IVF/FET in Aug'13' - Aug'14' buddies wanted!!*13 BFP's!!**Updates on first page**

[MeganScott]

Hey everyone, I'm new here. About me: 36 yrs old, DH is 37. We're healthy and active, with unexplained infertility. We've been trying for over a year, 3 IUIs and 1 failed IVF later, now in the middle of IVF #2.

I'm so nervous and stressed, not KNOWING whats wrong with one or both of us, and if at all this is going to work!!

For this cycle, ER was done on Thursday 9/19, they got 24 eggs, 18 fertilized normally (In IVF #1 we had ER 10, 8 fert, 2 blasts on day 5, none to freeze) and we're now waiting on day-5 transfer on Tuesday, and hopefully embabies to freeze!

 

[Disneyfan88]

I just got the call. We are going day 5. 8:00am on Tuesday for transfer.

That's awesome! I'm glad that you got the transfer day you wanted and that your starting to feel better. Hang in there!

Disney, I'll be praying with you that your cysts won't be an issue and you can do your transfer as planned. Others have told me that beet juice is supposed to help with cysts. I never could find any though. Maybe you'll have better luck if you want to try it. Just a thought! ;-)

Disney I hope you start next month, you have been through so much you deserve a bit of luck and big BFP

Thanks, Izabela! I'm praying for your BFP and success! The support here is incredible.

On our way to pick up our embabies! Maybe a miracle happened and the rest started growing?!?! Pray for us

Best wishes for your success! I'm sorry to hear that they kept you waiting with a full bladder. Better than being kept for an ER appointment, but still not comfortable.

Mwb you have similar background to me? Are you in your tww? X

Yes, in the tww for our first IVF cycle. Going in for my beta on Wednesday. Very nervous!! We transferred two embryos on day 5, none to freeze.

Severe MF, we just found out a few months ago after TTC for about a year. Sperm count around 1 million, low morphology. We're both relatively young, very active, healthy, etc.

What's your story?

Good luck with your beta on Wednesday!

AFM - I am feeling so awful and depressed right now. I was having some ovarian pain last night and rather than taking pain meds which I hate to do, I used a heating pad. I didn't think anything of it until this morning. So stupid! Elevated body temps in early pregnancy can cause embryo malformations and neural tube defects. If they even implant and grow to term I will now blame myself forever if there is anything wrong with them.

Prayerful, I'm sorry to hear that you were in pain last night. Im not sure if it matters, but I think you're still before the implantation window(?), so maybe that will help. I'm sure you're embabies will be fine, but I'll keep praying for them and for you.

Hey everyone, I'm new here. About me: 36 yrs old, DH is 37. We're healthy and active, with unexplained infertility. We've been trying for over a year, 3 IUIs and 1 failed IVF later, now in the middle of IVF #2.

I'm so nervous and stressed, not KNOWING whats wrong with one or both of us, and if at all this is going to work!!

For this cycle, ER was done on Thursday 9/19, they got 24 eggs, 18 fertilized normally (In IVF #1 we had ER 10, 8 fert, 2 blasts on day 5, none to freeze) and we're now waiting on day-5 transfer on Tuesday, and hopefully embabies to freeze!

Great fertilization report! Good luck with your transfer!!

 

[ababy4us]

Well ladies, I only ended up with 1 3 cell grade 3 embryo
I don't have high hopes but I did all I could do.

 

[sekky]

Megan Scott we are on same schedule. This is my second IVF too and I had ER on the 19th with ET set for Tuesday as well. Fx we are second time lucky. Welcome

Ababy am sorry with the way things turned out. I know what must be going thru your mind and it wil be so hard to stay positive but you still need to believe and be positive. There are very many success with a single embryos.

Prayerful don't blame yourself just yet Hun, everything will be fine

 

[mwb2040]

Ababy - FX for you!!

Prayerful - I haven't tested yet. Today is 6dp5dt... I just haven't been able to get myself to do it! So afraid of disappointment. And I agree with Disneyfan and Sekky, try not to worry about the heating pad. I think you're fine.

 

[Disneyfan88]

Well ladies, I only ended up with 1 3 cell grade 3 embryo
I don't have high hopes but I did all I could do.

Hang in there. I know that it's difficult, but I believe that your embryo can thrive off of positive energy. Keep thinking about nurturing your embryo and keep your mind busy during these next couple of weeks. I've read that laughter is great for implantation, and we are planning to watch lots of funny movies after my transfer. Perhaps the same can help you keep your mind active. Prayers and best wishes for a positive outcome. I know it sounds so cliche, buy it only takes one.

