JAN/FEB/MAR 2009 Ladies!!! :arrow:

CT_Michele · Post by **CT_Michele** » Tue Jan 13, 2009 6:32 pm

Just a quick update before i have to go tutor-

I wen to rE this morning, they did remember me which was good, and they all went gaga for the baby...I had to bring her with me. She was awake and all smiles and they nurses and dr just loved her.

They did a scan and took some blood. They said they would call this afternoon with info. I will post whatever they tell me and maybe you guys can analyze it for me. Even though I have been through this before, I have no idea what any of it means, i just took dr's word and advice last time around it it all worked out. I guess they were looking at lining, looking for cysts and getting hormone levels? I am clueless, I will post later with info.

Lady_J · Post by **Lady_J** » Tue Jan 13, 2009 6:56 pm

Sisi... LoL, waiting for AF Club. Funny. Well, sorry, I had to leave the club cuz I got my AF yesterday. Well, prog was kind of high also on Friday and she said it was because I OV later than normal which may be the case for you... but as for your temps, then yes, you may want to do a Beta test if you don't get your AF soon. Whan is/was your AF due? When was your last day of BCPs? Cuz my re said AF takes between 3 - 10 days to get AF after BCPs.

Tkat... I really hope this is MY cycle. As for your embies.... they will be fine, waiting for your arrival tomorrow so that they can get in your belly and find their home as well. It is a scary thought, but try not to worry about it too much... you don't need that stress right now.

brit1612... Welcome, of course u can join the excitment and suspense here..

I am so sorry about your previous IVF cycles. It must be so hard... especially to lose a PG at 9+ weeks. I am so sorry.. my prayers are with you. I am glad that you can find yourself carrying on and taking the next steps. Wonderful news about the donor embies. Hope they arrive as scheduled and you get your BFP this cycle and have a happy & healthy 9 months. SO how many are you putting back?

I am looking at the schedule.... what happened to you UnoMas? We havn't heard from you in so long. Are you still doing a cycle? Have u started any meds yet? Hope to hear from you soon.

brit1612 · Post by **brit1612** » Tue Jan 13, 2009 7:14 pm

Lady j- thanks for the kind words. It was really hard, but it helped us realize that we needed to move on to something else for now. We are very excited about the donor embies, but we have had a lot of trouble with the clinic they are coming from. So, I will be thrilled when I know that they are here safe! The embryos are supposed to be really good qualtiy blast so we plan on transferring two. In the past we have always put back at least three, sometimes four, but with these being good quality and day 5 instead of day 3 we are too afraid to put more than that.

Have any of you been through a frozen transfer before? They seem pretty simple, but I am worried about the embryos thawing.

Lady_J · Post by **Lady_J** » Tue Jan 13, 2009 9:35 pm

Well, I just got the call from RE. I go in tomorrow for 3 day lab, I start BCPs on Friday the 16th and I am scheduled to start Lupron on the 30th, but they still need to confirm the Lupron. I am so excited. Now I can look forward to my new cycle and pray and hope that it brings me my baby/babies

Well, I have 1 hr left at work then Im off into the cold weather... brrrr!! I will TTYL!!!

CT_Michele · Post by **CT_Michele** » Tue Jan 13, 2009 11:24 pm

Well, it was a good news/ bad news day for me. RE called and said my hormone levels were good and lining was good. They forgot to check my blood pressure earlier so I will stop back tomorrow and after they do that they said I will start bcp's tomorrow night so I can gear up for february cycle. I will have to repeat my sonohyst and officehyst?? I guess those are the iodine, water/mock transfers that are done. I have to repeat since it has been over a year.

Bad news is that they tried to tell me they will need more sperm from dh. We just payed a storage fee for the frozen sperm we still have. I was told at last transfer we had half of it left so we would have enough to do it again. Now they are saying it is only one vile and wasn;t very good quality. That was the same case as last time, one vile poor quality, but it thawed and worked fine. If I knew there was a chance dh would have to do TESE again, I would not have stored the other. And who knows if he goes for TESE if there will even be anything there now. They want him to do bloodwork and an analysis, which I will find out more about tomorrow. He is not looking forward to possibly doing TESE again, but will do it if he has to.

