08/11/13: One fertilized late, we now have 11 embryos!
08/13/13: 5dt-- 2 blasts (Sheldon and Penny) 3AA and 3BB, none to freeze
8/23/13: BFFN... Sheldon and Penny didn't stick**
**8/29/13: Follow up... bad fragmentation issues. Changing protocol to Antagonist for round #2 coming soon! Also started on 81mg Aspirin after getting blood panel done and found out I have PAI-1**
**Oct 2013: After large cysts, finally starting IVF #2**
IVF w/ICSI #2 (Antagonist Protocol)
BCPs started back in Sept due to cysts
10/27/13: Start stims (225 IUs Gonal-F + 75 IUs Menopur)
11/03/13 - 11/05/13: Add Ganirelix to the mix
11/06/13: 3 follicles at 18mm-- Ready to trigger!
11/08/13: ER-- 17R, 13M, 8F
11/13/13: 5dt-- 2 blasts (Luke and Leia) 5AB and 4AB, 1 frostie
11/20/13- 11/23/13: light positives on FRERs and Wondofos
11/22/13: BFN per RE office (under HCG of 10)
11/27/13: CP ::sigh::
*12/03/13: Follow up...great response and quality this time, was given 50% chance of it working, just didn't stick. Great plan for 2014!
**Jan 2014: Last IVF of our SRP**
IVF w/ICSI, freeze all, then FET
12/27/13: Start BCPs
01/19/14: Stims (375 IUs Gonal-F + 75 IUs Menopur)
Congratulations Cutebride!! --TWINS!! Congratulations, Luvie, on your sweet boy! Congrats, Jess! So happy for you ladies! ~~Also best of luck to Kati, illinigal, and youngin!~~
Sorry about the elephant thing I didn't know it was on another board. I think these are great ideas, I just can't get on board with the bee thing because they terrify me due to an acute allergy to bee stings! I like the turtle, and the sparrow also perhaps a penguin or a puffin? IDK but we really will need a poll.
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I decided I'd give it a try... here's what I came up with:
You.are.awesome
Aww, shucks, thank you!
AKB090609:
Sorry about the elephant thing I didn't know it was on another board. I think these are great ideas, I just can't get on board with the bee thing because they terrify me due to an acute allergy to bee stings! I like the turtle, and the sparrow also perhaps a penguin or a puffin? IDK but we really will need a poll.
I'm sorry about the allergy, that's not good. But these are all cute bees!!! I know penguins are spoken for already. We could do a turtle, and I love turtles, but it makes me think of how slow this process is going and that makes me sad.
That's why I like the bee idea, it makes me feel empowered and hopeful. That's just my 2 cents.
New to 3T? Check out this website first: TroubleTTC
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end --Semisonic
08/11/13: One fertilized late, we now have 11 embryos!
08/13/13: 5dt-- 2 blasts (Sheldon and Penny) 3AA and 3BB, none to freeze
8/23/13: BFFN... Sheldon and Penny didn't stick**
**8/29/13: Follow up... bad fragmentation issues. Changing protocol to Antagonist for round #2 coming soon! Also started on 81mg Aspirin after getting blood panel done and found out I have PAI-1**
**Oct 2013: After large cysts, finally starting IVF #2**
IVF w/ICSI #2 (Antagonist Protocol)
BCPs started back in Sept due to cysts
10/27/13: Start stims (225 IUs Gonal-F + 75 IUs Menopur)
11/03/13 - 11/05/13: Add Ganirelix to the mix
11/06/13: 3 follicles at 18mm-- Ready to trigger!
11/08/13: ER-- 17R, 13M, 8F
11/13/13: 5dt-- 2 blasts (Luke and Leia) 5AB and 4AB, 1 frostie
11/20/13- 11/23/13: light positives on FRERs and Wondofos
11/22/13: BFN per RE office (under HCG of 10)
11/27/13: CP ::sigh::
*12/03/13: Follow up...great response and quality this time, was given 50% chance of it working, just didn't stick. Great plan for 2014!
**Jan 2014: Last IVF of our SRP**
IVF w/ICSI, freeze all, then FET
12/27/13: Start BCPs
01/19/14: Stims (375 IUs Gonal-F + 75 IUs Menopur)
Congratulations Cutebride!! --TWINS!! Congratulations, Luvie, on your sweet boy! Congrats, Jess! So happy for you ladies! ~~Also best of luck to Kati, illinigal, and youngin!~~
Sorry about the elephant thing I didn't know it was on another board. I think these are great ideas, I just can't get on board with the bee thing because they terrify me due to an acute allergy to bee stings! I like the turtle, and the sparrow also perhaps a penguin or a puffin? IDK but we really will need a poll.
