Monthly Archives: May 2010

IVF #4 Day three post collection: nail biting tension as the day unfolds

Today was an interesting day.  We went out at about 9.30 to a used car auction, full of hail damaged vehicles from the March 22 storm.  Trawled around for hours looking at hundreds of lots, narrowing our choices, and waiting … Continue reading

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IvF #4 fertilisation report

1 embryo.  Cancelled the PGS as it didn’t seem worth spending two grand to find out we had a dud embryo.  If it even makes it to day three. Le sigh.

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IVF #4 egg collection

3 eggs.  Not thrilled.  Fert report tomorrow.  Monday find out whether PGS has left us any to freeze.  Since we’ve only had 2 normals from 24 eggs in the past, I am not at all hopeful. Blah.  Feels like a … Continue reading

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IVF #4 cycle day 13 – no Aces would be an understatement.

Did you ever have one of those cards hands that you knew you should throw in, but played anyway and then regretted it? Today was one of those. Started with getting up earlier that I would have liked, to be … Continue reading

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IVF #4 cycle day 12

E2 is now at 2,400 but they don’t do ultrasounds on a Sunday, so I have to go back tomorrow for a look at the follie situation, and have another blood test while I am at it.  I thought perhaps … Continue reading

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IVF #4 cycle day 11

E2 is at 1800 today.  Yesterday it was 1400, and I had an ultrasound that showed one 13mm follie on the left, and a dominant 19mm follie on the right, along with another four ranging from 12-15mm. Bloods again tomorrow … Continue reading

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IVF #4 cycle day ARRRRRGH!

Well the gonal F is rampaging through my system now and I’m about ready for meltdown.  I hate this time of the cycle.  Will likely have first ultrasound Friday or Saturday.  We are hoping for egg retrieval on Tuesday, but … Continue reading

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The aftermath

I’m still forty and I still have awesome diamond earrings.  I also had a fairly reasonable hangover on Sunday morning (must have been that goblet of champagne I kept refilling, or the fact I only got 3hrs sleep…) and as … Continue reading

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Birthday surprise

So, today I woke up and I was forty. I kind of imagined (like, years ago, when I was, say, thirty) I’d have had a couple of kids by the morning I woke up and was forty, and that they … Continue reading

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IVF #4 day 3

Yep, no flies on me.  Period never came, had blood test, decided I was just about to ovulate, waited a couple of days and then began a long down-reg on May 3rd.  Lucrin until the cows come home.  Well, three … Continue reading

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