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SSideHeather · November 2011

Hi ladies-

I've been lurking for quite awhile now, but thought I would officially say hello.

A little bit about me- I'm a Carolina girl that moved to Chicago after college graduation (UNC - Go Heels!) for a job in advertising. I met my DH online and the rest is history. We've been married for over 4 years and been TTC for nearly 3 years. I've had a history of bad ovarian cysts, fibroids and such that needed to be surgically removed which sidelined us a bit from our TTC efforts.

I was put on Clomid from my OBGYN in January of this year with no success, so we started the process of seeing an RE in February. Went through all the tests and everything was all clear. Continued Clomid with monitoring at the REs office for 3 IUI cycles to result in BFNs. I always responded well to meds, so after the third failed IUI, we decided to move on to IVF.

For my IVF protocol, I was on Follistim, Repronex (which I think is the same as monpur (sp) that I see many of you on) and Ganiralex. My ER was last wednesday, 11/16, and they retrieved 14 egges. 13 were mature and 11 fertilized. We were able to do a 5dt on Monday and we transferred 2 1AA blasts. (There was quite a bit of debate regarding we should do 1 or 2 and I think the dr was pushing for 1 since they were such high quality. We ultimately decided 2 because we're open (and even a little excited) about the possibility of twins. Our insurance will only cover this IVF so anything else will be OOP and I'd rather "gamble" and get twins and have a complete family rather than knowingly have to go through this again. There's also a possibility that IVF won't work at or we could still end up with a singleton. I've seen a lot of debate about this issue on the bump, but I think we made the best decision for us.

I was slightly annoyed that I felt like everyone during the ET was acting like this was going to be such a sure thing. I'm all for positivity, but I'm all too familiar with IF and so many bump stories to know that nothing is guaranteed. Just because you have 1AA blasts doesn't mean you'll actually get pregnant or that you won't have a m/c. Here's hoping they're right though!

So now I'm suffering with many of you during the 2WW trying to freak out about every little thing. (ie. Am I resting enough, etc.) Anyone that recently had a ET/ER, feel free to say hi and we can compare 2WW stories.

I've been off of work for vacay/IF purposes the past week so I've had lots of time to bump, but once I go back to work after Thanksgiving, I may be more of a limited poster since I tend to have a pretty hectic job- but I'll try to do what I can.

Thanks for letting me join you and lurk in your IF journey. I look forward to sharing stories with you and getting to know you all better.