Nik!!!! I KNEW it!!!
I'm over the moon for you hun! Brilliant to see those numbers! I'm so excited for you and you've done so well to hang out in limbo land (even though we KNEW it wasn't limbo!) all this time. Now you can so relax and enjoy it - you're UTD!!! I wish you a very happy and healthy pregnancy, hun! Yay!

Carla, I've written a post for you in the other thread. I hope you're doing ok, I know the time is going slowly, but you're getting there, hun.

Mon, how are you? I hope you're doing ok! I have everything crossed for you!!

Waiting, don't lose hope yet. 11DPO is early. HPT's are only about 50-60% accurate at 11DPO, depending on the brand. Friday is the day that you can look at a HPT and know a little bit more clearer what's going on, and *maybe* trust the result more, but never 100% until you've had that BT. Please try not to read too much into it at the moment, hun. Give it til Friday - I still have hope for you!

I understand when you say you never expected it to take 6 goes. I'm only at go # 4 and I seriously didn't think it would be this long either. No one expects it. But FS keeps telling me it's really a matter of luck. It can take a year, it can take two, but most women will get pregnant when they continue with IVF treatment.It just takes so much courage and strength to keep going, hun. And it gets harder each time you get knocked down and have to get up again.

When comparisons are done large scale and long term, blastocyst transfers and day 2/3 transfers actually come up with about the same success rate, so it's completely your decision to want to take your embryos to blasties. Be aware that growing embryos to blastocysts means that you won't have as many embryos as when you would have at day 2, but at the same time, your blasties could well be stronger than your day 2 embies. There's a lot to think about and balance out, for you personally.

The genetic testing has pros and cons (it can't detect every genetic problem if an embryo has them), and most clinics don't like to do genetic testing until there's been implantation failure 10 or so times, especially if there doesn't look to be any likely cause for the continued implantation failure.

I know it makes you feel like something is wrong and that you need to do something to fix it hun, but I promise you, I could pretty much guarantee it has nothing to do with anything being wrong. So far, you just haven't had the right embryo. It's hard to handle, especially because of pain you go through each time it doesn't work. It's just luck. It's so hard to have to put everything down to that, but that's the biggest thing affecting the outcome at the moment. Just plain good or bad luck. Many hugs, and hang in there, waiting. You've just got to keep at it and keep being strong. It will be so sweet when you are holding that baby in your arms. If it helps, your feelings are understood, and not just by me :hugs:


Hugs to everyone,

Miss C