LT TTC & Assissted Conception Mar-Apr 2010

Hi Ladies
Keeping it short but just wanted to say that I hope 3's the charm too. 3rd time lucky for all of us who've done 2 goes so far!!

Im having a change next time too, so that we can hopefully get more eggies to freeze. I wont be doing down reg next time, I'll be doing more injections. My friend had a dream a while back that we would get there on our third attempt, I hope it comes true.

GL all!

Trubabe ~ Im glad your mum was finally able to have the surgery and I hope she recovers well and can concentrate on beating the cancer etc. Wishing you and your family all the best - hugs xo

Hi girls

kmm - GL with your pick up, I hope you're feeling a bit better now than when you started the injections

m2b - *hugs*

melttc and loops - I hope a change is exactly what you need FX

AFM - suffering a little bit after EPU with some bloating and pain. Yesterday got the day 3 call from the embryologist and all 12 that fertilised on day 1 were still growing. So we're pretty happy about that, but they did say that between day 3-5 is when they do all the hard work so we need to expect a drop in that number, but from 12 I'm reasonable confident that we will still get a good number to freeze. My clinic have a one cycle off deal, but we are going overseas at the beginning of July so I'm pretty sure that we won't be able to fit a FET cycle in before then given that if it takes they do blood tests up to seven weeks.

Hope everyone is having a good week.

Mel

thank you everyone.mum has been doing ok.she is supposed to be going back to theatre sometime today to wash out when they operated and if nothing is "growing" then they will stitch her up.hopefully will get her up on her foot thursday if its been stitched.all her drs (infectious dept,oncology,surgeons) all decided that they should keep her in hospital til her mastectomy as a precaution.......duhhhh i been saying that to her for over a week.so her mastectomy is 2 weeks thursday and they previously said a week in following it so at present looks like she has at least 3 weeks still in hospital.DP and i are hoping to pay her a surprise visit over the weekend as i have had flu that i have only just shaken i had been advised not to visit her while i had it.

How is everyone else doing?

trubabe, I'm glad to hear she's doing ok. I'm sure she'll appreciate the surprise visit. You still on for your lap tomorrow? If so, good luck! :goodluck:

mellybelly, sounds great! FX you have plenty to freeze!

yes juniper all systems are still go for my lap.thank you.
mums just been cancelled for surgery today :@ written complaints will be getting lodged.
her blood sugar levels have been outta whack today too.she has been fasting for about 3 and a half days since midnight friday

Hey lovely ladies,

Thanks for all the support - it really means a lot.

Brunette ~ Thanks for a great lunch yesterday - it was great to be able to chat face to face!!

Loops ~ I'm banking on your 'third time lucky'!! Everything is crossed for you!!

trubabe ~ GL with your lap today. I hope you recover quickly!!

mellybelly81 ~ that's great that they are all doing well! Is your FS taking them to Blasto? When is your ET scheduled for?

kmm ~ good luck with your EPU on Friday/Saturday (I hope you weren't planning to go away for easter!!) - Let us know how many eggies they see in your scan today!

melttc ~I hope you get some answers from your FS on Tuesday. Who is your FS?

Renee ~ Thanks sweet. Have you o'ed yet? I guess it is just a waiting game for you now to get onto your regular cycle? I hope your body gets back to normal soon so you can do your FET.

juniper76 ~ Thanks - after reading your post I don't feel so silly about how I feel. Thanks heaps!

Mummawannabe ~ how did your ET go? How are you feeling?

AFM ~ AF has ended now, so its now a lot easier to move on to the next FET. I'm going into see FS next Wednesday for a BT (day 12) and I guess he will let me know if I should skip this month (April) and let my body get back to normal, or whether we should do it this month (it would be scheduled for around 14 April - provided that my body is acting normally!!).

