Status (WTO/TWW/Benched/in process of testing or treatment):
CD, CD/DPO (if applicable):
What are you doing this cycle? (Testing? Treatment? Vitamins/supplements?):
Rants/Raves:
Questions for the group:
GTKY: What are your Thanksgiving plans?
What are you thankful for this week?
Re: TTCA35 Weekly update: 11/13/17
CD, CD/DPO (if applicable): CD21
What are you doing this cycle? (Testing? Treatment? Vitamins/supplements?): Besides my usual prenatal, vitamin D, COq10, Maca root, DH was home for the weekend starting Thursday night so for the first time in almost 6 months we (gasp) tried naturally! I’ve been back to back IVF since April with BCP in between so this was kind of refreshing!
Rants/Raves: Winter temps before winter, grr.
Questions for the group: Does anyone know anything about a midlife fertility surge? I read an article about a woman in the UK who had 4 kids in her 40s after two decades of trying and two failed ivfs. Gave me hope, as after this IVF I’ll be back to trying naturally.
GTKY: What are your Thanksgiving plans? We are going to my parents’ house in Kansas and seeing my brother’s family too, including their 2-1/2yo. I’m excited!
What are you thankful for this week? I’m thankful for you all, for a place where people understand the emotional rollercoaster this is.
CD, CD/DPO (if applicable):CD 7
What are you doing this cycle? (Testing? Treatment? Vitamins/supplements?): Prenatal, Ubiquinol 300mg 2x day, Vit D, Zinc
Rants/Raves: Other than that HSG test hurting worse than I thought this morning, however the dr was super nice and I really like him!! I’m excited about finally getting some solid answers!!!
Questions for the group: how long will these cramps last after this HGS test?
GTKY: What are your Thanksgiving plans? My brothers, trying to go SOs families as well but he needs to call them and I’m sure he’ll forget and we’ll wind up at my brothers for the day.
What are you thankful for this week? This week I’m grateful for my girl, one of my oldest friends in the whole world. Who has been through the IVF roller coaster and though she never conceived, she is there for me to answer my questions and being super supportive
Supplements - PNV Vit D Ubiqinol Amino Acid Fish Oil and a lot of others lol
My rave is I'm feeling a huge relief since I've noticed how negative I've been since the loss about this entire TTC process and there is no reason for me to feel that way and I believe the mind is a powerful thing and I'm just so much happier with everything right now. I believe it can happen for me again but just don't know when and that's ok cause I still have 3 years left of my 30s so eventually it will happen. I talked to DH about it over the weekend and he's glad I've finally come around. I was just crying such happy tears to let all the negativity go. Guess I've let my walls down and am opening up to the possibility again. Drs haven't found anything wrong with me or him and in fact my prog is higher now than it was the month after the loss and I have a TON of EWCM. I could be wrong but I can't help but think that is because of the Ubiquinol I started taking. My LH surge was longer last month.
Question - I need some more fish oil - what brands do you use?
Thanksgiving this Sat is at my MILs and on actual Tday at my mom and dads
I'm thankful our newest puppy we got in August. She's 6 months now and she is super cute and feisty.
@ndz2018 - not sure about the cramping because I didn't notice any with mine. I think I'm one of those weirdos that has a higher pain tolerance. I didn't notice any cramping with my loss either where some people say they did.
what book you reading @Momifbysea
So what I’m reading is that I can for sure have a healthy pregnancy but I’ll have to be monitored very closely and a high risk for preterm labor.
I wish tomorrow would get here already so i can have my answer!!
If anyone had any feedback or knows anyone with this I’d love to hear it
@ndz2018 Holy moly! I didn’t even know that was a thing (and the visual helps, thanks . I guess you don’t really poke around past the cervix unless you’re doing this stuff... Hopefully they’ll know exactly what to do to make it happen! IVF works for a lot of people.
@vlagrl29 I’m glad you’re feeling better. TTC is hard, no two ways about it (I think I’ve mentioned even though we initially succeeded our second month trying it wasn’t without tears!). Regarding fish oil, I’ve taken (off and on) Carlson’s The Very Finest Fish Oil (lemon flavor for me) since I discovered high cholesterol almost 15 years ago.
