Winter IVF Thread - Page 20

[wannabemomi]

Laggie good luck on this cycle.

I was going to start this month but just received bad news. I broke my foot in the same place that I had fused a few years ago. I am having surgery April 10th. So everything is on hold for a couple of months until I can get around again. My dr said estrogen can cause blood clots so definitely not good. I am so bummed

[tracyamber]

wannabemomi

there you are. i was going to write you on the other thread. .what a bummer about your foot. how did you break it? if i may ask..and twice..bummer and so sorry. i was hoping that we would be cycle buddies. please keep us up to date...please.

tracyamber

[Laggie]

wannabe - Sorry about your foot, is it painful? I hope your surgery goes well. 

lilac - Yay for starting soon! You must be excited. Hopefully you have lots to distract you, I find the days go so slowly.

Xerxella - I know the statistics are better for FET, but I wouldn't be able to resist putting back a fresh one or two. I do like the idea of being able to stockpile embryos, but I don't think I'll ever have that option.

AFM - still no action on the right ovary today, but he counted 6 follicles on the left side. Two of them are up around 16-17 mm, 3 are around 10-11 and one is only 7.5 so it probably won't catch up. Still, 6 is better than 4. I'm feeling a bit more hopeful. Back again tomorrow for another ultrasound. 

[hope4light]

Just waned to stop by and say LILAC - I am so excited that you're finally getting to start! Good luck, I'm keeping everything crossed for you! Sourire - Yeah for your FET! TF - I know I've said it already, but I'm so sorry. I agree with PP, talking to a therapist may help, so you should do it if you think it will! (It did for me through our struggles!) Hi and Good Luck to everyone else!

[lilacvioletiris]

hope4light, thanks for the encouragement! I am pretty excited!

Can I just say that the meds I got came in HUGE boxes!  I got my main shipment yesterday.  My brother had made some comment about there being too many boxes to vacuum the floor.  I looked at him and said "What boxes?" All the little cooler boxes to keep things at the right temperature although when I read the packaging most of them didn't have to be refrigerated. Just a few more days and I can start this IVF cycle.  Excitement and panic are setting in.  This is really going to happen!

I read an interesting article on what to do with excess embryos. It actually hit on a question I have been asking myself lately as I consider what will happen this month.  http://www.creatingafamily.org/blog/infertility-fertility-trying-to-conceive-ivf-donor-egg/frozen-embryos-left/ My husband only wants 2 kids.  I would like 2 or 3 but would love to at least have a boy and a girl. Since our office recommends transfering 2 embryos, I have a feeling I will end up with twins. My husband would like to donate any unused embryos to another couple so they can create their family. I had thought that was what I wanted to do to but now I am wondering what it would be like to have genetic siblings of my children (as yet unconceived and unborn) out there in the world. But then I think of the couples whose only chance at having children is through the kindness of people like me who have enough children and would not need anymore of the embryos we would have frozen. My DH and I talked to my sister this week about being the guardian of our frozen embryos in the event that both DH and I were to die. She had said, "Of course I would want to do that. Those frozen embryos are my nieces and nephews!' That is what got me thinking on this subject more about any excess embryos. Just a thought for the day.

[Silverbird]

Toothfairy: I'm so sorry to hear about your miscaridge.

Lilac, xerlea, sourice: good luck for your cycles.

rcr and laggie: good to see you again.  good luck with your cycles.

hi to everyone else.

AFM: just popping by to say hi.  I'm still enjoying my brake from ttc and eating loads of junk food and drinking wine :)

loads and loads of luck everyone, may we all get to our babies soon.

[Xerxella]

Lilac- DH and I have had many discussions about any excess embryos. I would vote to donate them. DH would vote to destroy them. He says he just couldn't bear the idea of "our" children being out there somewhere. I get that but I just couldn't bear the thought of just destroying them. I would vote to give them a chance at life. Anyways, so our final decision was our very own "no child left behind act". However many there are, we'll use them all. This isn't as scary as it sounds. It's highly unlikely we'll have some massive quantity of euploid embryos. I've run all the statistics and read the articles. With a 15 AFC the "average" 37 year old will end up with 2-3 chromosomally competent embryos. And that's a big assumption that we're average. Thanks for a great article. I'll have to come back and post the study I got the statistics from.

Here it is: http://217.219.214.30/documents/10129/91434/638.pdf

Laggie- 6 sounds a lot better. I'm sorry you're one ovary is being so uncooperative.