Are there any thoughts about whether one should go straight into a FET after a stim or whether I should wait a month? The thing that worries me is that at the begining of April I'm away on business on and off and one of my trips I won't fly back into brisbane until the night of the 13th of April.

hello loverly ladies.
Wow so much to read.
Trubabe: what a mess with your mum hope that the doctors organise themselves and everything goes good for your mum.
Mum 2 B: So sorry to hear od your loss it's normal to grieve.
Loops: Third time will be lucky plus you guys are going on a little holiday so you'll be super super relaxed after wards whichc should make a massive difference should make little bubba stick.
MellY" Goodluck chick
hello to everyone else who i have forgotten mind is all ovwer the place atm with cows calving left roight and centre. definately keeping us very very busy and on our tippy toes.
I finally got hold of the nurse after playing phoine tag for two days and we finally have our dates I keep taking the pill until the 20th april. I start on the nasal spray on the 16th april (any tips for this ladies would be very much appreciated. I have to do one in the morning and one at night) then I start the injections on the 28th april. I have a bt roughly on the 6th may and then a U/s on the 7th may (loops did mac send you to sale for the U/S?) then they'll tell me what day the following week we'll be doing the transfer. Phew am really excited that it's finally happening and we won't be in limbo for much longer.
Othyerwise have been great just body has other ideas atm strongly suggesting that af should be coming af back pain bad and very very very tender nipples hope it doesn't last too much longer.
Goodluck everyone on your current and next cycles hopefully we can have some more bfp's in here.

Trubabe ~ GL with your Lap hun, hope they clear you out if anything there.

Mum-2-be ~ Thanks and everything crossed for you too hun!!

Trueblue ~ thanks chicky. Yep the holiday to Tassie will be great - I can't wait. We go ON 10TH May - so not too far away.
GL with the Synarel - you get used to it the more and more you do it, not very pleasant at the start. Yes I went to Sale for everything apart from the initial consultations with Mac which were at Traralgon consult suites and BT's done at any Gipps Pathology venues.
All U/S's, EPU's and ET's were done at Sale.
FX for you guys!!

AFM ~ trying not to think too much about TTC although as we all know that is near impossible and planning trip to Tasmania. Then hopefully do another Stim cycle in July. In the mean time always hoping for natural miracle of course.

GL all!! xo

Hi girls

m2b - my clinic says at least one cycle to get all hormones back to normal and give your body a rest. Its their standard practice to go to blastie stage (but I think they consider day 3 in certain circumstances)

Thanks everyone for your words of support. Have been waiting patiently for the lab to call about my embies, but got sick of it and have just called them myself. I have six they will freeze today, BUT three of them were ones that they originally didn't think had fertilised, so their quality is questionable. They will check again tomorrow and if any of the remaining ones are suitable they will freeze as day 6 blasties. So a good result to have 6, but a little disappointing that out of 23 harvested (and the reason I couldn't do a transfer this cycle) there are potentially only 3 good ones.

Does anyone know about the quality of late starters and day 6 embies?

Mel

All the best for your lap trubabe. Hope you can have a good visit with your mum - can't believe how she's getting messed around.

6 is great Melly!

Yay to get out of limbo trueblue

m2b, I'd be impatient to go again, but maybe it's good to let your body 'rest'...? I guess it depends what your body is doing and your doc will have his own ideas no doubt.

Hi everyone else - hope you're all travelling well

And me... tomorrow is the day... April Fool's - figures!

Hi Ladies,
MellyBelly 81 - I know it might seem dissapointing that you only got 3, but this means that these are the ones most likely to be pregnancies. There are SOOOO many slower growing embies out there that turned into healthy human beings - the quicker ones tend to become boys (male to female ratio is much higher for blasts) so it's maybe just your little girl taking her time to make sure she is just right :)

Loops - great to hear you are having a break, so lovely to have something to look forward to.

Mum-2-Be - I'm so sorry for your loss. I understand as we all do how awful, awful, awful this process is. I highly recommend taking a month off after a stim, I am currently on my month off and am enjoying this forced break as I haven't thought about getting pregnant in about a week which is impossible while you are on this rollercoaster! Big hug to you and support for whatever you decide xx

Hi to all you other lovely ladies. I'm sorry we haven't had some good news in here recently as this is one group of ladies who deserve it.

AFM - Went to FS today, changed from clomid to femara to help to ovulate for my FET's and his suggestion was rather than putting 2 embies back in that we take out two of my day 3 embies ( I have 2 x day 3 and 4 x blasties) then see which one looks the best and only put one back in. He said it helps get through the embies quicker without risking twins. I am kind of happy because he thinks I am too 'young' to have to think about having 2 embies put back in as I really don't want twins (I turn 35 in a couple of weeks). I know that I am really lucky to have any frozen embies to even make this decision but it still feels like a big gamble.

