TTC TPR Check-In -- Feb. 1!

[CurlySu717]

Hello, lovelies!!  Hope February's treating you right so far!!

Donor Eggs
meepmeeps - Transfer 1/26 -- how are your blasts??
mugee - Transfer 1/27 -- how do you feel??  
kaliRN - DE IVF cycle in the Czech Republic. 2/9 transfer and has donor. Leaving today -- safe travels!!
longhornwino0907 - DE IVF cycle in the Czech Republic. 2/9 transfer and has donor. Overseas and gallivanting around Europe waiting for 2/9!!
eroticantibiotic - ERA biopsy last week -- missing you!!

Donor Sperm
CurlySu717 - IUI ~2/2

Donor Embryos
king26 -- looking for a clinic -- did they ever call you back?? -- missing you!!
therealbug -- waiting for insurance and cycle to line up!! -- missing you!!
HeyMrsPotter -- Welcome!!  Waiting on a treatment plan -- do tell!!

Gestational Carrier
kmitch1 - GC for DB and SIL; holding pattern currently -- any updates??

QOTW: If Punxsutawney Phil sees his shadow and we're in for some more winter, what's your go-to cold weather comfort food??  Post the recipe if you want to share!!

~~~Book List~~~
If you find other books you'd like to add, please let me know.
Egg Donation: The Pea that Was Me, Kimberly Kluger-Bell
Surrogacy: Sophia's Broken Crayons, Crystal Falk
Surrogacy: The Very Kind Koala, Kimberly Kluger-Bell
Egg Donation: The Very Special Ducklings, Wava Cirisan
All forms: What Makes a Baby, Cory Silverberg

[kaliRN]

Hai ladies! I leave tomorrow for the CR and I'm so excited I can hardly stand it! I'm currently feeling pretty optimistic and I am hopeful that my gut feeling is right. One week and I'll be PUPO! I reunite with longhornwino0907 on wednesday and I'm so excited. I think we will have a lot of fun the next two weeks! I'm just hoping DH and I don't fight when we travel! Thank you for this check in CurlySu717. I have high hopes of coming down to visit miss wino in late spring and my cousin lives near you guys as well so it would be a bonus visit! Hopefully I get the chance to meet you too!

I don't know that I really have a go to cold weather food. I love DH's chili and we make stews and eat heartier things but nothing that I think of when it snows.

[mugee]

Thanks for the check-in CurlySu717! Are you still on track for your IUI tomorrow?? Best of luck to you!

kaliRN - safe travels! Keep up that positive thinking.

AFM: We transferred two embies last Thursday. I felt pretty good about it. The other 3 embies arrested prior to day 5 so nothing to freeze. I went in this morning for a level check. The nurse said my estrogen took a significant drop (I didn't ask the #) so now I'm freaking out. I'm upping the estrace to 3x per day. They don't want me back in until my first beta on 2/8. Soooooo, doing my best to not go down a dark tunnel and thinking negatively. It's very hard.

QOTW: Homemade mac and cheese is my fave comfort food but I do not have a decent recipe. Mine tends to turn out gritty and a bit dry.

[longhornwino0907]

Guise!!!! One week from tomorrow and I'll be PUPO!!! And I get to see kaliRN in two days!

It's our last night in Florence, which makes me sad. But I'm excited for the next steps.

Here are a few glimpses of our time here (sorry if huge...)

[CurlySu717]

mugee, ALL the body parts crossed!!

longhornwino0907 and kaliRN, sending positive vibes your way!! Drink LOTS of wine for me!!

AFM, Had an ultrasound this morning (nothin' like an 8:30am vag cam sesh to get your Monday started)...2 follicles cooking on the left but they're not ready yet. Repeating ultrasound Friday -- MD says nothing to worry about and that she brought me in early on purpose since it's my first cycle and she didn't know for sure how I'd respond. Probably trigger over the weekend and IUI early next week.

JUST realized I could be joining the 2/9 Club with Wino and Kali!!

QOTW: My aunt's chicken and noodles -- like chicken and dumplings but my family is from the Midwest so it's made-from-scratch noodles instead of dumplings. Recipe is complicated so PM me if you want it.

[king26]

Hey all,
The stupid donor egg place never called me back. I talked to my nurse and she was going to call them. I've since watched a webinar on donor eggs and have called another place. I'm getting all of my info together.
With that said, I think we may try another round of IVF first. I said I wasn't going to do it but both DH and I agree to give it one more try. I figure it's best to do it now because donor eggs will be there if this one doesn't work either. Due to my DOR, the sooner the better if I'm trying myself. I am trying to get all of my research done on donor eggs so that if we need this step we can get started on it immediately.

