QOTW: If fertility weren't an issue for you, and you could have conceived and delivered whenever you'd planned, how many kids would you have and how old would they be now? And heck, since we're playing imagination today, what would their genders and names be (if you don't mind sharing names).
Happily Mrs. C
start ttc #1 in Jan 2009
dx PCOS in May 2010, begin metformin
Two failed clomid cycles (made lining too thin)
Started acupuncture while saving for IVF in Sept 2011
Add herbal infusions to the mix in Dec 2011
Hoping holistic approach works!!!
BFP on April 2012 at 11dpo
Meepy Man born on Jan 2013 - Hip Hip Hurray!
Ready to start ttc #2 April 2013, but plan to be an extended BF'er
Back on metformin Aug 2013
Restart herbal infusions Sept 2013 - currently drinking nettle, oatstraw,and red raspberry leaf
DS weaned in April 2014
Taking a break from herbs and just riding the healthy train.
Planning medicated cycle end of summer. FX I get KU before then!!!
Cycle Status: I think I'm 3 or 4 dpo. I got a +opk last week on Wed, but haven't had a clear, strong temp shift. I'm just waiting this cycle out so I can call the RE on cd1.
QOTW: I would probably have a 3.5 year old girl named Maggie and I also my 1.5 boy who I do have, and I would probably be about 3 mos pregnant again. We have discussed it and I think out newt top two boy names are Warren and Riker. And our top two girl names are Maggie and Lucy. But we had a boy name picked before I got pg with DS, then changed out minds, so I'm not sure what we'll end up with. But Maggie has been picked out since before we even got married, so I don't see that name changing.
Happily Mrs. C
start ttc #1 in Jan 2009
dx PCOS in May 2010, begin metformin
Two failed clomid cycles (made lining too thin)
Started acupuncture while saving for IVF in Sept 2011
Add herbal infusions to the mix in Dec 2011
Hoping holistic approach works!!!
BFP on April 2012 at 11dpo
Meepy Man born on Jan 2013 - Hip Hip Hurray!
Ready to start ttc #2 April 2013, but plan to be an extended BF'er
Back on metformin Aug 2013
Restart herbal infusions Sept 2013 - currently drinking nettle, oatstraw,and red raspberry leaf
DS weaned in April 2014
Taking a break from herbs and just riding the healthy train.
Planning medicated cycle end of summer. FX I get KU before then!!!
Status: before O, I'm pretty sure. I've been hiding from tracking lately to preserve my sanity.
QOTW: Well, we started trying for a second in August 2010. I got pregnant after 2 cycles for DS, so we'll give some wiggle room and say 3 months (since it is an "I wish" scenario). So that would be baby 2 in August/September 2011, a year to adjust, then try again for another August/September 2013 baby, so we would be deciding right now to either be done with 3 or go for four.
Holy crap I could have completed my family by now. Life's a complete bitch.
Cycle Status: Hoping this week's bloodwork looks good and I get the green light for IVF at doctor appointment Sept. 2. Until then on BC.
QOTW: Our original plan was to have our kids before we turned 30. Not even close. If the FET last year did not end in miscarriage - we would be the proud parents of 2-3 month old twins. Names - no idea. But those twins would have completed our family.
Me: 35 DH: 35 - Married 10 years PCOS and MF Two failed rounds IUI in 2010 IVF #1 in 2011 - BFP 8/5/11 - Our IVF miracle was born 4/8/12 FET 9/23/13; BFP -Twins-10/3/13; EDD 6/10/14; MC 11/1/13; D&C 11/4/13 FET 3/28/14; BFN - 4/7/14 IVF #2 - Transfer 2 embryos 11/14/14; BFP 11/24/14 - Beta 265; 11/26/14 - Beta 612; 11/28/14 - Beta 1263; 12/1/14 - Beta 3571; 12/3/14 - first u/s - two gestational sacs; 12/17/14 - two healthy heartbeats (132 and 134) Our IVF miracles were born 7/16/15
Status: I met with the internal surgeon today. I have to talk to work and tell them what is up because I am told I will need 2 - 4 weeks off. Great. I am a consultant and am judged on the hours I work, so now I have to figure out if STD is a possibility or if I need to beg the mercy of my low hours - 80+ is not something I can recover from.