Hey everyone,

Since my last post we had a DAY 3 transfer of a 5 cell embie, as out of the 3 that fertilised they were worried that none may make it to DAY 5 blastie. Lucky they went ahead with that as I found out today (DAY 5) that the other two lil ones didnt make it. Apparently yesterday they were at 4 cells each, but fragmented, and arrested by this morning.

So disappointed to have gone through a stim cycle and ended up with only one DAY 3 (scrapping the bottom of whats acceptable for DAY 3) embie!

Thinking it was better to be like last time and get OHSS and at least have two blasties for FET than this!

I have my fingers crossed for this lil one and know that babies can result from such, but can't help but feel like its very unlikely.

Loops12 - Thanks for your FX!

Mellybelly81 - whats the update on your DAY 6 embies?

Kmm - good luck with your EPU!

Anyone got any ideas of what they might do differently next time to try and achieve better quality? So far i have had 125ml of puregon for stim cycle 1 = 15 eggs (2 blasties)& OHSS and 100ml of puregon for stim cycle 2 = 3 mature eggs (1 day 3 embie).

Mellybelly ~ thanks hun. Unfortunately that's the trouble with doing blasties, you tend to lose a lot of them. Both IVF stim cycles we have had none to freeze. So 3 to me is good, although I can see how you'd be disappointed with being down to 3 from 23. I will have FX for you that you the others hang in there and you get six to freeze. GL! Day 6 embies I believe should be very good quality.

Marcellus ~ Good luck tomorrow. April fools is only for people that want to play jokes LOL. You'll be fine!

Lairdoz ~ thanks hun, yeh Im really happy to have something exciting to think about.
Sounds like your FS knows what he's talking about and if you know that you dont want twins then that sounds like a good option to me. Im happy you have a few frozen. All the best!

Mummawannabe ~ Really hoping this one sticks for you. If not successful, I hope they can work out a way to get more embies but with no OHSS. I can't really help because Ive only ever had 6 or 7 eggs collected even when they increased my Puregon. Everyone is different but Im sure you'll get your BFP soon. :pray: for you.

AFM ~ gotta have another BT tomorrow to see if HCG is down to 0. If so I wont have to have curette. Hopefully it will be my last needle for couple of months - im sick of being a pin cushion LOL.

hi guys, just a quick one today from work, oops.LOL

have been so busy and dh and i had a couple of days in melb last week for a quick break. ringing the clinic today to make sure they organise synerel for me. looks like i'll be start sniffing on 7th or so.
EPU 1st or 2nd may and ET 3rd or 4th of may. thats our guess.

i am so excited, nervous, but excited mostly. this time it doesn't seem as real as we've had a break for so long. over a year now.

got fingers and toes crossed. sorry for no personals. i'll catch up with everyone soon.

Hey hey chickies. Just a little quickie from me today - so so sooooo tired. Of you girls that have done a medicated FET cycle, did you suffer from craaazy fatigue? I am absolutely pooped, went to bed at 8.15 last night :redface:!! In saying that, I know that I will stress way less with drugs than if I was going natural. FET should be scheduled for the week of April 12th and we are going all out with acupuncture plus osteopath and massage as recommended by my acupuncturist. Gonna be a tad p!ssed if our 1 little emby doesn't survive the thaw after all this cos it don't come cheap!!!
Will write a few persies when I regain a bit of energy (hopefully over Easter when I can get some much wanted sleep :lol:)

Not too sure if there is anyone left in here that would remember me but just wanted to pop in and say hi to all, good luck with current cycles and Happy Easter

Melissal: I've done 2 medicated FET and can relate to this somewhat - but more after the transfer (When i turned out to be pregnant.) Early to bed doesn't hurt anyone! FX for you!

Loops12: Good luck with your final (FX) blood test. Do you have them with S&N? I have them with them and after 4 per calendar year I get a card which I show each time I have a blood test and I get all applicable tests bulk billed. (Haven't come across one that hasn't been bulk billed yet)

Has anyone had any experience with DHEA to improve egg quality? A friend told me that it helps activate dorment follies?

Melissal - I'm doing an HRT FET and have been very tired since about the second week. Have been having nanna naps most days and early nights. Hope your little embie hangs in there.

That's great news JBM - fingers crossed that this is the one for you

MWB - :goodluck: for your little embryo. I'm sure if they transferred it then it must stand a fighting chance.

