TTC via TPR 2/29

[CurlySu717]

Happy Monday!!

****Spoilers****
meepmeeps, kaliRN, longhornwino0907 -- sending you all the hugs for your positive betas!!  Do you still want to check-in here??

Donor Eggs
eroticantibiotic -- picking a donor!!
dream2be3 -- starting DE process!!

Donor Sperm
CurlySu717 -- on the lowest dose of letrozole, expecting cycle to be cancelled for lack of response, whomp whomp

Donor Embryos
king26 -- any updates on your IVF cycle??  Do you still want to check-in here??
therealbug -- picking a donor!!
HeyMrsPotter -- donor picked; do you have a transfer date??

Gestational Carrier
kmitch1 -- any updates??

QOTW: Got any summer vacation plans??

~~~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

[dream2be3]

Thanks for the check-in CurlySu717! Sorry to hear you're not responding well.

Not much new here. Scheduling appointments is becoming a nightmare. After 2 days of phone tag, I finally got our mandatory counseling session scheduled for the 11th. I called my RE today to set up our calendar appointment (all our consents have expired) and they said they didn't have anything until April. It was a new girl who answered so I think she just maybe doesn't really understand the scheduling. I told her April was when we were doing the transfer so that wasn't going to work. I emailed the nurse so am waiting to hear back about the appointment and find out what testing, if any, I need to have redone.

Hope everyone else is doing well!

[king26]

I do still want to check in, thanks. DH and I started talking about ED in Europe. I've started looking into it and he's a little more receptive since it's cheaper and if nothing else we could have a nice vacation for half the price of ED here. We have 3 clinics we are looking at over there right now. No set plans but it's nice to look and talk about it.

We are still going forward with IVF in May/June but I'm not real hopeful it's going to work.

dream2be3, Schedling can be such a nightmare, I hope they figure it out for you!
CurlySu717, I'm sorry you aren't responding well.

[dream2be3]

Feb 29, 2016 20:41:26 GMT -5 king26 said:

I do still want to check in, thanks. DH and I started talking about ED in Europe. I've started looking into it and he's a little more receptive since it's cheaper and if nothing else we could have a nice vacation for half the price of ED here. We have 3 clinics we are looking at over there right now. No set plans but it's nice to look and talk about it.

We are still going forward with IVF in May/June but I'm not real hopeful it's going to work.

dream2be3, Schedling can be such a nightmare, I hope they figure it out for you!
CurlySu717, I'm sorry you aren't responding well.

I hope IVF works for but glad you have a plan if it doesn't.

[longhornwino0907]

CurlySu717, it's probably safe to remove me from this one Thanks! And GL Friday with monitoring!

king26, if you want more info on the Europe stuff, you know who to hit up!

dream2be3, so sorry for the nightmare scheduling!

[kmitch1]

Sorry for falling off the planet!! We are waiting on scheduling all the initial appts. The previous GC lied about a number of things (weaning, meds, etc.) and SIL doesn't want the doctors to hold the fact that I am nursing my 6 month old against me. I think once my cycle returns or we approach August (our little guy will be 1 and we'll be weaned/hope to transfer) we will get things scheduled. I am so anxious to get the official 'thumbs up," but i understand the reasoning behind waiting. I don't think the mistakes of the last woman should be held against me though... it doesn't seem professional or a legitimate reason to question my commitment to this. I hope to be more active; life and work have been draining. I am looking forward to Thursday's live feed with Jackie Green!

[eroticantibiotic]

P&R, sorry!

We're still waiting on my husband's genetic screen because for the second time, there was not enough DNA in his sample. It took Counsyl 2+ weeks to tell us this time, so we're up to 5 weeks wasted on this bs. F#ck Counsyl, I can't believe we spent $300 on this.

Hopefully a donor who isn't a carrier for anything pops up so we can forget this and move on. I'm sick of waiting.

[dream2be3]

Mar 2, 2016 11:45:28 GMT -5 eroticantibiotic said:

P&R, sorry!

We're still waiting on my husband's genetic screen because for the second time, there was not enough DNA in his sample. It took Counsyl 2+ weeks to tell us this time, so we're up to 5 weeks wasted on this bs. F#ck Counsyl, I can't believe we spent $300 on this.

Hopefully a donor who isn't a carrier for anything pops up so we can forget this and move on. I'm sick of waiting.

II'm so sorry you're having to go through this - I can only imagine how frustrating it must be! I'd be furious.

FX a good sperm donor comes along soon!

[dukegirlsc]

CurlySu717, can you please add me to the check in?

We have found a donor agency that we are going to work with, and we have found a donor that is available immediately! I had been researching clinics non stop and when speaking with the person at H*appy B*ginnnings and telling her the issues that we have had she recommended MC*RM. They are doing a procedure called nano sorting for sperm which helps to discard sperm with DNA fragmentation and gets a 75% success rate! So you get great donor eggs (hopefully), the best sperm in the sample and we will still do NGS PGS testing so we should be able to find the good embies with all of that! I'm getting quotes on what all of this is going to cost us, and trying not to hyperventilate! But if all goes well and our donor passes her initial testing her ER should be the first week in May. Fingers crossed! I'm a little scared because this has gone smoothly, but then again maybe we are due for some good luck!

[CurlySu717]

dukegirlsc, that's great!!

AFM, well, I'll be damned...I have 1 lonely follicle after all...so IUI is Monday!!

Totally surreal!!

[therealbug]

CurlySu717, woohoo! Yay for one lonely follicle! Everything crossed for you on Monday!

I had my SHG on 2/26 and all looked good. I have a couple fibroids that have been holding steady in size and they don't think are an issue. My uterus was in a weird position and they had to re-insert the catheter. This is the third SHG I've had done and this one was BRUTAL. Best way I can put it is that if felt like they were shoving the catheter through my belly button.

I received an email from my IVF nurse saying they need a copy of my mammogram report - even though I gave it to them last cycle and they have it noted in the chart. This, apparently, has us on hold because I have not heard anything since.