We have yet to conceive...which stinks. We are 2 years into our journey and recently found out that my partner has DoR (Diminished Ovarian Reserve) which means.....::drumroll:: IVF is our best option. Very expensive and very scared about the cost, but if it works it is perfectly fine. We will be doing that in a month and a half. Mid January will be the retrieval and transfer. Right now we are preparing for the meds and such. Hopefully my blog has helped some people out there.
Tuesday, November 20, 2012
Sunday, April 15, 2012
Wow Its Been Forever, but I got some inspiration...(OPK Tip)
It has definitly been awhile since I posted, and our journey has not ended. We have not conceived yet, but we are happy to report that our friends (heterosexual) have coneived naturally after trying for 3 and a half yrs! They had a 10 LB! cyst removed taking my friends ovary and fallopian tube in Nov and on the first try they were prego! WoW! This is why it is important to be checked out if you are trying to conceive and have not, but Im super excited for them.
We have been trying since Nov with no luck, but we have switched to a donor that we know and did all the necessary paperwork to ensure it goes smoothly. He is younger than us and has no desire for children anytime soon. We have tried four times with him and our currently in our TWW AGAIN! ugh. We did figure out that my partner was ovulating closer to the beginning of her surge which I believe was making us late in the past, and also we are using Pre-Seed due to some dryness.
I will update the blog and let everyone know how this goes! Im starting to get antsy already, I think cause we have heard such good things about Preseed or just that this process has been so long.
I also want to add for people using OPK's I would test in the morning and at 2pm, we were testing only in the morning like the directions and our doctor told us and we believe we were missing it. Heres how....
on day 13 we would morning test (FMU) and get a negative, then no test til the 14th where we would get a positive, we would then inseminate the evening of the 14th day thinking we were only doing it 12 hrs past positive OPK, but I decided this month lets test twice a day, morning and afternoon, and BAM a positive OPK day 13 at 2pm rather than day 14 at 8am thats an 18hr difference! so when we would inseminate the evening of the 14th day we were actually 32 hrs behind! thats a big difference then to have inseminated on the evening of the 13th day only 8 hrs past. (Note: we did test in the morning on the 14th day after the positive on 13th day to see if the same thing would have happened to us and it would have) so even though those things are expensive testing twice a day is worth it when timing is so important our egg was most likely not even viable by the time we were inseminating and my partner is like clock work so we thought we had her cycle completely figured out.
We have been trying since Nov with no luck, but we have switched to a donor that we know and did all the necessary paperwork to ensure it goes smoothly. He is younger than us and has no desire for children anytime soon. We have tried four times with him and our currently in our TWW AGAIN! ugh. We did figure out that my partner was ovulating closer to the beginning of her surge which I believe was making us late in the past, and also we are using Pre-Seed due to some dryness.
I will update the blog and let everyone know how this goes! Im starting to get antsy already, I think cause we have heard such good things about Preseed or just that this process has been so long.
I also want to add for people using OPK's I would test in the morning and at 2pm, we were testing only in the morning like the directions and our doctor told us and we believe we were missing it. Heres how....
on day 13 we would morning test (FMU) and get a negative, then no test til the 14th where we would get a positive, we would then inseminate the evening of the 14th day thinking we were only doing it 12 hrs past positive OPK, but I decided this month lets test twice a day, morning and afternoon, and BAM a positive OPK day 13 at 2pm rather than day 14 at 8am thats an 18hr difference! so when we would inseminate the evening of the 14th day we were actually 32 hrs behind! thats a big difference then to have inseminated on the evening of the 13th day only 8 hrs past. (Note: we did test in the morning on the 14th day after the positive on 13th day to see if the same thing would have happened to us and it would have) so even though those things are expensive testing twice a day is worth it when timing is so important our egg was most likely not even viable by the time we were inseminating and my partner is like clock work so we thought we had her cycle completely figured out.
Monday, November 21, 2011
7dpiui
We are now 8 dpiui but she has had some "symptoms". We have not even talked about the iui until 7dpiui cause I wanted her to relax and not stress. She even had a couple of glasses of wine on 2dpiui and 3 dpiui. No worries the egg hasn't even implanted at this point.