Hope the test came out right for you today Loops

Sounds like a good plan Lairdoz!

And me....well I passed my test :)
Pleeeeaase let there be some more bfps in here soon - I'll be 'watching over' you all and waiting for your good news.....
And sorry for being so crap as List Master. :redface:

ETA - Oh, and happy easter!

Hi girls

marcy - I love the name change!;) yay for your test. I am pretty sure I will be doing a HRT FET when I do mine too, so that's good to know of a side affect in advance

jbm - good luck with starting the cycle

loops - have you got your BT results yet?

AFM - DH got the call from the lab today (we're not sure why, we think maybe they are trying to share it between the cpl instead of it just being about person having all the procedures) and there were two more blasties that they froze today. So all up that's 8, which is a success rate of a third, so we're pleased. I feel a bit bad for my whingeing about only getting three when I know we were damn lucky to even have that many so for that I'm sorry girls.

On another note, I think I am finally getting on the better side of my OHSS, so hopefully I will be able to go back to sleeping in my own bed and only drink 2L a day instead of 3.

Sorry to anyone I missed and I hope you all have a good Easter!

Mel

Melly - awesome news about your 8 frozen embies!!! Don't feel bad about feeling disappointed about their progress though - I think when you start out wih such a brillian result, your expectations are that much higher and when things don't work so well after, it is a huge blow. With our stim cycle, we were really excited when I had 20 massive follies and were expecting great things. We only got 13 eggs from that and only 4 fertilised properly so we felt pretty crushed after that because we expected too much. So, what I'm trying to ramble across is what you are feeling is perfectly natural AND you have 8 snowbubs which is fanastic - GL for your FET hun
Marcy - love your new name, just wondering how I go about changing my user name? And thanks for the vote of confidence that yes, medicated FET do make you tired, I thought maybe I was being a big sook!!!!
MWB - thanks as well re FET. Might have to toughen up a bit cos if I'm tired now, hate to think what I' be like if this emby survives the thaw and sticks :lol:!!! Sorry, can't help you on your DHEA question but am curious to know if anyone else knows something
Loops - hey there hun, hope you are doing ok and that your BT came back with a nice fat zero
JBM - hoping that your big long break has grown you some lovely healthy eggies just waiting to make you some lovely embies!! Good luck for this cycle and hoping its the one for you
Me - feels so good to be actively doing something ttc-wise again. I've really struggled the last cycle as it felt so hopeless and I felt so useless, specially with my family all falling preggers like rabbits. I really hate that this journey makes us so sensitive to other peoples' good news. Anywho, hoping you all have a lovely Easter, lucky old me - I get to work nights for the whole thing!!!! Can't wait ;)

just a quick note to say congratulations to Melly & Marcy. wonderful! good luck everybody else. I'm off for my pick up tomorrow. I'm so anxious, last time was awful and I'm dreading the procedure. happy Easter everyone x

:hooray: Melly! That's awesome news

Melissal - if you go to user control panel and scroll down the options down the left hand side, there's a link to change username. You put in your request there, and when admin have time they will approve it for you.

Hope tomorrow goes smoothly for you kmm :goodluck:

The name was supposed to be an April Fool's joke... hmmmm, maybe i'll keep it

Hi girls

marcy - you have to keep it! lol

GL for tomorrow kmm

melissa - I know what you mean about feeling bad about how sensitive we get. I was dreading a really good friend's baby shower last Saturday and ultimately I legitimately "got out of it" because of the EPU on Friday and the OHSS, but I felt horrible for not going. I'm so glad you are feeling good about being back on the ttc wagon... when you know its unlikely a natural miracle will occur its hard to not feel useless isn't it? :( about working nights :(

oh and thanks for the congrats. we are now looking at the cost of freezing and trying to work out where we can move some money from! does anyone know if there's any rebate from medicare for freezing?

Hi Ladies,

Mellybelly81, With my clinic the cost for freezing is $150 every six months and I don't get anything back from medicare.

To be honest with you I am really annoyed that the Government changed Medicare. Because of the changes I can no longer afford to do any more Fresh IVF cycles. I have a few eggs in storage and once they're finished that's it for me. :(

AFM I have transfer tommorrow :) so hears hoping that the Prednisolone/Clexane and Cartia will do the trick. I think I am on the maximum things you can take to try to get pregnant.