***TW***
CD, CD/DPO (if applicable): ? (Again, it was all manipulated anyway)
What are you doing this cycle? (Testing? Treatment? Vitamins/supplements?): Crossing my fingers really hard . Still taking PNV, iron, fish oil, vit d, vit c, (dropping vit e); magnesium, NAC, low dose aspirin at night, inositol b/c I’m freaked out about gestational diabetes (I’ve managed to get my sugar during the TWW from mandarins and blueberries, so I’ll be keeping that up). And of course estrogen and progesterone - so nutty to me that taking pills and shoving suppositories up there are all that’s keeping embaby in.
Rants/Raves: This new RE is still our favorite
Questions for the group: None
GTKY: What are your Thanksgiving plans? Ugh, I can’t believe it’s next week already! I don’t know to where this year has gone. We want to drive up to spend Thanksgiving with my FIL, but he isn’t in good health so may not be up for it. Backup plan is probably spending it with my mom’s family (for which we’d only have to travel a couple of hundred miles), but DH doesn’t get the day after off so still very up in the air!
What are you thankful for this week? Very grateful to be very cautiously expecting again. We really didn’t expect that it’d take us over a year after our *TW* loss to get here again when we chose to go the high tech route. It’s been excruciating but makes us appreciate it so much more. And we very much get that it’s one step at a time since even PGS guarantees nothing. But I am thankful to be pregnant today. (And also for our beautiful but slightly crazy dog whom we rescued 6 mos ago today!)
Married 6/18/16 (Me 42, DH 44), TTC #2
***TW***
As of 12/2016: AMH 1.42, FSH 6.1, AFC ~10
Self-benched Nov-Dec 2016 for
IVF #1 Jan-Feb 2017 (OCP, testosterone primed antagonist w/HGH - ER 2/2/17 - 12R, 7M ICSI'd, 3F, 0B)
IVF #2 Mar-Apr 2017 (testosterone primed agonist/luteal lupron w/HGH - ER 4/8/17 - 10R, 8M, 8F, 5B, 1 PGS normal)
IVF #3 May-Jun 2017 (testosterone primed agonist/luteal lupron w/HGH - ER 6/4/17 - 14R, 5F, 3B, 0 normal)
**New RE**
IVF #4 Sept 2017 (natural start microdose lupron flare w/HGH - ER 9/28/17 - 33R, 18F, 10B, 4 PGS normals!)
FET #1 (medicated) of one PGS normal 4AA XX 11/2/17 - Beta #1 11/11/17 (153), Beta #2 11/13/17 (324), mc at 5w1d on 11/19/17
IVF #5 Dec 2017 - Insemination of 9 frozen eggs from 2012 (8F, 1B, 0 normal)
Jan 2018 - Natural cycle ERA (normal/receptive) & stimming for
IVF #6 Jan-Feb 2018 (natural start microdose lupron flare w/HGH - ER 2/3/18 - 17R, 6M, 4F, 0 blasts)
IVF #7 Feb 2018 (natural start microdose lupron flare w/HGH - ER 2/26/18 - 19R, 9M, 9F, 4B, 2 PGS normals)
FET #2 Apr 2018 (natural cycle w/o trigger, w/P4 support) of one PGS normal 4AA- XX 4/5/18 - Beta #1 4/14/18 (67), Beta #2 4/16/18 (231)
Rainbow baby girl born 12/16/2018 (via c-section, induced at 39 weeks)
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TFAS!
FET #3 Dec 2019 (natural cycle w/o trigger, w/P4 support) of one PGS normal 3BB XY 12/16/19 - Beta #1 12/24/19 (139), Beta #2 12/27/19 (482)
also sound like IVF will FX work. The doctor didn’t sound too concerned And said “ When we do you get pregnant we’ll just have to watch you a little closer” which made me feel much better whatever the outcome is tomorrow.
@vlagrl29 We were banking, so wanted to get a certain number of PGS normals since I probably won’t have the opportunity to do this again as effectively later given my age (for a second kid). 4 of our five normals came from this last cycle in September with the new RE. We finally felt comfortable gambling with this number, so this was our first transfer.