QOTW: I would have a 4-5 year old boy, my almost 2 DD, and prepping for #3. We started a couple years later than we wanted and now can't even start trying for #2. I am so emotional today...
Kid #1 - 09/03/12
Kid #2 - maybe???
Diagnosed with Severe Ashermans Hysteroscopy #10 - scar tissue grew back reblocking my right tube #11 or IVF with scarring still inside? 1 lone embryo from September 2016 retreival, dx with Trisomy 16, starting fresh
We got pregnant twice on our own. We have a 5 year old DS and miscarried a little boy (at 16 wks) who should be 2 years old now. I think I would probably be pregnant again now.-- maybe a little girl for our third. We'd probably be done at 3, although I had always thought 4.
Married to the Love of My Life since September 14, 2002.
Me: 39 DH: 36
BFP#1: 10/20/08, EDD: 6/29/09
PIH, bedrest for 4 wks, delivered at 39 weeks by induction and then c-section- Healthy baby boy on 6/24/09 :-)
BFP#2: 11/24/11, EDD: 8/4/12, Angel Baby- 2/19/12
Enlarged bladder seen on U/S at 12 weeks (1/15/12), possibly LUTO or Prune Belly, Heartbeat at OB on 2/17/12,
No heartbeat/movement at U/S on 2/20/12, (missed MC), D&E:2/22/12. Miscarried our sweet angel boy @ 16 wks
TTCAL since June 2012,
Progesterone normal, FSH elevated & AMH on the low side-- "ovaries acting older"
Clomid cycles: 50 mg in February, July, August, September, November 2013, June 2014-- BFNs!! :-(
August & September 2014: Clomid, HCG and IUI-- BFNs
September 2014: FSH= 15.7 AMH= 0.25 UGH!!! Old lady Ovaries!!!
October & November 2014: Gonadatropin injections, HCG & IUI... BFNs!!
Expecting AF this week and hoping the cysts are gone.
This is hard for me because ideally it would not have taken more than 2 years to get KU with our DS, but Im weird about how changing the past would affect your future so I will just start after we had him. Ideally our pregnancy from December would have stuck and I probably would have delivered what I hoped was going to be our baby girl a week or so ago and we would have named her Gabrielle Leigh.
TTC#1 May 2009- July 2010 on our own with no luck
Started with RE in August 2010, dx with unexplained IF and then finally our 3rd IUI cycle using Follistim and Trigger resulted in our wonderful little man. Born 12/2/11
TTC#2 Never really prevented, but were careful early on as Dr. reccomended
Surprise BFP 12/16/13, started progesterone immediately as first numbers came back low, but betas were good. Progesterone wasnt enough. Natural MC 12/24/13.
QOTW: If fertility weren't an issue for you, and you could have conceived and delivered whenever you'd planned, how many kids would you have and how old would they be now? And heck, since we're playing imagination today, what would their genders and names be (if you don't mind sharing names).
We started NTNP back in Oct 11 so I guess if we had conceived that cycle, they would have been around a year apart, I always hope for a boy but I would have been happy either way because I'm sure DD would love a sister. Idk what the name would be. I would have likely been pregnant with #3 by now and getting ready to be done. That was the plan.
Spontaneous pregnancy #1 DD1 July 31, 2011
Trying for #2 since Oct 11
732973 Clomid Cycles
2 IUIs
3 Fresh IVFs= 1 Ectopic treated with MTX Spontaneous pregnancy #2= Ectopic #2= lost left tube Spontaneous pregnancy #3= DD2 January 29, 2016 Spontaneous pregnancy #4= Ectopic #3 Spontaneous pregnancy #5= Baby #3 is a BOY!!!