Have a Happy Easter everyone and good luck everyone.

danyelle: good luck chick fx this is it for you hopefully the easter bunny delivers the right kind of egg.
Melly: woohoo fx
Mel: Hope your feeling hepas more energetic soon.
Hello to everyone I have forgotten memory not so good this week I have cow and calf numbers running through it which is good means the 16th will be here before we know it. looking forward to my two days off. and the end of daylight savings.
Just q quick question when taking the pregnyl injections what sort of side effects can you have? the psychologist said that I should have too many problems cause I really only had hot flushes with the clomid but my body is very weird so just wondering what everyone else experienced?

Trueblue, With Pregnyl for me the side effects are the sore boobs and cramping, so basically the pregnancy signs but after 15 months I have now learnt not to get my hopes up and just wait till the pregnancy blood tests.

Hi ladies
Just a quick one to say HAPPY EASTER. Im at work today and tomorrow but looking forward to Sun/Mon off. Thats the trouble with Tourism its our busy time and oh boy has it been busy!

Hope everyone has a great Easter and stay safe and well.
GL to everyone with all stages of the TTC journey!

Melissa ~ FX hun! Good luck sweetie

Trueblue ~ hi hun. Pregnyl gives lots of preg symptoms such as sore boobs esp and perhaps nausea. Maybe headaches. Try not to worry though, just be excited your on your way. Will be thinking of you chicky - all the best.

AFM ~ havent got BT results yet or AF, probably because its good Friday but my nurse said she will more than likely call me Sat (tomorrow). I have a lot of CM at the moment so maybe AF is coming late though or perhaps Im ovulating. My body has been so all over the place lately I dunno where Im up to.
Thanks for all your thoughts and wishes everyone xo

Hi all

Happy Easter. Just a quick note to say how proud i am of myself. My family have come up to visit us this week end. Included in this family is my 18yr old brother and his 19yr old girlfriend who has a four 1/2 month old baby girl (which is not my brothers). She is beautiful but it is so hard watching them together. They are staying with us as well, but i have just done the lunchtime feed and changed the poo nappy and put her to bed. It is hard because Lucy (the mum) is so unsure what to do still and when to do it. I think it is a good thing for me to have to suck it up! Sorry had to rant to you guys cause i can't to the fam!!!

good luck today Danyelle. fingers crossed for you. well done Renee it's tough when you're in that boat. I had my pick up this morning & it wasn't anything like my last pick up, which was nice. I had eleven eggs. more than I've had before. good luck everybody. x

Happy Easter to everyone cycling!

Just a quick post today.

First up, big shout out to m2b. Lunch last week was great. Hi to Juniper, too. We should all aim to catch up somewhere that suits us all soon.

I totally agree with the comments about how tired you get doing a HRT FET. I had all these plans for the work I wanted to get done over Easter, and so far we've done nothing more than see a couple of movies :redface:

Congrats to those ladies who have had their EPUs. Any embies frozen is great, so well done!

AFM, for those who remember, I had my HSG a little over a week ago. As suspected, there were no blockages. It wasn't the dye they used first that was too bad, it was the lipiodol that followed. I felt blown up like a balloon. Little barbaric that they put a canula in beforehand for pain relief if I needed it - um, yes! - but if I took it I'd have to stay in the hospital for an hour afterwards! We have our ET tomorrow, yep, Easter Monday at 7 am! So early considering everything our FS wants us to do about 2-3 hours beforehand, if you get my drift ... The scientists have taken two snowbubs out and in their words they are `goodlooking'. Must take after their mother! :D

Enjoy eating guilt-free chocolate; it is Easter after all!

Hi Ladies,

Brunette: Good luck with your transfer on Monday

kmn: Excellent results - 11 eggs :)

Renee: Wow, I am so proud of you. I don't know how I would react in that situation.

Loops12: How are you going ? did you get the results back from Blood test ?

Had my transfer yesterday, 1 x 7 cell and 1 x 9 cell (Day 3 Embryo's). Everything went well. My Dr asked me have I had any side effects from the prednisolone and I told her nothing but My cough that I had for the last 8 months has gone.

To all you lovely ladies, Have a lovely day with your family.

Happy Easter ladies..

Brunette – I have my fingers crossed for your tfr on Monday. How many days are your snowbubs?


