IVF warriors - the journey continues 2

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Another thread needed ladies! Please tag if I've forgotten someone! :)

Hi ladies, hope everyone’s ok.
@Honeybunie Really glad to hear that everything went well with the scan, hopefully you’ve got all your bloods back by now? The waiting is such a nightmare. Sorry to hear about your wobble. So understandable. Always particularly annoying when it’s someone you don’t like 😂
Brilliant news that you’ve got a really experienced consultant too.
Glad you got some sailing in, hopefully you’ve got some more planned during this mini heatwave ☀️😊
It looks like our frozen embryos and sperm are going to be delivered next Tuesday. All the paperwork finally came together. Michal in Prague will be delivering them himself so he’ll be meeting up with Luca in Barcelona. I told them I feel quite envious I won’t be there as I would love to meet them both. I feel like I’ve got to know them both through our countless emails!
We had our consult online too and were told we can start with my next period. I’m just getting twitchy as I haven’t had any emails since then and have just been told a general protocol over the phone. I’ve sent three emails now and I feel like I’m one of those awkward impatient customers 🤦‍♀️ I’d just like to have it all written down, never mind the fact I’ve still got some outstanding questions 🥴 At least the embryos and sperm are almost there so that’s a big step.

@Spin101 Hope you’re feeling good and glad to hear your midwife appt went well. Have you got any more appts coming up soon?

@1stcycle I’m so sorry to read about everything you had to go through, that’s really tough. I’m not surprised you needed a break from it all. Always good to have more test results, it’s all taking you closer to the end goal ❤️

@ralno2 really good to hear from you, great news that you feel ready to go again. I’m hoping to have a FET this month too if everything comes together x

@1stcycle aww I hope we end up at the same time. It feels really good having someone else doing it with you 🥰 Our cycle is going to be the same as our best one which is 225 menopur. I feel happy with that and I think we did 11 days - follicles were bursting when we went in!

That's interesting with the 37 hours and double trigger. The last EC I had at 36 hours I was still waiting to go in and panicking that I'd ovulate and miss the time but the nurses were really cool about it (only ended up 20-30 mins late) so it just goes to show that there is a little bit longer!

@seekingbabyk ah yes i remember you saying you're still in rented. that's a lot better than living in a mess. I hope you get to move in soon. it'll be lovely :) ah so you're the painter in the house too.. me too haha. well my OH is not allowed to touch anything without my supervision. just not talented. We're also still painting room by room, over 6 years in haha. never ends. and yes i remember now you were doing same meds as your first round again. makes total sense. yeah makes total sense to try your best now and they you know you gave it your all! then you can't blame yourself after.

@Spin101 glad the midwife appointment went well. how many weeks in are you now? have you had a scan and seen the little one yet? i keep crossing my fingers for you that everything goes perfect❤
yeah it is tough when others pop babies left right and centre. I don't think i have that faith that we will be successful. seeing that both our quality is so bad. I'm already wondering how i will deal with it when i know for sure. I guess I'm just worried about having to live with this or having to get over it, which will probably take a while.

I've still not have my bloods results. they must be back by now, but i just cant get a consultation. i rang last week and they said it's a 4-6 weeks wait for a consultation now. nobody had rang yet so i just rang again this morning. I guess i'm on the waiting list for the call back, but then they have no availability yet! and now the wait list is 6-8 weeks. like 2 weeks for a call to make an apptm and then 4-6 weeks until you have it! it's just crazy! so my next period is next week, then again in 5 weeks, so if I'm lucky I can start mid october! otherwise november. just crazy! but i guess it doesn't matter now, we'll have one transfer before christmas, the other one will defo have to be after now. and then i'm busy with work again anyway.. and so the year just passes...

@1stcycle aawww bless you. glad you're feeling better now. I have an egg quality problem too. the lady said OH's sperm isn't good. and my eggs are too old to repair any dna damage in the sperm, which younger, better quality eggs would do. at least your OH's sperm is good, that's always a positive. what issue have you got with your thyroid? I'm sure i had a test before the IVF started which was okay. but now they've done another test, which i don't know the results for yet. but my mum has thyroid issues, which probably caused her miscarriages back in the day. because of the miscarriages, they first discovered that she had an underfunction of the thyroid.
aw bless you don't feel guilty about it! i understand how you would get into that mindset, but it might be something completely else playing a part in it and you will ikely never know for sure what causes it. so don't beat yourself up about it. you're doing what you can ❤

@KLM25 yeah we've been on the water most days this week. It's just soooo nice isn't it. I'm glad your cargo has nearly made it there! fantastic news! amazing news you can start with your next period. so when will it likely all happen?

