Not PAIF related: Good book recommendations

Re: Not PAIF related: Good book recommendations

• BzeetyD member

  July 2013

  Do you like David Sedaris? His new book is really good.
  
  A fiction faves of mine (I'm mostly a non-fiction reader) is, A Giant's House by Elizabeth McCracken. Recently I liked the Hunger Games series, I liked Phillip Pullman's Golden Compass series and I've always loved the original Winnie the Pooh and House at Pooh corner, they're favorites that I go back to again and again. I have a fairly eclectic taste in books so my fiction love is all over the place.
  

  BzeetyD = 38, Mr. BzeetyD = 44 together 12/02 married 9/08
  TTC #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!!!

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• BlueEyedDreamer member

  July 2013

  I've been reading the Outlander series. Very easy to read - sort of guilty pleasure fiction with some history thrown in there.

  *** Trigger Warnings ***
  
  TTC #1 since March 2011

  Dx = Unexplained IF
  1 medicated TI cycle & 4 clomid IUIs = all BFNs
  

  June 2013 IVF #1 = 6 frosties + BFP!
  DS1 born 2/14
  
  TTC #2 since December 2014
  May 2015 unassisted BFP ended in m/c at 7wks
  April 2016 FET #1 = BFN
  June 2016 FET #2 = c/p
  August 2016 FET #3 = BFP!
  DS2 born 4/17

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• luvboston member

  July 2013

  2nd Honeymoon by James Patterson

  Outlander Series

  Kathryn SHay firefighter series, oneil series

  Defending Jacob

  6 m/c
  Anovulatory cycles, increased Synthroid Diagnosed Sep 2010

  Natural cycle Dec 2010 BFP M/C 6 1/2 Weeks, D&E Jan 2011
  1 Clomid/Ovidrel BFN May 2011
  Natural cycle Aug 2011 BFP M/C 4 Weeks
  1 IUI Sept 2011 BFP M/c 7 weeks
  Provera Dec 2011 BFP M/C 3 Weeks

  DQ ALPHA HLA MATCH, High NK Cells Diagnosed Dec 2011
  IVF March 2012 BFP m/c 4weeks 5 days (IL, Prednisone)
  IVF#2w/DS July 2012 MEGA FAILURE BFN (IL, Dexamethasone)
  Diagnosed No real HLA Match, DQ Beta Triad, High TNF, Low NK Cells
  Oct 2012 Natural Cycle m/c 4wks (Lovenox, Prednisone) 
  Went to Beer Center- high tnf, low lad, implantation failure

  Nov/Dec 2012 LIT Treatment

  Dec 12 Humira
  Jan 2013 BFP
  Humira,LIT,Prednisone, Lovenox, IVIG, Baby Aspirin
  Miracle Born August 2013 Premature
  
  Yours doesn't have to be a sad story
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  

  
  

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• daiseydooda member

  July 2013

  BzeetyD said:

  Do you like David Sedaris? His new book is really good.
  
  A fiction faves of mine (I'm mostly a non-fiction reader) is, A Giant's House by Elizabeth McCracken. Recently I liked the Hunger Games series, I liked Phillip Pullman's Golden Compass series and I've always loved the original Winnie the Pooh and House at Pooh corner, they're favorites that I go back to again and again. I have a fairly eclectic taste in books so my fiction love is all over the place.
  

  Never read David Sedaris novels but I will check him out.

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

        

  
  

   TTC since 9/10 consult 1/12 All testing came back fine Diagnosed with Unexplained infertility -3 medicated IUI's All BFN IVF - ER 11/14 24R, 15M, 13F ET 11/19, BETA 11/28 BFFN --Next step FET in Jan ET scheduled for 1/24. Beta #1 350 Beta #2 735. U/S Hell. miscarriage D&C at 9weeks. FET #2 ET 5/28 cancelled FET# 2.5 6/26 ET Beta 7/5 302 7/7 Beta #2 632 Everyone welcome

  
  

  
  

   

   

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  

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• daiseydooda member

  July 2013

  BlueEyedDreamer said:

  I've been reading the Outlander series. Very easy to read - sort of guilty pleasure fiction with some history thrown in there.

  Outlander series had good reviews I will check those out too. I love series.

