First time IVF - starting next cycle. Looking for buddies

[Savasanna]

I would love to have twins, honestly. I never wanted them before, until we cared for Fish and Panda. The twin thing is so. difficult. but so so sweet, too.

So, the plan is to do an IUI next month, and to do two rounds of monitored IUIs before moving forward with IVF. The doctor actually kind of left this up to us. I wanted to only do one IUI but SJ (my wife) wanted to do two. As there were no issues discovered in all the testing, she believes there's a chance we were just missing ovulation, as frozen sperm has such a short lifespan. I'm still on the fence (we had months of tries not using frozen sperm that also didn't work), but I can see what she's saying and no one can argue that clomid & a trigger shot are less physically demanding than IVF meds. So we're going to give that a try. I'm CD21 right now and my period usually comes around CD29-30. So about a week and a half out.

The one slight snaf-u is that they found a "structure" somewhere behind my uterus during the ultrasound. The RE said he didn't believe it was related to (in)fertility, but he couldn't identify what, exactly, it was. He did say it didn't look like a tumor or anything cancerous, though. So he may recommend an MRI, just to figure out what, exactly, it is. If that happens that will likely push "next month's" IUI out a month, as I obviously can't get an MRI if there's a possibility of pregnancy. So I'm waiting to hear back from him on that. He said to call tomorrow if I haven't heard anything yet.

 

[Leeze]

Sorry for not posting sooner. Have been feeling pretty low the last 10 days or so. Did you find out any more about your uterus? Would they suggest a hysteroscopy? I had one to check my womb lining and scrape out scar tissue.

How long have you been TTC then? Any update on when your IUI will be

I started the injections today with a view to the FET in about 4 weeks time. I'm on CD20 and the FET will be the next cycle, as long as my frostie survives the thaw

 

[Savasanna]

Aww - sorry to hear you've been feeling down. I understand, this process can be really draining. I hope this next FET brings nothing but hope and good news to you.

So we actually started ttc 3 years ago, October 2013. We tried for about a year and a half (one pregnancy, which I miscarried around 7 weeks) before stopping. It all just got to be too much, both financially and emotionally, for us to manage. So we decided to proceed adoption via foster care. We've been foster parents since March 2015, but haven't found ourselves in the position of being able to adopt yet. Meanwhile, every other foster parent we know/have met since we began this journey has adopted, often time their first placement. So, we decided to go back to trying, with the idea of, we never actually tried IVF, so we might as well give that a go before we officially end the chapter on trying to have children. We did one IUI over the summer with my ob-gyn before setting ourselves up with our RE. And here we are!

I just heard from my doctor that we're going to postpone this month's try, though. I have a repeat ultrasound this Friday to look into this "structure". I was a little disappointed, however we were just placed with a newborn last week so is taking up all my time (in the absolute best way imaginable) so I know this month will pass quickly.

How are you feeling today?

 

[Leeze]

That is amazing that you do fostering. A very generous thing to do.

I had a loss before DD, it's hard isn't it?

I'm feeling a bit better now, back on the injections for FET next month so have got a new focus!!

Sorry to hear they're postponing it but sounds like you've got your hands full!!

Got to go, DD is on my laptop pressing stuff! Xx