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DoublePortion
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***signature & ticker warning***
Me: 30 ~ Stage IV Endo ~ AMH .38 ~ AFC 8
AMH .97 as of 4/2012! ~ AMH 1.63 as of 4/2013!?!
Him: 29 ~ perfect swimmers
Laparotomy w/partial oophorectomy 8/2009 to remove cysts/endo.
Stopped BCP 4/2010.
Multiple clomid rounds from 11/2010 to 6/2011. ~ All BFN
IUI w/clomid 7/2011. IUI w/clomid & injectables 11/2011 & 1/2012. ~ All BFN
IVF:EPP 5/2012 ~ (4R, 3M, 2F w/ICSI). Both embryos txfrd. ~ BFN
BCP to manage endo from 10/2012 to 12/2012.
FET w/donor embryos #1: 10/2013 Cancelled
FET w/donor embryos #1.2: 11/2013 ~ ET of 2 beautiful blasts on 11/27.
Beta 1: 503(12dp5dt) Beta 2: 1035(14dpt) Beta 3: 3001(16dpt) Beta 4: 8503(19dpt)
Twins with an EDD of 8/15/14! Team Purple
G&B born 6/30/14 at 33w3d via emergency c/s.
If you're wondering about my avatar...it's a fried pickle chip shaped like a fetus!
Slow day random GTKY quiz!
DoublePortion
member
in Infertility
1. Do you live in an urban or rural area?
2. What is your favorite online shopping source?
3. Do you have a bucket list? If so, what is on it?
4. What is your dream car or vehicle if price didn't matter?
5. What is your favorite TV show?
6. Are you a morning or night person?
7. What is your dream job?
***signature & ticker warning***
Me: 30 ~ Stage IV Endo ~ AMH .38 ~ AFC 8
AMH .97 as of 4/2012! ~ AMH 1.63 as of 4/2013!?!
Him: 29 ~ perfect swimmers
Laparotomy w/partial oophorectomy 8/2009 to remove cysts/endo.
Stopped BCP 4/2010.
Multiple clomid rounds from 11/2010 to 6/2011. ~ All BFN
IUI w/clomid 7/2011. IUI w/clomid & injectables 11/2011 & 1/2012. ~ All BFN
IVF:EPP 5/2012 ~ (4R, 3M, 2F w/ICSI). Both embryos txfrd. ~ BFN
BCP to manage endo from 10/2012 to 12/2012.
FET w/donor embryos #1: 10/2013 Cancelled
FET w/donor embryos #1.2: 11/2013 ~ ET of 2 beautiful blasts on 11/27.
Beta 1: 503(12dp5dt) Beta 2: 1035(14dpt) Beta 3: 3001(16dpt) Beta 4: 8503(19dpt)
Twins with an EDD of 8/15/14! Team Purple
G&B born 6/30/14 at 33w3d via emergency c/s.
If you're wondering about my avatar...it's a fried pickle chip shaped like a fetus!
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Re: Slow day random GTKY quiz!
1. Do you live in an urban or rural area? Neither, suburban
2. What is your favorite online shopping source? Amazon
3. Do you have a bucket list? Not really
4. What is your dream car or vehicle if price didn't matter? I'm not that into cars. I have a new Audi now that I really like.
5. What is your favorite TV show? Dexter
6. Are you a morning or night person? morning
7. What is your dream job? Winning the lottery & traveling! Thats a job, right? If not, it would be school counseling or some other type of counseling.
04/07/11- PCOS Diagnosis w/GYN. Put on Metformin (1500 mgs)
04/25/11- 1st consultation with RE (Confirmed PCOS & Anovulation)
05/09/11-HSG-All clear! 05/13/11-SA-Normal. Found out on 2/14/12, low Morph (1%).
06/17/11-10 days of Clomid (100, 150) No response.
07/10/11-03/20/12- 5 Injectable (Follistim) IUI cycles; 4 BFN, 1 C/P. (stims ranged from 11 days to 25 days)
05/28/12-Diagnosed with Hypothyroidism. 75 mcg Synthroid.
IVF with ICSI in June/July 2013 = BFP!. Beta # 1 = 123. Beta # 2 = 252. Due March 25th. Baby boy arrived March 27, 2013!
FET #1 - 10/4/14 = BFP!! Beta #1 = 179. Beta # 2 = 499. Due June 22nd.
