hi everyone, hope you're all doing well! Just wanted to share that we went for a meeting with our new obgyn, who was lovely and spent ages with us answering all our questions. The best part was of course seeing the babies on the u/s, and they were both moving for the first time! They were waving ...

Karen - I'm so glad you said that none of your jeans fit anymore, I was wondering if it was just me! I didn't think we were supposed to start showing until around 4 months, I'm still 7 weeks off that, but maybe it because I have the twins in there? I was worrying that because I'm craving (and eating ...

Hi Kim,

I found this site very useful when we were trying to figure out if we were likely to have twins or not:

http://www.betabase.info

Turns out I was right at the average for twins each time they tested my levels, and at my first ultrasound, there were two perfect heartbeats :D :D , so it was ...

Age: 34
IVF#: 1
Fresh or FET: Fresh
How many embryos transfered: 2
Quality: 5A/B
BFP or BFN: BFP but miscarried @ 8w

IVF#: 2
Fresh or FET: FET
How many embryos transfered: 2
Quality: 6B
BFP or BFN: BFN

IVF#: 3
Fresh or FET: Fresh
How many embryos transfered: 2
Quality: 5A/B
BFP or BFN: BFN

IVF ...

hi Karen, just to add my 2c worth, I was told to completely stop my PIO shots 3 days ago after a blood test showed my progesterone levels at 65. The nurse said anything over 25-30 was absolutely fine and there was zero danger to the babies in stopping! I totally believe them because I was on the ...

ditto on heightened sense of smell, I've had that since right after 4w but its particularly bad now though. Made the mistake of using a particularly fragrant conditioner on my hair this morning and now all I want to do is jump back in the shower and wash it all off, it smells so strong :( I'm also ...

just a quick FYI - I've been having 24 hour nausea since I hit the 6 week mark, no vomiting thankfully, but its been bad enough to start to really get me down. DH came back from the pharmacy today with some accupressure wrist bands for me to try - he's been trying anything he can find to cheer me up ...

hi Karen,

I know, when we got our BFP this time around all I could think was, well it has to be because I'm on lovenox, why on earth didn't they test for this right at the beginning? After so many chemical pregnancies as well, I'm kind of ticked off. They did do a blood clotting panel before my ...

hi everyone, I finally got up the courage to post on the 'pregnant after treatment' board :) I kinda felt like I would jinx things earlier on but I'm at 7 weeks today, and last week at our 6 week ultrasound we saw two heartbeats (twins! yikes :D ) so I'm feeling relatively confident. I'm glad to see ...

baby aspirin seems to be a standard treatment, my clinic had me on that for all 5 cycles. I'm not sure why they wouldn't put your wife on it for the first cycle, especially since its such a cheap and innocuous drug! I've never had DHEA treatment but one thing I didn't have problems with was egg ...

thats such a tough thing to go through, because you get your hopes up... I've had 3 chemicals and its heartbreaking every time. BUT, there is hope to be taken from this. Your embryos were healthy enough to implant, even if only for a few days, and thats important. I don't know what lab work your ...

In my experience ( 3 clomid cycles, 3 IUI cycles, 3 IVF and 2 frozen cycles) my doctors have usually liked to wait a month before starting anything new. I think its a chance for your body, and brain, to relax and get back to a normal state before you start on what can be a highly stressful process ...

my clinic recommends 2 days bedrest or at least sitting down, they say it doesn't matter what position you're in so long as you remain still for most of the time. This is my 3rd IVF cycle, we've also done 2 frozen cycles, got a BFP on the first IVF, miscarried at 8 weeks, the last 3 cycles have been ...

I've been on baby aspirin for all my cycles, but before this one I found out I had one copy of the MTHFR C-T allele, and my doc put me on lovenox shots from the day of the embryo transfer onwards. Its early days yet but my betas at 9d, 11d and 12dp5dt have been 194, 300 and 560, so its looking ...

thanks ghost - you were absolutely right, I went back for another test today and my beta had gone up to 560 so that was a relief! I know I'm not out of the woods just yet, but at least we're heading in the right direction. Thanks for your help!