MAY/JUNE CYCLE BUDDIES!!

[jharris12]

MzTia: You must have been posting when I was! Hopefully you won't have to talk the DH into another try, and this one will give you what you need! 6 embies seems like a lot for an RE to transfer. Most prefer to only transfer 2, 3 at the max. Is this your 1st IVF? Did he say why he transfers that many? My RE transferred 3, and they were telling me they have selective reduction if all 3 take (not that it was even possible that I would reduce). Some people don't even end up with that many, I only had the 3 at day 3 to transfer. But I am sure your RE knows best! Good luck, and keep us posted!

[smattison]

Sorry I have been MIA and trying to lay low but I needed to tell Irish that you just need to talk to your RE...I did and mine put back 3 Blast...2 great-BBB and 1 good-CBB. He did not want to but he said it is your body!!! Good Luck!

[MzTia]

Jharris- I believe he said the number is 6 for the following 2 reason. One my age 37(in one month) and 2. He says that 50% have a chance to make it to blast of of those 50% have a chance to implant. So 6 is the number they use to "beat" the odds. I too discussed selective reduction but wow what a terrible decision to make but if more then 3 implated I just don't know what I would do. So the way I am seeing it is I risk having none implant but only allowing them to transfer a lower number or risk the chance of multiples. An dof course like with you I have to have that many embies to even think about it with so this all may be a mute point. I just am a worrier and worry about every tiny tiny thing. What a journey this is.

[IrishHope]

Thanks ladies for the good luck vibes!
I anticipate a little hesitation from the doc to put in 3 but I am adamant...last try we put 2 Grade A 8 cell/9 cell and still BFN...it's time to kick it up a notch and get one to stick!!! I just have to remember to not get my "Irish up" and let DH do the talking

anyway I am totally turning my blackberry OFF tomorrow/Wed and going to try and forget about work...it can wait! I need to relax and give the embies a nice home to settle in to!

Keep the faith ladies...we are strong and can do this!!! Stay the course wherever you are in this process and trust yourself ...baby dust to all!

[IndieBlue]

Dakota Any news yet? It's 3 here and still no call I know on Friday my doctor didn't measure everything, she measured maybe 9 or 10....but today the tech measured everything, which I was glad of. Sadly I have a cyst on the left (probably the 20mm follicle) so they'll probably tell me to wait one more day....I just hope I don't have to drive in again tomorrow but I guess that's the way it works.

I think they base a lot of the decision on that E2 number as well. I had a 640 on Friday....so we'll see what it is today. I have severely sore bb's and some other signs that my E2 is higher....so they might let me trigger tonight and maybe the smaller ones will mature by the time Wednesday rolls around

I hope you get good news Oh and I had about 15 antral follicles...sadly they didn't all grow in to anything

[Neffi211]

Well LAdies I got the call.......3 fertilized on their own!!!!!!!!!!!!!! DH has like 1%morphology so this is huge, now hopefull yhtey will progress better! I have to go, I'll be on later!

[Dakota]

Indie Nope, nothing yet. Our RE's must use the same place and maybe they are behind?

I know that I was reading that anything over 12mm can contain a viable egg, but mature is considered anything over 14mm (or maybe it was 16?), so you should be good to go getting some eggs out of those #'s you have. They all seem to be around the same size, given another day they should be in the 18 range, which is good. Maybe letting them cook on more day wont be so bad? Although I am sure you want to get this show on the road!! AND, I can understand not wanting to drive into the mad city. Oh ya...I thought about you on Sat!! DH and I sat down to eat a bowl of cereal before my b/w and I wasnt paying attention, we were just talking away when I realized I had 20 mins to get to our apt and it takes 35-40 mins without traffic. So we were one of those crazy homicidel drivers on 285 Sat morning. I kept my eyes closed, but DH got me there in time!!

Still no call...

[Dakota]

Ok, so I got the call. I dont know how I feel about this. This is so frusterating!!