Thanks so much @Honeybunie ❤️ Believe it or not, things have actually started happening 😊
My period started Sunday so I started the meds then! I collected Chris’ results from the hospital and mine from the GP on Monday and then our embryos and sperm were delivered as planned on Tuesday - thankyou Luca and Michal! Things seem to be coming together. I was just concerned I hadn’t had the specific Hep B blood test the clinic had requested and that I wouldn’t be able to sort out the actual one they did want, in time, but my coordinator called me (to my surprise) at teatime today and said if so, I could have it done there when I go for the transfer 😳 She really put my mind at rest and it was great to actually speak to her.
I’ve booked a scan with Ultrasound Direct for Mon morning and after a few phone calls and emails earlier this week, I’ve picked up some more Clexane from the Asda pharmacy this afternoon so I’m all stocked up and feeling quite a bit calmer! First time I’ve used them but it was very reasonably priced.
It’s been an organisational challenge to say the least, but things seem to be working out. Plenty more hurdles to cross of course but I’m so happy to get going again.

I feel your pain waiting for the results. That must be so frustrating knowing that they’re probably back but you just can’t get a consultation. It does seem crazy. It’s a bit like my clinic asking Chris for an up to date semen analysis when we’re using frozen embryos with sperm that was frozen in 2020! It just doesn’t make sense half of the time. Anyway, what can you do, we just keep plodding on don’t we?! Hopefully you’ve had some good news and I bet things will all start coming together all of a sudden. Nothing happens, nothings happens and then everything happens 😏 Glad you’ve been out on the water anyway, I bet it’s been lovely in this Sept heatwave x

@KLM25 uh that all sounds so exciting! I'm so glad you could finally start! it is crazy how things can come together quite quickly all of a sudden after such a long wait. So when do you anticipate your transfer to be? The one FET I had is nearly a year ago now and I seem to have forgotten what the procedure is and i didn't make notes at the time haha. was it a day 11 or 12 scan to check the lining and then they book you in for the transfer? So you'll be off to Barcelona soon now? very exciting :)
Yes I finally had a call on Monday to book me in, thank god. So I'll have my consultation on Sunday 24th Sept. Bless the consultant for putting extra appointments on on the weekends, as they're so blocked up. My period started very early this cycle too, so after my consultion I need to get my meds in asap to have them at home so that I can start with my next period mid October. fingers crossed anyway! x

Hi everyone 😊

Well, I had my surgery. Once they went in they found areas of endometriosis they weren’t expecting, so it was a complex operation. I still can’t believe the year I’ve had in terms of dealing with infertility, failed IVF and then finding out I had the most advanced stage of endometriosis. It’s going to take a while to process but at least for now, all visible endo has been removed.

I’ve got to wait for my period to come back following the temporary menopause they put me in. I can’t tell you how desperate I am for this to happen. I found out - (after they gave me the drug!!) that for some women, their periods never come back. I’m petrified of this happening. I check my LH every three days. It’s been four weeks since the medication supposedly wore off but my LH levels remain 0 - so basically just the Control line but no Test line. My consultant is blasé about it, says he can give me some progesterone to kick start a bleed if one doesn’t appear, but that still doesn’t pacify me because sure you can initiate a false bleed, but it’s the ovaries that we need to be kick started! It’s on my mind every day if I’m honest.

Anyway, assuming my cycle does come back over the next few weeks then I’m going to have a bit of a break from medical treatments for a couple of months, with a view to doing an embryo transfer in January. My surgeon has advised me the sooner the better really because once the ovaries are working again, the endo and its associated inflammation can come back. But he’s happy for me to wait until the new year.

I have been off MN for a while so need to catch up on everyone’s news but I just wanted to check in to say that all being well, I shall be back on the bus soon-ish!

🫂 to all

@Honeybunie that's great news regarding your appointment! Have you worked out roughly when your next transfer will be if they let you go straight ahead? I think the reason they are not changing anything with us is that the issue is embryo quality rather than not enough eggs, etc. each round we have had 10/11 eggs, all mature, 90% fertilised etc. I could see in his screen at our last appointment that our last round the embryos were 3cc and lower so they didn't keep them but I think they did turn into blasts so that's why we have the big implementation of lifestyle changes now. Still not 100% on diet and exercise as every waking minute is trying to sort this house out and you kind of take what you can with lunches, etc but hopefully we will move in in around 3/4 weeks and I can sort all of that.