I hope to see you all on the other side soon!
Married 6/18/16 (Me 42, DH 44), TTC #2
***TW***
As of 12/2016: AMH 1.42, FSH 6.1, AFC ~10
Self-benched Nov-Dec 2016 for
IVF #1 Jan-Feb 2017 (OCP, testosterone primed antagonist w/HGH - ER 2/2/17 - 12R, 7M ICSI'd, 3F, 0B)
IVF #2 Mar-Apr 2017 (testosterone primed agonist/luteal lupron w/HGH - ER 4/8/17 - 10R, 8M, 8F, 5B, 1 PGS normal)
IVF #3 May-Jun 2017 (testosterone primed agonist/luteal lupron w/HGH - ER 6/4/17 - 14R, 5F, 3B, 0 normal)
**New RE**
IVF #4 Sept 2017 (natural start microdose lupron flare w/HGH - ER 9/28/17 - 33R, 18F, 10B, 4 PGS normals!)
FET #1 (medicated) of one PGS normal 4AA XX 11/2/17 - Beta #1 11/11/17 (153), Beta #2 11/13/17 (324), mc at 5w1d on 11/19/17
IVF #5 Dec 2017 - Insemination of 9 frozen eggs from 2012 (8F, 1B, 0 normal)
Jan 2018 - Natural cycle ERA (normal/receptive) & stimming for
IVF #6 Jan-Feb 2018 (natural start microdose lupron flare w/HGH - ER 2/3/18 - 17R, 6M, 4F, 0 blasts)
IVF #7 Feb 2018 (natural start microdose lupron flare w/HGH - ER 2/26/18 - 19R, 9M, 9F, 4B, 2 PGS normals)
FET #2 Apr 2018 (natural cycle w/o trigger, w/P4 support) of one PGS normal 4AA- XX 4/5/18 - Beta #1 4/14/18 (67), Beta #2 4/16/18 (231)
Rainbow baby girl born 12/16/2018 (via c-section, induced at 39 weeks)
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TFAS!
FET #3 Dec 2019 (natural cycle w/o trigger, w/P4 support) of one PGS normal 3BB XY 12/16/19 - Beta #1 12/24/19 (139), Beta #2 12/27/19 (482)
@Momifbysea its fairly common for women to have a fertility surge prior to menopause. I didn’t realize it could last a decade, but I’ve had quite a few late 40s/early 50s patients in the ED with “stomach pains” that turned out to be pregnancies. The response is usually “but I am menopausal, I haven’t had a period in a year!”. I did have one patient have a baby at 41, then get pregnant again on the first month trying at 42 (she will be 43 at delivery). There is also a surge in fertility post partum (once you stop breastfeeding every 4 hours), even women who had to use clomid or even IUI/IVF to conceive may get pregnant within 6 mos of delivery because of this and they often don’t think they need to be on birth control, but surprise!
TTC#1 since November 2015
9/16/2016 IUI#1 - BFN
10/12/2016 IUI#2 - BFN
1/21/2017 Clomid/IUI#3 - BFN
March 2017 IVF: BFP! (beta#1 191, beta#2 378!) - it's a boy! DS born 12/6/2017
TTC #2 since July 2018
May 2019 IVF #2: BFP! (beta#1 346, beta#2 646) - vanishing twin at 8 weeks. Baby B still going strong - due 2/8/20!
CD, CD/DPO (if applicable): I'm about 6-8 days past ovulation wasn't really tracking but I normally ovulate around the same time each month.
What are you doing this cycle? (Testing? Treatment? Vitamins/supplements?): prenatal,Coq10, Vit D, baby aspirin, red raspberry leaf tea, apple cider vinegar
Rants/Raves:Rant my job. I work in as small family business and I love what I do but they have no clue how to run a business and when I have issues BC I'm supposed to be a manager they don't back me or treat me like one or will ignore the problem. For example the other day a client who boards those dog all the time called to say when she picked up at 1145 the dog wasn't fed walked and the dog went home with meds which there should have been none left , which many the dog didn't get them. I told the owner of the practice and instead of blaming the kennel staff she went on to blame the owner and was going to charge her medical boarding. So nothing was ever said to the staff about it.