KMM – That is an Eggcellent result!!!! (sorry :redface: Dorky sense of humour) I hope you are feeling good and I’m glad to hear that your experience was better than last time. What was different from last time? I was sedated on my first EPU. My new clinic does not sedate you so I am curious as to how different the experience will be.

Renee – I feel for you. I too am surrounded by babies and am asked often “Aren’t you feeling clucky?”. Sometimes I just come out and tell people we are trying which pretty much keeps them from asking again and other times I just can’t be bothered. Good on you for taking charge

Loops – How did you go with your BT’s?

Danyelle – Well done for your transfer. Those embies sound terrific.

True blue – I haven’t had pregnyl but have found other meds to have varying effects. Mainly mood swings and tiredness but the mood swings are probably more to do with this rollercoaster that we are all on.

Trubabe – Did you manage to catch up with your Mum? I hope she is doing OK. How are you recovering from your lap? What a couple of full on months you have had. My thoughts are with you.

Mellybelly – 6 is wonderful. Especially being Day 6!!.

Juniper – How are you feeling? What is your next step?

Mum to be – Hope your appointment goes well on Wednesday. I suppose too it might depend as to whether you will require a medicated FET. If it turns out you do have to wait (which I know many clinics are in favour of)there are some positives as travelling on a work schedule and trying to work around it may be quite stressful. (Although I know exactly how frustrating it is to have to take time off TTC, believe me.)

Marcellus (or is it MMATFB?) – How are you travelling. Where are you up to?

Lairdoz – When is your FET scheduled for? That sounds like a good plan (twins is a little bit daunting) and it is important to be comfortable with your decision.

Mumwannabe – I have my fingers and toes crossed for you that your little embie is a sticky one. I have read many success stories on Day 3 embies. Please don’t give up hope.
I can’t really help with your question but I had 12 eggs at EPU with low fertilisation rate (7) and 1 x Day2 ET and 1 x Day 3 FET. I was at risk of OHSS (levels to 15,000+) My new FS is aiming for less eggs at EPU but of better quality with a higher fertilisation rate. I am taking vitamins and have DH on menevit and am considering ICSI. Am considering accupuncture also but am not sure if that will do anything in that department. My FS is supportive in regard to accupuncture but not in regard to herbs as they could interfere with other medication I am on, I feel the same way.

JBM – GL for next week. It is exciting to be starting a cycle, one step futher in your journey to acheive your dream.

Melissal – Fingers crossed for your little embie. Hopefully the meds are easing your stress in regard to timing.

Mollygirl – Hope you have a safe and Happy Easter.

To anyone I’ve missed...:hello:

AFM – Am still crazy tired with meds, and well just plain crazy (DH is getting a sneak preview of Menopause – lucky him!) Going for Monthly shot#2 next week. Two more months of this to go before starting a fresh cycle. It is sooooo frustrating.

Wishing you all a wonderful and safe Easter and that ALL your eggies (chocolate and otherwise) are plentiful and of great quality!

I haven't seen any babydust in here for a while... so here is my Easter gift to you all...

:bluedust::pink-babydust::bluedust::pink-babydust::bluedust::pink-babydust:

hi Everyone, hope you are having a lovely Easter.

tantee - I'm not sure what was different really. I did have gonal f instead of puregon (and a higher dose). I had more follicles and eggs. I mentiond to FS when he asked how I recovered last time that I felt horrible post pick up. He explained that it was a fine line. this time I did 'feel' more of the procedure, but it definately wasn't unbearable. and when it was all done I was sitting up with a cup of tea. the recovery nurse said it is not uncommon for each cycle to be different. fingers crossed that you too will have a better time next time around.

in advance I'm sorry I have my miserable pants on. I just had a call from the clinic and sadly only two of eleven eggs have fertilised. after having icsi again we are really disappointed. I can't help but feel quite negative about the success of this cycle. to think all of this could have been for nothing again. the clinic said they may look at a day three transfer. I wonder if anybody had any advice re day three, if you were in my situation and had two doubtful day three embryos would you transfer both, if you knew they were unlikely to make it to day five?

to everybody I have missed, I'm wishing you the very very very best of luck. we haven't told family or friends so it's nice to be able to off load to understanding ears. thank you. x

hi guys

i just don't seem to be getting the time to get on here lately, now it is getting closer to the time for me to start my 2nd full stim cycle IVF/ ICSI, when i need to be on here, i am just so busy.

nothing new happening ATM. not long now til things start happening.

phoning clinic on tue to organise syneral

then we're off

Hey kmn

Honey, I only ever transfer day 3's.

