Summer Board 2011

Discussion forum for those particularly interested in IVF and embryo transfer including frozen embryo transfer.
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Hi everyone! :D

Lauren- GOOD LUCK!!! with ET today my friend!!! :D My prayers are with you!!! 3dt or 5dt it doesn’t matter! You are baby/ies are coming with you no matter what! Your BFP is on its way!!! Image

Kbanks- HUGE Congratulations on your surprise twins mama!!! :D ...if you don’t mind me asking, how come you where that surprise about having twins? Multiple pregnancies with IVF are very common, especially when transferring more than 1 embie...I am so happy for you and your family!!! Image

Wehavehope- I am sorry for the blood but I bet is implantation blood! And if not implantation then for sure is nothing to worry about! Your little baby/ies are doing great in there! From the feedback I’ve got all these months joining boards, is that seeing blood during a pregnancy is very common, especially in IVF. I am not saying I wouldn’t be scared too but just try and see the positive in the negative here. :D Having blood during pregnancy is something that can happen to anyone and is a very common thing to happen especially during the 1st trimester. I assume by now you have spoken with your RE and asked for advice. Maybe he can write you down some PIO shots ...I’ve heard they help to “keep” the baby...in plain words...but please ask so that you can feel better! My prayers are with you girl!!

Mcast- I am so sorry for getting that negative...it’s devastating, I know! We all have been there. And i know that my saying that doesn’t make you feel better either...its ok...I wish you got that BFP (Big Fat Positive) from your first IVF but mind that, the 1st IVF is more like a feedback cycle to your RE. Seeing how you respond to stims, protocol etc. Not that there are no cases that the get their positive from the 1st attempt. Don’t lose your hope dear, have faith, be strong and it will happen for you! hopefully next time!! Take example from all the women in this board, our will to have a baby makes us pick up the pcs from our failed cycles and move on to the next! You can take as much time as you need to grieve. What you are feeling is completely normal! Your BFP is waiting for you next time! I am sure! I sent you tons of baby dust for your journey and I wish you to be a short one!!! :D

Tryn4#2- GOOD LUCK!! :D tomorrow is your beta day girl! your are getting your BFP!!! :D Can’t wait to congratulate you!!! Image

Brandyb- are you having your beta tomorrow too? Good luck to you girl! you are getting that BFP!!! :D Image

Amanda- Congratulations on great egg retrieval! I am happy for you!!! and can’t wait to cheer you on your BFP in October!!!!! ...its ok to give the clinic staff some hard time! After all, they get to see our “9 1/2 weeks” every time we open our legs to them...they need to start paying for that entertainment! Image


Sunshine- since you insist...here’s my AF dance for you!!! :D Image

Easley- I am SO happy that your little “blueberry” is doing great!! Keep up the good work girl!!..yes it was a 5dt...I don’t know about POAS! Me no speak stick language! Me too scared to POAS!...so far... Image

Moorebaby- Hang in there chica!!! The waiting is always frustrating but it will be all worth it at the end of this cycle of yours!! How was house hunting yesterday? :D I am glad you are filling your hrs and having fun with your friends! I totally understand you about being on a tight budget but I try to make the best of it...I don’t even want to buy anything for myself; I am just looking forward to start buying baby stuff!!!! and I hope I get to buy them soon!!! :D ...so you go save your money cause that baby of yours..or two...is going to need a lot of stuff in 10 months!!

Prayersnpies- how are you? any news? :D Image

Sorry if I left anyone out...this board is moving fast!!!!