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

        

  
  

   TTC since 9/10 consult 1/12 All testing came back fine Diagnosed with Unexplained infertility -3 medicated IUI's All BFN IVF - ER 11/14 24R, 15M, 13F ET 11/19, BETA 11/28 BFFN --Next step FET in Jan ET scheduled for 1/24. Beta #1 350 Beta #2 735. U/S Hell. miscarriage D&C at 9weeks. FET #2 ET 5/28 cancelled FET# 2.5 6/26 ET Beta 7/5 302 7/7 Beta #2 632 Everyone welcome

  
  

  
  

   

   

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  

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• kz's_girlygirl member

  July 2013

  A few that I've really liked recently are The Ocean at the End if the Lane, The Snow Child, anything by Gillian Flynn, The Light Between Oceans, A Discovery if Witches and Shadow of Night. I also love zombie books, lol- D.J. Molles' The Remaining series is a current fav.

  
  
  
  TTC since 2008
  Dh:34, no issues.  Me:31, Endo, slightly hypothyroid, deformed ovary, paracentric inversion.
  4 Gonal-F, Cetrotide, HcG, Crinone +TI cycles= all BFN
  Lap in 2012 to remove large unresolving cyst discovered endo and double lobed ovary.
   6 Gonal-F, Cetrotide, HcG, Crinone IUI cycles= All BFN,
  1st IVF w/ICSI- June '13 Antagonist: Gonal-F, Menopur, Ganirelix, HcG, Estradiol, Crinone= 7 retrieved, 4 mature, 1 unfertilized, 2 abnormally fertilized, 1 normally fertilized.  2DT of only embryo and our miracle BFP.
  Our beloved baby boy was born sleeping Oct. 13, 2013 due to pROM/IC/Uterine infection.
  2nd IVF w/ICSI- Feb. '14 EPP/lupron/antagonist: Estrace, lupron, HGH, Gonal-F, Menopur, HcG, PIO, lovenox, doxy/dex.=21 retrieved, 16 mature, 15 fertilized!!  5dt of 1 blast/ 6 frozen. BFP!  Beta 1 9dp5dt:83.9  Beta 2: 11dp5dt: 145.2  Beta 3  14dp5dt: 497  Please be our sticky rainbow baby!
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  

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• daiseydooda member

  July 2013

  kz's_girlygirl said:

  A few that I've really liked recently are The Ocean at the End if the Lane, The Snow Child, anything by Gillian Flynn, The Light Between Oceans, A Discovery if Witches and Shadow of Night. I also love zombie books, lol- D.J. Molles' The Remaining series is a current fav.

  I have read A Discovery of Witches and Shadow of Night. I will have to check out The Snow child.

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

        

  
  

   TTC since 9/10 consult 1/12 All testing came back fine Diagnosed with Unexplained infertility -3 medicated IUI's All BFN IVF - ER 11/14 24R, 15M, 13F ET 11/19, BETA 11/28 BFFN --Next step FET in Jan ET scheduled for 1/24. Beta #1 350 Beta #2 735. U/S Hell. miscarriage D&C at 9weeks. FET #2 ET 5/28 cancelled FET# 2.5 6/26 ET Beta 7/5 302 7/7 Beta #2 632 Everyone welcome

  
  

  
  

   

   

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  

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• BzeetyD member

  July 2013 edited July 2013

  THOUGHT:  I too have heard that the Snow Child is very good but my aunt, who reads hundreds of books a year, advised me that as someone dealing with IF and in our case losses, it could be a very difficult book to read.
  

  BzeetyD = 38, Mr. BzeetyD = 44 together 12/02 married 9/08
  TTC #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!!!

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• daiseydooda member

  July 2013

  BzeetyD said:

  THOUGHT:  I too have heard that the Snow Child is very good but my aunt, who reads hundreds of books a year, advised me that as someone dealing with IF and in our case losses, it could be a very difficult book to read.
  