Have a read of the quotes from my thread of some very happy Day 3 Transfer.

You can find all this information in my Thread, so when you have a chance grab a cuppa and have a read.

https://www.bellybelly.com.au/forums...fferently.html

This is from Dusty but I am sure she would not mind me putting this up for you to read. Dusty is now 23 weeks pregnant. After TTC for 5 years

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Hi Danyelle

This cycle we did ET with a day 2 embryo as both my own cycles & my sister's did not result in strong or any blastocysts so we all decided they were better off growing in me than a petri dish.
Like Ce it was my 7th transfer (all mine were fresh transfers) so sometimes it's just persistence & the tweaking of treatment over time that works. IVF is a numbers game & the more attempts increases your odds. That can be hard for many LTers but nature is fickle so have faith & help your body & mind is the best I can offer.
Wishing you the very best outcome soon sweetie.
Xx

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This is from HollyBolly Who is currently 32 weeks pregnant:

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Hi Danyelle,

SO - stim cycle #6 August 2009 (the current pregnancy), what we did;

* Antagonist cycle - had pregnyl boosters throughout to help with the progesterone level, along with double the usual pessaries, twice a day.
We also used the drug Luveris to help with egg quality.
For the first time in any of my cycles, I asked to have a day 2 transfer - I've only ever had day 5-6 blasts.
FS was hesitant, but I was persistant ;) - so to compromise, we put two back in at day 2 & grew the rest to blast.
The others all grew to blast but had a little too much fragmentation to freeze - from the 2 put back, one took & my little IVF miracle baby boy is currently 23 weeks growing.

The only thing differently I'll do for next time is to ask for all embies to be frozen at day 2 instead of growing to blast

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This is from Smithy who now has a beautiful little girl called Charlie

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hi danyelle,
i to apolagize for taking so long to get back to you hunny,
we have done 3 full stim cycles 2 ended in ectopics,with our ivf # 3 we had enough embies to do a second FET so we had a day 3 ..3 CELL EMBIE AND A 4 CELL BADLY FRAGMENTED EMBIE PUT BACK low and behold we ended up getting a bfp i did not do one thing different this time ,.

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Hope this helps you. :)

Danyelle, Best of luck for your TWW. Hope the time flies and you get a nice big BFP at the end of it! I'll chat to you soon, no doubt, in the TWW thread ;)

Hi Tantee, we thawed two 3-day 8-cell snowbubs Sat morning. They are both growing within normal paramters, so FX. Can I ask why you have to wait two more months before your next stim, and what shot you have to take per month? I empathise with the `clucky' comments you're getting. As much as I want a child, it doesn't mean I want to hold everyone else's! And I don't know about you, but I detest the word `clucky' - hate it.

Kmm, hang in there. My DH and I have had three stim cycles, and our egg quality and quality have improved with each cycle. Keep your chin up. Re whether to transfer doubful day 3s or wait it out till day 5, that's a hard and very personal decision. Whatever you choose, it will be the right decision for you. On our first stim, we were having a day 5 transfer but our embies were only at compacting and morula. We did the transfer but no good. For our second cycle, our FS decided on a day 3 transfer - two good-quality embies but no good. For our third cycle, I wanted to see a blasty as I was very concerned about whether we had a genetic problem that meant our embies weren't getting to blasty stage, so against my FS's advice I kept more embies out and we got 6 blasties. I was so happy. Now unfortunately blasties are great on a fresh transfer but no-one wants them on a frozen cycle, but you know what, I am still happy with my decision because I needed to know that our embies could make it to blasty stage. Sorry if I'm rambling but I suppose what I'm trying to say is whatever you and your DH decides, it is your decision and therefore it is the right decision. GL and hang in there!

brunette & danyelle. thank you. I've had a rough day but just reading your posts has given me a lift. I will spend the morning tomorrow reading the threads. thanks again, I really appreciate your advice/info. x