Lilac- So you'll start Friday-ish? Depending on when I get AF, I'll start on cd 2, so hopefully Wednesday or Thursday at the latest.

AFM- Did I mention the lady BCP was today? :P. Come on AF.
Edited by Xerxella - 3/9/13 at 8:22pm

[lilacvioletiris]

Xerxella, I like the concept of "no child left behind". I think I will be getting my first stimulation protocol shots on Friday, March 15 because CD 1 should be Wednesday.  Congrats on taking your last BCPs. I like you I am cheering on AF to come!

[rcr]

I will chime in about what to do with leftover embryos.

I am (obviously) becoming a reciepent of donor embryos, and for that I am very grateful to those who make the choice to donate. My wish is that it were an open donation, so that my (hopefully) future kid(s) will be able to know the biological parents and siblings if they choose. But for the most part that is not an option that is available in the U.S. There are places like snowflake, where people can donate their unused embryos and then be able to have a say in who adopts them, but they are christian and don't accept non-christians. We are also looking at another place in Florida that does open embryo donations, but it is expensive and complicated (we would have to do a homestudy). So we are doing the unknown donor option with my old RE. I don't know much about the donors. In fact, I don't even know their race. The embryos were set to be discarded because nobody wanted them. The "parents"  don't know about me, and one of the embryos that I was given to choose from has been frozen since 1969! So the siblings would be older than me! crazy. I doubt that they even know that they are being given to me - they seem to have been forgotten about.

Anyway, if you are interested in donating, but would like some say in who they go to, or at least have contact info so that the kids can have the option of knowing eachother, look into snowflake (if you are christian) or embryo donation international (if you are not), or any number of agencies where you can send your embryos.

[Laggie]

rcr - That's really interesting, thanks for sharing that info. I wonder how it will change in the future, I know that in Canada there is a push for more open adoptions, and even sperm donors are not allowed to be completely anonymous anymore (in BC at least.) Google is telling me that embryo donation isn't regulated yet, but there are some clinics offering open embryo donation programs. 

Silverbird - hi! Nice to see you!

lilac - at my clinic you have to be under 35 to choose embryo donation, so I couldn't pick that. In any case we're not likely to have any extra. That link was interesting, though, amazing that the lady writing it ended up with 3 babies from 4 embryos. 

AFM - so, I thought that I posted here on Saturday, but the internet must have eaten my post. I had my egg retrieval this morning, and they got 4 eggs. So now all we can do is hope. They gave me more drugs this time, because last time I found it painful (my clinic does conscious sedation.) Well, this time I don't even remember the procedure. All I remember is the nurse telling me I would start to feel sleepy, I closed my eyes and I don't even remember the doctor touching me at all. Which is kind of a weird feeling, to be honest. I think they gave me a bit too much, because after I drank some apple juice and water it all came back up. I barely made it to the bathroom. I came home and slept for about 4 hours.

The good news is, I woke up this morning with pretty bad lower back pain and poof! it's completely gone. Fentanyl seems to have done the trick. The doxycyline makes me feel awful though. I better load up on the yogurt.

[auraleigh]

Wishing you luck Laggie!!!!

[tracyamber]

laggie

yes,good luck!!!when is your transfer?

[Xerxella]

RCR- 1969?!?!!? I thought the first IVF was Louise Brown in 1974-ish! Maybe it was really 1996 and they just wrote it down wrong. (Hey! I'm pretty impressed with myself. I went and checked that and I was pretty close, 1978. But, I had the name right).

Laggie- I'm super excited for you! Keep us updated with all the facts and figures.

Lilac- any sign of AF? Yeah, me neither.

[rcr]

Laggie - Congrats! good luck!

xerxella - yea, that sounded funny after I typed it, so I went back to check and it does say 1969! But you are right,  that is impossible :) So it must be a typo.

[Laggie]

2 eggs fertilized, so my transfer is on Thursday. Hopefully they're both doing this: 

Hi Aura! 

[renavoo]

Laggie, just checked in and saw the news! yah! So excited for you. :o)

[renavoo]

Rcr, also checking in about your cycle and wishing you the best!!!

[wannabemomi]

Laggie that is sweeeeet! Fingers & toes are crossed!

[Vegan Princess]

Good luck Laggie!!!!

Cindy

[toothfairy2be]

Laggie- wonderful! Grow embryos grow!