@KLM25 that's great news it's all coming together for you. Crazy they want another sample from your husband when they aren't using that anyway! Do you know when you'll be looking at your next transfer?

@Decaffe I'm sorry you had to go through all of that. Lucky you did though or you could just be wasting your next embryos! How was the recovery from your op? I'm not surprised you want a little break now! That's bad they didn't warn you about your periods not resuming but fingers crossed everything will settle down and return to normal. Just take some time to yourself to chill and recover now - I bet by January you'll be really up for it all again!

Hi @Decaffe welcome back. I’m very glad the surgery is behind you now and it sounds like it went well. Must be a lot to digest indeed! That does sound terrifying about the period but I’m sure yours will come back and then you can start again soon with literally a clean sheet hehe. All fingers crossed x
@seekingbabyk like I said I can’t remember the procedure 100% but I think a transfer is around day 19 isn’t it? So if all goes well maybe week starting 23 of October 🤞 your case sounds exactly like ours. I hope your lifestyle change will make a difference to your next embryos. Will be interesting to see. How far in are you now with supplements and stuff and when do you think you’ll start again?
i just ordered some supplements again. Just the pregnacare max this time. I thought it can’t do any harm. My clinic has a support group online meeting once a month and this time one of the private consultants was answering questions. He mentioned pregnacare being a good multivitamin. So I thought in prep for the transfer and maybe any more rounds later on. I also started taking some probiotics a week ago as from time to time I suffer from BV and I thought it can’t be a good thing for my fertility either. And interestingly enough the topic came up in the support group meeting. The consultant said that there is not much evidence yet and none that it helps implantation but some that it significantly reduces the risk of miscarriage. So he said there’s no harm in taking it. So I ordered the brand he mentioned. Invivo femme. I guess taking supplements at the very least makes us feel like we’re doing something while we have not much control over the whole situation 😊 x

@Honeybunie ah yes I get BV sometimes too but more perfumed soaps related. Another lovely benefit of being a woman!

23rd october is not too long at all - that'll come round in no time! Keeping everything crossed for you! As you say the multivitamins and probiotics can't do any harm so hopefully they will make a difference this round for you. Imagine getting a positive before Christmas 🥰

I'm just starting week 7 of the supplements. I think it will actually be November we do our next round. Was planning october but I want to be in the new house and able to completely chill so pushing back a month. Should be around the middle of the month 🤞🏻

@seekingbabyk haha yeah us women get to have all the fun 😅 I don’t use any soap down there but seem to get it easily. Prior tests also showed I have strep a and staph b but not sure if that’s anything to do with BV, but just thinking I might not have the best composition of bacteria. Anyway I’ll never know 😅
yeah time passes quite quickly and we got another little weekend trip planned before, and decorating parts of the house and my little sister is coming to stay with us for 2 months soon so I’m keeping busy enough not to thinking about it too much 😊
yeah it sounds sensible to move into your house first and be more relaxed 😌 November will come around soon as well. It’s your final EC isn’t it. Will you be doing a fresh transfer straight after as your first transfer? Or freeze and then start FETs?

@Honeybunie wow you have a lot going on but all nice stuff! God I miss having a mini break - are you going anywhere nice?

This will be round 4 and yes it's going to be our final one. I'm kinda over it tbh now and even feeling like maybe we aren't meant to have kids with the way our lives are. Following a few child free by choice accounts on Instagram too. No we're not doing a fresh transfer. We will get the EC done and then just put it all to one side until next year. I feel like I need a break from pills and jabs tbh. I'm sure some of these supplements are effecting my body - more painful periods, mood is low, etc. I just want to feel normal again for a while lol! But whatever we do, I just feel so much better having a few embryos on ice so that if/when we get to that point I have options!

