MY FIRST CYCLE IVF JOURNEY September 2008

June 17th-consultation with TCART-Fertility clinic

August 2008-Clinic was ready to move forward with IVF for this month, husband and I were having such a fabulous summer together that we decided to wait another month (told you all I am in a great head-space) I actually HELD OFF TTC!!!!!!!!!!!

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September 11-AF arrives

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September 14-20 injected 250 cc of puregon into the abdomen below the navel

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September 18-20 injected Orgalutron to suppress ovulation into the abdomen below the navel

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September 21- injected trigger shot HCG into abdomen below the navel

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September 23rd-RETREIVAL DAY....went well, was drugged up, slightly uncomfortable at times (as the needle was poked in) retreived 14 eggs. Husband gave his donation today, so they will try to fertilize all eggs and hope as many as possible will fertilize. We will get that call tomorrow!

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September 24th-Only 4 eggs have fertilized, very discouraging from our doctors and our point of view. The doctors have seemed to all of a sudden realize that our infertility is a sperm issue. So we wait until tomorrow to see if our embryos can develope into a good embbie to transfer......another wait.....................

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September 25th-Well good news, 3 of the 4 embryos that fertilized are dividing! one is a 3 cell, and 2 are a 2 cell, the average for day 2 is anywhere from 2-4. We start progesterone suppositories today and go in for our transfer of 3 embryos tomorrow!!

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September 26th TRANSFER DAY, it was SOOO easy, less than 5 minutes. We transferred 4 embryos today, we had intended on 3 BUT we had a last minute straggler, which is not that good of quality, so rather than freeze just one embryo-which might not survive the thawing process-we decided to insert him too! We have 2 6 cell embbies, one a grade 1, and one a grade 2, we have a 4 cell grade 2, and a 3 cell grade 3, so the one 6 ell is exceptionally well. We also opted for some assisted hatching, to help with implantation. I dont feel anything, except that Im still a little sore from my retrival....super gassy and bloated like. We get our results October 8th, so..11 more sleeps!!!

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1dpt-feeling crampy, otherwise business as usual. HCG + on hpt

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2dpt- taking my daily progesterone, 200 mg 3 x a day, feeling less crampy than yesterday, won 1000.00$ at BINGO!. HCG + on hpt

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3dpt-business as usual, nothing new to report HCG + on hpt

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4dpt- nothing new to report, taking daily progesterone...cant believe how Slloooooowwwwww the time is passing! HCG - on hpt

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5dpt-really really gassy HCG - on hpt

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6dpt- seems like I am dehydrated, not peeing much, and finally did a #2, so feeling alot better. Not feeling anything different from yesterday or day before or last week, husband said I was noring last night, so I think I finally got a good nights sleep HCG - on hpt

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7dpt-Was up with cramps last night.....dull AF type feeling in my lower abdomen...

8dpt- Still have this dull lower abdomen cramp like feeling, was thinking of testing tomorrow morning, going to wait until the morning of day 10 instead which will be Monday -4 more sleeps til my beta. Stonger cramps in the evening....

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9-10 dpt- A busy weekend, nothing positive to report, cramps are getting mmore consistent and intense, did an hpt this morning at 10 dpt and a bfn.........not holding out much hope as it really feels like AF is n her way, discouraged but not too sad, am realistic that IVF for some reason doesnt work often for most on the first try. Will go for my beta as planned Wenesday and find out when we can try for our 2nd cycle

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11 dpt-bfn this morning, cramps have subsided, just waiting for the inevitable.......

this is what happens in a 3dt :

Saturday 1dpt ..embryo is growing and developing
Sunday 2dpt... Embryo is now a blastocyst
Monday 3dpt....Blastocyst hatches out of shell on this day
Tuesday 4dpt.. Blastocyst attaches to a site on the uterine lining
Wednesday 5dpt.. Implantation begins,as the blastocyst begins to bury in the lining
Thursday 6dpt.. Implantation process continues and morula buries deeper in the lining
Friday 7dpt.. Morula is completely inmplanted in the lining and has placenta cells &
fetal cells
Saturday 8dpt...Placenta cells begin to secret HCG in the blood
Sunday 9dpt...More HCG is produced as fetus develops
Monday 10dpt...More HCG is produced as fetus develops
Tuesday 11dpt...HCG levels are now high enough to be immediately detected on
HPT

Wednesday October 8th- BETA TEST AT CLINIC!!!!!

September 21, 2008 Well after one week of taking 250 mg of Puregon, 14 Follicles have grown, 3 which are a really really good size. Tonite we do our HCG trigger shot, and go in on Tuesday for egg retreival. My DH will submit his portion....and the rest is up to well....God and science. We are hoping to have 3 good quality embryos from all of this, we will get this answer sometime Wednesday morning. If all goes according to plan (ha!!!!!!) then our embryo transfer will be Friday September 26 at 10 am!!!!!!! Will keep you posted XX

September 17th, well after a short break, I am ready to talk. Its nice to be back here, Ive missed this family. My husband and I have stopped using opks, and we have found each other again, we stopped obsessing about this ttc, and had a fabulous summer. We have started our first cycle of IVF this week, as of Sunday I am injecting 250 cc of Puregon to stimulate my ovaries, we are hoping to get at least 5 good eggs for freezing, hopefully more, and try one round of in-vitro......I will know more Thursday when I see how my body has responded to the meds.

May 1st/2008

Hmm, well I became an aunt again to a beutiful baby boy Parker 7 pounds 11 ounces on Monday. The very same day I found out my hcg levels dropped to 3-I am no longer pregnant. We dont know why. This is the same thing that happened in January. My husband and I decided imediatley that it was in OUR best interest to stop ttc on our own. It is truly difficult to want to conceive to yet have protected sex..................my body cannot sustain pregnancys and it is unfair to us to continue to do so until we get some answers. . Our first appt with our fertility specialist was this morning, we had our blood drawn for numerous amounts of tests that we will get our answers for on May 13th. We have decided to go through with IVF imediatley and will be given further information on that at our appointment. We are very excited yet open minded that this route may not work either, BUT that it does garner us yet another opprtunity/avenue to explore . We are taking the right steps and are in the deepest of dear hopes that this will work for us. Until then, we are spending our days enjoying our family and all of the blessed luxurys we are lucky to have(like a new nephew). Thank you for your messages and my thoughts are always of you, as I do sneak on here from time to time, to check on a few friends, I need to stay away from all that is "baby" at the moment and unfortunatley this site is included. I will post my results from my fertility markup when I receive the news. I am wishing you all the best in health and hapiness, and much success in your own personal journeys trying to conceive. Much love Melanie

APRIL 2007-Officially ONE YEAR TTC-ONE MISCARRIAGE-TWO CHEMICAL PREGNANCIES LATER

Tuesday, 29 Jan

Saturday, 2 Feb