MARCH-CYCLE BUDDIES

Quita · Post by **Quita** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 10:40 am

Thank you Nimble, Would love to know how you do all the graphics they looks so cool.

To the sex question, some say don't wait, some say wait till afer acan, some say wait 12 weeks and best of all my mum has given me her baby book 1969 and it says

" Marital relations.

There is no need to refrain from intercourse before the end of the sixth month, unless there is a fear of miscarriage. After the sixth month, it is better to let marital relations cease until the baby is at least six weeks old, and many women prefer not to resume intercouse for two to three months. The understanding husband will leave it for his wife to decide!"

It's the funniest book I have ever read I shall have to quote you some more tomorrow. Its a miracle any of us are here to tell the tale things have changed so much!

Sonya, It must be all the sea air!!!

Jill good luck with ET today thinking of you x

Kia, thats funny - yeah my clinic said said the same but my GP said wait till after scan. Don't you find the peccaries a turn on? I am very supprised at that? LOL

PS. Sorry to hear about tummy bug, hope you feel better today xx

Nicky, I had that during stim don't think it matters. Good luck with shots xxx

Smattison, best of luck thinking of you xxx

Annie, good luck tomorrow? xxx

Karma, I am so sorry for your loss. Thinking of you. and sending you a big hug. xxx

Love to every one xxxxxxx

nicolamark · Post by **nicolamark** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 12:06 pm

Denise!!! CONGRATULATIONS!!!! I am sorry, i didnt see that you got BFP!!! I must have missed a page!

CONGRATULATIONS DARLING!!! WELL DONE!!!!

nicolamark · Post by **nicolamark** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 12:09 pm

CONGRATULATIONS QUITA!!!!

sokru8 · Post by **sokru8** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 3:15 pm

Hey Ladies!
Well me and the babies are home. I am PUPO (pregnant until proven otherwise) Woo Hoo
We transfer 2 embryo's
One Grade A/B

And One Grade B/B

We are happy with the quality I guess A/A is the best and we have an A/B so that is good!

XOXO
Sonya

MISSPIGGY · Post by **MISSPIGGY** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 3:31 pm

wow how meny days old are they?

nicolamark · Post by **nicolamark** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 3:44 pm

Oh sonya, thats amazing!!! grade AA and AB sounds fab!!!! BFP coing your way!!! xxx

Holly, they were 5 days old!! xx

MarciaL-OurHope4Baby · Mon Apr 02, 2007 4:07 pm

Hi girls

Geez I've missed not being able to visit this place. I love giving and sharing the support and seeing how your girls are doing? You all been fairly OK? I hope so

Kandice - Thinking of you hun, I was gutted to read your post, you made the right decsion

. There's no way they could expect you to have the loss naturally over a few cycles. That was a stupid comment for them to make. Choosing for them to do it there and then rather than suffer with doubt if the numbers carried on rising, yet you were bleeding, I'd have had the D&C myself. Can't even imagine what anguish that would be like, so you made the right choice, and don't let anyone say otherwise, or call it anything other than a Miscarriage .

Stephanie - Great news hun, glad it's all been going well for you two

.

Jill & Sonya - Hope the ER wasn't too painful, here's to a happy Fertilitisations or your guys

=

and

;

Sonya on such gread embries good luck girls.

Denise -

news hun, keep that tummy warm now

, can't wait to see those beta's double cause that's a great start

.

Quita -

you have a BFP also, I'm so happy for you guys.

Nimble - You keeping ok

? I'm good thanks, will fill you in later.

Amanda - I bet you're really nervous, but here's a

for your results or testing

.

Natalie - Glad your ET went well, hope you little ones are snuggling up nicely

.

Anie - Hi there, how you doing I hope your scan went well today, how many follies did you have growing.

Karma - Sorry to hear your news hun

that's really say. Best wishes to your and your hubby

.

Fijibabie - Hi there and a belated

, I hope everything's been going ok for you...good luck

.

Nicole - How you doing babes?

I hope the rest of the gang are doing well, Good luck to every one for their

, appts

and more

's.

nicolamark · Post by **nicolamark** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 4:13 pm

Marcia, thx for your lovely post!! YOur post r always so full of love and support and so cheery and colourful..............Whre do u get those amazing icons........
But Marcia, what about you?? how r u?? xxx

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melly · Post by **melly** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 4:49 pm

Kandice- You & DH are in my thoughts and prayers....although it may be hard to have made the decision you did, I agree you made the right one.

Quita- Yahoo....hun that wonderful BFP great news!

Denise- Congrats sweetie, am so happy for you!

As for me I started stimming last night and am a little sore today but I'll be just fine it's just a little shot. LOL..... I go for my first follie scan on 04/04 to see how things are going. Will fill you guys in with the news asap. Wishing everyone the best of luck...& sending lots of prayers & baby dust to all!

MarciaL-OurHope4Baby · Mon Apr 02, 2007 5:04 pm

Well as for me...

...the injections are still a pain in the ass, but at least I know I'm getting somewhere and that's all that matters now. I started feeling more activity in my ovaries once the dose went upto 225iu's, but since Wednesday night, and Thursday afternoon, I certainly noticed a difference because it felt like Ov pains for sure. And then all of Friday morning I had ovary cramping

.

The scan on Friday showed my follies had made some improvement, and I knew that even more when I had the probe incerted to do the scan. Whoa!

