,

I have been a little quiet this month, sorry. I have been sulking again since I got AF last Wednesday but I have been reading all the posts.

Congratulations Brunette, wishing you all the best for a Happy and Healthy pregnancy.

Now ladies I want to see lots more BFP.

Hi All,

New to this, so please forgive me for any mistakes!

Just background - this is my fourth attempt of IVF/ICSI and just had ET today. 12 eggs from 23 follicles.

Waiting for call tomorrow to hear fertilisation results. So glad drugs are over for now - my oestrogen levels really messed with me - have taken the past four days off work - couldn't concentrate and had anxiety issues.

Feeling very excited/nervous. Never had issue with eggs though - just the implantation part :wall:

Glad to find somewhere to discuss similar issues with and happy to offer any advice I can...
when I can....

Brunette and CK77 - congratulations!! What fantastic news for both of you.

Did either of you do anything different this cycle to get your BFP?

Cheers

CONGRATULATIONS BRUNETTE & CK77!!!!! :leap:

Wishing you both a wonderfully H&H 9 months.
What amazing results, you must be pinching yourself!!!

Girls, lets hope that this begins a multitude of BFP's in this thread. They have been so few and far between this year. :pink-babydust::bluedust:

congrats brunette and ck77.


i will do an update later as i am feeling lousy at the moment after getting 8 teeeth out yesterday :sick:

Hi lovely ladies

Brunette ~ BIG CONGRATULATIONS HUN! :dance: All the best for a H&H pregnancy. Hope its twins!

Trueblue ~ Hi hun. Hoping the Synarel etc arent mucking you around too much. Thinking of you and wishing you luck.

CK ~ Oh you made me laugh, cottage cheese - I certainly dont miss the Crinone, although I do wish I could do another stim and be UTD.

Chekigal ~ Welcome and wishing you all the very best with this 4th attempt, hope its the last time you have to do IVF, FX

Trubabe ~ Ouch, hoping your mouth recovers soon, you poor thing. And hope your mum is ok - hugs!

Melissa ~ Sorry you might have to wait a while, hoping you don't. I'm probably going to be in a similar boat and I hate to say it but even with the money someone so kindly and generously gave us, we are still struggling financially. Because we have tax bill from finishing up farming plus trying to sell our tractor still etc. We just want to get a lot of our debts out of the way first.

Danyelle and Lairdoz ~ Good to see you in here ladies. Hope you're hanging in there and enjoying life xo

K ~ Fingers X'd hun you get a good transfer and at least a few to freeze. Thinking of you, GL!

Hi to anyone ive missed and GL wherever you are on this TTC journey. :pink-babydust::bluedust:

AFM ~ Dont really know where Im at. AF still hasnt arrived and Ive been getting weird tummy pains. Hoping that maybe its a huge miracle and we've managed to get PG naturally. Highly doubtful though. Otherwise I guess AF is on her way and maybe its going to be a strong heavy one. I suppose if its not here by Sun/Mon I'll get a POAS. Either way I'll be happy because if AF comes as Ive said in the past i'll at least know my system is getting back to normal.

hi girls. I just wanted to say a huge thank you to all of you for your advice and support over my last cycle. I wish I had discovered you all years ago.

For no other reason but to give you all hope, I thought I'd let you know, yesterday I passed my test, after years of treatment. I was in a bad place and had all but given up, sometimes miracles happen.

To all of you keep your chins up & when you can't, pop in here, there is always someone here to help. Wishing you the very very very best of luck. x

woohoo for the BFP's. brunette and CK:clap: this is such good news. and we need to see some BFP's in here as it has been a while. :dance:

sorry i've been slack, just hate AF and feeling yuk.:wall:
sad i had to postpone our next cycle but know that the stress of it all would have been too much. come on may. woohoo

sorry no personals.

chat soon all

Chekigal - welcome! I hope you get some good news today regarding the fertilisation.