Safe travels tomorrow kaliRN, I have everything crossed for you!
FX for you mugee, I'm hoping those embies are snuggling in.
longhornwino0907, Looks like you are having a good time!
Sounds like things are progressing well CurlySu717,
HeyMrsPotter, That's great new! I hope everything gets finalized for you soon!

[therealbug]

CurlySu717, thanks for the check-in! Good luck!

kaliRN, everything crossed for you!

mugee, congrats on being PUPO! Sorry for the estrogen scare.

longhornwino0907, Florence and gelato! So jealous . . .

HeyMrsPotter, Hey! That is soon exciting! I'm glad everything seems to be coming together for you. FX for a smooth process and transfer in March!

king26, I'm glad you and your H are on the same page. FX you will not need to move to donor eggs but you are right, they will be there if you need to move to that step.

AFM, not much happening here. As soon as CD1 happens, I need to schedule my HSG. I'm worried about where we will get the money to pay for another transfer. Mr. Bug cashed out stock for the last one and we just got hit with a massive amount of taxes we need to pay because of it. Which means any extra money will be going to the IRS instead of another transfer. At this point, I'm not sure if I should even schedule the HSG.

It all sucks.

[mugee]

longhornwino0907 - You are so adorable!!! And I'm so jealous of you right now (and kaliRN, too)

HeyMrsPotter - So happy for you. That is thrilling news and I truly hope March is it!

king26 - Sounds like you have a concrete plan. Once you find a clinic you like, you can probably get a password to start browsing potential donors.

therealbug - I truly hope you can find the funds for another run at it. I hate thinking about how much money we continue to sink into IF with no guarantee of a rainbow.

[CurlySu717]

therealbug, (((hugs))) -- it totally sucks -- I'm so sorry

king26, it's such bullshit -- "Hello, I'd love to give you a shitload of money, all you have to do is return my damn call..." Customer Service is the name of the game in healthcare these days, but it seems like some offices haven't gotten the message yet...

[meepmeeps]

CurlySu717 , thanks for the check in. Glad everything is going along as planned according to your RE. Good luck!
kaliRN , I would be nervous but so excited. This will be great! Everything crossed for you and have safe travels
longhornwino0907 , love, love, love the pictures! Thanks for sharing. Such an exciting time. You have safe travels too and everything crossed for you, as well
HeyMrsPotter , hello, that's very interesting regarding your donor embies. I hope they're wonderful. Good luck to you
king26 , it's awesome you can give this another go, and maybe use HGH this time...I'm curious to see how you do. But, glad you're lining up plan B. That helped me so much
therealbug , the financials of all of this is one of the worst things because if money we're an issue, I'd just keep cycling with my crappy ovaries until I got that one good egg. But, it's sad how much it limits us. I hope you guys can work something out. ((hugs))
mugee , none of my embies made it to freeze either, so I know how you feel. It's like, yay, this could work but oh no! I hope you are able to stay calm. This is stressful, I know. Pulling for your little embies

AFM, I'm 7dp5dt, and you would think that POAS is straight forward, but it is not. I'm not getting anything to go wild about yet. None of our other embies made it, so we'll have to choose another donor and start over if this doesn't work, since they SHOULD still owe us one more high quality embryo. I'm trying to stay positive or at least level headed. I have occas, "will this ever work" thoughts, but just trying to keep those thoughts away and focus on getting to each step. I did wake up early AM to pee, and had a little pain in my ute. I had just a bit of very light bleeding, and then having some light brown discharge (sorry TMI) today with some ute pressure. I never had this with any of my other transfers. Progesterone and estrogen have always done a pretty good job keeping any lining shedding away. So, I don't know if this is a good sign or nothing. Was really hoping to light up a HPT today, but it's still a head scratcher, boo.

QOTW: I like chicken and dumplings, swedish meatballs (google "damn delicious swedish meatballs" and it's on that blog), home made biscuits and gravy.

[mugee]

meepmeeps - hey lady. I've been thinking about you. When is your official beta test? I would interpret those signs as good. I had them with my first IVF. I'm rooting for you!!!

[meepmeeps]

Feb 2, 2016 13:30:41 GMT -5 mugee said:

meepmeeps - hey lady. I've been thinking about you. When is your official beta test? I would interpret those signs as good. I had them with my first IVF. I'm rooting for you!!!

My beta is this Friday  .  There's just a weekend between ours.  I'm hoping this is wildly successful for both of us! My new ute symptoms have me very curious, to say the least, so thanks for the interpretation.  

[meepmeeps]

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FRER says yes!! I was having difficulty determining because it was outside the time frame, but then the second line kept getting darker and closer to the time frame, and now I see that glorious pink line lightly within 3 mins and it's easy to see within 10 mins. I'm still anxious for good numbers, since I feel like I'd love to just see that line light up immediately and dark, but it's progressing each day. I knew something was going on because my uterus has felt different for almost three days now. It just feels heavy. Thanks guys for the support. Beta is tomorrow, so hopefully it's good!

[mugee]

meepmeeps - OMG!!! I'm so happy for you! I've been thinking about you the last couple of days. Hopefully we can keep the trend going.

[meepmeeps]

Feb 4, 2016 13:49:36 GMT -5 mugee said:

meepmeeps - OMG!!! I'm so happy for you! I've been thinking about you the last couple of days. Hopefully we can keep the trend going.

I think we will!!!!  Everything crossed for you

[CurlySu717]

meepmeeps, yayy!! FX for your beta!!

[therealbug]

meepmeeps, everything crossed for a fabulous beta tomorrow!!!!


Update on me - just got an email from the IVF nurse that the window is open for us to pick embryos. I replied back asking for her to get an updated estimate on our OOP with the new insurance. Mr Bug's response was "we need to pay taxes". Ugh.

****loss mentioned****

We are a few days out from Zachary's EDD so I want to take this as a good sign. Ugh. Ugh. Ugh.

[CurlySu717]

therealbug , lots of hugs as the EDD approaches!!

AFM, IUI is scheduled for 2/8!! RE freaked on me; I did an AW post on the main board but long story short she tried to convince me to cancel it.

***ETA: Nevermind, DH chickened out and decided he's not comfortable with SR after all.  Douche.

[meepmeeps]

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My beta yesterday was 76.9 at 10dp5dt! Since Tues I've had a heavy sensation in my uterus that's just different than AF, so I've feel like I feel KU, lol. I was hoping for beta in 100's but my clinic said they were looking for 50-75, and I never have much wiggle room with anything IF related, so that's to be expected. My RE said he was happy. My repeat is Monday, so I'm hoping so hard for good numbers. Hope everyone's having a good weekend, and thanks lots for the support

[meepmeeps]

Feb 5, 2016 17:24:40 GMT -5 CurlySu717 said:

therealbug , lots of hugs as the EDD approaches!!

AFM, IUI is scheduled for 2/8!! RE freaked on me; I did an AW post on the main board but long story short she tried to convince me to cancel it.

***ETA: Nevermind, DH chickened out and decided he's not comfortable with SR after all.  Douche.

Whoa, now what happened?  He chickened out all together!?!?

Edit:  Okay I see your other part now.  I forget the abbreviations sometimes.  Esp SR cause never a worry with my ovaries.  Sorry you had to cancel though!  ((Hugs))

[therealbug]

Feb 5, 2016 17:24:40 GMT -5 CurlySu717 said:

therealbug , lots of hugs as the EDD approaches!!

AFM, IUI is scheduled for 2/8!! RE freaked on me; I did an AW post on the main board but long story short she tried to convince me to cancel it.

***ETA: Nevermind, DH chickened out and decided he's not comfortable with SR after all.  Douche.

CurlySu717, I'm sorry you had to cancel and that your RE was not more clear on her thoughts/recommendations on SR if you had 3 fertilize. 

I can imagine how incredibly frustrating it would be to have to cancel because of this reason and how you would be hesitant to keep doing more cycles for IUI. Do you think moving straight to IVF may be a better option if SR is going to always be off the table? 

One thing I want to say is, after having a had an u/s at the point when SR would be done, I could not do it. Before then, my H and I would have thought we were okay with it. The reality of when they do it was a game changer for us. I'm sorry you and your H are not on the same page about this but please try to not be too hard on him. 

[CurlySu717]

therealbug, definitely considering moving to IVF. It's not something I want to do, but I'd rather just do that now than waste more cycles screwing around.