Status: CD9 of hormone therapy cycle. Currently benched until October.
QOTW: If I'd had no fertility issues and didn't miscarry on TFAS, I'd have a one-month old baby right now, in addition to DS (3), and we'd be done having kids.
Status: on BCP waiting for our appointment on Friday
QOTW: we would have our 2 year old and if things had gone according to plan I bet the baby that miscarried would have been a boy and he would have been here in a month- his name would have been Colin Thomas
DX: Severe MFI 9/1/11
Because of Undescended testicle at birth
IVF #1 October BFN; 5 snowbabies
FET: November/December 2011
ET: 12/7/11; Beta 1: 12/16/11: 66 Beta 2: 12/19/11: 212! 1st ultrasound 1/3/12! Graduated 1/10/12: heartbeat 160
SAIF Always Welcome
Status: On BCP's waiting for my period. the NEXT cycle after the one coming up is our FET as I still have to recover from the hysteroscopy. Praying that these 24 day cycles continue!
QOTW: If all went to plan, I would have gotten pregnant at 29 (I was married when I was 26) and finished having my second at 32. Well I'm 33 now and it took IVF to have #1. If my son's twin would have survived we would be done, but we would love a girl named Annabelle, or a boy name Kyle to add to our family.
in an ideal world i would have a 3.5 and 1.5 YO and would be thinking about a third. now i have a 3.5 YO and am wondering how late is too late for a sibling, because if we are serious about IVF we need to start saving in order to be able to do it within a reasonable timeframe.
CD who fucking knows. i'm on BCPs for suppression and should start stimming next week!!!
QOTW: well fuck. i'd have 5 kids right now. no. that's not true. if i had actually had baby #1 i wouldn't have kellen and life would be unbearable without him. if i could pick... kellen would be his age now (2.5) and we would have a 6 month old boy (the loss we had last summer). right now we can't seem to have #2 so dreaming of #3 makes me certifiably crazy.
BFP #4 2/18/14. EDD 10/30/14... Ruptured ectopic with L tube removed & D&C 3/7/14.
BFP #5 7/27/14. EDD 4/9/15... m/c @ 5w4d.
IVF #1 Oct 2014 - antagonist protocol: 9R, 7M, 5F. 3dt of 3 Grade 2 embies. BFN.
IVF #2 Jan 2015 cancelled due to dominant follicle. Converted to IUI #1. BFFN
IVF #2.1 March 2015 cancelled due to dominant follicle.
BFP #6 (SUPRISE!) 3/19/15. EDD 11/30/15... CP at 4w2d.
IUI #2: Clomid + Follistim = 3 follies. BFN.
IVF #2.2 May 2015 - horrible response to micro lupron flare protocol: 3R, 3M, 3F. 3dt of 2 Grade 3 embies. BFFN.
BFP #7 (beyond surprised again!) 4/26/16. EDD 1/5/17. beautiful betas!!!! and then near-fatal hemorrhagic corpus luteum. turns out baby was ectopic after all; another lap 5/6 (@24dpo).
the universe can fuck off.
"You are
overly paranoid and delusional that every one is out to get you."
-lastsliverofhope
Status: I had my IUI today and now in the 2ww. I was benched for cysts last month so I am very happy to finally be here.
I would keep my 4yo big twins and I would have a 2 mo boy if our first IUI for bBy #3 had worked. We would be deciding about #4.
DD is almost 3.5 and we have always NTNP. We got more serious about trying when she was around 18 months old, so ideally we would have had another who would be one now and starting to think about a third soon. I was DD to have a sister, but would also love to experience raising a son, so we are open to either, or hopefully both!
I'm going to assume that MC was a girl because i had a ridiculosly vivid dream that involved a huge pink ring that projected images of the virgin Mary the day before i found out i was pregnant.