@seekingbabyk yeah we had a lovely weekend of diy and trip to ikea. Just sorting the room for my sister 😊 love a productive weekend around the house. Yes we’re going to see my bestie in Corfu in two weeks. She is from there and we can stay with her so nice short and cheap trip away before the winter. Very excited. I wasn’t gonna book another trip but I just could not resist.
Ah so you had one round of ivf and then you bought a package of three rounds? Did you do any transfers in the first round or bank them?
yeah I totally understand you. I’m a bit the same thinking it might just not be meant to be for us. Will still do everything we can before I get too old. I.e. transfer the two we have now and two more rounds of ivf. If it doesn’t happen by then it is what it is.
I didn’t realise you’ll be taking a break until next year but totally understand. Sorry to hear the supplements are affecting you so much. It is no way to live long term when you’re not feeling yourself because of all this. It’ll be good to get back to normal and feel yourself again, enjoy your new house, go on holidays again etc. 😊

@Honeybunie so we started with our first round in august last year. I swore it would just be one thinking we'd have 6 embryos in the freezer and move on with our lives! 🙄

We got one 3BB from that which we transferred but kind of wish we didn't now as my body was recovering from EC, etc and I was quite stressed in the first round. Then we upgraded to a 3 cycle package. Second round we got 2 embryos both in the freezer and both 4BC. Last round I started DHEA and we had 11 retrieved, 10 mature, 10 fertilised and ended with none to freeze.

I could see on my the consultants screen that maybe 3 made it to day 5 but the quality wasn't good enough so that's why they are happy with meds, and protocol just trying to improve embryo quality.

Have completely stopped drinking now. Ashamed to say I probably drunk more than I should have before so obviously that's a big factor. Just meal planned this week. Going to try to cut bread to start with as with the house Reno we're living on sandwiches at the moment so hopefully get some soups, omelettes in for lunches now to try to keep carbs down a bit. We go for a walk every day just to get headspace clear but hopefully get some more exercise in when we move in too. I think small changes really and they're all good things anyway.

It sounds like we're both just victims of this modern life of stress, living it up, unhealthy food, etc. After reading the book I thought no wonder couples are struggling more nowadays with all the crap we ingest whether through plastics, food, cosmetics, etc. I am someone who usually has a scented candle or wax melt burning and yet the impact of those sorts of things you wouldn't even think there would be health issues related to that would you!

Sorry this has turned in to a long rant I tend to just offload on here but obviously where everyone is in the same position i feel like you all get it!

Corfu sounds lovely and you're lucky to have the option of a cheap trip. My mum has a place in Egypt I think a little break might be on the cards after Christmas tbh!

@seekingbabyk Yeah sounds very similar. We also had a BB transfered fresh in our first round which did not work. Since then we only had BCs or CBs, even after the supplements. Funny we had our best embryo in our first round without any pills or a clue what was going on.
Yeah it does look like a lifestyle issue and we do live in an unhealthy world in general these days. But then I also think it's just the luck of the draw. Other people still get pregnant just like that and we just don't. maybe our bodies are just more sensitive to all these unhealthy factors as well. when we were in Bali and they burnt incents and sh@# everywhere I thought how do people reproduce at all around here? But I guess they just started earlier in life. I guess that's what I all comes down to. OH has three kids from 20years ago. Now his sperm is f'ed. and he would have never know about it had we not gotten together and tried for a baby later in life. bad luck and old age. there's probably a lot of people that had kids early that would at our age be infertile and they'll never know. anyway I'm rambling on now. But like you said this is the space where we can x

Hi @Decaffe ! Glad your surgery went well! I had endo surgery last May and had the same anxiety about my period not returning. I was convinced I'd never have one again. Eventually I did get one, and it was the most disgusting period I've ever had; it went on for ages and smelt like something rotten the entire time. But since then, my periods have gone back to being perfectly regular.

@Honeybunie yes I never thought about that actually with the age thing too - the problem is we want it all now don't we - career, house, holidays, etc. and now here we are suffering for waiting too long.

A bit of me is wondering about these pills and thinking should I stop them and just focus on diet and exercise and let's things happen naturally. Last round when we got zero I really felt like the pills were to blame to be honest. It's so hard to know what to do

Thanks so much @Honeybunie and @seekingbabyk, yes it’s been all systems go! I had my scan on Monday which was day 9, my lining was 9.4mm and trilaminar which is the best it’s been for over a year, so I was quite surprised. I’m just on 6mg of progynova rather than 8mg this time, so I wonder if it suits me better. There was a trace of fluid in my cervix and going up to my c section scar, as always. I knew there would be as I’d noticed some cervical mucus that morning. It wasn’t in the cavity though and apart from that everything seemed positive.
I sent all the images and report off to the clinic and my coordinator rang me later that afternoon to say we could go ahead with the transfer Tues or Wed next week 😊
We’ve gone for Wednesday so I’m going to fly out Mon afternoon and have a progesterone blood test on the Tues, then Chris is going to join me on the Wed and we’re going to travel back together. So it all seems to be coming together and it feels good to have it planned!
I’m starting the progesterone tmrw night with a pessary at 8.30pm (slap bang in the middle of a meal out with friends 🤦‍♀️ but absolutely typical ☺️) and the prednisolone too. We’re going to a wedding Sat and staying over night so I’m going to have to juggle the pessaries and injections but I’m sure I’ll manage it. I’ve got a spreadsheet to tick off on the fridge, a pill box and lots of alarms on my phone!