AFM: Today I am 4dp-5dt.. Implantation process continues and morula buries deeper in the lining!! ...and this is exactly what I am praying is happening today to my baby!!! :D I am still feeling great but dreading for that beta day to come! :shock: Can you blame me? After 6 failed IVF’s there are moments that all this waiting has become a routine that will end with a negative. I really WISH and PRAY that I get my positive this time! :D I want to believe that this is our (mine and DH) time to be baby happy for a change! Enough grieving over negatives! :evil: I am taking control now and say to my body everyday that this baby is here to stay this time! And that’s my PMA for today!! :mrgreen: ..didn’t go out last night with DH, my cousin came with her DH unexpectedly yesterday afternoon and so we order and stay in together until late. We actually had a great time! :D She is my fav cousin and her husband is like my best friend. So, tonight my DH has arrange to go to a wine bar with a colleague of his (he is also a good friend) to cheer him up...he is in the middle of a divorce and needed a shoulder to cry...so I told my BF Maggie, my fav cousin and my SIL to come over my place and chill out. I am planning on making mojitos for them and a cheese /fruit platter. :mrgreen: We are going to sit at the back veranda on the couches with candle lights (I LOVE candles!!) looking at the stars and the pool and wishing we were at the beach instead or somewhere exotic ....some other time we do that...I am busy trying to get preggo now! :mrgreen: ...I also have some other solar power hanging balls that make superb ambience! (the best, cheapest purchase ever from IKEA! :lol: ) If you girls ever want to decorate your veranda or garden let me know! I can give you advices! ....I am not an expert at all! I am just passionate with decorating and creating the best atmosphere for me and my friends! ...God! I got carried away!!! :shock: Back to reality..Last night I saw the WORSE nightmare EVER! :shock: :shock: :shock: I woke up at 5:30am crying like a baby about it!...I never do that btw :o ...among other things i saw in that nightmare there were 5-6 black cats sitting in my kitchen door, someone gave me a baby and i was asking everyone there whose baby is that and no one answered. Then I thought, ok, maybe this is my baby, So i kept playing with that baby and suddenly the baby’s nose started bleeding! I was terrified! :shock: I placed the baby down on a carpet (my brother was there too helping me! ??? :roll: ) and I started shouting that I should make CPR to it or what...and then I turned and the baby was just a doll! :shock: It wasn’t even real and it was becoming purple :shock: .. I even saw a monkey in my bed and we played together! Wired stuff I am telling you!!! :shock: OH!! And me and DH we were running in the street and suddenly thousands and thousands of fake US dollars started falling from the sky! I picked one up and there was a name written that I have never heard of and some letters numbers that i don’t remember them now! :shock: I am telling you girls! I was going to shit in my pants this morning!! :? ...my DH woke up, I started crying, it felt SO real and told him my dream and that I thing maybe this was a sign that our baby won’t make it and this time :cry: ...he told me that it was just a bad dream and blah blah blah.... I feel better now and I want to believe that yes it’s just a bad dream. He left for work and I got up took a shower and went to church! (I don’t usually do that..) I prayed and prayed to be pregnant and now I feel much better :| . But that was pretty frightening stuff I saw in my sleep! And those I’ve described are just the highlights of my nightmare! There were more...anyway, I prayed many times during the day and I am just looking forward to see my friends tonight and forget about lasts night's terror....btw, what do you girls think about what the dream might mean? Honestly!!... :o

Baby dust to us all!! And lots and lots of sticky vibes!!!! Image

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Re: Summer Board 2011

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Hey all, I had 19 egss and 4 fertilized!! So, tomorrow is the big day. Thanks for all your thoughts and prayers.
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Hi everyone,

Lauren - already PUPO ??? can't wait to hear everything about ur ET today, hope everything went great :D

wehavehope - did u call ur RE ?? hope everything is fine and im sure that no worry about the blood i still think it is implantation blood. my prayers are with u.

Anton - oh im sorry about that nightmare! but don't worry honey, it doesnt mean anything, i think that in the 2ww 100% of our mind is focusing on the BFP/BFN thing and the hormones we r taking and all the meds, it will be even weird not having nightmares :mrgreen: i'll tell u something, forget about all the dream and remember only the part where someone gave u a baby - ur baby !!! :mrgreen: coz right now she is inside making herslef comfortable in her mommy's tummy !! :mrgreen:
hope u'll enjoy ur evening with ur girlfriends.