1. Do you live in an urban or rural area? Urban bordering on suburban
2. What is your favorite online shopping source? Etsy
3. Do you have a bucket list? If so, what is on it? Hmm. Don't have one per se. Things I know I want to do in my life: be a mother, run some kind of marathon or race, be a beekeeper
4. What is your dream car or vehicle if price didn't matter? Robin's Egg Blue Thunderbird Convertible (from the early 2000's, era wise)
5. What is your favorite TV show? 30 Rock (although I feel it's "jumped the shark" or History Detectives - we don't have cable)
6. Are you a morning or night person? Morning! WHOO HOO!!!!
7. What is your dream job? Owning my own store of cute crafts and fun stuffTTC #1 since 1/10
DX: Unexplained/??? MFI issues
Our lil' lost sparks:
5w3d loss 7/30/10 - EDD March 2011
8w loss 4/15/11 - EDD November 2011
8w3d loss 8/2/12 - EDD March 2013
4w c/p loss 10/29/12 - EDD July 2013
Long story: trying on our own + testing testing testing with 6 rounds of Clomid, more testing, injectables + TI, laparoscopy - one tube blocked, 2 IUIs with Follistim...BFNs.
RPL testing all normal, Karyotyping normal
Moving on to IVF.
IVF #1 April 2012 = BFN, IVF #2 June 2012 = BFP. U/S 7/23 = saw heartbeat but measuring behind. Follow up U/S on 7/30 - no heartbeat. D&C 8/2. Trisomy 12. IVF #3 Oct 2012 = Chemical Pregnancy
Phone consult with CCRM on 12/12/12 - ODWU 1/4/13 - both tubes clear(!) - AFC 24, AMH 3.2, FSH 9.6, LH 5.4, E2 25. DH has high frag rate but improved!
IVF #4 March 2013 CCRM. EP protocol w/ Menopur, Gonal-F & Dexamethasone. ER 3/29 & IMSI, PICSI. 43R 13M 10F 6blasts bio'd. CCS testing reveals 3 normals!!!
FET 5/31/13 of 1 4AA blast - thawed and expanded. 4dp5dt BFP.
Beta 9dp5dt = 181, 11dp5dt = 427. 1st u/s showed a healthy heartbeat! EDD 2/16/14
After 4 years of hoping and heartbreak, our sweet little bean was born on 2/19/14
We are so in love with her.
"I'm not telling you it's going to be easy, I'm telling you it's going to be worth it."
Everybody is welcome!!!
2. What is your favorite online shopping source? Amazon, sometimes Overstock.
3. Do you have a bucket list? If so, what is on it? Not really. I just want to travel to a lot of places!
4. What is your dream car or vehicle if price didn't matter? Bentley Continental!!!
5. What is your favorite TV show? Law & Order: SVU
6. Are you a morning or night person? I'm more a middle of the day kind of person. lol I have a hard time staying awake past 10:30, but like to sleep in too.
7. What is your dream job? Working for the CIA or FBI, like in the movies. I know that's not really how it is though & I'd be bad at it anyway!
***signature & ticker warning***
Me: 30 ~ Stage IV Endo ~ AMH .38 ~ AFC 8
AMH .97 as of 4/2012! ~ AMH 1.63 as of 4/2013!?!
Him: 29 ~ perfect swimmers
Laparotomy w/partial oophorectomy 8/2009 to remove cysts/endo.
Stopped BCP 4/2010.
Multiple clomid rounds from 11/2010 to 6/2011. ~ All BFN
IUI w/clomid 7/2011. IUI w/clomid & injectables 11/2011 & 1/2012. ~ All BFN
IVF:EPP 5/2012 ~ (4R, 3M, 2F w/ICSI). Both embryos txfrd. ~ BFN
BCP to manage endo from 10/2012 to 12/2012.
FET w/donor embryos #1: 10/2013 Cancelled
FET w/donor embryos #1.2: 11/2013 ~ ET of 2 beautiful blasts on 11/27.
Beta 1: 503(12dp5dt) Beta 2: 1035(14dpt) Beta 3: 3001(16dpt) Beta 4: 8503(19dpt)
Twins with an EDD of 8/15/14! Team Purple
G&B born 6/30/14 at 33w3d via emergency c/s.
If you're wondering about my avatar...it's a fried pickle chip shaped like a fetus!
1. Do you live in an urban or rural area? Urban.
2. What is your favorite online shopping source? Oh, probably Amazon.com because they have everything, quickly followed by Zappos.com
3. Do you have a bucket list? If so, what is on it? I don't. I should though.
4. What is your dream car or vehicle if price didn't matter? I used to have a Porsche Boxster convertible and I LOVED that car and miss it sooooo much. If I had the money and it was practical I would buy a new one in a heartbeat! (Mine was old and used and I didn't care even back then!)