 

[Prayerful]

Good luck Megan!

Sorry things did not turn out as planned ababy. Keeping you in my prayers.

 

[JessicaG121]

Hi ladies!
Congrats to tee and Sammy and magpie. (Sorry if I missed someone, I just caught up on 26 pages )
to the unsuccessful ladies. Im hoping you all have positive outcomes soon.

Bunny- what a roller coaster you've been on. Keep fighting.

A quick update on my cycle. I'm on day 5 of Stims. 200 follistim and 75 Menopor every night. I'll add Ganirelix in a couple days. I had my first blood check yesterday. Numbers are rising, but not quickly. Next blood test tomorrow. EC tentative 10/1.

 

[ababy4us]

Well ladies, I only ended up with 1 3 cell grade 3 embryo
I don't have high hopes but I did all I could do.

Hang in there. I know that it's difficult, but I believe that your embryo can thrive off of positive energy. Keep thinking about nurturing your embryo and keep your mind busy during these next couple of weeks. I've read that laughter is great for implantation, and we are planning to watch lots of funny movies after my transfer. Perhaps the same can help you keep your mind active. Prayers and best wishes for a positive outcome. I know it sounds so cliche, buy it only takes one.

Funny you say about the laughter I have a VERY funny and embarrassing story about the transfer today.

So, as you all can imagine a transfer is very emotional, the thought of finally being "pregnant" and finally having an embryo inside of you is a bit overwhelming and so joyous and I am an emotional person to begin with so I was just balling my eyes out and smiling and DH is caressing my hand and kissing it. Well after the transfer is complete my nurse comes in (she is soooo nice and I love her) and she says to me do you think you can hold your bladder or do you need a bed pan. Well ladies I was an extreme over achiever in the full bladder department so much so the nurse brought in everyone to show just how full my bladder was So much to my chagrin I asked for the bed pan because I was in so much pain and couldn't imagine sitting there for 20 minutes trying to enjoy my time with my newly transferred embryo. So My nurse leaves the room and before she is even out I am peeing, I mean peeing. I asked DH to look because I thought I was filling it already and he looked and started laughing maybe the sight of me peeing I am not sure but that in turn made me full belly laugh and I peed EVERYWHERE. ALL over the bed, the floor I got my socks wet because when he made me laugh I was peeing so I guess the pressure turned into a sprinkler. OMG We laughed so hard for so long. Hopefully that was a good sign! Sorry if it was too much for you girls but it was so funny.

 

[tcreasey88]

Mwb you have similar background to me? Are you in your tww? X

Yes, in the tww for our first IVF cycle. Going in for my beta on Wednesday. Very nervous!! We transferred two embryos on day 5, none to freeze.

Severe MF, we just found out a few months ago after TTC for about a year. Sperm count around 1 million, low morphology. We're both relatively young, very active, healthy, etc.

What's your story?

Nearly exactly the same, my DH is really healthy, never smoked or drank, but has low count, bad morphology and everything else really. We have been ttc for 3 years, and have our first urology apt at the ivf clinic on Wed! very excited! So when we start you'll be getting your beta! Are you going to test before? Fx'd for you!

How many eggs did you get/fertilise? xx

 

[tcreasey88]

Lol ababy- that is so funny! I would have been mortified! lol xx

 

[sekky]

Ababy that's so funny. Glad you found something to amuse you. Fx the embaby snuggle in fine and put a smile on your face. When is your OTD?

 

[Hanawanabump]

Haha that's so funny! Fx'd for u!!

I've just caught up on so many pages, so hard to follow everyone on your phone, laptop down so Its taking ages to catch up!

We started stimming yday, had our baseline scan thurs, all good, got cyst that they said they will keep an eye on, but other that that I'm in next Monday for next scan!

Thinking of you all xoxo

 

[sunraybaby]

Hello ladies, hope it is not too late to join you!
Both me and DH are 33, I only have a right side ovary and my right side tube is blocked. We have started our first cycle last month, buserelin started on the 25th Aug, stimulation with Gonal F on the 10th Sept, ER on the 20th Sept, and just had my ET today on the 22th Sept. As I only have one ovary, I only have 5 eggs collected, and only 2 grew normal, so we decided to transfer both. I am super nervous and hopefully we will have some good news in two weeks!
Good luck to everyone!