Prayersnpies - YAY for the 4 embies!!! Good Luck on ur ET tomorrow!! :D

tuffy4u - welcome to the summer board! all the luck on ur cycle!! :D

AFM: nothing new... not having any symptoms at all :shock: except some AF like cramping from time to time, but no sore boobs, no cm, no brown spoting :| no nausea,.....
oh and there is something: all my teeth are hurting me all day long since yesterday :shock: :shock: it never happened before, and i have good teeth :mrgreen: :P did anyone of u ladies experienced something similar before ???
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Lauren - By now you should be PUPO so congrats girl!! And don't be upset about not making it to a 5dt. Remember, with my one lousy ovary, we got 5 eggs, 3 fertilized, we did a 3dt and I'm looking at our little girl sleeping right now. If we had pushed it to a 5dt, well to be frank, our little Maribel may not be here today. Everything happens for a reason and I'm a firm believer that sometimes those embies just need to get back in their mama pronto. Good luck my friend and I'll be stalking for your beta! :D
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Hello Everyone!
I just wanted to chime in and say thank you for all the AF dancing, she arrived early this morning! So I called and have my first appointment with my NEW clinic tomorrow morning for a baseline! I am superexcited but going crazy trying to figure out how much and how many meds I will need for this cycle. All I know so far is 1800 units of follistim, the letrosel tablets, hcg shot and 2 weeks of progesterone tablets. Almost sounds like a IVF instead of an IUI but I called the nurse to find out what day do I start the tablets since I'm going to be leaving Friday to travel home this weekend? The pharmacy doesn't have the order yet, so I'm waiting for a return call from my nurse so I can get them shipped. The fun and frill of fertility! Anyway I just wanted to check in today with everyone....

Anton, I have no idea what the dream meant but it could be from eatting certain spicey foods or even over-thinking (like I do)! I tend to dream about stuff that I've seen in movies or something I saw on facebook. Last night I dreamt about Minnie Mouse plated forks from Walt Disney World and I was decorating for a special kid-friendly event. The night before I watched a suspense movie and dreamt my oldest brother was working for the CIA. Strange huh, but I don't think they mean anything. Try to put your mind at ease and leave the dream far behind because it was only a dream. THIS IS YOUR time and I cannot wait to celebrate your big moment with you! :D
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Hey ladies

I'm home! We transferred 3 embryos! A 6-7-9 cell..one a 1B and 2-2B. I'm on the couch resting! Tired didn't sleep well...siesta time:) will do personals later! Thxs ladies
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12/31-Saw sac & yolk on u/s!! 1/7-SAW HEARTBEAT!
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Lauren wrote:Hey ladies

I'm home! We transferred 3 embryos! A 6-7-9 cell..one a 1B and 2-2B. I'm on the couch resting! Tired didn't sleep well...siesta time:) will do personals later! Thxs ladies
Congrats...you're PUPO!!! Rest up. Your babies are snuggling in & getting comfy in there! When is your BETA?
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I spike to my nurse and she said that what I was experiencing was absolutely normal. Nothing to be worried about. I need to increase my fluids and go in for Beta on Friday. Thank you everyone for putting up with me. Not easy, I know. You ladies are the absolute best. Of course, I took another test and it's darker. Woohoo!!!
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Congrats Lauren!!! Now, sit back and relax. You will be looking at the BFP very soon!

Anton, I was surprised because I just didn't feel like it was twins I guess... I really would have bet on there just being one in there, but we are thrilled to have two! As for your dream... I'm stumped, but I just know your little bean is snuggling in for a long 9 months!