I'm sorry about the allergy, that's not good. But these are all cute bees!!! I know penguins are spoken for already. We could do a turtle, and I love turtles, but it makes me think of how slow this process is going and that makes me sad.
That's why I like the bee idea, it makes me feel empowered and hopeful. That's just my 2 cents.
I agree that they are cute, it's just my two cents! You did a great job on the design!
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Still, though, the mascot and the metaphor works! It seems like bumblebees couldn't fly if they were flying the "typical" way -- i.e., like a bird, or an airplane. They fly because they get around that... by flying like a helicopter.
to the bees!
Severe MFI. Me: supposedly all clear but eggs showed vacuoles.
IVF #1 January 2012, ER Jan 14th: 34R, 27M, 23F. Day 3: 18 embies still strong. Day 5: zero "good," one "fair," the rest "poor." Transferred 3. None made it to blast or to freeze. Jan 28: BFN.
Lucky IVF #2: Transferred two beautiful day three embies on St. Patrick's Day. BFP on HPT 7dp3dt. Beta 1 (14dpER)=106; Beta 2 (16dpER)=140; Beta 3 (19dpER)=264! First u/s 4.17.
Hope is the thing with feathers - that perches in the soul - and sings the tune without the words - and never stops - at all - (Emily Dickinson)
Can we have a mascot that doesn't move? The moving siggy things make my eyes hurt and if we all have them it could be a migraine waiting to happen! Just my two cents. I like both the bee and the turtle. IF may sting, but we're still buzzing... ok, I'm gonna work on my cliches!
TTC #1 2+ Years with Unexplained IF
1st & Only BFP: 1st IVF w/ ICSI, 3dt of 2 7-cell, grade 2 embryos on 8/25/12
Beta #1 9/5: 87.2 BFP! - Beta #2 9/7: 248 - 1st US @ 6w3d Two Heartbeats! - MoDi Girls!
K ladies! I am going to put the poll up right now.
FWIW, I also adore the turtle idea. I have a sea turtle necklace.
Started TTC 2/2009 Started fertility treatments 11/2010 Ovarian dysfunction, LPD, male factor 6 failed medicated IUI's Pregnant 5/2011 - Miscarriage at 6 weeks due to triploidy Decided to adopt - 6/2012 SURPRISE! Pregnant without intervention - 7/2012 Sweet Baby James Born 3/2013 Decided to be "One and Done"
....OR NOT. Pregnant 12/2018 despite birth control pills Here we go again... Due 8/26/19!
I don't want to burst anyone's bubble, but I'm a board certified entomologist and need to butt in to say that the bee's flight mechanism is well understood. They have other aspects that would make them a good mascot - all the bees in the hive are female (with a few token drone males Cmartin!), they are excellent at communicating, work together to solve problems (such as the cold - when temperatures reach a point that individually the bees would die, they huddle together and 'shiver', creating enough warmth with their movement to outlast the cold). They also spend a great deal of resources on facilitating egg laying by the queen bee and then rearing the brood - there are actually 'nurse bees' whose job is to take care of the baby bees!
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Re: Board Mascot
cute
I like that its animated!
I decided I'd give it a try... here's what I came up with:
TroubleTTC
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end --Semisonic
**TTC since 04/09, C/P 02/02/10; 4 weeks, 3 days**
**Dx: Anovulation, Hypothryroidism, Mild Endo, Pituitary Adenoma (prolactin issues), PAI-1, MFI **
**7/10: Clomid + TI= BFN**
**3/2/11: 1st RE appointment**
**DH= Morph= 2%, Motility= 30%**
**HSG= All clear!!**
**3/11: Femara + Pregnyl + TI= BFN**
**5/17/11: Laparoscopy / hysteroscopy = mild endo**
**7/11: Novarel + IUI #1= BFN (7mil, 75% motility, 2% morph)**
**8/11: Femara + Novarel + IUI #2= BFN (11mil, 35% motility, 1% morph)**
**11/11: Femara + Novarel + IUI #3= BFN (9mil, 2% morph)**
**Jan 2012: Follistim (75ius) + IUI #4= CANCELLED due to cyst -put on bcp**
**Feb 2012: Follistim (75ius) + Novarel + IUI #4.2= BFFN (2.5mil, 13% motility, 1% morph)**
**Mar 2012: Follistim (100ius) + IUI #5= CANCELLED due to 35mm & 14mm cysts**
**On med break indefinitely...IF Sucks!**
Congratulations Cutebride!! --TWINS!! Congratulations, Luvie, on your sweet boy! Congrats, Jess! So happy for you ladies!
~~Also best of luck to Kati, illinigal, and youngin!~~
IUI#3 brought us our dragon baby Z
TTCAL January 2015 Siggy Challenge: Animal Snow Interactions
Aww, shucks, thank you!I'm sorry about the allergy, that's not good. But these are all cute bees!!!