Yesterday, 7dpiui, in the evening she went to visit our nieces and started feeling some nausea and watery mouth, she is also very tired, and is having loose bowel (tmi). Now today 8dpiui she woke up with water mouth and alittle breathlessness (if that's a word). She generally does not do symptom spotting she is alittle more pessimistic so she kinda blows thing off to be because of AF, but she is saying that these are stronger and slightly different. So with fingers crossed we wait!
Yesterday, 7dpiui, in the evening she went to visit our nieces and started feeling some nausea and watery mouth, she is also very tired, and is having loose bowel (tmi). Now today 8dpiui she woke up with water mouth and alittle breathlessness (if that's a word). She generally does not do symptom spotting she is alittle more pessimistic so she kinda blows thing off to be because of AF, but she is saying that these are stronger and slightly different. So with fingers crossed we wait!
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
We're Back in the Game!
Hello everyone! We are back at it after a small break in which we spent visiting London, Paris , and Rome....amazing! Now that we have taken care of that life dream we feel we are more ready than ever for this journey.
We decided on an all natural cycle which consisted of using an opk to monitor ovulation with NO meds, u/s, or b/w. We received our smiley indicating we would ovulate within 12 to 36hrs. Due to our work schedules we had to have our iui 48 hrs later. We also did not piggy back on this one we had one vial of sperm left from our current donor.
We have discussed again switching donor if this cycle does not work out.
We did our iui at the very last moment so if it does not work we have also decided to go in earlier. I have read that you can track ovulation more closely with body temp and the opk. After this journey and our 4th iui we are alittle pessimistic and it seems unreal that it will work so we have been alittle more relaxed. We are currently only 2dpiui so we ll see.
We decided on an all natural cycle which consisted of using an opk to monitor ovulation with NO meds, u/s, or b/w. We received our smiley indicating we would ovulate within 12 to 36hrs. Due to our work schedules we had to have our iui 48 hrs later. We also did not piggy back on this one we had one vial of sperm left from our current donor.
We have discussed again switching donor if this cycle does not work out.
We did our iui at the very last moment so if it does not work we have also decided to go in earlier. I have read that you can track ovulation more closely with body temp and the opk. After this journey and our 4th iui we are alittle pessimistic and it seems unreal that it will work so we have been alittle more relaxed. We are currently only 2dpiui so we ll see.
Monday, August 29, 2011
Thank you Everyone
Thank you Everyone for reading our Blog I hope we helped some people with their journey. We on the other hand had to stop our journey due to the finances involved, it became too much for us to afford. Good Luck to everyone and hopefully one day we'll be "back on the wagon" to parenthood.
Monday, May 30, 2011
The Great Debate!
We have contemplated changing donors this next month, I believe we will be changing. We do believe there is a compatibility issue between our us and the donor. Has anyone had this happen?
Thursday, May 26, 2011
Who its been a long time but we are still TTC!
I havent posted in a while, honestly the stress of everything was alot to keep up with. In March we had only 3 follicles not so drastic but still stressful. One of the Follicles was 30mm, I personally said I thought that from the info I gathered that it was too large but the RE told us to go forward. We got a BFN and when the RE called she in formed us that it was cause the Follicle was too large! You can imagine how frustrated and I was at the thought of this info since I wanted to skip this cycle and the money is coming out of my pocket not me RE's.
April brought on new challenges including having to skip a cycle due to a thick uterine lining. The lining had not fully shed, I guess that wasnt that big of a deal maybe give the body some time to relax.
So here we are in May! Yay! We did use Clomid this cycle and came up with 4 follicles. Very Nice. We are currently in our TWW and there are symptoms so we will see. My partners Grandfather passed on the day after her Birthday this past wk, oddly enough on the same day our little egg was making its way down the tube. She was very close to him and we are hoping that the old adage.. The loss of one life in a family will bring life to another. Plus Abraham Lincoln's Bday is Feb 12th and as a History person he is my favorite.
