Monday, May 13, 2019

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

Thursday, May 9, 2019

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!).