Cycle Status: CD10.....waiting til they say to trigger.
QOTW: If fertility weren't an issue
for you, and you could have conceived and delivered whenever you'd
planned, how many kids would you have and how old would they be now?
You know, I'm not really sure. I figure we'll take it one child at a time. Ideally I would have liked to have 2 by now...I like the idea of a slightly bigger age gap. I'd love 3 kids but financially, I think we'll be done at 2. I wanted a boy first (got him)....and then would love another boy and then a girl...but with only two, I don't mind either way if the second is a girl or a boy. No names in mind.
Me: 32, DH: 33 DS #1: April 2010 DS #2: July 2015 (preemie born at 31 weeks) - our little miracle conceived through ART - unexplained secondary infertility/adenomyosis
Cycle Status: I only have 4 follies growing strong and a bunch of smaller ones that most likely won't catch up in time. E2 is rising and I'm just keeping my fingers crossed that there are a few good eggs in me. One more monitoring appt tomorrow and egg retrieval should be Friday.
QOTW: I would like 3 children, don't care about the gender
IVF #1, Stimmed for 12 days, ER 8/22/14, 9 retrieved, 7M, 7F!! Freeze all due to fluid in uterus.
FET end of October 2014 cancelled due to fluid in uterus due to possible c-scar defect
Surgery scheduled 12/12/14 to fix possible isthmocele
3/26/15 transferred one 8 cell grade 4 embryo and one 6 cell grade 3 embryo = slow rising betas for 2+ weeks = ectopic MTX shot 4/29/15
Repeat c-scar surgery June 2015
2nd and last IVF cycle August 2015, stimmed for 12 days, 2 egg retrieved, both mature and both fertilized. Transferred both 8-cell embryos on Day 3, beta 9/5/15 = BFFN
On cd17, should hopefully be ovulating soon. And then 2ww. We are leaving for a 10day trip on Friday so I'm sure that'll mess up the cycle.
I have a 4 yr old boy at home. I would love to have a girl. He asked for a baby sister for his 4th bday and it broke my heart. Hopefully we can make that happen for his 5th bday.
Cycle Status: 7 dpo on this no chance natural cycle. 1 week and 2 days until my new opinion consult!
QOTW: I would assume we would have a 5 year old a 2-3 year old and I would be pregnant with number 3. I don't really have a preference in sex except that now that I have my daughter I wouldn't give her up or change her for anything. I wonder if I had a 5 year old would she have been my daughter or would my 2-3 year old be my daughter (who is currently a few months older than 2). Since we do have fertility issues, we really want to have a second but we won't try for a third at this point. We have spent too much money on fertility treatments and we are getting too old!
~SAIF/PAIF/Everyone Welcome~
Me= 37 and DH = 41
Dx: DOR, Endo, APA+ (really high beta 2 glycoprotein antibody and high everything else tested), heterozygous MTHFR mutation, positive for lupus anticoagulant, high FSH, low AMH and both tubes blocked (per HSG on 3/8/11)
IVF #1 - long lupron (with HGH, intralipids, lovenox and BA); 4 retrieved, 3 fertilized; ET 2 blasts and 1 frozen = BFN
IVF #2 - a version of antagonist with EPP (with HGH, intralipids, lovenox and BA); 6 retrieved, 4 mature, 3 fertilized, 2 blasts and 1 frozen blast transferred on day 5 = BFN.
IVF #3 April was postponed to May, May was canceled. June/July was canceled. Had a cyst aspiration and then began IVF #3 in August. ER on 8/22; ET on 8/24 with AH. +HPT on 9/5. Beta #1 (11dpo) = 3; Beta #2 (15dpo) = 29; Beta #3 (17dpo) = 60; Beta #4 (19 dpo) = 118. Heartbeat at 6 weeks 6 days =132. Lil is here!