5. What is your favorite TV show? Lately "Impractical Jokers"--seriously the funniest thing I have seen on TV in forever!
6. Are you a morning or night person? Morning.
7. What is your dream job? It would be something working with animals. Real ones--not like my co-workers.
IUI #1 March: BFN, IUI #2 April: BFN.
IVF #1: Started stims 7/30--CANCELLED.
IVF #1.2: Stims start 10/8/12, ER: 10/20/12; 11R/8M/4F, 5DT: 10/25/12, transfer of a 4AA and 3AB Blast. BFP on HPT 10/31/12; Beta #1: (16 DPO) 954! Beta #2: (18 DPO) 1968! First U/S: TWINS!! A/S: TWO BOYS! EDD: 7/13/13
PAIF/SAIF Always Welcome.
2. What is your favorite online shopping source? Right now, all I buy are e-books from Amazon
3. Do you have a bucket list? If so, what is on it? Not really a bucket list, but I do have a list of 101 Goals in 1001 Days that I keep on my blog (in my siggy)
4. What is your dream car or vehicle if price didn't matter? I don't have very fancy tastes. I don't even know what I might like that's nicer than my CR-V.
5. What is your favorite TV show? Currently on t.v. - CSI; no longer on the air - West Wing
6. Are you a morning or night person? Night. I have the worst time getting up in the morning, probably because I stay up too late.
7. What is your dream job? Is getting paid to stay home and do crafts, diy and bake an option? I'd like to own a bookstore.
The Daily Nugget
Cycle 12, IUI #1 - 33m post wash 10/15/10 = BFN
Cycle 13, IUI #2 - 15m post wash 11/16/10 = BFP, missed m/c, D&C 1/3/11
Cycle 15 - 18, IUI #3-6 = BFN
Cycle 20, IUI #7 = BFP!, missed m/c 9/14, D&C
DE-IVF Aug. 2012: ER 8/30 11R, 7M, 4F; ET 9/4 returned 2
Beta 9/18 #1-820, #2-1699, #3-7124
10/1 1st u/s measuring right on track, 125 bpm
PAIFW/SAIFW
DS1 born July 2002 (previous marriage).
TTC since Oct 08. DH Dx w/testicular cancer March 09.
MFI due to retrograde ejaculation/azoospermia.
5/2 IVF #1 cancelled due to large follie.
6/14 start Lupron for IVF #1.2. 6/22 start stims.
7/4 ER and Biopsy.
7/9 Transferred 2 (1-4BB and 1-3BB) embryos. 4 frosties.
7/15 +HPT 6dp5dt. 7/18 Beta #1: 193. 7/20 Beta #2: 415.
8/10 1st u/s - It's triplets!
1. Do you live in an urban or rural area? I live in the suburbs of a big city in the South.
2. What is your favorite online shopping source? Amazon
3. Do you have a bucket list? If so, what is on it? Becoming a parent, finishing a half-marathon, visiting Hawaii with my family.
4. What is your dream car or vehicle if price didn't matter? Ferrari!
5. What is your favorite TV show? How on earth could I narrow this down? I LOVED Lost, Big Love, Six Feet Under. Right now I am loving Smash!
6. Are you a morning or night person? I'm a little bit of both. I love staying up late, but if I know I have to get up super early in the morning, it's not a big deal.
7. What is your dream job? This is a hard question. I think my dream job would be to be a housewife and/or SAHM. Until such time comes, my dream job would be working with a non-profit group that helps people with HIV and AIDS.1st RE appt on May 1, 2012
RE recommended IUI with DS.
Hope to start 1st IUI before end of 2012
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1. Do you live in an urban or rural area? Rural, we have a house on 10 acres with woods and a pond in back. I love it!
2. What is your favorite online shopping source? Overstock
3. Do you have a bucket list? If so, what is on it? Nope, the only thing I have to have is children some day
4. What is your dream car or vehicle if price didn't matter? One of the new lime green Jeeps
5. What is your favorite TV show? Real Housewives
6. Are you a morning or night person? Night person. I struggle to get my butt out of bed in the morning! I don't know what I would do without coffee.