 

[dovkav123]

I am not alone anymore!
MY Embryo transfer was on Thursday. I was sooo nervous!!!!It was a little bit complicated dr. couldn't get into my cervix to my womb, she let this perform to another dr. and she did it great! I was so happy that my clinic has 4 doctors. They help each other.
We saw a photo of embryo 8 cell A grade 3 days old. He is perfect!
WE saw a follicle first last week, today an embryo. We are so blessed to experience live growing. A reward for all dark days and dissapoinments.
Sept 30th is a blood test. But I am testing next Wednesday. I want to rule out chemical preg. Some clinics beleave it is very important to test early.
Dr. orders: no baths and sex for 4 days, no heavy lifting and exercise. Stay warm and rest.
2 years of infirtility, pages of BBT, $$ spent on preg tests, 3 times painful needle pokes through vaginal wall, countless tears and emotional breakdowns.
I asked all my close friends and relatives to pray and ask God for blessings. My grandma went to church. I pray every day. I Thanked God for giving us a chance to be parents.(adead of time)

Don't give up! Don't ever give up. Don't you ever ever give up!

My clinic didn't tell me to come with a full bladder. But I did because I read online.

After retrieval I didn't have any ovary pain, but after the transfer I did had pain for 2 days and also a needle pokes for just a second on my womb. I felt it was implantation. What do you think?
Anybody has symptoms after a transfer?

In my clinic a patient didn't take HCG shot (language barrier), so dr. couldn't retrieve any eggs. Please follow all directions and dr. orders.

prayful, don't worry about heating pad, many women are pregnant not knowing and they take hot baths. Shut your worries and open doors for love and peace.

ababy, funny story, you made me laugh. Praying for your miracle

disney, castor oil packs can shrink cysts.

Who are in 2ww?
dovakv, ababy, sunraybaby, prayful, mwb....

 

[mwb2040]

ababy - That's hilarious. They tell you to come in with a "comfortable full bladder"... Seriously, is that even possible?? I tried to plan it out perfectly, but of course when we get there, I have to go soooo bad. So as we were waiting I asked the administrative person and she says no, you can't go. I seriously wanted to cry. So DH said just go and then start drinking water again. And that's what I did. I drank so much that, when it was finally our turn about 20 min later, I had to go really bad again LOL. They actually let me empty my bladder a little bit right before the transfer, so that gave me some relief. That was the hardest past about the entire transfer (well physically at least, i'm not even gonna start about the emotional part!)

tcreasey - I had 34 eggs retrieved, 28 mature but only 6 fertilized with ICSI. They said fertilization rate was so low because of low sperm quality. 5 embryos made it to day 5 and we transferred one blast and one early blast. None made it to freeze.

Sunray - Welcome to the tww!! FX'ed for you

 

[panda fan]

Hey everyone,

Can I join you? (On another thread with Dov! Hi Dov!)

I am 33. Just had first IVF cycle. Transfer was 9/11. I drank too much water, too, and they told me to pee "a little bit" so I would be comfortable. I didn't know how much a little bit was so I had to take 2 trips to the bathroom LOL. I was so embarassed. It was still not terribly comfortable but watching the process on the ultrasound was magical.

I have reduced fertility due to (presumed, no lap yet to check) scar tissue on ovaries from a surgery I had in 2010 related to bad Crohn's disease. My Crohn's is in remission now, but no natural pregnancy since starting to try Dec 2011

Tomorrow is my first beta and I've had 3 days of darkening (and easily readable) BFPs on hpts, but I know know it's all about those beta numbers increasing. Nervous and I'm so terrible at being patient. Glad to have buddies going through the same things!

 

[sunraybaby]

Hahaha panda, I had exactly the same embarrassing experience with the toilet before the ET and I had to jump out of the bed and run to the toilet when it finished, so bad.

Good luck to you for tomorrow, fingers crossed for you!

 

[ababy4us]

Lol ababy- that is so funny! I would have been mortified! lol xx

I was! But my nurse really is so lovely I'm guessing it happens a lot because she put those paper mats you sit on for a pap or procedure all down on the floor and everything. At that point tbh I was so upset from hearing we only had one not so great embryo that I didn't care too much.

 

[Becki09]

Haha that's so funny! Fx'd for u!!

I've just caught up on so many pages, so hard to follow everyone on your phone, laptop down so Its taking ages to catch up!

We started stimming yday, had our baseline scan thurs, all good, got cyst that they said they will keep an eye on, but other that that I'm in next Monday for next scan!

Thinking of you all xoxo

Hey again

We had our baseline scan on Wednesday and they said we was good to go that evening, now on day 5 of stimming injections and our next scan is tomorrow to check the size/amount of follies

Good Luck with the Stimms and your next scan