A journey through the winding
road of secondary infertility and into the world of parenting a five year old and twin newborns after five IVF cycles.
Monday, December 22, 2008
Phone Consult Moved Up...Again!
We received a phone call from CCRM yesterday and they received all of our new patient paperwork and our records from our local clinic. They asked if they could move up our phone consult again! It is today at 5:00! Woohoo! I'll update again later tonight or tomorrow.
We were married in 2003. I am 33 and my dear husband is 34. We conceived our dear son in March 2004 and delivered him via emergency c-section in December 2004. We started TTC #2 in July 2006. After 3.5 years of secondary infertility we delivered our twin sons in January 2010.
July 2006- TTC naturally September 2006- chemical pregnancy September 2006-March 2007- TTC naturally March 2007- first appt with RE April 2007- HSG was normal July 2007- clomid cycle--BFN Diagnosed: Male Factor Infertility- low morphology August- October 2007- two IUIs with injectibles-- BFN November 2007- switched REs November-December 2007- two IUIs with injectibles--BFN March 2008- IVF #1, 18 eggs, 13 mature, 11 fertilized w/ICSI, 10 still growing on Day 5, tx'ed 2 blasts, given 75-85% chance of sucess--BFN June 2008- FET #1- Tx'ed two frozen blasts, given 65% chance of sucess--BFN August 2008- IVF #2, 23 eggs, 19 mature, 15 fertilized w/ICSI, 13 still growing on Day 3, tx'ed 2 8-cell embies, given almost 100% chance of sucess--beta 4.4 technical BFN. Although RE said he thought "it was the beginning of a pregnancy" which would make it a chemical pregnancy. September 2008- Saline sonogram to check for polyps- normal and endometrial biopsy to "fluff" lining November 2008- FET #2- Tx'ed two frozen blasts, given 75% chance of sucess- BFN December 2008- phone consult with CCRM January 2009- One day work-up at CCRM- found that I have restricted blood flow to my uterus February 2009- endometrial biopsy/E-Tegrity test came back positive for beta 3 integrin protein May 2009- IVF #3, 25 eggs, 20 mature, 13 fertilized w/ICSI, 10 still growing on Day 3, tx'ed 3 embies on Day 3- 2 8-cell and one compacting, 3 hatching blasts frozen. Beta #1 9dp3dt- 159. Beta #2 11dp3dt- 303, P4 80.3. BFP! June 8, 2009- First u/s- TWINS!! DUE January 29, 2010
Infertility Accronyms
M- dear husband L- dear son BFP- big fat positive BFN- big fat negative beta- pregnancy hormone level HCG- pregnancy hormone HPT- home pregnancy test AF- Aunt Flo, menstrual cycle, period CCRM- Colorado Center for Reproductive Medicine DH- dear husband DS- dear son or donor sperm DE- donor egg GS- gestational surrogate OPK- ovulation predictor kit IF- Infertility TTC- trying to conceive IUI- intra-uterine insemination IVF- in-vitro fertilization BA- baby aspirin RE- Reproductive Endocrinologist, fertility doctor WTF- what the f*ck b/w- blood work u/s- ultra sound CM- cervical mucous tmi- too much information ICSI- intra-cytoplasmic sperm injection ER- egg retrieval ET- embryo transfer frosties- frozen embryos embies- embryos BCP- birth control pills
3 comments:
Wow, now if that isn't exciting I don't know what is?! Good luck Kris! I can't wait to read your update tonight.
Kris, that is wonderful news! I am looking forward to your update :)
That is great news!!!!!! I hope it went well :)
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