I know penguins are spoken for already. We could do a turtle, and I love turtles, but it makes me think of how slow this process is going and that makes me sad.
That's why I like the bee idea, it makes me feel empowered and hopeful. That's just my 2 cents.
TroubleTTC
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end --Semisonic
**TTC since 04/09, C/P 02/02/10; 4 weeks, 3 days**
**Dx: Anovulation, Hypothryroidism, Mild Endo, Pituitary Adenoma (prolactin issues), PAI-1, MFI **
**7/10: Clomid + TI= BFN**
**3/2/11: 1st RE appointment**
**DH= Morph= 2%, Motility= 30%**
**HSG= All clear!!**
**3/11: Femara + Pregnyl + TI= BFN**
**5/17/11: Laparoscopy / hysteroscopy = mild endo**
**7/11: Novarel + IUI #1= BFN (7mil, 75% motility, 2% morph)**
**8/11: Femara + Novarel + IUI #2= BFN (11mil, 35% motility, 1% morph)**
**11/11: Femara + Novarel + IUI #3= BFN (9mil, 2% morph)**
**Jan 2012: Follistim (75ius) + IUI #4= CANCELLED due to cyst -put on bcp**
**Feb 2012: Follistim (75ius) + Novarel + IUI #4.2= BFFN (2.5mil, 13% motility, 1% morph)**
**Mar 2012: Follistim (100ius) + IUI #5= CANCELLED due to 35mm & 14mm cysts**
**On med break indefinitely...IF Sucks!**
Congratulations Cutebride!! --TWINS!! Congratulations, Luvie, on your sweet boy! Congrats, Jess! So happy for you ladies!
~~Also best of luck to Kati, illinigal, and youngin!~~
I'm sorry about the allergy, that's not good. But these are all cute bees!!!
I know penguins are spoken for already. We could do a turtle, and I love turtles, but it makes me think of how slow this process is going and that makes me sad.
That's why I like the bee idea, it makes me feel empowered and hopeful. That's just my 2 cents.
I agree that they are cute, it's just my two cents! You did a great job on the design!
So I remember hearing something about the bumblebee thing being an urban legend, and here's an interesting explanation:
https://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1076/is-it-aerodynamically-impossible-for-bumblebees-to-fly
Still, though, the mascot and the metaphor works! It seems like bumblebees couldn't fly if they were flying the "typical" way -- i.e., like a bird, or an airplane. They fly because they get around that... by flying like a helicopter.
Severe MFI. Me: supposedly all clear but eggs showed vacuoles.
IVF #1 January 2012, ER Jan 14th: 34R, 27M, 23F. Day 3: 18 embies still strong. Day 5: zero "good," one "fair," the rest "poor." Transferred 3. None made it to blast or to freeze. Jan 28: BFN.
Lucky IVF #2: Transferred two beautiful day three embies on St. Patrick's Day. BFP on HPT 7dp3dt. Beta 1 (14dpER)=106; Beta 2 (16dpER)=140; Beta 3 (19dpER)=264! First u/s 4.17.
Hope is the thing with feathers - that perches in the soul - and sings the tune without the words - and never stops - at all - (Emily Dickinson)
1st & Only BFP: 1st IVF w/ ICSI, 3dt of 2 7-cell, grade 2 embryos on 8/25/12
Beta #1 9/5: 87.2 BFP! - Beta #2 9/7: 248 - 1st US @ 6w3d Two Heartbeats! - MoDi Girls!
K ladies! I am going to put the poll up right now.
FWIW, I also adore the turtle idea. I have a sea turtle necklace.
Started fertility treatments 11/2010
Ovarian dysfunction, LPD, male factor
6 failed medicated IUI's
Pregnant 5/2011 - Miscarriage at 6 weeks due to triploidy
Decided to adopt - 6/2012
SURPRISE! Pregnant without intervention - 7/2012
Sweet Baby James Born 3/2013
Decided to be "One and Done"
....OR NOT.
Pregnant 12/2018 despite birth control pills
Here we go again...
Due 8/26/19!
I don't want to burst anyone's bubble, but I'm a board certified entomologist and need to butt in to say that the bee's flight mechanism is well understood. They have other aspects that would make them a good mascot - all the bees in the hive are female (with a few token drone males Cmartin!), they are excellent at communicating, work together to solve problems (such as the cold - when temperatures reach a point that individually the bees would die, they huddle together and 'shiver', creating enough warmth with their movement to outlast the cold). They also spend a great deal of resources on facilitating egg laying by the queen bee and then rearing the brood - there are actually 'nurse bees' whose job is to take care of the baby bees!