Embryo transfer was 19/08/04 EDD 12/05/05
Embryo transfer was 19/08/04 EDD 12/05/05
I wondered if anyone else had roughly the same dates as me? I have surprising few pregnancy syptoms and had first scan last week they couldn't find anything at first and got another doctor who found one heartbeat it was the longest few minutes and felt like an eternity and I couldn't keep still as was sobbing which probably didn't help! But all well and have another scan this Thursday so have to go through it all again which is really unnerving.. ..
We have one daughter Jess age eleven. After years and many things happening my husband & I paid and went for ICSI embryo trans 19/08/04. I had a baby daughter 26th April 2005 we have called her Kirsten so now we are blessed with two children.
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Hi Cate,
Just wanted to add my congrats!! having the first scan is so nerving and then when the next one is due you feel so nervous again. All the way through my pregnancy I was having scans because I bled quite alot until I was 18wks pg so they kept a close eye on me. Alex is now coming up to 8 months old and here I am still worrying.
I just wish you all the luck in the world, and keep us informed how your scans go.
Love
Shell & Alex
xx
Just wanted to add my congrats!! having the first scan is so nerving and then when the next one is due you feel so nervous again. All the way through my pregnancy I was having scans because I bled quite alot until I was 18wks pg so they kept a close eye on me. Alex is now coming up to 8 months old and here I am still worrying.
I just wish you all the luck in the world, and keep us informed how your scans go.
Love
Shell & Alex
xx
Cate,
My due date is May 7, but I will probably be eariler, since it is twins. Congratulations on your first scan! Glad it went well - I'm just starting to feel like it might be real this time, myself. I'm not used to the European date formatting. I keep thinking your due date is in December.
So you were an August Cycle Buddy too! Did you read the August Cycle Buddies thread on the General Forum? Actually, you will probably find the Keep In Touch August Buddies list even more interesting.
There is also a First Trimester Buddies thread on here somewhere, where many of the posters are close to our dates, though I have to admit to being one of the newer ones. People are afraid to post on this side of the board too early.
Alicia
My due date is May 7, but I will probably be eariler, since it is twins. Congratulations on your first scan! Glad it went well - I'm just starting to feel like it might be real this time, myself. I'm not used to the European date formatting. I keep thinking your due date is in December.
So you were an August Cycle Buddy too! Did you read the August Cycle Buddies thread on the General Forum? Actually, you will probably find the Keep In Touch August Buddies list even more interesting.
There is also a First Trimester Buddies thread on here somewhere, where many of the posters are close to our dates, though I have to admit to being one of the newer ones. People are afraid to post on this side of the board too early.
Alicia
TTC 2.5 years - Me 38 no tubes; DH 32
1st- IVF June 2004 - early MC
2nd - FET Aug 2004 - Twin boys born April 25, 2005!!!
1st- IVF June 2004 - early MC
2nd - FET Aug 2004 - Twin boys born April 25, 2005!!!
Due in May 2005
Hello Alicia
Yes I did read some of the August tester messages, and yes I was too afraid to join even though I am not normally superstitous, it must be all the jabs and hormones .
I have done all sorts of strange things going into the wrong shops and asking for the wrong things etc etc. I can't wait to either show bump or be able to tell everyone but as yet I do feel it's to soon. I keep saying to Paul my husband I think when we had Jess when I was 30 I didn't even reliase as although we had been trying for a child I knew nothing much about the ins and outs of my body etc as I had all the time in the world! Now of course I watch every twinge and what with doing my own injections (Paul works away from home ) I do feel like a fully trained medic!!!
When I went for the scan last Thursday it was exactly five weeks since they put the embryos back however the nurse said I am seven weeks pregnant as far as everyone is concerned as they count it from the date of your last period.I came across this board during the very lonely two week wait in fact that was pretty much what I put into google one night! It does feel like ages ago as do the injections in the Summer, when I was at the hospital last week there were people there with the big bags of medicine and the yellow boxes for the sharps to be disposed of in and I just thought you poor things God I hope it works for you.
Anyway nice to know your there, I go to the hospital again Thursday, Paul away obviously! when hopefully they will find everything quicker this time. and then I will be transfered to my ordinary doctor. Take care Cate xxx
Yes I did read some of the August tester messages, and yes I was too afraid to join even though I am not normally superstitous, it must be all the jabs and hormones .
I have done all sorts of strange things going into the wrong shops and asking for the wrong things etc etc. I can't wait to either show bump or be able to tell everyone but as yet I do feel it's to soon. I keep saying to Paul my husband I think when we had Jess when I was 30 I didn't even reliase as although we had been trying for a child I knew nothing much about the ins and outs of my body etc as I had all the time in the world! Now of course I watch every twinge and what with doing my own injections (Paul works away from home ) I do feel like a fully trained medic!!!
When I went for the scan last Thursday it was exactly five weeks since they put the embryos back however the nurse said I am seven weeks pregnant as far as everyone is concerned as they count it from the date of your last period.I came across this board during the very lonely two week wait in fact that was pretty much what I put into google one night! It does feel like ages ago as do the injections in the Summer, when I was at the hospital last week there were people there with the big bags of medicine and the yellow boxes for the sharps to be disposed of in and I just thought you poor things God I hope it works for you.