Cd 15. Unsure of O date, but I had some blood tinged ewcm last night.
Ideally, we would have concieved our first month trying and would of had a 3 year old boy in addition to dd who is 5. Then we would have the twins we lost in October, Jacob and Jaxon, they would now be about 2 months old.... hopefully we will eventually have at least two more, a boy and a girl... Zaiden Elijah and Aubrey Faith will be their names
Re: --- 2IF Weekly Check-In ---
QOTW: Well, we started trying for a second in August 2010. I got pregnant after 2 cycles for DS, so we'll give some wiggle room and say 3 months (since it is an "I wish" scenario). So that would be baby 2 in August/September 2011, a year to adjust, then try again for another August/September 2013 baby, so we would be deciding right now to either be done with 3 or go for four.
Holy crap I could have completed my family by now. Life's a complete bitch.
PCOS and MF
Two failed rounds IUI in 2010
IVF #1 in 2011 - BFP 8/5/11 - Our IVF miracle was born 4/8/12
FET 9/23/13; BFP -Twins-10/3/13; EDD 6/10/14; MC 11/1/13; D&C 11/4/13
FET 3/28/14; BFN - 4/7/14
IVF #2 - Transfer 2 embryos 11/14/14; BFP 11/24/14 - Beta 265;
11/26/14 - Beta 612; 11/28/14 - Beta 1263; 12/1/14 - Beta 3571;
12/3/14 - first u/s - two gestational sacs; 12/17/14 - two healthy heartbeats (132 and 134)
Our IVF miracles were born 7/16/15
Kid #1 - 09/03/12
Hysteroscopy #10 - scar tissue grew back reblocking my right tube
#11 or IVF with scarring still inside?
1 lone embryo from September 2016 retreival, dx with Trisomy 16, starting fresh
QOTW: I would have my 5yo DS and if I could have hand picked...and almost 1yo DD by now too
I'd have Laurel (almost 3) and I'd have an almost 2 year old girl. Maybe Hazel. Not completely decided on that one yet.
TTC #2 since 1/1/13
This is hard for me because ideally it would not have taken more than 2 years to get KU with our DS, but Im weird about how changing the past would affect your future so I will just start after we had him. Ideally our pregnancy from December would have stuck and I probably would have delivered what I hoped was going to be our baby girl a week or so ago and we would have named her Gabrielle Leigh.
TTC#1 May 2009- July 2010 on our own with no luck
Started with RE in August 2010, dx with unexplained IF and then finally our 3rd IUI cycle using Follistim and Trigger resulted in our wonderful little man. Born 12/2/11
TTC#2 Never really prevented, but were careful early on as Dr. reccomended
Surprise BFP 12/16/13, started progesterone immediately as first numbers came back low, but betas were good. Progesterone wasnt enough. Natural MC 12/24/13.
Back with RE as of January 2014...
5/27/14- Chemical Pregnancy
April 2015 IVF#1
5/13/15- BFP, please stick LO!
Oh and I'm a major Harry Potter Nerd
Spontaneous pregnancy #1
DD1 July 31, 2011
Trying for #2 since Oct 11
Spontaneous pregnancy #2= Ectopic #2= lost left tube
Spontaneous pregnancy #3= DD2 January 29, 2016
Spontaneous pregnancy #4= Ectopic #3
Spontaneous pregnancy #5= Baby #3 is a BOY!!!
QOTW: we would have our 2 year old and if things had gone according to plan I bet the baby that miscarried would have been a boy and he would have been here in a month- his name would have been Colin Thomas
DX: Severe MFI 9/1/11
Because of Undescended testicle at birth
IVF #1 October BFN; 5 snowbabies
FET: November/December 2011
ET: 12/7/11; Beta 1: 12/16/11: 66 Beta 2: 12/19/11: 212! 1st ultrasound 1/3/12! Graduated 1/10/12: heartbeat 160
SAIF Always Welcome
my DD is annabelle! i am on CD 5.
in an ideal world i would have a 3.5 and 1.5 YO and would be thinking about a third. now i have a 3.5 YO and am wondering how late is too late for a sibling, because if we are serious about IVF we need to start saving in order to be able to do it within a reasonable timeframe.
