I am gearing up for another try at IVF after my last cancelled cycle. I'm doing a different protocol starting as soon as AF shows. I have no idea really how long I will stim or when retrieval will be at this point, but I was estimating around May 9. Well, H just tells me that he is going to be out of town that whole week and maybe the week before for work. When I ask him if I should cancel this cycle and wait for next month, he says that he will be traveling a lot then too and asks if I want him to just quit his job and wait around to do IVF.
I am trying to convince him to fly back the night before and then go back the next morning after the retrieval if it falls during that week. I don't know why he can't just explain to them that his wife is having surgery and that he will be back asap. I think they would be understanding about that. He doesn't want to do this however. He would rather us be out the money and not go to retrieval if it happens when he is scheduled to be gone.
Ugh. This sucks.
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Ah, Stacy, I'm sorry. :-( It is always so much hurry up and wait and you just never know how your body will react and how things will go. Can be so frustrating! And sounds like both of you are feeling the stress.
Would you guys maybe be willing to have your DH leave a few frozen samples to use just in case he can't come back in time? We had some frozen as a back-up just in case DH's fresh sample the day of sucked, etc...
Hopefully it all works out with timing and everything.
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Severe MFI - on to IVF w/ ICSI
IVF#1-2: BFN
IVF#3: BFP! - 1/24: ET - 5d - 2 blasts - 2/02: Beta #1: 16.2 ...... 2/04: Beta #2: 35 ...... 2/09: Beta #3: 401.5 - I'm pregnant! - 2/13: u/s #1 - baby boy, due 10/12, born 10/16! ...... 8 lbs 0 oz, 22 inches!
IVF with ICSI #1: BFP
TESE for DH 08/09/09
ER 08/09/09; ET 08/14/09; Beta #1 08/23/09: 150; Beta #2 08/25/09: 267
TTC #2: FET #1: BFP
ET 06/16/11; Beta #1 06/25/11: 282; Beta #2 06/27/11: 777
First u/s: Twins! Baby A stopped growing @ 9 weeks, forever in our hearts
TTC #3: FET #2: c/p lost at 4 weeks
TTC #2, Operative hysteroscopy March 2011; IVF #1 long lupron protocol April 2011-cancelled due to poor response; IVF #2 flare protocol May 2011=hospitalization due to abdominal hemorrhage during ER and no fert due to MFI issues. Moving onto international adoption from Moldova January 2013!
IVF with ICSI #1: BFP
TESE for DH 08/09/09
ER 08/09/09; ET 08/14/09; Beta #1 08/23/09: 150; Beta #2 08/25/09: 267
TTC #2: FET #1: BFP
ET 06/16/11; Beta #1 06/25/11: 282; Beta #2 06/27/11: 777
First u/s: Twins! Baby A stopped growing @ 9 weeks, forever in our hearts
TTC #3: FET #2: c/p lost at 4 weeks
After 22 cycles and tube removal our IVF miracle has arrived! Detailed IF and IVF info in bio.
TTC #1 - May 2010 - IUI #3: BFP
TTC #2 - May 2012 -IUI #2: BFP
UGH! What if he gave several samples to increase the odds of having good sperm to choose from?
Chart/Blog
Nothing breeds faster than Crazy
dude, that sucks. Flying back and forth would make you out a lot less money then doing a cycle and not finishing.
My RE will not allow any travel during a treatment cycle at all. Probably for these type of situations.
TTC#1 Chart
TTC#2 Chart
IUI #1 - #4 (repronex trigger) = BFN
IUI#5 on 10/28/2008 ** BFP 11/10/08 ** EDD 07/21/09 *** It's a GIRL (07/14/09)
med/treatment free BFP 06/28/10. EDD 03/05/11 *** GIRL #2 (02/23/11)
beta#1 @ 17dpo = 1296 .... beta#2 @ 19dpo = 3034
it's the Bug and Baby Belle!
My RE still won't do it even with multiple samples. His count is usually around 600,000 or so, which gives them enough to choose from. But, there is this unknown factor of what causes the sperm to die when they try to do ICSI. She is afraid the freezing would aggravate that even further.
TTC #2, Operative hysteroscopy March 2011; IVF #1 long lupron protocol April 2011-cancelled due to poor response; IVF #2 flare protocol May 2011=hospitalization due to abdominal hemorrhage during ER and no fert due to MFI issues. Moving onto international adoption from Moldova January 2013!