TTC first baby thread 26

sorry I’ve been a bit hectic. So I wasn’t ovulating at all which was stressful but I did finally ovulate on CD24 and had transfer last Saturday. It was very stressful as it looked like it would fall on the Sunday and then transfer would have been cancelled!

thee was also an issue on the day of transfer which meant had it been mon to Friday then both embryos would have had to be disposed of and the transfer cancelled. Luckily it was all sorted and I now have 2 embryos in.

@thislittlebird im not sure the difference between natural or natural modified. Basically I have no drugs except progesterone. But this cycle Im also having prednosoline but hays not through the clinic protocol. When is your AF due to start for your next cycle? It’s annoying about the holiday timing but it may help being on holiday. I went on holiday the day after transfer in the hope it may somehow help.

Hello everyone, we got a negative test last Wednesday. That's all our NHS funding gone now.

@MIW01 I have everything crossed for you 🙏🏼

@Lozzlepop I was thinking about you the other day wondering if baby was here as you were 4 weeks behind me! Congratulations he is absolutely beautiful! Hope you're both doing well. Enjoy every second it goes wayyy to fast.

@Annny27 hope you're doing well 💖

Hi ladies,

I hope you are all doing well. I know this will be a hard one for a lot of you but I wanted to share the news that Oscar Joshua Anderson arrived on Monday! We are so in love with this little boy who has stolen our hearts ♥️ I want to take the time to say a massive thank you to everyone who has sent supportive messages over the years it’s been a struggle to get here but it means everything that we made it! Sending baby dust to each and every one of you wonderful ladies, I truly hope you get your longed for babies very soon ♥️♥️

@thislittlebird & @XjustagirlX I completely empathise. It just isn't effin fair! Any old crack w*e can get up the duff at the drop of a hat and here we are, decent citizens whove planned for this for years amd we've got nothing but heart ache and our lives ripped apart. Yes I am angry and bitter and sad. I am grieving at this loss, this pain and trauma. I ask why me. Why us? I feel like we're being punished. And yes, sometimes, more than I'd like to admit, I just want it all to end!

@thislittlebird yes it's swings and roundabouts here atm. Still hoping and praying!

@MIW01 I’m sorry to hear that update on EC but at the same time getting to transfer two seems like a positive, fingers firmly crossed for the 29th for you.

Hello everyone

Thank you for your well wishes. Just an update from me. Unfortunately this round didnt go as well as hoped. We got 4 eggs and 2 fertilised via ICSI and we were told the quality of the eggs and sperm isn't very good. And that the 2nd embryo wouldn't be suitable for freezing. So we've had both embryos transferred on Saturday and we are feeling very hopeful that this time at least 1 of them will implant. I am due to test on the 29th.

@XjustagirlX are you doing a natural modified or natural FET? I had to wait until day 22 for them to be ready on my first FET cycle.

I can totally understand that, I think people can’t possibly understand how traumatic this all is if they haven’t done it and a panic attack is completely understandable, but I hope you’re feeling better today. I’m struggling myself too at the moment, with my ever increasing age, with the stagnation of my life, my career, my friend groups, being stuck treading fucking water for years and not knowing what the future holds, feeling like I’m going to be an old parent if it eventually happens. I’m angry and I’m bitter that it seems to work for everyone else, naturally or otherwise. It’s so hard just waiting all the time. Rant over, but it’s never really over lol.

Transfer should have been this month but my pre-booked holiday fell at the wrong time so I’m just waiting now for AF and then I can call them to attempt natural modified FET attempt two. I don’t feel very positive right now, I wish I could say I did.

Fingers crossed for one of those two. We’re doing a single this time, and then next time (maybe August/September) we’ll have the choice of a double. Then after that I’ll have to do more collections.

@thislittlebird yeah I’ve had 3 failed transfers now. I’m in my next cycle but I’m on CD17 and no sign of my follicles growing in this natural cycle. it’s a natural cycle again this time. Also I am putting two back in this time.

im really struggling at the moment. It’s really getting me down. I had a panic attack yesterday and I just cannot find the joy in life.

when are you doing your next transfer?

I forget this thread still exists. Probably very much beyond trying for a first and firmly in the unlucky infertiles camp these days.

@MIW01 i caught up with you on the donkeys thread but it really is good to hear you’ve got a better result from this round so far, hope it’s going well!

@XjustagirlX I’ve only just seen your latest updates. Am I right in saying you’ve had two failures since your first? That’s really hard, I’m sorry this is how it has gone for you. What was the womb lining check you did? I’ve had one failure and don’t feel positive it’ll work after that, so I’m sure more than one feels awful. I’m interested in you being on letrozole too, I might ask about that. I don’t want a full medicated cycle because of my migraines but I was fine on letrozole and that would boost oestrogen. They’re doing natural modified again for me, said I could have a trigger injection if needed but didn’t mention letrozole.

@MIW01 wow 16 follicles is amazing. What have you done differently this time to get so many more follicles and your best lining? When are you due to go ahead?

@XjustagirlX no frozen from either round as 1st round only 3 fertilised and 2nd round only 1 egg collected. So this time we've got at least 16 follicles in the running and my ueterine lining is the best it's ever been at 7.8mm. So we are feeling hopeful.

@Annny27 i did have a hysteroscopy where they took a biopsy of the womb lining to check for things. I’m not actually sure what they checked for but it all came back normal.

ive got my consultant call on Monday. They will probably just say keep trying with our frozen ones. I tried letrizole last cycle but I’ll see if they want to stick with that this time.

@MIW01 good luck with your third round. It’s so upsetting. Did you get any frozen from your rounds or have they all been fresh? Have they suggested anything for the thin lining and the fibroid? Glad the sperm improved.

i did find an interesting statistic (which I now can’t find to post). It suggested that about 70% ish I think of women get pregnant after 6 embryo transfers. And then the % went up after 12 embryo transfers. And that is based on the average day 5 embryos of 2.5 per cycle.

Thank you @Annny27 congratulations to you. This is our last NHS funded round so We're keeping everything crossed. Done 2 Menopur injections for this round so far. Scan on Monday.

Hello everyone, it's been a very long time since I've posted here. Think I 1st posted here in 2019?! I'm very pleased to read about all the successes for everyone and so happy for you all but at the same time I feel sad for me and really empathis with you @XjustagirlX I've now had two unsuccessful fresh IVF cycles. And just started Menopur for my 3rd round. In between time we've discovered I have low ovarian reserve, thin uterine lining and a small fibroid. My fiancée has had a varicocele repair and a second comet test shows some improvement in sperm DNA quality. This time we're going to try ICSI. This is our last round funded by the NHS.

@Annny27 it was negative on OTD. I actually think it was traces of the trigger still in my system. I really think it will never happen for us. It’s really getting me down. How can 3 high quality embryos be physically put inside me and not even implant!

An update from me. Ive had a faint positive this morning so faint a camera won’t pick it up but there is a line there. I’m 10dp5dt. but I’ve also had brown spotting when I have been doing my progesterone.

so it’s either the remains of the trigger, a chemical pregnancy or a successful implantation.

i feel like I can rule out the trigger as it has been 16 days since I did my 5000 trigger.

i feel like it’s most likely a chemical!

my OTD is on thursday.

So my second egg transfer failed. I on my next cycle straight away. This time I have been on letrozoke for 5 days to boost my own oestrogen. I go for a scan tomorrow to check lining.

the consultant said it’s probably chromosomes but it seems really unlucky to have 2 bad embryos not implant.