Questions for the group:
GTKY: What are your Thanksgiving plans? Not sure yet my husband is Always on call so we may go to his mothers on the day and my moms on that weekend.
What are you thankful for this week? I'm thankful for my mother who had to play both mom and dad. She's been thru so much and I'm thankful she's healthy and well to do things with.
CD, CD/DPO (if applicable): CD5
What are you doing this cycle? (Testing? Treatment? Vitamins/supplements?): Gearing up for IVF. Adding wheat grass to my supplements for better egg quality.
Rants/Raves: I wish I didn't have to work during treatments. :-/ And insurance paid for stuff! lol
Questions for the group: Anyone else starting IVF or in the process now?
GTKY: What are your Thanksgiving plans? Family coming into town. Hoping to get some fun time with my parents and grandma.
What are you thankful for this week? Thankful for a loving supportive husband and family.
June 2016 - CP
2017 - Medicated Cycles & IUI's
IVF w/ PGS - January 2018
FET #1 - April 2018 - BFN
ERA Cycle May / June 2018
ERA Biopsy June 2018 ~ Results: receptive (no change)
FET #2 - July 2018 - BFP Beta #1 - 137 Beta #2 - 410
U/S #1 7wk1d - HB 144 U/S #2 9w1d HB 166
Anatomy Scan 1st 11/2/18 2nd AS 11/19
EDD March 28, 2019
Baby Girl born 3/26/19
June 2016 - CP
2017 - Medicated Cycles & IUI's
IVF w/ PGS - January 2018
FET #1 - April 2018 - BFN
ERA Cycle May / June 2018
ERA Biopsy June 2018 ~ Results: receptive (no change)
FET #2 - July 2018 - BFP Beta #1 - 137 Beta #2 - 410
U/S #1 7wk1d - HB 144 U/S #2 9w1d HB 166
Anatomy Scan 1st 11/2/18 2nd AS 11/19
EDD March 28, 2019
Baby Girl born 3/26/19
@ndz2018 so glad you got it figured out and that sounds like they’ll move forward pretty quickly esp if they do a retrieval first!
@kristimh80 yes, starting IVF round 5 next month- I had to hold off a cycle due to clinic overload this month, Glad to answer any IVF questions you may have, since I’m unfortunately a veteran now.
@vlagrl29 I’m reading “The Whole Life Fertility Plan” by Kyra Phillips and Jamie Grifo, MD.
@ndz2018 Lucky!! My insurance covers nothing, so everything is OOP.
@Momifbysea FX for you!! Thanks for reaching out! I'll know Friday what our plan is. My RE is closed a lot of December for the holidays, so I figure there's a good chance I'll be starting in January.
June 2016 - CP
2017 - Medicated Cycles & IUI's
IVF w/ PGS - January 2018
FET #1 - April 2018 - BFN
ERA Cycle May / June 2018
ERA Biopsy June 2018 ~ Results: receptive (no change)
FET #2 - July 2018 - BFP Beta #1 - 137 Beta #2 - 410
U/S #1 7wk1d - HB 144 U/S #2 9w1d HB 166
Anatomy Scan 1st 11/2/18 2nd AS 11/19
EDD March 28, 2019
Baby Girl born 3/26/19
@ndz2018 - I debated dressing up in lingerie last night. Sometimes DH may not be in the mood so I was providing eye candy. I know when I dress up he goes on forever but a risk I was going to take. Wasn't planning on using preseed since TMI EWCM been dripping out of me for 3 days but I had to use it twice! I swear I'm getting more fertile CM than I have had in months and I can't help but think it's that coq10 or all the supplementing I've been doing. I don't even OPK anymore - why when I know it's happening.
I have hope for your @momifbysea - I too have had a kid and know it's possible. When we were BDing last night I was actually really enjoying it. It's been the first time in a long time negative thoughts didn't enter my brain and I felt happy. I subscribe to a natural fertility dr on youtube and he sends out emails every day and the next one is about all the tests you should have - more than just the hormonal ones that OBs do. I've probably had them all with my new doctor but I'll let you know what he says.