@Decaffe really good to hear from you. That’s great that your surgery is all done - what a year indeed 😏 You’ve had a lot to cope with. Sounds like a good idea to have a bit of a break from it. Hope your period comes soon to ease your mind.

@Honeybunie not long until your consultation! And mid October will be here in no time. We also had a trip to IKEA last week, I’ve been busying myself with the house all summer too, it’s a great distraction, and you feel like you’re making some progress somewhere. Corfu will be lovely too ☀️❤️😊

@seekingbabyk good for you with all of your lifestyle changes, I’m very impressed that you’ve stopped drinking. I wish I could say the same, but I do love a glass of wine. I’ll obviously stop that by the time of the transfer! Hope the reno is going well. Must be lovely to see the progress. I don’t know if anyone else listens to the BFN podcast but I’ve found that very therapeutic this year - stripping wallpaper and painting whilst listening to their back catalogue! Xx

@seekingbabyk Yeah I think a very common assumption is that everybody can have kids no problem until they're like 40 and so you just don't think about it for ages I guess. At least that's what I always thought. I wish someone had told me like 10 years ago what I know now. That fertility drops esp after 35. But for me even if I had known, my OH is the first person I ever wanted to have kids with and we only met when I was 34 and started trying a year later. So there's nothing I could have changed about that. The rest is just bad luck for us. A lot of my friends are quite a bit younger so I make it a point of telling and alerting them now haha. I tell my sistyer, 18, all about it too, so she won't end up in the same position. She just said to me looks like she will have to have a baby, as me and my brother don't have any, and she said it like it will be hers and mine haha, which was quite sweet bless her 😊
yeah it is so hard to know if the pills and everything else we do help. esp if the pills make you feel off. you wonder if it wouldn't be better to feel good and not worry about everything you do and eat etc. Maybe the bliss of not knowing helped us be more relaxed and healthy in the first round. tbh i do wonder, if we have these underlying egg and sperm quality issues, how big can the difference that all these pills make really be. it's probably just marginal.

@KLM25 oh wooowww I'm so please for you. The transfer date is finally set yay. the wait is over at long last. Your lining thickness sounds like a dream too. Well done. are they doing a guided transfer with a scan to position it away from the scar/fluid or in the best place possible? now doing a pessary at a wedding sounds like a mission lol. good luck hehe x

@Honeybunie yes im definitely considering stopping the pills and just taking a multivitamin. I think if we had a bad round again I would be blaming them so I'll see how this months period goes and decide then. The worst thing is that my amh is high so I just assumed I had this amazing egg reserve!

@KLM25 wow that's amazing- we will have another PUPO next week! Exciting!! We are all keeping everything crossed for you xx

Thanks so much @Honeybunie and @seekingbabyk. Ha ha, yes a pessary in a jumpsuit at a wedding will be a new one for me but I suppose it can’t be any more difficult than a Clexane in a moving car on the M25 😂
I actually started the progesterone last night whilst I was out for dinner with some friends (a rare occurrence nowadays) and the clinic were very specific after that ERA test, that it had to be done at 8.30pm. I was kind of nervous just in case the food had just arrived or something silly like that but it all worked out ok and I was able to nip off to the loo discreetly. One friend knows but I didn’t want to talk about it with anyone else.
Just about to go and do the first Lubion now, the joy ☺️
I’m having to juggle the timings a little bit but I figured if I have to do an injection or a pessary early, I can just maybe adjust it back to the normal time by 15 mins each day. I think I read that on a forum somewhere, I don’t know.

