PAIF check in 2/15

sawasap

Not sure if there are very many of us here, but wanted to start this thread to find out!

We first decided we wanted to try for a baby in December of 2017. After a year of no success, we were referred to a fertility clinic. My husband's tests came back looking stellar (like my doctor asked him if he had ever considered donating sperm lol), mine kept coming back normal, but nothing was working. As a kind of last ditch attempt to find a cause, and based on my descriptions of my periods, my doctor suggested surgery to see if I have endometriosis and it turns out I have it pretty bad. What I thought was a low tolerance to period pain turned out to be a fairly high tolerance for endometriosis pain.

After that, we tried naturally for a while longer until our turn for funded IVF came up. We also tried IUI, which failed.

We ended up with 3 embryos from our IVF cycle, and the first one implanted in December 2020 became our son. We had a failed FET in November, and then this successful one in January.

I'm a little anxious knowing that this is our last shot (we agreed before starting IVF that we would only go through the full cycle once, so IF wouldn't take over our whole lives), but cautiously optimistic since my HCG levels from my beta were over 600.

Feel free to share your stories if you want! If not, how are you all feeling so far?

charmedlifex3

We struggled pretty badly to conceive my daughter. My oldest we were successful on our second month, but he was a pretty traumatic birth. When we were finally ready to try again, we expected things to go smoothly. And nothing happened for a year. Then we conceived- and miscarried. And again. Two years in we finally went to a RE who immediately dismissed my husband as the cause. She did an exploratory surgery since we knew the amount of trauma that had happened, and discovered both tube totally occluded. My losses had both been eptopic and never viable. That was … strange to process. Relief they self resolved, guilt… 
she was able to open one of my tubes and suggested clomid to force the “good” side to ovulate, and after three cycles (our limit before moving to ivf) we conceived my daughter… in March of 2020. Definitely a “what have we doooonnne” moment in April when the world was ending, but I wouldn’t change her a bit. 

This time we started NTNP for about six month, and agreed we would actively try in 2023. My OB wrote us a script for Femera, and we conceived on the first medicated cycle. I’ll feel better once we know baby is in the right spot. 

Planning to have both tubes and my left ovary removed at the birth, so this is definitely our final. I still have pain from all the scarring during ovulation and have a strong family history of ovarian cancer so it makes sense to do. 

@sawasap it’s definitely different after struggling with IF. That’s a great beta though! Are they doing an early ultrasound, or waiting until the normal 8 weeks? 

sawasap

@charmedlifex3 I've actually already had an ultrasound! I had one last Thursday (just before I joined - wanted to make sure everything looked OK before getting too excited) and I'll have another one on February 28 because they found a fairly large SCH that they want to keep an eye on.