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Rachael07.07.07
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Poll: Easter-ish
Rachael07.07.07
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1) What's your favorite type of Easter candy?
2) Do you like Peeps?
3) What's your favorite jelly bean flavor?
4) Do you attend an Easter brunch?
5) Do you color eggs?
DX PCOS w/IR 01/08.
Currently pg with our 1st after 6.5 yrs of IF (thank you IVF)
My IF/Everything Blog
There's No Crying in Baseball
***My posts are always SAIFW**
Currently pg with our 1st after 6.5 yrs of IF (thank you IVF)
My IF/Everything Blog
There's No Crying in Baseball
***My posts are always SAIFW**
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Re: Poll: Easter-ish
1) What's your favorite type of Easter candy? "Reester bunnies" (The Reece's bunny)
2) Do you like Peeps? Yup! Back when you could only get them at Easter time I used to gorge on them, lol.
3) What's your favorite jelly bean flavor? Lemon or mango
4) Do you attend an Easter brunch? Usually. This year I'm not sure. Everyone seems to want to do dinners but with us having to hit the road right after dinner, not sure how this is going to work out.
5) Do you color eggs? I LOVE coloring eggs! I'm such a kid with it!
Currently pg with our 1st after 6.5 yrs of IF (thank you IVF)
My IF/Everything Blog
There's No Crying in Baseball
***My posts are always SAIFW**
Worrying does not empty tomorrow of its troubles, It empties today of its strength. ~Corrie ten Boom
Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow. ~Mary Anne Radmacher (thank you beadinglady)
It's been a long journey. TTC since 9/06. multiple IUI's and IVF's and 4 m/c's. IVF#3 = BFP, twins, induced at 34w6d due to baby b passing away (no explanation). Delivered on 35w1d, Baby A - baby girl, and Baby B - baby boy, our little angel.
MTHFR A1298C & C677T, Immune Issues and Factor II
1) What's your favorite type of Easter candy? Chocolates my momma makes
2) Do you like Peeps? ewww
3) What's your favorite jelly bean flavor? all of the starburst jellybeans
4) Do you attend an Easter brunch? nope... breakfast at the in-laws, dinner at my aunts
5) Do you color eggs? yep - family affair with an intense competition between me and my nephews lol
TTC since 2008 dx PCOS & MFI
Clomid/Femara no "O"
IVF #1 BFN
FET #1 cancelled for biopsy
FET #1.2 c/p, July 2012 c/p
IUI #1 & 1.2 canceled
IVF #2 ER 12/1, Freeze all due to OHSS
FET #2.1 cancelled due to DVT risk, FET #2.2 Jan 2013
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1) What's your favorite type of Easter candy? Chocolate malt eggs.
2) Do you like Peeps? Yes.
3) What's your favorite jelly bean flavor? Pink lemonade.
4) Do you attend an Easter brunch? Yes.
5) Do you color eggs? Used to. Not since dealing with IF...feels like a dagger as I want to share such crafts with an LO or two.
Countless BFN(s)
Moving to IVF
IVF1 (ICSI): Long Lupron
6R. 3F. 3DT. 8Cell 1Grade 2Embies. 1Frostie.
Beta 1/22: 14 Beta 1/24: 24 Beta 1/26: 28
Round One Result: Chemical Pregnancy
Pressing Forward
IVF2 (ICSI/AH/ACU): Microdose Lupron Flare
13R. 11F. 5DT. 2TFR'ed. 1Frostie.
Round Two Result 4/30: Harsh BFN
FET. 2TFR'ed.
Round Three Result 6/25: BFN
Where do we go from here?
Moving forward with CCRM in 2013
ODWU revealed blocked tube(s). Lap 2/15.
Bilateral Tubal Ligation. Stage IV Endo.
Finally some (tough) answers.
IVF3 (ICSI/CCS): Antagonist with EPP
13R. We have 3 CCS Normal Embryos!
Lupron Depot: May 2013 to August 2013
Long awaited FET on 9/3. 2TFR'ed.
BFP on FRER 5dp5dt: IN SHOCK!
Beta1 9/10: 152.7! Beta2 9/12: 378! Beta3 9/14: 1224!
1st ultrasound 10/1: TWO beautiful heartbeats! Overjoyed!
2) Do you like Peeps? They are ok. When I was a kid I liked them more.
3) What's your favorite jelly bean flavor? Pop corn. Sounds gross but I love them.
4) Do you attend an Easter brunch? I cook Easter dinner every year.
5) Do you color eggs? No
I did as a kid.
1) What's your favorite type of Easter candy? Mini Eggs...YUM!
2) Do you like Peeps? Blech, no.
3) What's your favorite jelly bean flavor? I don't really like Jelly Beans, but the Watermelon Jelly Bellys are good.
4) Do you attend an Easter brunch? Nope.