@Honeybunie They’ve always done a guided transfer with an ultrasound in the past at my old clinic, so I suppose that would show any fluid wouldn’t it? I have emailed to ask if they want to scan me again beforehand, I just don’t want to talk them out of the transfer ☺️

Hope everyone has a great weekend and your consult goes well on Sunday @Honeybunie x

@Honeybunie @seekingbabyk Just thinking about supplements too. I’m just taking Pregnacare and extra Vitamin D after my GP said the upper advisory limit is 100 micro grams a day. I think I’m taking about 70 micro grams a day at the moment. It’s a bit confusing as some seem to be measured in international units and I can never understand all the little symbols 🤦‍♀️ My blood tests all came back fine and no further action but I thought it wouldn’t do any harm to take a bit more Vit D.
Plus I suppose as well, I’m not using my own eggs so all this is not very relevant! Who knows what’s best eh? Like you say, when I had my successful transfer I was just taking the Pregnacare and that was it. Ignorance is definitely bliss 😑 x

Hi ladies! I hope you are all well. I wanted to give an update as I've been a part of this group since my IVF cycle in August 2022
Heads up, this post contains my birth story (including complications) and it's quite long. Please don't read if you are not in the right head space. But has a happy ending 😊

On 12th September when I was 35 weeks and 4 days pregnant I went to the toilet in the morning and felt leakage which didn't feel like pee. I stood up from the toilet and liquid started gushing down my legs - my waters had well and truly broken. I called up the hospital and was asked to come in. I was admitted to be monitored to see if I go into labour and was also given antibiotics to prevent infection. On that day, I had absolutely no pains, no contractions, no infection markers, everything seemed fine and they discussed discharging me, but wanted to keep me one more day to keep an eye.

The following day they saw a bit of protein in my urine and I had some significantly elevated liver function results which they planned to repeat in the following day to check for preclampsia. That evening I started feeling period pains, I wasn't sure if these were actually contractions as I felt no tightening at all. They got worse and worse, and that night I couldn't sleep. At 4am I was checked and told I was 2cm dilated and in early labour. Because my water had broken, the doctor told me they wouldnt be checking me again for dilation unless it was absolutely necessary due to the risk of infection.

By 7am the pains had gotten worse, and the midwives felt I was I seemed to be in labour so I got moved to Labour and Delivery. I was put on continuous CTG monitoring due to being preterm, but seeing as all my pain was in my back, the machine didn't pick up any contractions whatsoever. The midwives told me to let them know when my contractions became regular. I was having very inconsistent contractions. So I wasn't sure if I was in proper established labour. By 4pm the pains had gotten so bad I begged the doctor to check me - so they did, with a speculum instead of fingers - and I was 5cm dilated. I got given gas and air at this point but I didn't feel it helped one bit.

Suddenly, within the next 20-30 minutes my contractions became really close together and were every 1-2 minutes. I asked for an epidural and the doctor said that she would check one more time and I was already 9.5cm dilated. It was too late for an epidural. Unfortunately I was so exhausted I couldn't push properly and 2 hours later I was still pushing, I was losing energy fast. So the doctors used a suction machine to deliver my daughter and she was born on 14.9.23, weighing 7lb 0z 😊

Soon after delivery is when the drama starred as I immediately began to hemorrhage. I lost a catastrophic amount of blood very quickly - 80% of my total blood volume - and was immediately rushed into surgery where I was put under general anesthetic and given 6 blood transfusions and countless drugs to save my life. Thankfully they worked and I am here today to be able to look after my daughter. I spent 4 days in the High Dependency Unit under 1:1 care. While there I also developed sepsis, and it was confirmed I had preclampsia. It's been a real roller coaster, I am still severely anemic and on antibiotics, blood thinning injections and blood pressure tablets, but we were able to go home a few days ago and it's such an amazing feeling.

I hope you ladies are all doing okay. For those still in the IVF slog I really wish you all the best and hope to hear good news from you soon. I hope my story can give you some hope. I only ever managed to get one embryo, average graded, and she is now snuggled into my arms xx

Awwww @acaciabluebell congratulations on your little girl that's amazing news. I'm so sorry you had to go through all of that it sounds traumatic! I'm so glad you are home and both recovering now! Make sure you get enough rest especially after going through all of that! Thanks for updating us x

@acaciabluebell congratulations! And my god you've been through the wringer, makes my "traumatic" birth look like a breeze in comparison! Hope you're enjoying your new daughter and are surviving the first few weeks well, it's so hard but my lad was 8 weeks last Wednesday and it gets easier every day, especially now he's giving us beaming smiles :) all the best acacia! X

I've been reading all the updates on here and really rooting for you all, good luck to all you ladies in or about to embark on another round!

Good grief I’m so sorry you went through this! It’s amazing isn’t it that birth is actually still so dangerous and traumatic. I am even now waiting for the outcome of a transfer and this story makes me think that at least if it’s a BFN, I won’t like — die of blood loss??? Women are so badly designed, honestly. You are a warrior, huge congratulations on your baby and your positivity.