lucie hope you’re doing OK, weekend pottering in the garden sounds lovely.
brenna everything crossed for you and hoping you feel less full of lurgy. Dr told me cramping and spotting was very normal and to take paracetamol if needed, full red flow was potentially more concerning (although many women do get proper bleeding and everything turns out to be fine)
Itsme DH and I talked about egg donation, if my eggs weren’t crap (and I didn’t have health issues that meant even if they weren’t, I’d probably not be allowed to donate) I would absolutely donate. We said it would be a good karma thing to do - I have a friend who was an altruistic egg donor, who went through the whole process just to donate, which I thought was an amazing thing. I don’t see an egg as being anything more than a cell, and I don’t think genetics makes you a parent, so for me personally, if I could help another couple to become a family, I’d be really happy to do it. Especially as since my diagnosis, I’ve had to consider the very real possibility that I might need donor eggs to conceive
mpp hope you’re doing OK, and wedding plans are all going nicely!
maple I have lesbian friends who did different things to conceive. One couple did 3 rounds of IVF and several IUIs with different sperm donors, and nothing. Then they did a DIY home insemination (syringe!) with a known donor and boom. Baby boy 9 months later. Then again with a sibling 2 years later. Bonkers.
Other couple have done reciprocal IVF - so one partner is the egg donor, and the other is the recipient (i.e. one is the egg mummy and one is the tummy mummy). Third couple I don’t know what the arrangements were
trixie hope scan went well and everything is looking good
stealth woohoo! Know i’ve congratulated you already but this deserves much celebrating. hCG as you know is relative rather than absolute, i.e. its the rate of doubling that matters
Just checked my numbers
10dp5dt hCG 299, progesterone 175
12dp5dt hCG 509, progesterone 262
16dp5dt hCG 2713 - didn’t get progesterone number
He did a third beta as doubling rate between 1st and 2nd was OK, but just wanted to do another to keep an eye on it, and leapt up
Your levels sound tip top!
Rebecca I would imagine they will wait till after your AF and get you to start sniffing or injecting on day 21 of that cycle, if you’re doing long protocol. If you’re doing short then start jabs after the next AF, I would imagine - at the earliest
AFM, going in for beta tomorrow, I think hysto is a given judging by positive urine test this morning
Oh and I said to baby bomb friend sorry but not feeling up to meeting up, similar due dates and all still very raw etc etc. She sent lovely reply saying she understood completely and had been delaying announcing for a reason. So she was trying to be sensitive to everything that had happened; the thought was there, it was just very poorly executed. So feeling better about that whole friendship at least, albeit gutted I’m not sharing the pregnancy journey with her (and that she instadiffed with number 3, while I’m thousands of pounds down and so far have a dead baby to show for it)
Somewhat ironic that I’m having serial betas with the same Dr as stealth to check how fast my hCG is decreasing
Another patient of his, another MN-er, said she got a DVD after her lap. So I’m anticipating some scintillating viewing of my uterus if I get the same. Although in the vein of telling a future child about IVF, could show them their first home, before they moved in 