Oh well, I guess we will just take this one day at a time for now. We will still have a consult next week and I will set up my other screenings for probably next week or the week after. Hopefully my blood pressure is ok, it got kinda high at the end of my pregnancy, so we shall see tomorrow.

I will do personals later...hope everyone is doing well.

espinozal23 · Post by **espinozal23** » Wed Jan 14, 2009 12:43 am

hello ladies

i hope everyone is doing good all is good so far with me the only problem that I am having is sometimes I feel a sharp pain in the lower right part of my stomach I am guessing that its my ovary had a very long day at wrk today I wrked almost 11 hrs its not that bad though because i get to sit in a chair all day so at least i am not up on my feet all day

I do have a question for everyone I am so excited to have my babies back with me but should I do a HPT of shoudl I just wait for my BETA last time we done IVF I think that I used one everyday

Also is it ok to have sex during your 2ww or should u wait last time we did and I dont know if that might have had something to do with them not taking anybody with any answers please help because DH is killing me he says that making time wait 2 weeks will drive him crazy he said that the DR put him on a schedule of having sex every three days and now they say he cant have it for 2 weeks

Sisi1 · Post by **Sisi1** » Wed Jan 14, 2009 1:03 am

Fro what I have heard you can expect a false positive for the first 10 days after your hcg shot and only at that time could you expect to start getting a positive and sometimes not until day 16! So if you do use one the result is quite unreliable but the decision personal and it is only yours.

Most people say it is fine to have sex but wait at least one week from ET just in case.

And by all means explore other sexual acts

Best of luck to you, I am rooting for you!

CT_Michele · Post by **CT_Michele** » Wed Jan 14, 2009 1:07 am

Espinozal- I was told no sex during 2ww, We were actually told none until after 6 weeks or so, but i am sure every dr is different. Most people on this board have been told no sex during 2ww though.

and hpt's- completely up to you. i am obsessed with them and will stock up again this time!

espinozal23 · Post by **espinozal23** » Wed Jan 14, 2009 1:28 am

I guess its just me wanting to be PG so bad that I feel like I am and I took a HPT before I had my transfer to see if I still had the HCG shot in my system and it came back negative I just dont want to get to stressed out over this but it s just that we put some much time and money in this that its just about killed us last time when it failed because even though we both have a child from previous relationships we want one together so back and I just want it so bad and I know that the people at my work think that I have just lost my mind because I just sit and rub my stomach all day long I have read that it can take up to 3 to 5 days for a 3 day transfer to implant and start releasing the HCG into your blood the DR even gave up s little pic this time of the three little beans that we put back

Although I am starting to stress of this I dont want to let it get out of control to the point that it is driving me crazy if only the 2ww would go by quicker its like every little pain and every little thing that I feel it just makes me feel like I am pregnant and the lst time I didnt feel like this although I am in a better frame of mind this time and we are so excited about having a baby

So if someone could answer me one more question we put back 2 8 cell stage 4 embys and 1 6 cell stage 3 is that good at our clinic the stages are stage 5 is the best stage 4 is good and so on

Is embys at day three 8 cells a good thing

CT_Michele · Post by **CT_Michele** » Wed Jan 14, 2009 1:36 am

espinozal- we had 2 perfect 8 celled embryos on day 3. I think 8 celled is where you want them, but I don't know much about the grades or stages.

Didn;t you just do ET yesterday? I thought it takes like 10 days after ER for your body to lose the hcg shot? Wouldn;t that mean that an hpt would give a false positive reading because of the shot? Does that mean that your body has gotten rid of the hcg shot after only 4 or 5 days? I am so confused about how all of this works, I want to understand this time since last time I just went with the flow b/c I was clueless.

espinozal23 · Post by **espinozal23** » Wed Jan 14, 2009 1:42 am

From what I have looked up online it kinda all depends on your body and how fast it absorbs the HCG so I triggered on wed of last week and on sat when I took the HPT test it came back negative so I guess it all depends and I have been downing the water and powerade so maybe I just flushed it out of my system faster

And my DR didnt really tell me when we could have sex again so I think that I will just make DH wait and maybe explore other avenues with him especially if I get a postive back on a test thinking about maybe taking one tomorrow or waiting until Friday but dont really know yet

Lady_J · Post by **Lady_J** » Wed Jan 14, 2009 2:09 am

Hello ladies...