7. What is your dream job? Probably something with Animal Behavior but not sure exactly what.
1. Do you live in an urban or rural area? Suburban... just north of Cincinnati
2. What is your favorite online shopping source? Amazon or Etsy
3. Do you have a bucket list? If so, what is on it? Yes, traveling to France and Italy. Going back to Hawaii and Alaska. If hubby has another good sales year Hawaii may be in our future next April. His company gives away a big trip each year. It's been a few years since he's won anything so my fingers are crossed.
4. What is your dream car or vehicle if price didn't matter? I'm not really into cars. I drive a black Mazda3...ZOOM-ZOOM. If money wasn't an issue I guess the New Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG. The MSRP is only $189,600 - $196,100. ha!
5. What is your favorite TV show? MadMen and Breaking Bad
6. Are you a morning or night person? I am totally a night owl. I hate mornings! I struggle EVERY.SINGLE.MORNING. I hate being a slave to an alarm clock. I like waking up when I'm ready to wake up.
7. What is your dream job? I would love to be an interior designer. Working when I want to work. Not when someone else tells me I have to work. However, this would require me to go back to college and at my age I'm not sure I'm ready for that just yet.
06.10.12 +HPT 06.12.12 Beta #1 = 2,770 06.14.12 Beta #2 = 6,300
1st U/S 06.18.12 2nd U/S 06.25.12
09.24.12 It's a Boy!! ---> Jacob Owen
Our IF Journey Began: October 2009
**8 Failed IUI's, 1 Blighted Ovum, & 1 Failed IVF**
Dx: MFI, DOR w/MTHFR Homozygous A1298C & Hypothyroidism
03.2012 Lab Results: FSH 6.83 AMH 0.67 TSH 3.8 E2 17
SA 156 million 93% motility 3% morphology
**~PAIF/SAIF Always Welcome~**
1. Do you live in an urban or rural area? I would say suburban. Its outside of the main city (denver) but close enough to still be busy.
2. What is your favorite online shopping source? probably amazon its where I get my OPKs and HPTs every month.
3. Do you have a bucket list? If so, what is on it? Yes-want to skydive, go to europe, be in two states at once, etc.
4. What is your dream car or vehicle if price didn't matter? I love the Volvo x9 I think what its called its the SUV.
5. What is your favorite TV show? have tons-greys, criminal minds, NCIS. I love watching reruns of Buffy & Saved by the Bell.
6. Are you a morning or night person? morning person. I can't just lay in bed once I am awake I am up.
7. What is your dream job? Work in a hospital in the oncology unit for administration.
1. Rural
2. Zappos
3. I'll have to work on that
4. A submarine
5. Doctor Who
6. Night
7. SAHM
Source: weheartit.com via Captain on Pinterest
1. Do you live in an urban or rural area? Urban
2. What is your favorite online shopping source? Banana Republic, Ann Taylor
3. Do you have a bucket list? If so, what is on it? Not really. I have done a marathon so at least I can cross that one off the list if I had one.
4. What is your dream car or vehicle if price didn't matter? I don't like to drive so I don't have a dream car. Probably a Mercedes C class.
5. What is your favorite TV show? Grey's Anatomy
6. Are you a morning or night person? Night
7. What is your dream job? SAHM
Me:40 AMA, DH:36 0% morph, TTC#1;
BFP#1 4/2011, MMC 6/2011 11wks Trisomy 13;
BFP#2 11/2011, CP
FSH: 17.9, AMH: 2.2
IVF#1 w/ICSI: ER 4/3: 5R,4M,4F
ET 4/6 All 4 (1-8A+, 2-8A-, 1-3A) BFP#3
Two weeks of beta hell = Blighted Ovum
IVF#2 Aug/Sept: ER 8/27: 4R,3M,3F
ET 8/30 (1-8A+, 1-6A+)
Beta#1 9/10: 350; Beta#2 9/12: 796; Beta#3 9/20: 9155
Expecting Boy/Girl Twins! My babies were born 4/23/13 at 36w1d!
1. Do you live in an urban or rural area? Urban
2. What is your favorite online shopping source? I would say my credit card rewards site (if that counts).
3. Do you have a bucket list? If so, what is on it? Go white water rafting and rock climbing.
4. What is your dream car or vehicle if price didn't matter? No idea I don't really get the whole fancy car thing. Probably a Jaquar
5. What is your favorite TV show? Too many to name. Top right now Grey's Anatomy, Revenge, and Vampire Diaries.
6. Are you a morning or night person? Very anti-morning
7. What is your dream job? Mom by day and professional poker player at night
1. Do you live in an urban or rural area? Urban-ish
2. What is your favorite online shopping source? ASOS is my favorite. I love shopping for clothes/shoes/accessories.3. Do you have a bucket list? If so, what is on it? I have a few things I must do before I die, not super long. Be a parent, travel to Greece, Live in NYC, Own a beach house, own a pet pig, and open my own business.
