Summer Board 2011

[MaTina LI]

RNB - CONGRATS!!! What an awesome Beta!! Hope you are feeling great!!

Sunshine, Nancy, & MadameX - Congrats on being PUPO!! Can't wait to see the BFP's!!!

Anton - The dress and shoes are beautiful!!! Please post pictures of Eleni in the dress after your return!! Would love to see her!! You are going to be a wonderful Godmother - and a wonderful Mother soon too!! It's the Lucky #7 IVF for you!!!

Hope everyone is doing well; staying strong and postive. Wish everyone's hopes and dreams comes true!! This has to be the most scariest Roller Coaster ride ever; we all have to grab tight and hold on and Pray we come off the ride with huge smile. Good Luck Girls!! Baby Dust to Summer Board 2011!!

AFM - not much to report. AF arrived on Monday and I scheduled the watersono for 6/23. Then we wait until July's AF!! And if I calculate correctly; FET could possibly be on my fathers B-Day! That would be great!

XOXOXO
Tina

[WndrGrl]

Hey blue....how'd the retrieval go? Said a little prayer for you this morning when I was on my way into work.

[blueeyedreamer]

Thanks! Retrieval went well. We got 14 good eggs and even got one from the hiding ovary! I'm sore but resting. All in all it was great. Now we wait for the fert report.

[Dreams2009]

Nancy B - Nice Beta!! Can't wait to see the numbers tomorrow!

Anton - Thanks for the well wishes ~ love the dress you got for your god-daughter

Blueeye - Great retrieval! 14 is a great number and can't wait to here the fert report tomorrow!!

AFM - Got a follow-up call from the embryologist this morning~ all 10 that were not frozen are still dividing! We have embies ranging from 2 cells to 5 cells! They tenatively scheduled me for 9:45 ET tomorrow if they can find the two best embies (hopefully we will have 2, 8 cell embies by tomorrow) but if not we'll wait till Sunday. So I wont be able to find out till 8:30am tomorrow whether or not they are transferring So anxious to find out....but either way I only want to transfer the best ones, so I guess I must wait it out.

[Sunshine1576]

Hello Everyone! The weekend is near and 13 days to beta and counting! lol I know I'm really trying to stay busy and even focus on our next consultation, but we're staying strong in believing that this is going to happen! I'm praying for more BFPs on the SummerBoard, I really feel this is our time!

Blue- very well done on the retrieval, cannot wait to hear your next report.

kerpuppies- lol "fertile myrtle" love that! Glad to hear your FSH numbers came back normal. I see a baby at the end of the road too, because your strong determination is going to take you there!

WndrGrl- I'm so excited that tomorrow is your retrieval day! Sounds like you have the most accomodating doctor arranging the schedule to get you in early. Glad the shot went over well with dh too. I remmeber calling our RE to fiqure out where it needed to go. Making a "bullseye spot" is always best!

Anton- I LOVE the Christening gown...and shoes and hat! It's all so beautiful yes please post pictures of your god-daughter when you get back.

AFM: No news to report, just working alot to make time fly by faster. Yes it's about to storm here, so have to go and finish grilling the chicken and check on that veggie garden out back. xoxoxo Sunshine1576

[WndrGrl]

blueeyed - Glad retrieval went great! Will you get a fert report tomorrow?

[blueeyedreamer]

Wndrgrl, yes we will get a fert report tomorrow. I already had a dream about it. I'm still a bit groggy and tender so I'll keep this brief. I will be thinking of you tomorrow!

[Kiminsh]

Wow! I have been away for one week, and from the looks of this board, seems as if it was a busy one! Congrats to all those that are PUPO and I am so happy for those of you with BFP's!!

AFM hubby and I went to DC for a long weekend to get away for a bit. It was good to keep busy and escape for a bit, but now that we are back, all I have are my thoughts... I am a teacher, and we are now off for summer break I kind of wish I was working to keep me busy. Thank goodness I have your stories and encouraging words to keep me going!! I went to my RE for a follow up visit on Tuesday, and he wants to run some tests to see if there is any reason that our embies didn't implant. (blood work, repeat saline sonogram, endometrial biopsy) Does this sound right? I am just curious if this is normal after one failed IVF cycle. I am not even sure if we will be able to afford to try a second time

[nicksgam]

Hi Ladies ~ I would like to join your board, I have cycled with some of you wonderful ladies before. I was on the April/May board, and had a BFP but ended up having m/c at 7 weeks. We decided to take a cycle off and go on vacation. We will be traveling to Canada for two weeks in July. AF hopefully will come during our vacation and I will start BCP. I spoke to my clinic last week and they gave me my schedule, if AF comes on time I will start stims on July 30th. I know it seems far away but since we have a completely full calendar until then time will fly by. It’s crazy how getting an IVF schedule and meds makes me so happy. Also I was super happy that my RE increased my follistim to 450U, last cycle I was on 300U and only got 3 mature eggs out of 5 follicles and only 2 fertilized. I started to talk to DH about the new schedule he said can’t we wait to talk about until after our vacation. I think since our infertility is MF he carries a lot of the burden. After my m/c my RE has me taking 75mg of DHEA/day. Anyone know of any success stories using DHEA.
Tons of Baby Dust to All,
Nicole

[anton]

Hi everyone! ...its Friday!!!!