Anyway nice to know your there, I go to the hospital again Thursday, Paul away obviously! when hopefully they will find everything quicker this time. and then I will be transfered to my ordinary doctor. Take care Cate xxx
Cate,
Good luck for your appt Thursday. We have ours tommorrow, and if all is well we will be transferred to the regular OB doctor. We really are on the same schedule!
It really seems like ages ago since I had the injections, because these were frozen embryos. The actual fresh IVF cycle was in June. I came across the leftover syringes yesterday and wondered what to do with them. Hopefully I will not ever be needing them again. But seeing them made me realize how hard the whole process was. It had just seemed to go by in such a blur.
I also cannot wait to have a little bump. Right now I still fit all my clothes despite having gained 6 pounds. I'm trying hard to gain more, as it seems to be very important to gain a lot early with twins.
Alicia
Good luck for your appt Thursday. We have ours tommorrow, and if all is well we will be transferred to the regular OB doctor. We really are on the same schedule!
It really seems like ages ago since I had the injections, because these were frozen embryos. The actual fresh IVF cycle was in June. I came across the leftover syringes yesterday and wondered what to do with them. Hopefully I will not ever be needing them again. But seeing them made me realize how hard the whole process was. It had just seemed to go by in such a blur.
I also cannot wait to have a little bump. Right now I still fit all my clothes despite having gained 6 pounds. I'm trying hard to gain more, as it seems to be very important to gain a lot early with twins.
Alicia
Just got back from scan
Just got in from hospital and all well. It was the same lady scanning as last time and I think she was as thrilled as me to find straight away this time, but then as she put it she knew where to look this time!!
They printed another picture which is much clearer in just a week and I settled up for the extra bottle of burseil, I had an extra one as at the time kept on with did I sniff it that time or not etc ???...and of couse I had, so the two bottles didn't last long enough! So paid up signed off and back into the normal system.
I hope all is well with you
Cate
ps I didn't reliase you had gone through the ivf in June, we only got 4 eggs and because of the procedure ICSI, with assisted hatching only two survived and then fertilized.
Does that mean in the future when your twins are older you will be able to use more frozen embryos?
They printed another picture which is much clearer in just a week and I settled up for the extra bottle of burseil, I had an extra one as at the time kept on with did I sniff it that time or not etc ???...and of couse I had, so the two bottles didn't last long enough! So paid up signed off and back into the normal system.
I hope all is well with you
Cate
ps I didn't reliase you had gone through the ivf in June, we only got 4 eggs and because of the procedure ICSI, with assisted hatching only two survived and then fertilized.
Does that mean in the future when your twins are older you will be able to use more frozen embryos?
Cate,
Glad your appointment went well. So did ours, so it's regular checkups only from now on.
Yes, we have 2 more frosties, but not sure if we will want to try for another. If we do end up with two babies, it will be quite a while, I'm sure. But I do think there is not another full IVF cycle in my future, regardless. That is quite a relief.
Alicia
Glad your appointment went well. So did ours, so it's regular checkups only from now on.
Yes, we have 2 more frosties, but not sure if we will want to try for another. If we do end up with two babies, it will be quite a while, I'm sure. But I do think there is not another full IVF cycle in my future, regardless. That is quite a relief.
Alicia
Here is an interesting story: my friend had twins via IVF and had 2 beautiful little boys. The twins are around 2 1/2 yrs old, not quite. Anyway, the clinic called to see what they wanted to do with their frosties because they will only store them for 3 yrs.
So....they could do a FET, and if it was successful the baby (ies) would have been conceived on the same day but over 3 yrs apart. Isn't that from the twilight zone?
Paige
So....they could do a FET, and if it was successful the baby (ies) would have been conceived on the same day but over 3 yrs apart. Isn't that from the twilight zone?
Paige
Star Trek v comedy moments
Re all the technology in Liverpool from the point of egg collection to embryo transfer, two days, you wear an identity bracelet and they zap the bar code on that and have same bar code on your dish of eggs/embryos.
It's the Matcher system and you have to leave bracelet on.
When they did the putting them back bit it was hysterical as they have a tv screen you look up on and there's your dish with bar code which they zap of course it's all magnified and then this giant thing comes onto the screen which it turns out is the pipette to pick them up and the embryologist, the comedian says don't worry it won't be that big when I bring it it the room!!!!
You had to be there really I suppose but what with the high emotion of seeing them I was in hysterics later even with legs firmly crossed Cate
It's the Matcher system and you have to leave bracelet on.
When they did the putting them back bit it was hysterical as they have a tv screen you look up on and there's your dish with bar code which they zap of course it's all magnified and then this giant thing comes onto the screen which it turns out is the pipette to pick them up and the embryologist, the comedian says don't worry it won't be that big when I bring it it the room!!!!
You had to be there really I suppose but what with the high emotion of seeing them I was in hysterics later even with legs firmly crossed Cate