I thought, as I felt a dull ache and it was uncomfortable, and I said to the nurse that I knew there was some growth because of that, and she said, no it's just because of the angle. I couldn't see the screen at that point, and hubby had a stunned look on his face. Well I said it's a feeling I'd never felt before, and when she was doing the scan, ans she showed me I was right, as my follicles had all doubled in size.

I still couldn't get over the fact that I had follicles growing in my right Ovary, when it's normally forcing one to grow past 3mm or it's dormant. Hubby and I were very happy to say the least, as we were so anxious before hand as to whether there was much of a growth at all. The Clinical Director & Surgen Mr.Kenedy that runs the Fertility hospital in another building (also the one that did my EP surgary when he saw in A&E, he'd recongised us as being a patient of his hospital) looked over my file and said I should go onto 300iu's of Menopure (4 powders - 1 Saline) up from 225iu that I went upto on Tuesday.

I was glad in a way, as that way they get a big boost over the weekend, and I won't have to have this cycle cancelled. I was scared my own RE was going to do, like he did with my 1st IUI that I was ment to have and he cancelled it. He sent us on to do IVF instead without trying to give me something that would work as the Menopur didn't that cycle. So having Mr. Kenedy take charge of our case now, has made me even more hopeful for the chance to get things growing. I've been very crampy and bloated since Friday, and I've been having pains all the time since I started this new dose. I even started injecting my tummy myself on Friday. I thought at least it's less of a journey for the meds to travel lol, and the main reason was I'm running out of leg space that isn't in a lot of pain, swollen or bruised on both my legs lol. With any luck I'll only be a few days behind schedule, as the plan was to trigger Friday ER on Monday and a 3dt.

Here are my journal entries incase you didn't get to go look at my Charting Homepage.

CD15 - Tuesday 27th March, 1st Follicle tracking scan.

Slow progress -

Left Ovary = 6 follicles, measuring 5-6mm

Right Ovary = 3 follicles, measuring about the same.

Lining = still really thin

Possibley 9 eggs growing, measuring the biggest follies, as there were smaller ones surrounding them.

I have been told that I have to go from 150iu's on Menopur to 225iu's until Friday's scan.

CD18 - Friday 30th March,

2nd Follicle tracking scan.

Better progress -

Left Ovary = 3 main follicles, measuring 10.2mm and 2 at 8mm

Right Ovary = 3 follicles, measuring 8-9mm

Lining = 4mm

Possibley 8 eggs, measuring the biggest again, as there were smaller ones surrounding them and one of the follies from Tuesday is flagging.

I've been told to up my dose from 225iu's to 300iu's untill the next scan on Monday. This dose should boost them over the weekend. With any luck everything might be able to keep me on track to some degree.

Feeling more Ovary pain on my right side now as well as the left now.
Now I'm hoping to Trigger by Wednesday, ER 2 days later and then a 5dt sometime around Next week Monday 9th if all embries made it through fertilisation woo hoo.

Today's scan was even better

. I as in even more discomfort than Friday's scan and with good reason to.

CD21 - Monday 2nd April,

3rd Follicle tracking scan.

Much better progress -

Left Ovary = 5 follicles, measuring:-
3 are 13.2mm, 1 is 12.2 and the other is 10.3mm.

Right Ovary = 3 follicles, measuring
11.8mm, 11.2mm and 10.8mm

Lining = 7.1mm

Possibley 8 eggs as follies are now growing nicely, these are biggest ones at the moment. Still have lots of smaller ones surrounding them not sure how big.

I've been told to carry on with the 300iu's of Menopur until Wednesday's scan at 8.15am

So that's our progress so far, and I'm just praying that with the right aprroach to triggering I won't end up OHSS'ing. We're extremely happy at the moment, as I've never had more than 2 or Ovulated with more than 2 eggs in any one assisted cycle. This being our 1st IVF is suddenly exciting again

.

MarciaL-OurHope4Baby · Mon Apr 02, 2007 5:20 pm

Melly - Nice to see you again, if they meds hurt, numb the area with ice first for about 15mins, makes a hellova difference

hun.

Nic - Beautiful house hun

.

Here's the type of house I'd love to build and live in the country. We're in a sub-urban area at the moment, and there's a farm up the road and the city centre is 20 mins drive. But to only have a few houses surrounding our big farm house in the country, that we've built is what'd love.

and the back of it is like this

Anyway, I'm on photobucket and SmileyCentral, it's a great site for finding blinkies,emoticons and cute pics (to the powers that be...sorry for advertising). I just save add them to my albums and it gives you the url codes for pasting anywhere you want

. The rest are from my charting site that I saved in my photobucket album as well.

I'm always glad to be able to help make someone feel better, or just sharing what knowledge I've picked up over the years. You girls have helped me over the past month and a bit and it's been wonderful being here. The fact there we're all going through this together and at the same stages for some, is such a comfort and a great hurdle to get through together. We're such a strong bunch of women, and even though we may feel crappy some days, we're always helpful and cheery towards each other and I love that, cause that's me all over that is.

So here's some very warm, lovely and well deserved

.

patientIVFpatient · Post by **patientIVFpatient** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 5:53 pm

Marcia, Thanks for the good luch bear! I am SO NERVOUS! I did an evil pee stick yesterday [2 days early] and it said NO. I know they are evil, so I'm not losing hope----ONE MORE DAY!!!!! EEEEEKKKS!

nicolamark · Post by **nicolamark** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 6:10 pm

Marcia, i can imagine lots of kids in that house!! xx

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