5) Do you color eggs? Nope.
1) What's your favorite type of Easter candy? Lindt Bunnies
2) Do you like Peeps? Nope, I cannot let my body ingest all those colors
3) What's your favorite jelly bean flavor? purple and white
4) Do you attend an Easter brunch? this year yes, with the relatives
5) Do you color eggs? I used to as a kid as we lived next to a German family in the 70's and they got us on to it. As a kid Mum would remove the contents of an eggs and we would draw on it. Amazingly I still have one from when I was 3 years old and it is not broken
Multiple ectopics, 2 failed IVF's
IVF #1: Did not get to ET, embies all failed PGD (major chromosomal defects)
IVF #2: We have 2 chromosomally perfect embies as a result of PGD (Boy/Girl) 1 failed the thaw (Girl) Transferred 1, yet ended as a c/p
Thought it was the end of our TTC Journey 6/20/2012
SHOCK BFP 9/28/2012: IT'S A BOY! and everything is normal !!!!!!
Little A born 38w 2d on 05/23/13 and is a true miracle for this IF Vet!
2/06 - surprise pregnancy - twins
3/06 - m/c 1st baby at 6 weeks
5/06 -2nd baby had no heartbeat at 14 wks.
D&E - Bled out. Blood transfusions. Week in ICU - Cheated Death!
Diagnosis: Blood clotting and bleeding disorder, immune issues, & cervical stenosis
5/10 - 1st IVF cycle - BFN
FET - 10/12/10 - BFN
1/11 - IVF with PGD - BFN
IVF - May - BFN
6/11 New RE - fingers crossed!
9/11 - IVF - 4 transferred
10/13 - BFP!!
It's a boy! Clint Michael, Due in June!!!
1) What's your favorite type of Easter candy? Reese's PB Eggs... never had a Reester Bunny... very curious.
2) Do you like Peeps? yes, especially once they're stale. They get better.
3) What's your favorite jelly bean flavor? strawberry kiwi or watermelon
4) Do you attend an Easter brunch? no, we would do breakfast/brunch growing up with my family... but now we just go to a late lunch (2-ish) with DH's family
5) Do you color eggs? yes, we probably will this year too b/c I'm doing deviled eggs for Easter so we may as well have fun with them before I make it.
1) What's your favorite type of Easter candy? Cadbury Eggs
2) Do you like Peeps? They are okay. I can only eat one or two.
3) What's your favorite jelly bean flavor? Not really a fan.
4) Do you attend an Easter brunch? We have skipped the last 3 or 4. DH's family has a cookout, so odd, plus they are 5 hours away and gas is $4.50 a gallon. So we are going out this year. The place we are going has super cheap drinks too.
5) Do you color eggs? Not for a long time.
TTC since 2007
6 IUIs, 3 IVFs, and 2 m/c :< PCOS, Blood Clotting Disorder & MFI
IVF #2 Aug 2011 is a BFN:<
IVF #3 March 2012 is a BFN
Not sure what to do now. Sad and lost.
1) What's your favorite type of Easter candy? starburst jellybeans and cadbury eggs
2) Do you like Peeps? yes
3) What's your favorite jelly bean flavor? all of them
4) Do you attend an Easter brunch? no
5) Do you color eggs? of course!
TTC #2 since June '08
~*DD 10.21.07*~
dx unexplained
IUI #1-4 BFN
IVF#1 June 2011 BFN
IVF#2 Dec 2011
Beta#1 12/21 : 812 Beta#2 12/23 : 1634
EDD 8/25
*PAIFW/SAIFW*
1) What's your favorite type of Easter candy? Cadbury eggs (not the cream ones, the ones with the candy shell) MMM!
2) Do you like Peeps? No, never have. I am not a huge marshmallow fan.
3) What's your favorite jelly bean flavor? I love Jelly Belly's buttered popcorn jelly bean.
4) Do you attend an Easter brunch? When no one in the family plans a dinner, yes.
5) Do you color eggs? ABSOLUTELY!! Gonna do it tonight or tomorrow. DH and I are such babies about it too because we EACH need our own dozen eggs. Ugh. what a waste because neither of us like egg salad so we are always trying to give them away after. lol
TTC since March/April 2010
DX: MFI - less than 1 million sperm, 26% motility
DH put on anastrozole to increase counts
June/July 2011 100 mg Clomid + TS IUI#1 & IUI 2 - BFN :-(
Forced break due to DH getting spinal surgery in August 2011
IVF - January 2012: BFN
FET in April 2012 - BFP at 6dp5dt! Beta #1 at 9dp5dt: 82.5, Beta #2 at 12dp5dt: 352 Beta #3 at 19dp5dt: 6000, saw heartbeat and one little bean at 5W6D!
After nearly 3 years of waiting our LO was born December 18th 2012!