AFM, after the u/s yesterday I felt fine.... for me anyway, lol. But last night I started cramping kind of heavy off and on like AF is coming and then this morning saw some pinkish discharge when I wiped. Called My RE and he said not to worry. That spotting and even bleeding can be common in pregnancy and more so with IVF, and then again even more so with twins. I am trying to stay positive, but I just have a bad feeling I can't shake. I hope I am wrong and just being overly sensitive. Still cramping, but no more spotting as of yet...
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Hi Girls,

I haven’t posted since my BFN near the end of June, which is probably back on page 20 something, but I have been trying to keep up with all of you. As I read your posts I can’t help but be sympathetic. Either I get so excited about the positive news and my eyes well up, or my stomach drops for the sad. However, on this board there has been a lot of BFP’s and positive news and I think that is so great. It gives the rest of us hope! I am routing for all of us!

My DH and I have decided to try again. We are changing protocols and going with the Antagonist this time instead of the Lupron to try to get more eggs. Not that I didn’t have a good response, but the PGD took us from 10 embryos to 1 viable for transfer. However, AF is about 6 days late. Did this happen to any of you who had a BFN (got AF w/ the BFN cycle) but next natural cycle missing AF? I am def not BFP, we are super safe considering the whole reason we are doing this, a genetic disorder where there is a 80% for us to have a child with MR.

I really wanted to get this show on the road. I am off the whole month of August and would love to be able to have a stress free cycle (besides the stress the cycle brings itself) If it doesn’t come soon I am nervous I might have to wait until the following month. For school will be starting, don’t want to miss the first week, and I am a bridesmaid for someone I think of as my sister. I will worry too much about all that to be able to focus on myself like I should. Plus, I will prancing around in heels in and out of limos, stressing the crazy first week back to school all within a week of ET, if I get a BFN I will blame myself…..

It’s funny when you want AF she doesn’t show, but when you want her she is MIA….
If she doesn’t arrive by Friday I am calling my RE.

Anyone else ever late like this? Any thoughts?
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MadamX- My cycle was off right before we started this last cycle. They started me on Ganirelix then stop it bc of AF. My body just wouldn't get in sync with what they wanted to do, but I did start my stims after AF with no lupron or ganirelix until the almost the end of the stims. We did E.R yesterday they retrieved 7 and 5 are mature & frozen for our transfer in October.

wehavehope- I don't blame you. I would be doing a test everyday too. Congrats on it getting darker :D

Lauren- YAY on being PUPO!!! You are going to pregnant before you know. 3 is a GREAT number!

Prayerspies- Good luck on your ET. Are you transferring all 4?

KBanks- TWINS how wonderful :P :P :P

Anton- Try not to worry about the nightmare. Lord knows all of our minds going crazy during the 2 ww.

AFM: Out of the 3 embryos from the donor 2 made it to freeze. Out of my 7, 5 were mature & frozen today!!!! Can I say it again 5 were mature...We now have a total of 7 frozen embryos for our October transfer. I am so darn happy!! :P I am feeling bad today though I woke this morning puking my guts out (sorry about TMI) with a severe headache. I couldn't even keep the zolfran they gave me down. After awhile I was able to keep the meds down so no more throwing up, but I still have a headache from hell. Has anyone else felt this way the day after ER? I have never felt bad afterwards.
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Amanda-yay! 7 is GREAT! Forgives if I'm stupid but they freeze them right away? Lol idk...and I felt like dog shit!!! It will get better hang in there!!!
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MCAST, I know the feeling on the abbreviations! I'm totally new and was missing whole parts of conversations. I found this website good.

http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/in ... 659AAjwRZW

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Anton, that dream was definately weird! But they say that every part of the dream is an aspect of the dreamer rather than being prophetic (which I suspect you are worried about in terms of the CPR, etc) so focus on some part of it that might make some sense to you and make that part about you - so if the baby needed CPR, maybe think about if there is a part of you that needs some attention, etc? Some parts will make no sense, but some parts might

And on that philosophical note I will say goodnight to everyone :)
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Lauren....CONGRATS on bringing 3 beautiful embies home!!! I'm so excited for you! Rest up, sending tons of stcky vibes your way!
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