Happy ICLW and welcome to my little corner of the web and of the ALI community!
Today is a big day for Tidy and me. It's beta day of our very first Anonymous Donor Egg IVF cycle. We are 10dp5dt (10 days past 5 day transfer) of 2 beautiful blasts. And, we are blessed enough to have 6 more blasts in the freezer (which takes just a little pressure off this cycle... kind of). It was truly a perfect cycle on the embryo front and I am so very very thankful for that. Dotty 2.0 (the name we have for our SECOND anonymous donor ... you can read more about that saga here) did amazing. I can't thank this woman enough (and I literally can't because she's anonymous). I hope that she feels the gratitude that we have for her taking the time out of our her life to give us this opportunity.
Before you read further, I will say that this post does NOT contain results of my beta. I will post late tonight or early tomorrow with those results... So please keep reading further and later today!!!
Here's the quick play by play: In the last almost 5 years, Tidy and I have been through 5 IUIs, 6 embryo transfers (4 fresh IVF, 2 FETs) with my own eggs, 1 laparoscopy and countless natural cycles with acupuncture, herbs, diet changes and yoga. It's been a long unexplained road...
I never imagined we would be here, not in my wildest dreams, but here we are and for the first time in quite a few years, I feel more hopeful that ever. Hopeful, but of course preparing for a negative, because, hey, that's what we've been accustomed to. Or a chemical... I've had about 3 of those.. FUN!
SO, for any new readers, please follow me and leave a comment and tell me more about you! I love new followers and I'm usually pretty good about commenting back.
Stay tuned for our beta results....
OH! and one more thing. Recently I posted about Tidy's Wisdom... and I have one more of our random evening conversations to share. This happened last night:
Tidy: "Should I have a beer or tea?"
Me: "Have a beer. We've got 6 frosties in the freezer, so ya know. I don't need your swimmers again for quite a while." (Cuz clearly I'm a total paranoid freak and would give him the evil eye for every beer that he had while we were going through this cycle).
Tidy:" Yeah, you're done with my junk. So now I'm on a slow train to toxic town!"
He's a funny one alright... a funny one indeed.
After a year or so of openly blogging about our struggle to have a child, I decided it was time to go 'incognito' and take things to a less public arena. This is the continuation of my prior blog, "As Fast As My Baby Can". Thanks for coming along with me into my more private world as Tidy and I figure out how to shift from being infertile for almost 5 years to parenting twins resulting from the gift of donor eggs
9 comments:
Good Luck today, I will be thinking about you all day. I have a great feeling about this and I hope we aer celebrating soon enough! I love the fact that you have your 6 frosties too, it does take some of the pressure off, although I am sure there is still some stress. Anyways, happy beta day and I am here for you no matter what happens!!!!!!
when I saw the subject line my heart actually stopped. I am going to be stalking you all day long. Much, much, much luck and love coming to you from me in NYC today- here to hold your hand either way.
Super Super Good Luck. I am so hopeful for you, Tippy!
PRAYING!!!! <3
Good luck! I really hope this is it for you!
I thought of you this morning, I remembered it is your day! I really, really hope it is a good one.
Best best best best wishes. Oh man alive, best wishes!!!
Fingers so so crossed!!
I am not really a new reader but I'm not sure if I've introduced myself - my hubby and I have been trying for a baby for 3+ years, 2 of those with the help of the doctors (5 IUIs, 1 IVF, 1 IVF+ICSI) and I'm now doing my 3rd IVF, using nasal spray now and should start stimulation in 2 weeks. I seem to have a strange maturation issue, where follicles of 22 and even 26 mm turn out to have eggs that are still immature in them. Even the doctors are baffled. This time using a new drug (Menopur instead of Gonal-F) and hoping-hoping-hoping that this is the key to my child!
Anyway, good luck with your beta, I'm really hopeful for you!
So happy to see you r results. I have followed you for a while. I am sending you best wishes from Chicago!
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