TTC #2 since 8/2012
IUI #1 April 2014: BFN
IUI #2 July 2014: BFN
IUI #3 August 2014: BFN
BFP: September 15, due May 22nd 2015
BFP #7 (beyond surprised again!) 4/26/16. EDD 1/5/17. beautiful betas!!!! and then near-fatal hemorrhagic corpus luteum. turns out baby was ectopic after all; another lap 5/6 (@24dpo).
the universe can fuck off.
"You are overly paranoid and delusional that every one is out to get you." -lastsliverofhope
You know, I'm not really sure. I figure we'll take it one child at a time. Ideally I would have liked to have 2 by now...I like the idea of a slightly bigger age gap. I'd love 3 kids but financially, I think we'll be done at 2. I wanted a boy first (got him)....and then would love another boy and then a girl...but with only two, I don't mind either way if the second is a girl or a boy. No names in mind.
DS #1: April 2010
DS #2: July 2015 (preemie born at 31 weeks) - our little miracle conceived through ART - unexplained secondary infertility/adenomyosis
QOTW: I would like 3 children, don't care about the gender
TTC #3 since June 2013
BFP #1 7/21/2013--EDD 3/30/14--D&C 9/24/13
BFP #2 1/28/14--MC 2/7/14
IUI #1 5mg Femara + trigger = BFN
IUI #2 5mg Femara + trigger = BFN
IUI #3 5mg Femara + trigger = BFN
I have a 4 yr old boy at home. I would love to have a girl. He asked for a baby sister for his 4th bday and it broke my heart. Hopefully we can make that happen for his 5th bday.
~SAIF/PAIF/Everyone Welcome~
Me= 37 and DH = 41
Dx: DOR, Endo, APA+ (really high beta 2 glycoprotein antibody and high everything else tested), heterozygous MTHFR mutation, positive for lupus anticoagulant, high FSH, low AMH and both tubes blocked (per HSG on 3/8/11)
IVF #1 - long lupron (with HGH, intralipids, lovenox and BA); 4 retrieved, 3 fertilized; ET 2 blasts and 1 frozen = BFN
IVF #2 - a version of antagonist with EPP (with HGH, intralipids, lovenox and BA); 6 retrieved, 4 mature, 3 fertilized, 2 blasts and 1 frozen blast transferred on day 5 = BFN.
IVF #3 April was postponed to May, May was canceled. June/July was canceled. Had a cyst aspiration and then began IVF #3 in August. ER on 8/22; ET on 8/24 with AH. +HPT on 9/5. Beta #1 (11dpo) = 3; Beta #2 (15dpo) = 29; Beta #3 (17dpo) = 60; Beta #4 (19 dpo) = 118. Heartbeat at 6 weeks 6 days =132. Lil is here!
TTC#2: Trigger + TI = BFN; Clomid + Trigger + IUI = BFN.
IVF #4: BCP + MDLF + Lovenox = 7R, 1F = Transferred 1 6-cell embryo on day 3 = BFN
IVF #5: MDLF + Lovenox = 4R, 1F = Transferred 1 10-cell compacting embryo on day 3 = BFN
IVF #6: (New RE): Long Antagonist November 2014 (transferred two 8 cell grade 1 embryos and froze one blast) = BFN
FET#1: BFN
Ideally, we would have concieved our first month trying and would of had a 3 year old boy in addition to dd who is 5. Then we would have the twins we lost in October, Jacob and Jaxon, they would now be about 2 months old.... hopefully we will eventually have at least two more, a boy and a girl... Zaiden Elijah and Aubrey Faith will be their names