TTC CHECKIN 2/29

[rikkiandjulie]

What's going on?

QOTD- How many cycles would you try before moving to IVF? Is IVF an option for you?

[lv2016]

V and I are in the last few days of our two-week wait. She will test on Thursday, the 3rd unless her period begins on Wednesday, the 2nd, which is when she's due to start.

QOTD: Because V and I are still so new to TTC, it's really difficult to say if/when IVF would be an option. Currently, we're in our 2nd two-week wait of unmedicated IUIs. If this one doesn't work, we'll try once more in March before sitting back down with the doctor to talk about next steps. I'm sure IVF would come up, and we'd have to weigh all our options at that point.

[rikkiandjulie]

I am waiting to get polyps removed, I only have two thank goodness. I will have them removed on 3/25. I will have to take Aprils cycle off, and then will start TTC again in May. The best part of this right now is that I won't be pregnant in Vegas for my sisters 21st.

I am taking this time to work on diet and exercise.

During my time off DW will TTC using our known donor, she might as well try. With the Metformin she has been ovulating regularly and on her own so that is a good thing.

QOTD- I did pick up the IVF packet, but we will be waiting to proceed with this for quite a while. My first IUI resulted in a CP, so I know that it is possible for IUI to work for me, and I'd hate to rush into IVF knowing that even though it's a higher success rate it's not a sure thing. I know a woman who's had 7 transfers and not one took. I also read an article about someone taking 23 cycle, I'm like are you kidding me?!?!?! We would like to do reciprocal IVF for baby number 2, but we will see what develops. I'm still new to TTC myself, some don't want to rush anything.

[JustJudy]

I'm sitting here, still waiting for my goddamn period to start. As of today I'm 7 days late and 100% not pregnant. Hopefully my RE will call me back soon with an idea of what to do.

I know that you're regular until you're not, but I'm still frustrated as I'm never late!

QOTW: This next cycle will be the 11th try for me, and 13 between the two of us. 8 cycles were completely unmedicated and unmonitored. I will do at least two more cycles of IUI with injectables before we move on to IVF.

[kekaellypula]

This is the start of my 4th IUI cycle. The RE has me on and IVF med regimen. Unless I make more than 3 good sized follicles this will be my last cycle. If I can produce, the RE will do one round of IVF. So I'll know by my birthday in May if I'm out of the game.

[keba]

Funny you should ask. We just had our egg retrieval yesterday morning! Had 30 eggs, 28 were mature, and 18 little embies percolating right now. We'll hear by Sunday how many are viable, but so far everything in this phase has been smooth. Far cry from the bipolar IUI process. Ideally this will also set us up for reciprocal IVF for baby #2. We'll keep embies on ice and I"ll return for them to transfer one to me. Gotta see how the rest of this round plays out, of course, but that's what we have in mind.

We did 3 medicated IUIs initially, and our RE recommended we proceed with IVF after those were unsuccessful. She's been wonderful and very clear with us along the way about our odds and options. 

rikkiandjulie, sounds like you have a pretty negative outlook on the whole IVF concept. I was wary of it at first, but I tend to find my way and go with the flow and I've been pleasantly surprised thus far. But I also tend to think your outlook has a significant impact on your experience. Self-fulfilling prophecies and all that. It's my social worker heart at work

[rikkiandjulie]

I think it's just my thoughts on spending that kind of money, or absorbing our insurance benefit. I know we will end up doing reciprocal IVF at some point, but it's hard to swallow right now. Especially when there are no guarantees.

[serpentine85]

keba fingers crossed for lots of viable embies
lv2016 and kekaellypula best of luck

On the bench till next cycle so I'm enjoying forbidden pleasures like hot baths and the occasional glass of sherry whilst I can.

We had a near miss a few days ago, when A was skyping her side of the family and made a comment that indicated we were about to TTC #2. Thankfully, it was an early hour in Peru and nobody was awake enough to catch it (they certainly would have said something, if they had) We agreed that to minimise stress, we weren't going to tell family or rl friends until after we had baby on board with a clean anatomy scan.

QOTW: We wanted to keep this as calm and relaxed as possible so we are sticking with @ home insems with a known donor for the first year. After that, we will have the 'what next?' talk. We haven't ruled IVF out but it would not be our first choice. The primary reason being cost. We live in the UK & the NHS currently provides 3 free cycles IVF to acceptable candidates. One of their t&c's - in black and white - states that they will not subsidise IVF for same-sex couples. I could lie and say I'm single - they don't have a problem with that but I do. Every time I said I was single would feel like a betrayal to A. We will cross that bridge if we get to it.

[JustJudy]

Oh man, that sucks serpentine85! I hope you don't even need to worry about IVF.

[bmorecharming]

Out first attempt with our known donor is at the end of this month so we're getting excited and for once, instead of letting my brain take over with all of the 'what if's, I'm just going to go with the flow of this process and be excited about the family we're starting whatever it ends up looking like.

QOTW: Given our approach to go slowly with this, we've not even considered IVF (yet!). We're so new in the game that we're going to start with a few rounds with our KD and go from there.

[rikkiandjulie]

Well DW Got a +OPK today, and we will be inseming tomorrow morning with a known donor. ? We are incredibly nervous, and anxious about it all, but hopefully something good happens. We figured with me out of the game until May there was no reason we could try naturally with her.

[dannigirl]

Hey,

Nothing happening here. Jo is still overseas, likely not due back till mid, maybe end April. And I'm in Florida for an exercise with my unit.

The plan is one more IUI. But the more I think about it, and since we are already on the IVF list. Maybe we should just go for it and do IVF now. Rather than using the last vial from our new donor on and IUI. Just put all our eggs in on basket and just go for it. It's a very scary situation for us since we have a 9 hour round trip to our RE, so we would have to take time off work and live in Saskatoon for a few weeks...

QOTW: we have had 5 medicated, in various degrees, IUI's. First IUI resulted in a pregnancy that needed in stillbirth. Haven't been able to get pregnant again... It's pretty frustrating since we got pregnant so easily before.