TTC for 12 months +

Congratulations a.girl! That's really fantastic news. I haven't looked here for a couple of weeks so to log on today and see your news has really made my day

And Happy Birthday for yesterday Sweetpea! June will be here before you know it.

How you doing Star?

AFM, now on the countdown to start my next cycle at the end of the month.

Hi MahaVar, haven't experienced any of that. We were straight to IVF for our infertility issues. Sorry about the bowel perforation, that sounds horrible!

How’s everyone doing? Pretty quiet here!
I had egg collection today but only 4 eggs. 😩 Not expecting great things as last round had 7 eggs, 5 fertilised and only 2 made it to day 5. Here’s hoping I’m wrong and that the magic one is busy growing in the lab.

Thanks Sweetpea, I'm doing ok. All 4 were mature which was a change, and 3 fertilised. 2 are looking good and 1 is a bit fragmented. Day 4 today so no update so a bit nerve-wracking waiting for transfer tomorrow hoping that at least one of them continues to do ok!

Best of luck for transfer today Roubaix - hoping you have one to transfer and one or two for the freezer 🤞🏻

Hi ladies! I’ve been reading along with this board for quite awhile now! I was on the TWW board before conceiving my first, which took 8 months. Now we’ve been trying for our second since May last year with no luck. I managed to get letrozole prescribed in April by an ONGYN but when that didn’t work bit the bullet and went to FA. He changed me over to clomiphene for this last cycle, AF is due in a week. The plan was to start IUI next cycle, as we are both done with the strain that TTC puts on your relationship! I feel like we barely got over the roller coaster that was trying for our first and we were right back there! However, our plans for IUI got dashed yesterday when FA came back saying husbands sperm count was only 8million. It’s a bit strange because he’s had 2 analysis done before with labtests and both came back with counts in the 40million. But FA have said we’ll pretty well have to just look at IVF now as the counts too low for IUI... so I thought since I’m now in this position I would just jump along in here!

Nothings been mentioned yet. But I’ve only spoken to the nurse/ lab tech. They suggested he come in to do another sample so we’ll do that this week. We’ll see the doctor again this week so I’ll see what he says. It may be the difference between the 2 days abstinence with FA versus 4 he usually done with lab tests - which is my guess.

Thanks for the thoughts ladies! It looks like they might have done their job... I did a HPT today and it was a BFP. Blood test isn’t until Thursday though. The past couple of weeks I’ve been veering between feeling like it’s time to stop ttc and just be happy with 1, and also stupidly optimistic because of the timing of this round - it turns out egg collection and transfer were 3.5 years to the day from the cycle that worked. And that was fresh transfer from 2nd round of ivf, and this is fresh transfer from 2nd full round since then. There is absolutely no reason for any of that to make a difference, but it has been on my mind!

Miswe- definitely ask about the drop in count and retest. You don’t want to do unnecessary IVF if you don’t have to.

Edited by Roubaix - 20 May 2019 at 4:56am

Weee, cautious congrats, Rou! Hoping for a good update on Thurs.

Miswe, I'd still be pushing for their thoughts on what they think caused the drop. Best of luck with the appointment next week.

Congrats Roubaix!!! That’s very exciting! When will first scan be?

Thanks ladies, I’ll definitely query them on Monday and plan for next steps. Will let you know how I get on! As long as we’re going somewhere it would be nice rather than spinning and endless wheel