Hey chicks, hoping you are all having a fantastic Easter while I am slogging my guts out at work (:lol::lol::lol: you can see how hard I am working seeing I'm at work and posting!!!)
KMM - chin up sweetie, I have everything crossed that those two little embies are gonna be THE ones for you. We had 4 embies from 13 eggs which we were prety gutted about as well. My clinic really only seems to do three day transfers and they have pretty darn good success rates as well. I think they look at in that we should aim for blasty but in reality, they will transfer at 3 days and see how the remainder get on before freezing at whatever point. So what I am trying to say is that nothing wrong with a three day transfer. Sending you a huge hug, these girls have been my lifesavers when it cmes to offloading and am really that that you have found them so that you too can have the lifeline and knowledge too.
Renee - WOW hun, you are so much stronger than me. Am very impressed. I am tending to sick my head in the sand and do that la-la-la-la-I-can't-hear-you thing when it comes to other peoples' babies atm which I know is selfish but its all about self-preservation ,right?
Loops - thats something I never really thought about of your situation - where the hell are you in your cycle now? Here's hoping AF actually makes a semi-welcome appearance so at least you know where you are. Did your nurse ting back? Our clinic rang work today to get another persons result and I was the only one on so answered the phone. I think we both felt kind of awkward as in do we completely maintain professional efficiency or what? Very strange :o
JBM - YAY for synarel!!!
Danyelle - woohoo for your embies!! Wishing you all the best for your 2ww and hope you have an awesome outcome ;)
Tantee - right back at you re your Easter pressie to everyone!! Hope your energy levels kick start themselves pretty quick, had to laugh at your DH having a taste of what menopause will be like!!
Brunette - good luck for tomorrow hun, I will be about a week behind you. Glad your litle snowbubs did their bits and thawed out ok. Thanks for saying about them already being out of the freezer- I have been wondering how far in advance of transfer you actually know if they are ok or not. Do they take them out the day before or something?
Trueblue - hoping those nasty side effects stay away and hot flushes are all yo uhave to deal with
Marcellus - awwww I kinda liked that user name!!! Thanks, now I need to think up something nice and original for me ;)
Me - woke up this morning with a charming hormonal migraine. Nice - NOT!! So I spent half the day in bed, then had to drag myself to work, yuck. Thankfully,the tum has settled somewhat but still just sticking to toast for dinner tonight I think. Damn things, the only time I seem to get them lately is when I am on fert drugs. Oh well, the things we do, huh? Has anyone else had osteopathy recommended as an alternative treatment during ivf? I'm already doing acupuncture, my guy said the name of a massage therapist so will do that and he also mentioned seeing an osteopath. If its going to help, that is good and I'll try it but if is a long shot, its kind of a lot of money to be throwing around if it isn;t going o make any difference iykwim

hi guys
danyelle: thanks for putting that info about the other girls with BFP and how they got it, sometimes it is good to be reminded that it does work, it can work. good luck to you

brunette: not long to go now, fingers crossed.

melissal: hug 4 the headache, hope it goes soon and poor DH doesn't get too bad a time. men ?!. good luck to you too.

hi to everyone else. i havn't read all threads as it seems i have missed so much. sorry for that. but i'll try to be good again now and get back on track with checking posts.

afm: well nothing new since yesterday, LOL. have been good with choc over easter and asked DH to get me none, which he did get me nothing, men ?!. then i complained that he got me nothing. he said but you asked for nothing. " i asked for NO chocolate, not nothing" so he owes me. LOL i was really stirring him about it.
so i told him i want a day off as my present and he said the choc would have been easier. LOL
he is going to be getting some time out soon, but hey i need to be nice to him as it is prob only a month away and he will have to have a really big needle put into him to get out some of his friends for our IVF/ ICSI. so i'd better be nice.

LOL

i am so funny.

chat soon to all my girls.

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brunette i totally hear you about lipoidal hsg's.i have vowed never to have another lipoidal after all the trouble i had after my one.hope you are feeling better now and good luck for you transfer.

tantee yes we paid mum a surprise visit in hospital yesterday.i even rang her from hospital car park when we were waiting for visiting hours to start and let her think we were at home lol.she was practically speechless when i poked my head around the corner lol.we had to wear the super sexy gowns and gloves to go in to see her.i told DP no taking pics and putting on facebook lol.hoping the gown/glove thing isnt needed by friday when i plan on surprising her again when my girls come back from their dads and take them to see her,mind you my girls would probably have a ball dressing up in the gowns etc.today has been the first day i havent been overly sore since lap.mind you one incision came open twice so that made the pain hang around.

i hope everyone is doing ok :D and had a great easter