Hi! I'm excited to be part of the group. I'm glad to download the app and keep it on my phone. I would always delete it when things didn't work because it was too hard to see the week-by-week description of what is happening in your pregnancy. A little of our story...I have endometriosis/low egg reserve/poor responder although the endo wasn't officially diagnosed until I had a laparoscopy after trying to conceive for 3 years, 3 unsuccessful IUIs, and one failed IVF. I had always had terribly painful periods though and they have gotten worse with age. So we did the surgery and she removed everything she could see. We thought we would try IVF again, hoping things were cleared out but the second cycle was worse than the first and they had to cancel due to poor response. The pain returned with a vengeance. We decided to move forward with adoption. We ended up having two failed adoptions that fell through after the baby was born. We were also considered by another birth mom and corresponded for a while but she ultimately went with another couple. After lots of prayer, we decided to try one last thing - donor IVF. It was our absolute last attempt at anything medical. Through our journey, we have felt that our family is waiting to come to us but we were unsure how they would get here - adoption, IVF...it didn't matter. The bond is what makes a family, not genetics. Anyway...rambling... we picked a donor through the clinic and started birth control pills which I responded horribly to. They had me start Lupron early to help with the pain and it was amazing! I wasn't in pain anymore. I was on Lupron over a month before the suppression scan and adding estrace and progesterone. The donor had a slow start but ended up progressing wonderful - they retrieved 15 eggs, 14 were fertilized with my husband's sperm, and at 5 days we had two embryos ready to transfer. We transferred both and then we had four other embryos ready the next day and we froze them. I just went through the 2 week wait - although I cheated and took a hpt 3 days before the scheduled blood test. It was positive. I still couldn't fully believe it though despite testing positive for 3 days in a row. It was confirmed today after a blood test though - beta 425 and I am 13 days past 5-day transfer. I go back in a couple days again for more blood work. I am terrifed that something will be wrong although I know that isn't healthy to think that way. I am just so used to hearing bad news. I'm afraid the numbers won't have doubled and that it isn't viable. Anyone else at this point? How are you coping?
↧