Babyhope I think most RE's suggest baby asprin for 2 reasons. 1. The drugs we take including BCP's are hormones that can increase chance of heart attack, stroke and baby asprin minmiises that, 2. Baby asprin can help with the uterus lining and help with implantation. Thats my uderstanding, and hopefully if anyone has any other info they will add it, so that we both know!!!
Wonderce Congrats on the 3 little embies and being officially PUPO. The dreaded 2WW is an emotional rollercoaster so try to distract yourself as much as possible, and of course, take it easy
Karen & foreverlove A few weeks ago i said i was reading a book 'Is your body baby friendly' and you both said you were interested in a synopsis, so here goes!!! Its obviously a VERY condensed version for such a complex topic, but i hope i can give you a taster of the book, and if you want to do further research, its available on Amazon, new or used..
Dr Beer claims that rather than it just being 'sheer luck', or 'a numbers game' there are several immunological factors that cause us to fail IVF cycles, have miscarriages, and suffer unexplained fertility. He has some pretty convincing evidence and there are some real life examples to bear out this theory. The problem is that all of these disorders (and there are a lot) require specific testing, not standard for IVF. The marker for being tested for some of these disorders are having 2 or more miscarriages, 2 failed ivf cycles (over 35) or 3 failed (under 35). There is also a whole page devoted to other non-pregnancy related inicators to suggestyou may have some immunicological issues.
Now some of these issues require very specific treatments including different types of transfusions, but the majority of issues can be resolved so easily using simple drug therapes. The most common include:
1. Taking steroids Prednisone or preferably Dexamethasome, not just after ER (as many of us already do) but 2 weeks prior to conception (ie start of stims) until 24 weeks of PG
2. Heparin, a blood thinner from cycle day 6 to 34 weeks of PG
3. baby asprin from day 1 of cycle thru PG
4. Metformin (a diabetic drug) especily for PCOS issues
5. Folgard RX 2.2 a high dose folic acid and B6,B12 combo
He also mentions calcium, taking other vitamins, cutting out caffine and eating only organic foods -this stops our immune system form being stressed out as some of these immune isses are caused by our immune system over-working to rid our bodies of toxins, bacteria, and other foeign objects it doesnt recognise (which unfortunately for us can include a developing embryo).
I hope this helps.... I personally am doing the whole organic, no caffine, all vitamins thing right now. When i start AF and am on my BCP's i will add baby asprin, Folgard (can get from Walgreens) and my RE has agreed to the Heparin but not the steroids, but he does suggest high dose vitamin E (although its not in the book). I know there's such a lot of confilcting stuff out ere, ut this does make sense to me and he backs up everything he says. Besides i'm a research junkie.....
Sorry everyone for long post
I was like WTH??? Men can say the dumbest things sometimes. I hope he has gotten his frustrations out of his system today because I really need his support right now.
and that makes two hurdles that were overcome very easily. Don't know how religous everyone is on here - and I'm not a religous nut myself - rarely go to church though I know I should.. But I try to keep good communication between me and the big guy