ct_michelle.... well, as far as your levels and lining, sounds good. As for your DH SA... well, if they need fresh then let it be. I know it's a bummer when you have to pay to have it frozen... that is what I had to do which doesn't make sense. He has to produce fresh on day of ER, but they needed frozen sperm JIC something were to happen and he couldn't make it the day of ER. And even now, at this next ER they still need a fresh batch, but the frozen will stay frozen and I will have to pay more every month to keep it frozen. Hope I made sense. So on your eggs, r they going to use fresh or frozen sperm?

espinoza.... Isn't it fabulous being in the 2WW...

and everything u r going thru is so understandable. It is ok to rub your belly and feel pg cuz technichally (forgot how to spell that

) u r PG right now. So when is your actual Beta? As for the HCG in your system... I read that you lose 1000u per day. How many Units did they have u inject? So for u to get a negative already... I guess it's possible. As for doing the BD in your 2WW... I had posted another forum on it. I heard so many things... that it is good cuz sperm helps with implantation, but I also heard it is not good cuz u do NOT want to get Uterine Contractions becuz embies may get flushed out. My RE told me no BD at all... and no hard pushing so if u r constipated, don't force it out, eat prunes or drink OJ to smooth the process. And there are other means

which is the means I went for instead. Cuz, DH is going to suffer just as you r i this 2WW... poor baby. but, go with your gut. TMI, or if u do, try not to enjoy it

. As for the grades... 8 cell at three day is perfect. That is what they want them at. I tranferred 1 8cell grade b and 1 5 cell grade a... something like that. My RE told me they were good. i just don't understand why they didnt stick. But as for the HPT... normally 14 days after ER is when HPT usually come back with a positive if u r PG. Lots of sticky baby dust to you Espinoza.

espinozal23 · Post by **espinozal23** » Wed Jan 14, 2009 2:25 am

thank you Lady J

Somehow you always seems to make things feel so much better My trigger was 10000 and i have been drinking so much water and powerade that I could start a flood with no problem as for my BETA it is the 23 of this month that will be the day after our anniversary and we are so hoping for a positive and I am so excited that you get to start your cycle soon as for DH I told him last night that he could always go take a cold shower that i wasnt taking any chances this time becuase last IVF we had sex and I know TMI but he kinda likes to get out of control meaning a lottle to hard so I have told him no this time not until we get a postiive and then maybe not until we hear a heartbeat I know I am so mean and especially with him being mexican he says that is so cold of me but I say oh well sry baby we didnt spend this much money to not do everything right

So Lady J when you done your first IVf did they give u a pic

My DR gave me a pic yesterday of my three little beans before he gave them back to me and they look so beautiful

And the funny part is that my daughter got up to my stomach last night and was talking to it telling the three little beans that she was there crazy big sister and all about her dog and about how she was going to help take careof them and play with them it brought tears to my eyes because she is my first born child and she so wants a brother or sister even though she says that she will send it to mexico if its a boy because she wants a little sister to play dress up with

CT_Michele · Post by **CT_Michele** » Wed Jan 14, 2009 2:38 am

lady j- we do not have an option of using fresh, dh's count too low, no spermies in the ejaculate. He had to go through TESE- sperm extraction surgery. They took it a few weeks ahead of time, froze it and thawed on the day of ER for fertilization. They said we had a vile left for next time so he wouldn;t need the procedure again, but looks like they want more now. I don;t really care about the storage fee, I care more that he will have to go through that again.

dys24 · Post by **dys24** » Wed Jan 14, 2009 12:52 pm

Hello Ladies! Hope everyone is doing good,

Michele- sorry about the news

it's weird that they told you it would be enough for next try and now its not, maybe when you go for your consult the Dr will say its enough. I'm glad everything else came back good

espinzola- wow your hcg left fast, I triggered on monday and am so tempted to do hcg just to see a + lol but don't want to waste any .. your beta is only couple days earlier than mine, hope we both get our BFP's. my clinic says no sex during the 2ww

Lady_J- yey!! I'm glad things are moving along for you

So I ovulated sometime yesterday my BBT was high today morning which put my mind at ease as I BD'd alot yesterday hehe

I'll probably do an hpt on sat to see if hcg left my system yet or not, ok back to work

JAN/FEB/MAR 2009 Ladies!!! :arrow:

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