We will find out Tues if it has worked, we tested late afternoon today but it was BFN, judging by when her symptoms began Id say a positive HPT would not come until Sunday considering they didnt begin til Tuesday.
Fingers Crossed! Good Luck and Baby Dust to all!
April brought on new challenges including having to skip a cycle due to a thick uterine lining. The lining had not fully shed, I guess that wasnt that big of a deal maybe give the body some time to relax.
So here we are in May! Yay! We did use Clomid this cycle and came up with 4 follicles. Very Nice. We are currently in our TWW and there are symptoms so we will see. My partners Grandfather passed on the day after her Birthday this past wk, oddly enough on the same day our little egg was making its way down the tube. She was very close to him and we are hoping that the old adage.. The loss of one life in a family will bring life to another. Plus Abraham Lincoln's Bday is Feb 12th and as a History person he is my favorite.
We will find out Tues if it has worked, we tested late afternoon today but it was BFN, judging by when her symptoms began Id say a positive HPT would not come until Sunday considering they didnt begin til Tuesday.
Fingers Crossed! Good Luck and Baby Dust to all!
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Pregnant or Not?
I am finally feeling up to writing a blog. After having 5 mature follicles and back to back IUI's we had a Chemical Pregnancy. We did HPT's since Sat and on Monday we got a faint pink line but didnt get ourselves excited as we wanted to wait til the bloodtest, which we had today. The bloodtest came back with a level of 5 and since we had already had 2 positive tests followed by two negative tests this wasnt a big surprise but disappointing none the less.
When our Doctor called she asked if we had taken any at home HPT's and we told her we did and had gotten two positive tests and she said then this is most likely a Chemical Pregnancy, in which the egg is fertilized, implants and begins to secrete hcg and then is lost a few days later for chromosomial defects, I believe she said. It is basically an early pregnancy miscarriage.
We are definitly bummed, my partner is tired of all the tracking and meds and this was our first try. On a good note we learned that for a fact everything is working just fine down there and that the donor sperm is good.
So heres to another cycle, maybe not one with 5 follicles as that was stressful. ;)
When our Doctor called she asked if we had taken any at home HPT's and we told her we did and had gotten two positive tests and she said then this is most likely a Chemical Pregnancy, in which the egg is fertilized, implants and begins to secrete hcg and then is lost a few days later for chromosomial defects, I believe she said. It is basically an early pregnancy miscarriage.
We are definitly bummed, my partner is tired of all the tracking and meds and this was our first try. On a good note we learned that for a fact everything is working just fine down there and that the donor sperm is good.
So heres to another cycle, maybe not one with 5 follicles as that was stressful. ;)
Monday, March 7, 2011
Ok I have held out a long time on posting cause I have been feeling very very very anxious. We are going for a blood test on March 9th to check for pregnancy. We have taken tests already and gotten negatives but our doctor told us that its just too early still so to not be discouraged. The doctor also checked her progesterone and put her on some progesterone just to make sure cause her level was just "ok".
I can honestly say that the waiting is very very hard and can take a toll on a person, even on the most positive person.
Fingers crossed for Weds!
I can honestly say that the waiting is very very hard and can take a toll on a person, even on the most positive person.
Fingers crossed for Weds!
Friday, February 25, 2011
Second IUI
We are all done with our IUI's this month, we did one at 24 hrs and one at 48 hrs post ovidrel, sooooo now we wait. Our donor counts were 7.9 million at 98% motility and 5.8 at 90% motility, RE said this was good and that they look for over 5 million.
I am definitly feeling anxious, I am trying to find so many other things to think about than March 9th, when we can test. I have been putting up a fence on our home so I just try to focus on that. I knew it would be hard but I didnt think this hard to not think about it. Of course after the pregnancy test it will be a matter of how many if there is a positive. Very exciting!
I am definitly feeling anxious, I am trying to find so many other things to think about than March 9th, when we can test. I have been putting up a fence on our home so I just try to focus on that. I knew it would be hard but I didnt think this hard to not think about it. Of course after the pregnancy test it will be a matter of how many if there is a positive. Very exciting!
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