Trea - What did I do differently this time around? I feel kind of bad saying it, but it was my first cycle. I know that's a success story (especially if the next couple of months are smooth sailing and bub is healthy), but in a way it makes me feel guilty that there are so many strong women on here, all doing the right things (dropping weight if overweight, putting some on if underweight, eating pregnancy diets, cutting out caffeine and sugar (me), giving up smoking) yet the BFP eludes them.
But to answer your question, what I did was: laparoscopy was Oct 09, Fibroid and Endo removed. 2 x Hysteroscopies. I decided that I would go to a fertility acupuncture specialist, and started that about a fortnight before my EPU. He did say that ideally I should have been having acupuncture at least a month or two beforehand. I had acu just before EPU and then a couple of hours after ET, with more acu every week.
I tried to keep up my 3ltrs of water/powerade a day and as much protein as I could (although I got sick of chicken breasts, so drank a lot of sustagen instead). I had lukewarm showers (instead of the scalding hot ones that I love) and did not use any heat packs on my belly for fear that it would raise my temp too high.
After ET the heaviest thing I lifted was a basket of clothes when doing laundry, and the most strenuous task was vacuuming and mopping. My job keeps me on my backside at least 5 hours a day. All I can say is thank god I'm not a cattle farmer!
So I guess I probably didn't do anything different to what everyone else does each cycle. I tried to remain positive as much as I could even though DH and I had some cracking barneys and I was probably a bit too stressed for my liking. I spoke to the little blastie probably every 5 minutes telling it that both Mummy and Daddy was so looking forward to holding it in roughly 8mths, and that the little darling was going to have it's own nursery with everything a baby could ever want (note to self, must put in a lotto to pay for said furnishings!). Reading what others have done, it sounds like we all talk to the embryo and rub our bellies sending our love to it.

What have you been doing for your cycles? Pretty much the same?

Chrissy.

OMG, I just typed the longest post ever, individually thanking everyone for their congrats, and asking questions and answering some and it just disappeared! I think I got logged out because I took too long. Damn it. I am at work so will have another go at it tonight.

Can I just say for now thank you to all the lovely ladies who have taken the time to post and say congrats. It means a lot, and being a multiple cycler I was starting to lose the faith and thought I might never get to this stage. Hang in there and don't lose hope. I just know there are many more wonderful BFPs that will come from you lovely ladies!

kmm did I read right have you just added to the bfp list? 3 bfp's in on week wow hopefully this is the start of a flood of bfp's.
saw the nurse today and saw the needles for the first time today just about fell over the back of the chair and needed to change my undies I really hate needles but all for the greater good just can't wait to have all injections over and done with thankfully woohoo took my last pill today still geting headaches and poor dh is coping alot of my emotional mood swings. The nurse said some of the sypmptoms will ease when I start the injections but then get worse agaoin so a break in all of that will be good. I think my period is coming full flow which will be good get it out of my system as I have now been spotting for what feels like a million years then my body can go back to normalish for a bit.
hope top log on tommorrow and see another bfp who else is waiting to find out?

trublue - drink lots of milk and water - it is supposed to help with the emotions!

kmm, congrats!! :clap:

So, we saw our FS this afternoon. Predictably, he said our highest chance of success was with another IVF. Since I'm 8dpo today we had the option of starting immediately for a May cycle. So, we picked up the synarel on the way out and I'm supposed to start sniffing tonight. But, I'm going to be bad and hold out until morning and POAS first (just in case, you never know your luck)... I'm not going to hold my breath (especially since it'd be 9dpo), but I just feel better about doing it that way. Besides, I've started the synarel at 9dpo in the past and it has worked fine.

Congrats to those who recently had BFP results - how exciting!!!

Well fertilisation resulted in 5 going well.... four didn't make it and 3 not mature enough.

Five seems to be my number - each time I have got 5 - no matter what!

Just keeping fingers crossed this time...

On the other hand - feeling very sore from ET - this is the worst ever :jawdrop:

My b'day today - cant seem to get into the celebratory mood atm but have been spoilt - have a great hubby!:lol:

danyelle - how did you find the Prednisolone - I have been prescribed this too if all goes well and I have a ET

Has anyone discussed with their partner a limit to all of this, all of the attempts and surgerys and drugs and heart break? I think about it more and more often with each failed cycle, or new diagnoses...

Have decided that five tries is all that I have in me - I am currently on the fourth try... the drugs take a lot out of me and the $$ also plays a role...

Just caught up on all posts...

Brunette, Kmm, CK77 - CONGRATS!! Wishing you all the very best.

K78 - hope all is going well - good luck for tomorrow.

Loops 12 - hope you are feeling better.

Trubabe - hope you are also feeling better and that the mouth is recovering OK

To everyone else :loveshower:

Wishing everyone well with wherever things are at. x