  Thanks for the lookout.
  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

        

  
  

   TTC since 9/10 consult 1/12 All testing came back fine Diagnosed with Unexplained infertility -3 medicated IUI's All BFN IVF - ER 11/14 24R, 15M, 13F ET 11/19, BETA 11/28 BFFN --Next step FET in Jan ET scheduled for 1/24. Beta #1 350 Beta #2 735. U/S Hell. miscarriage D&C at 9weeks. FET #2 ET 5/28 cancelled FET# 2.5 6/26 ET Beta 7/5 302 7/7 Beta #2 632 Everyone welcome

  
  

  
  

   

   

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  

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• JewelsW1980 member

  July 2013

  If you want mindless quirky fun reads, I enjoyed Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum series.  There's like 20 of them.

  Me- 32, DH- 32- TTC for 4 Years
  IUIs 1-6 BFN
  IVF #1= BFP- M/C
  FET- Beta#1: 69, #2: 482, #3: 1088, #4: 28,318, Ultrasound- 1 beautiful heartbeat
  It's a boy!

   

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• Crystal120410 member

  July 2013

  All three Gillian flynns books were great!

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• kz's_girlygirl member

  July 2013

  daiseydooda said:

  A few that I've really liked recently are The Ocean at the End if the Lane, The Snow Child, anything by Gillian Flynn, The Light Between Oceans, A Discovery if Witches and Shadow of Night. I also love zombie books, lol- D.J. Molles' The Remaining series is a current fav.

  I have read A Discovery of Witches and Shadow of Night. I will have to check out The Snow child.

  ETA- Yes, Snow Child deals with IF, The light Between Oceans also deals with multiple m/c's. Thanks for mentioning these possible triggers.   
  

  
  
  
  TTC since 2008
  Dh:34, no issues.  Me:31, Endo, slightly hypothyroid, deformed ovary, paracentric inversion.
  4 Gonal-F, Cetrotide, HcG, Crinone +TI cycles= all BFN
  Lap in 2012 to remove large unresolving cyst discovered endo and double lobed ovary.
   6 Gonal-F, Cetrotide, HcG, Crinone IUI cycles= All BFN,
  1st IVF w/ICSI- June '13 Antagonist: Gonal-F, Menopur, Ganirelix, HcG, Estradiol, Crinone= 7 retrieved, 4 mature, 1 unfertilized, 2 abnormally fertilized, 1 normally fertilized.  2DT of only embryo and our miracle BFP.
  Our beloved baby boy was born sleeping Oct. 13, 2013 due to pROM/IC/Uterine infection.
  2nd IVF w/ICSI- Feb. '14 EPP/lupron/antagonist: Estrace, lupron, HGH, Gonal-F, Menopur, HcG, PIO, lovenox, doxy/dex.=21 retrieved, 16 mature, 15 fertilized!!  5dt of 1 blast/ 6 frozen. BFP!  Beta 1 9dp5dt:83.9  Beta 2: 11dp5dt: 145.2  Beta 3  14dp5dt: 497  Please be our sticky rainbow baby!
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  

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• mfarmer0811 member

  July 2013

  Gone Girl is good, however I believe it mentions m/c as well, it's been a while since I've read it. 

  Me 28 DH 30 Married 08-11-07 TTC since 07/11 HSG 01-21-13 Left FTB Seeing RE 1-28-13 RE 1-28-13 Both tubes blocked LAP surgery 2-15-13 Both tubes removed Started IVF #1 June 2013 Meds: BCP, Lupron, Gonal-F, Ovidrel, Medrol, Doxycycline
  

  Beta #1-BFP!!! HCG-55 Beta #2--111 Beta #3--2,825 Beta #4 22,031 1st U/S 7-29-13 Saw and heard our little sweet pea's heartbeat!! 109 bpm 
  
  

  
  

  
  

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• xladybassx member

  July 2013

  I love the Dresden Files series by Jim Butcher.

  TTC since June, 2011 with anovulatory PCOS, 1 blocked tube, and mild MFI
  3rd cycles clomid + Ovidrel = BFN
  4th cycles letrozole/Ovidrel + IUI = BFN
  IVF #1 = BFP! Twins due 2/5/2014
  

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• twohunts member

  July 2013

  kz's_girlygirl said:

  A few that I've really liked recently are The Ocean at the End if the Lane, The Snow Child, anything by Gillian Flynn, The Light Between Oceans, A Discovery if Witches and Shadow of Night. I also love zombie books, lol- D.J. Molles' The Remaining series is a current fav.

  Loved Light Between Oceans.
  
  

  
   

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