Sept & Oct 2012 - IVF/ICSI

[cheekyhalfs]

Hello ladies

I'm soon to be starting my 3rd IVF (cycle shut down meds starting on 30th Aug) and want to create a group for anyone in the same situation, and who want to join this thread to support one another through this tough process.

Wishing everyone who is TTC lots of luck....

[robin85]

my third ivf this month i go in on monday to my doc.. first two times both BFN none to freeze -_- .. i'am 26 my husband 30 nothing wrong with neither but i do have pcos but i do get a period every month wtf i just want answers

[babygirl082412]

Hey thanks ladies for all your support and caring words.

We have decided to wait and go back in the new year and do another ER in January and do a transfer in Feb. I didn't want to just transfer one again seeing as that did not work out last time I want to improve my odds. I hope the time off will do some good which I think it will its all just so stressful. My husband and I definitely need a break. Best of luck to the rest of you!!

[Leatha]

Good evening I hope everyone is doing well on their cycles.  

Babygirl and thisistheyear you ladies have gone through at lot it seems in the last couple of months.  I agree with thisistheyear take a month or so for your body to adjust back to "normal".  With a frosty you don't need as much prep time.  A month or two also gives you some breathing time so you can prepare for a FET emotionally and mentally.

I was actually in the middle of a cycle for a FET back in January of this year and I cancelled it 10 days before my transfer.  I just wasn't ready emotionally.  I knew that if I had that transfer I would have felt resentful.  (Not a good place to be when pregnant) So I cancelled and I am so glad I did.  Life has a way of working out.  I'm glad I listened to my body and that is what you ladies should do.  Do your transfer when YOU are ready to do
it not when someone else wants to.  

Now I am ready to do this and I embrace the thought of doing a FET in the next week.  

So hugs to you both and anyone else going through this roller coaster of ttc.  

[thisistheyear]

Hi babygirl - I'm in a somewhat similar situation.  I just finished my third and last failed IVF.  We've got one frozen blast that we need to decide what to do with.  I don't want it to go to waste, but I also need a little time to recoup.  Four months of all that is too much - you need a break, both physically and mentally!  The nice thing about FET is that if you're "old" like me (41), time is not the issue as it is with a fresh cycle, as you don't have to worry about producing eggs of lesser and lesser quality.  I'd definitely wait a month or so until you feel ready to do this again!

Has anyone looked into embryo donation?  I think that may be where we are headed next.  I hadn't even thought about it until my RE brought it up yesterday.  Not only is it way cheaper than using an egg donor, but then also the child is biologically NEITHER of ours, instead his but not mine (which I'm not keen on at all).  

Good luck to all the newest ladies on here!

[babygirl082412]

Well ladies as for me things did not go well out of the 19 eggs they pulled from me only 11 fertilized and then they only had 4 that they could send away for testing and I got the call yesterday that nothing came back three out of the 4 had my husbands disorder and the other one had abnormal chromosomes. I still have a boy frozen from the last time I did this and I cant decide what to do my husband wants me to put the boy in this month but I kind of want to give my body a break it has been 4 straight months of injections and tests. Also if I did another transfer I would want more than one to put back in. Has anyone been in this situation before?

Congrats cheekyhalfs that  is awesome news

[Leatha]

That's great I'd love the company!  That is just unbelievable about the embryo attaching to another, lets hope they separate when they freeze!  This is my first FET too and I have five frosties and plan on transferring two if all goes well.  How many are you going to transfer?  

The estrace for me has been brutal.  I have been so edgy and moody, exercise does help but man oh man sometimes I just want to take someones head off :)  I will manage though and then it's poi time.....oh joy oh bliss....but all for a good cause!