Matina- Thank you for your kind words! ...May I ask what is a water sono?...And yes, having your FET on your father’s Bday would be great! Good luck!

Blueeyedreamer- Well done for an awesome ER! I wish you the fert report is awesome as well! Get some rest now...are you planning on a 3dt or a 5dt?

Dreems2009- I wish everything turns out fine and you get your “lucky” embies transferred where they supposed to be!

Sunshine- Hang in there PUPO girl! 13days will pass in no time! ...easier say it than done but we all know that if we could skip the 2ww we would in a glimpse of an eye! Keeping yourself busy is the best thing to do! I love that you are cooking healthy food for you and DH! Keep up the good work! Soon you’ll be cooking for another one...or two...members in your family!

Kiminsh- An escape from our daily lives is always a good thing! Going through tests is good! That means your RE wants to help you find out the “why?” all of us have been there with the testing! ...What is a saline sonogram?

Nisksgam- Welcome to the summer board my friend! This time you are getting yourself a keeper! That’s for sure! I wish you a BFP in this upcoming cycle of yours!...I can understand what you mean about your DH carring all of the burden...my DH does that too also b/c of the MF ...all we can do is reminding them that we are a team and we are going to pass this together and hopefully come out winners!

AFM- I cant wait for my RE appt in about an hr. I hope we get the green light to start stimming July 1st! I will post as soon as I come home...I am excited every time I start a new cycle, is like this is my first one and everything is brand new! the protocol, the procedure the needles, the mood swings! Its all worth it! I cannot be anything but positive about this cycle and every cycle so far, I believe is the only way I can make it through this IVF rollercoaster...my DH call me on his way home last night and told me to get ready to take me to a Jazz festival in the old town...so we went, they was this band that came from NY and they where good...we stayed for about an hr and then we went to this new wine bar and had a glass of wine, talked and came back home, we watched 2 episodes of "Californication" our new sitcom obsession ...today I had some errants to run for the carehome, had a hair cut did some grocery shopping and came back home. I bought some pork chops to make in the grill tonight along with jacket potatoes and veggies. On sunday my DH is running a 14k marathon and so tomorrow we are having plain spaghetti for lunch and dinner! ....and Yes! I will post pics of our Goddaughter as soon as we get back! ....have a lovely weekend everyone!

Baby dust to us all girls!

anton

[NancyB]

Hi Ladies,

Headed out for my 3rd beta this morning. I'll check back in when I get the results.

[Sunshine1576]

Wow I am so excited to be on the boards this morning...to read that NancyB is going for her 3rd beta this morning. I cannot wait to get her report...Our first BFP on the board and yes we're going to have many more to follow!

WndrGrl- How did ER go this morning?

Nicksgam- wow we go way back together, I know exactly the road you've traveled, m/c are never easy but personally I know it's the people around us that make the greatest impact on how we react back. When others share their stories with me it reminds me that we are not alone. Honestly it amazed me about how common this is and then they go on to have a healthy pregnancy. You too will have a healthy pregnancy and I will certainly be stalking you on this board.

Anton- I know what you mean about the excitement of getting the protocol and meds in. It brings us one step closer to making our dream a reality! Dh and I try to the humor in all of this too because laughter is the best medicine. The other night when he was about to give me my follistim shot I asked him do you want to wipe me? We busted out laughing together, because although I was talking about the alcohol swab the way I said it came out completely wrong.

Kiminsh- I'm glad you and dh had a nice vacation in D.C. Never heard of a doctor doing that before in my personal experience, especially after the first IVF. Be careful that he is not trying to have procedures done that may not be necessary.

AFM: Sore boobs since last night, but I'm blaming it on my new V.S bra...Too soon to tell but I am like some and would love to have any symptom! Anyway I'm going to enjoy the rest of my morning before work. Listening to Enya and having some belgium waffles with banana on the side, a tasty combo! Oh I almost forgot to tell you next Tuesday I get to keep Belles all day. Remember back at Christmas she would come over and we did crafts. Annabelle (9) is my next door's daughter and I absolutely adore her! Thinking of fun stuff to do like spending hours at Hobby Lobby, getting her nails done and maybe take her out for lunch at the Olive Garden. She's my little ray of sunshine!

[NancyB]

Hi Ladies,

My 3rd beta level is 2656.

My first u/s is scheduled for 6/29.

[Sunshine1576]

Nancy! CONGRATULATIONS ON A FABULOUS HIGH BETA! Could there be twins?

With my blessings,
Christy

[WndrGrl]

Hi all. Just a quick check in as I'm on my phone. Retrieval went good. They got 14 eggs! I was expecting 7. So now we wait. They will call tomorrow before noon with report. I'm a very happy girl. A little sore but the vicodin is helping. Taking it easy and have been sleeping on and off since we got home.