IVF#3, fresh 5-day transfer

• Update for May 2019
• May 8 - RETRIEVAL! = 13 eggs (same number as IVF#2!).
• May 9 - fertilization report = 9 mature eggs, 6 fertilized
• May 10 - 3-day transfer moved to 5-day transfer. 
• Two 8B cell embryos, one 7B embryo, one 6B embryo and one 5B embryo...all growing
• May 13 - 5-day transfer. Transferred two blastocyst, 3BB and 2BB. 
• May 23 - testing

I'm back. 2018-2019 Timeline update!

2018

• May 2018 - Road to IVF #2. (Now 36 years old, DH 37 years old. Have 5.5 year old from successful IVF #1.)
• returned to New England area. Got a job with great medical benefits (covers IVF!). On a mission here!
• May-June 2018
• update testing
• August 2018
• begin medication - Lup.ron and Go.nal F
• September 2018 - IVF #2!
• Retrieval! - results = 13 eggs retrieved
• OHSS - Ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome
• Doc decides to see how many make it to Day 5 for freezing
• Only ONE makes it to freezing
• October 2018
• begin estrogen pills and estrogen patch
• November 2018
• Transfer our only snow embie
• Late November 2018 - BFP! So excited. Heartbeat at 127.

2019

• January 2019 - prenatal screening. Results come back as 9/10 chance for Tri.somy 18.
• Devastated doesn't even come close to describing how we feel.
• Decide to do CVS (chorionic villus sampling, where they take a bit of placenta for testing) diagnostic test - results return as confirmed for Tri.somy 18
• Begin to bleed profusely. End up in the ER. Doctors are afraid for my life.
• Emergency D&E performed to save me. 
• Very loved and wanted baby joins God in heaven at 12 weeks. Again, utterly and completely devastated. 
• February - April 2019
• Nothing but healing emotionally. Physically, already feel back to normal
• Late April 2019 - IVF #3 (now 37 years old, DH 38 years old, 6.5 year old from IVF#1)
• Back to treatments. Begin BCP for two weeks, then Lup.ron for two weeks
• April 26, begin Gon.al F shots
• May 2019
• May 8 - RETRIEVAL! = 13 eggs (same number as IVF#2!).