#makeithappen TTC through Donor IUI or Donor IVF or just undecided. All welcome. Thread 12

[ButtonMooooon]

New thread, hope you don't mind I started a new one Kwick

Update on week 8+5 or 6+5 ( I never know which one to use). DW started spotting old looking blood on Saturday evening. This progressed over a couple of hours to a small amount of red blood. We almost went into full meltdown mode, made worse by the fact we were just about to go to my birthday party! We soldiered on through the evening, dashing to the loo all the time with our nerves shot to shit. We were gearing up for what felt like it could be a miscarriage either that night or yesterday but nothing more has happened. The spotting is subsiding and has returned to a brownish colour and has almost disappeared altogether. DW has some cramping in abdomen and lower back (although she has IBS and existing back problems anyway). We are awaiting a call back from the early pregnancy clinic to try and get a scan as recommended by midwives. In the mean time, it would be really good to know if anyway has experienced these symptoms before and how everything turned out?

Yay @SallyA1 fantastic news!!! I'm made up for you and great to hear so quickly!! Do you know how soon you can start? Xx

@GingerSnapp hello hon thinking of you and your dw. I had a friend who spotted through the first trimester but not sure if continuously or on or off. Sounds promising that it's tailed off to brown spotting. Hope you can get scan soon for some reassurance.

Cd 12 for me and back to poas in the morning. I find it more of a faff than exciting this time round. I had some ewcm today though which I can get 4 days before surge so I'm hoping not too much more poas to go!!!

@ButtonMooooon it's hard to know as it only takes one egg right? I know a lady now who used egg donor as she was told her eggs are poop and she is likely to have early menopause like her mum. She is 28 and expecting it in next few years. So with one healthy baby born , She planned to use same egg donor again last July for second childand found out in June she was pregnant.

Our bodies are definitely mysterious! Xx

Been up since 5.45am as have to be in Clinic for 8.30am as they wants bloods done and on courier van by 9am so we can get results today. Fingers crossed I have stopped producing hormones

Hi guys just an update for anyone still on this that remember me. Myself my and my wife had our first unmedicated round of IUI and were luckily enough to get out bfp.

Which brings me lets know our twins were born by emergency section on the 2nd baby boy weighed in at 7lbs 7 oz and baby girl 7lbs 2oz both doing great!

@Smithguy86 Congratulations! And twins wow they are both beautiful- thank you for coming back and updating us and showing us your beautiful babies. Enjoy these next few weeks as you start bonding as a family xxx

@ButtonMooooon how did it go?

@GingerSnapp thinking of you x

I can't remember my amh now but I think it was in average for my age.

Eek I surged today so off to do iui tomorrow. Hope I'm more lucky this month ! X

@Smithguy86 Congratulations! They're gorgeous. X

Hiya ladies, I'm stalking Kwick aka @Experiment627 Anyone know if she is ol?

*ok!

So flattering to be stalked! I did change my username a while back.

But perhaps an update on moi - after 3 years TTC and 11 treatments I was so so so lucky to welcome Kwicklet into the world just over 2 weeks ago.

My cup runneth over.

Best of luck to all of you who are TTC - may your dreams come true.

@Smithguy86 eeeeeekkkk congratulations, lovely to hear your news. So so pleased everything worked out for you. What lovely weights your twins had!!! Well done you!!!

@Experiment627 already said it a million times but so proud of you my dear friend. Love to little kwicklet x

@AliceScarlett did you used to have a different username?

Good luck everyone xx

Yay @Experiment627 !!!!!! I've been stalking you too!!! I'm so so so happy for you :) :) :) :) hello kiwcklett lovely to meet :) :) :)

I'm sitting in fertility clinic for #dc#2 iui#2 ... hehe in on a few of the conception groups and when I mention I'm about to ovulate they keep telling me to have lots of sex lol too long an explanation but I wish I could do it that way lol x

Oh, my goodness! I pop back onto this thread and there are three lovely squishy babies. Congratulations to you both!

I finally bit the bullet and rang the GP for an appointment this morning, to discuss the whole thing as we moved from Cambridge to Yorkshire and I'm under Cambridge's recurrent miscarriage people. I know GP receptionists get a lot of flack, but I am quite angry. The woman on the phone asked what the appointment related to, and like an idiot instead of saying something vague like 'conception advice' (probably all she needed to know TBH), I went into detail. So I got a lecture about how the GP won't refer me to hospital unless there's a good reason, and have I recently miscarried, and blah blah.

Aaannnyway. Grr.

button, I'm so sorry it's still such a rollercoaster. Will they make you do higher dose suprecur, do you know?

sally, that is fab! Great news.

Just to add my tuppence to the AMH discussion - DP's was 13 at 35, and she got pregnant first time on IUI. Mine is around 50 (I forget exactly) and I'm still getting nowhere. It really does just take one egg, but I also think so many other things contribute that it really is very individual. It feels like such a big deal because it's the first test most of us take, but it isn't the be-all and end-all.

Oh my at all these babies!!!! Hope they spread some baby dust on the thread!!!

Still producing oestrogen and cysts still there at same sized. Clinic sending prescription through for something to try and suppress hormones and back next Thursday for another scan and blood test. If that doesn't work need to look at draining cyst

@Experiment627 I should have mentioned it's hoping for a little one here I've just name changed :)

@LRDtheFeministDragon hello good to gear from you! Hope the doctor is more helpful than the receptionist! Xx

Thanks for all the replies on AMH levels that's reassuring! It's so silly isn't it, I just felt like I'd failed somehow by not getting an amazing level!! We will hopefully get appointment through to go to the fertility clinic as the next thing - I think to fill out the hfea forms?

It's lovely to see success stories - congrats ladies!

onemore - thanks! I hope so too.

sally - I couldn't get an appointment, but I sneakily rang back and just asked for a chat with the GP, and that is in a couple of weeks. Here's hoping it's good!

laura - nooo, don't think that! You actually don't want to have too high an AMH level, as it can be indicative of PCOS and a sign you'd struggle. A nice normal level is best, and even a lower level can be just fine.

Hi all
I wonder if I could join please?
We're going to be having egg donor ivf. DH has nonissues but I have diminished ovarian reserve. FSH 17.9, AMH 3.4. AFC found a total of 6 follicles so the Dr said normal IVF is a no go (certainly on the NHS and she advised private IVF would only have approx 7% chance of working). So straight to donor ivf. I'm 32 and this will (hopefully!) be baby #1.
We have had all of our tests, got nurse appointment next week, counselling the week after and then onto the waiting list.
Has anyone else been through/going through similar?
Sorry I haven't read the whole thread but there are a LOT of posts 😁

Welcome @jemimafuddleduck

We are in a very similar position except I am 41 and we have a DS(7) who was conceived naturally within 6 months of coming off pill. Came off pill in September 2012 to try for #2 and still waiting!!

My AMH was 1.1 when I was tested a few years ago. Had problems with local clinic letting us try with my own eggs (currently in the process of claiming against them) so we are using a clinic which is 130 mile round trip away. No problems with DH, we currently have 6 blasts in the freezer with donor eggs and his sperm. 4 high quality and 2 lower but clinic will only transfer one back at a time due to risk of multiples due to my age

There are a lot of posts and everyone is on a different journey so it gets a little confusing at times!! Good luck with your journey, feel free to PM me if you want to know anything else x

Thanks @ButtonMooooon! Yeah these threads can get quite confusing can't they 😊
That's great that you have 6 on ice, have you had any transferred at all yet? What happened if so?
When is your next transfer due?