4. What is your dream car or vehicle if price didn't matter? I would love a vintage Aston Martin. Like the James Bond car.
5. What is your favorite TV show? Currently on T.V.: DEXTER! I am obsessed. Although I would like to pretend like the last season doesn't exist. Not on t.v. any longer: Veronica Mars. Hands down, one of the best show ever written. Very sad that it's not around anymore.
6. Are you a morning or night person? Night. Can't go to bed before 2 am.
7. What is your dream job? Owning a boutique with fashion and home goods. Or set designer for films.
1. Do you live in an urban or rural area? Urban
2. What is your favorite online shopping source? I'm going to say amazon. I really don't shop online very much but when I do its something off of amazon...
3. Do you have a bucket list? If so, what is on it? Not an official one. Does have a baby count?
4. What is your dream car or vehicle if price didn't matter? I'm honestly in my dream car.And its nothing all that fancy or expensive. 2011 Ford Explorer... I mean I guess if I'm dreaming then I'd also like a Jeep Wrangler, a Range Rover, a Beetle, and a F-150.
5. What is your favorite TV show? True Blood and Sons of Anarchy
6. Are you a morning or night person? I'm not an early morning or a late night person! So I'll just go with "day".
7. What is your dream job? SAHM[spoiler] My Blog: Grow Baby Grow
BFP #1: 12/2009 m/c 1/2010 BFP #2: 6/2010 m/c 8/2010
BFP #3: 10/2011 ectopic 11/2011 (right tube removed, learned left tube was probably nonfunctional due to scar tissue from infection after m/c)
3 failed IUIs, IVF #1: 18R, 12M, 10F, 3 poor quality 5d embryos transferred= BFP #4!!!!!
Betas: 9dp5dt: 64 ~14dp5dt: 91 (expecting miscarriage, doubling time of 236 hours) ~16dp5dt: 200~18dp5dt: 500
First Ultrasound at 6w2d revealed two sacs, only one with a heartbeat
LK arrived after 42 weeks on August 14, 2013! Beautiful, healthy, and happy!
TTC#2: IVF booked for April 2015
Surprise BFP#5 February 19, 2015 EDD: November 2, 2015
Betas: 10dpo: 10, 14dpo: 77, 17dpo: 270
First Ultrasound at 5w1d showed a miracle UTE baby! And right ovary ovulation to left fallopian tube.
JD arrived at 38 weeks on October 20, 2015.
TTC #3: Since October 2017. BFP #6 July 2, 2018 EDD: March 16, 2019 [/spoiler]
1. Rural. We've lived here about a year. It's crazy our neighbors to the right did IVF last year. And our neighbors to the left just did IVF last month. All 3 of us used the same RE. Twins to the right, expecting twins to left. Hopefully it's a good sign.
2. I love Ebay.com and Sephora.com.
3. Yes. It's on a website bucketlist.org. I want to travel to all 50 states, skydive, and finish college.
4. Classic Shelby Mustang.
5. True Blood!
6. Night but coffee helps me with mornings.
7. I'm doing it now. I am a paramedic/firefighter.
First mini-IVF Sept 2011... Only 1 egg! ... BFN
Switching RE
IVF#2 May 2012 9 eggs and only 2 sperm, WTH!
BFN
Switching RE's within practice
*~God gives his hardest battles to his toughest solders. Unknown.
Distracting myself while AF tries to rear her ugly head.
1. Do you live in an urban or rural area? Urban
2. What is your favorite online shopping source? Amazon
3. Do you have a bucket list? If so, what is on it? Travel-India, Nepal, Tibet
4. What is your dream car or vehicle if price didn't matter? see #1
5. What is your favorite TV show? Big Bang Theory
6. Are you a morning or night person? morning
7. What is your dream job? I have it! I'm a professor!2. What is your favorite online shopping source? Hmm, I enjoy Lululemon online. But since IF hit us, I don't shop much..
3. Do you have a bucket list? If so, what is on it? Not really, other than I'd like to travel a bit more..
4. What is your dream car or vehicle if price didn't matter? Range Rover for sure, a white one!
5. What is your favorite TV show? I love Guilianna and Bill and Khloe and Lamar.. I'm a reality junkie..
6. Are you a morning or night person? Night, 100%
7. What is your dream job? Stay at home Mommy!