They only measure follicles that are over 10mm, they dont measure anything below that. Their concern right now that I have that one at 17mm, which is nice right now, so the next few days will be a wait and see what is going to happen. If I dont get a few more out of the potential 24 that I had to possibly grow then they will cancel me and try something else. If, in the next few days I have at least a few more show up that measure over 10 then they will let the 17 expell itself. The RE's goal with me as of today was to have at least 8-12 around sizes 10-13 all about the same size. They are keeping me at the same dosage of Gonal-F. My e2 was 232. She said that your E2 is suppose to increase 50-100% every other day, which mine increased exactly 100% since Sat.

Grow follies grow....please, please, please!!!!

[IrishHope]

Good Luck Dakota! It is such a pins and needles process...I hope yoru follies grow!!

[IndieBlue]

Dakota I got my call too LOL My E2 was 1841 and she said that it was great. She said that my doctor and another doctor agreed that I'm ready, since they will continue to grow a little over the next day so I trigger tonight

I hope that you're follicles improve and they don't cancel you....I don't understand that, seeing how you've not been stimming but a week. Today is my 12'th day and really Friday I had a few 13's but nothing really in the right range...so a few days really really makes a difference.

Good luck And maybe next time you won't be the crazy driver LOL....we were actually 50 minutes early this morning!!! Gotta remember that Wednesday.

[Neffi211]

Okay, now I have more time to write. RE called at 2:30ish, I was so sick to my stomach waiting for the call today. He said that three have fertilized. This is so great for us because now we can see how the embies will do without the ICSI procedure. The embryologist thinks they will do better because the needle could have been harming my cratered eggs. So that is what we are hoping for this time. I know that it could be the same thing, but I hope this is it. I wish we would have had more eggs this cycle, but at least we got some. RE will call tomorrow with their progress. I just feel like this is going to be it! I dont know why, and I shouldnt get my hopes up, but I cant help it.

Dakota-- I hope that your follies grow! GROWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Indie-congrats on Triggering tonight! Good luck Wed.

[daisy_99_00_411]

I am 10dp3dt and I have taken two hpt that were negative. This is my second cycle and I know it is a failed one. My husband doesn't understand how i want to lay dormint while the people around me celebrate children. His brother and wife did invitro once and is 4 1/2 months pregnant and found out today they are two girls. How do I cope? How do I find strength to try again?

[Dakota]

Wow Indie thats great!! How exciting to get to trigger, and you had such great e2 numbers. I cant wait to find out how things went. I am crossing my fingers that you get 90-100% fertilization.
I was thinking the same thing about my follies. If I can stim for up to 12 days I should be able to get more follies, but I think what they are thinking is by going that far to get more then the ones I have now may not be any good. I dont know. I was so depressed by the time I went to AP he gave me a free 15 mins massage. It was wonderfull!!! I found out today that a really good friend of mine is pg. She is 8 weeks and just now telling me because (I hate this speal) she didnt want to hurt my feelings. So she tells me on the day that I find out my cycle might get cancelled. I am VERY happy for her, but it makes me depressed for me.
blah, blah, blah...ya I know

Neffi, I am so glad that 3 fetilized w/o ICSI, that is really good odds!! I will be praying for your embies and hope that this works for you.

Hope all is well with everyone. Kinda down today, sorry for no personals.

[J&C]

Sorry everyone - I'm crashing too for a moment. (Hey DrJen!!)

Neffi - 3 eggs is GREAT!!! I'm praying for those embies! I can't wait to hear how they are progressing.

And Dakota - I'm praying those follies will just grow!!! I was a late bloomer myself. My RE had me go a couple of extra days, and I was certain that they were going to cancel my cycle, but here I am pregnant. I'm praying for you too....and everyone on this board. I know this whole process is so hard.

Neffi, I'm doing really well. We're 14 weeks pregnant and just entered the 2nd trimester. Honestly, I'm still in shock and still can't believe that we're pregnant. It's still day by day for me, and I don't think I'll really believe that we're going to have a baby until we're in the hospital having him/her.

I'm saying a prayer for everyone!!

[Neffi211]

J&C-- when are you finding out what you are having? You are finding out, right? I thought we talked about this before. Thanks for crashing the thread. I really hope my embies do better than before. Please pray for me! I cant believe you are 14 weeks already. It seems like everyones time is going so fast, but I am at a stand still. I hate that! Well congrats, I think you are in the clear and now you can just enjoy your pregnancy.