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The forum has a new look and the Fairfax Team is so excited to create the best experience for our users.
To Note:
Private Donor Groups and Private Sibling Connection Groups are now located under the category "Groups". Search the donor number in the search box and you should find exactly what you're looking for!
Questions about your forum access? Email forum@fairfaxcryobank.com
Follow these steps to join a private donor group:
1) Press "Join" at the right of the group
2) Once prompted to confirm your request please list this information so we can verify your information:
Name (under which the vial was purchased)
Clinic Name
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Child Date of Birth
*If you are looking to start a private group for a PRS donor please email forum@fairfaxcryobank.com with the above information and that you are looking for a PRS group*
If you have any questions about the verification process please email forum@fairfaxcryobank.com
Comments
Thank God Tx started this thread. I can't imagine not having you guys through this journey.
I would love to have a large baby shower and all meet in 6 months or so.)
I would cry so hard if I actually got to meet all your faces!
Let me stop being sappy! I'm already tearing up again. Lol
Tx- I hope what your feeling is just a bug and passes soon. Drink plenty plenty of fluids and rest. Hopefully that will flush it out. Also, this is very stressful and I would think from a medical stand point it can lower our immune systems.
I was looking at this counselors website and she had all kinds of organic things and ideas to help during the fertility process. I'll get the website and look again tomorrow and tell you more about it if your interested.
Let us know how tomorrow goes and I pray you get to feeling better.
Denise- btw if I haven't told you lately. Thank you for not leaving.) I'm serious. You are my rock. Have you thought about taking photos of yourself during your pregnancy? I think i might do that. And some pregnancy yoga!
Goodnight everyone!
Lisa
Moonlit- good luck and baby dust tomorrow for your iui!!!!! It's very exciting!
I wish I found this thread last month. My wife and I are new to this and OMG what an emotional roller coaster! I know I can't complain, we've only tried one IUI, but in the few months I've started I've discovered CMV status, uterine polyp, donor selection issues, I am a carrier for a rare genetic disorder and a negative IUI. Anyway I am soooo happy to have found this thread. We try again next week. Positive energy & baby dust to all of us!
I met with a counselor prior to my first IUI as well. She said her evaluation had nothing to do with passing or failing, they just want single moms to know what they are getting themselves into. It was weird to hear her tell me that the first to he my child will ask where he came from is around kindergarten.... I wasn't even pregnant but we were discussing my 5 year old. But it was a nice talk and I feel like she is a good resource down the road if needed.
I am overweight so taking pregnancy pics won't happen for months down the road since I won't be able to distinguish baby from current chubbiness for awhile!!!
I have one nah sayer in this and she said, "well maybe this is a sign." Meaning it's not supposed to happen. Why does that voice resonate loader than all of the "I'm sorry's and I'm with you through all of this"
Maybe she thinks I won't be a good mom?
I know how caring I am. I allow my heart to bleed for criminals who's lives I attempt to save.
I can't put my feelings above someone I care about.
I once thought how beautiful I was. And on the outside I really was. Though my life was out of sorts and I couldn't find happiness.
Then God placed many challenges in my life and scars on my outside to make my inside beautiful.
I feel pretty now and it's not just when I look in the mirror anymore.
I don't feel I'm searching for anything or anyone to make me happy anymore. I wake up smiling. I knowing what a beautiful life I have and am so grateful to have gotten this far.
So what's the teaching in this fail? Strength.. Courage to try harder. The will to endure multiple daily fertility shots. Bettering my time management skills to make appts right before a 12 hour shift. Learning to manage more emotions because this ones supposed to be a roller coaster.
Not feeling defeated on many levels when my patient comes to the ER asking for a pregnancy test because she doesn't believe the dollar store results are really positive.
I jokingly say my life is complicated when in actuality it really isn't. Do things feel complicated today? Yes. But maybe I need to really feel this to understand that the other 90% is clear and painless.
The feeling I feel today is raw and fragile. If I have to look at someone in the eye today and say my iui didn't work I'd fall into tears. I know you guys all have your own ups and downs. And when I hear your successes and challenges it further fuels the passion I have to follow my dream no matter the pain I feel in this moment. Your successes remind me this moment will be all worth it. Your positivity in times of disappointment enlighten my senses and amaze me with your strength.
Good luck to everyone on your visits to the doc today and iui's. Thank you again to those who stay with me through ups and downs.
Kisses
Lisa
Denise, do you remember how/what your numbers were?
Are Moonlit and I the only ones in our TWW right now?
Lisa
Kerri, my results were 32.8 when I was pregnant with the twins!
I found out today that I am a go for round number 7 overall, I should be an expert at these IUI's by now. I got hooked up with some new meds with a little higher dosage so hopefully that will stimulate them ovaries even more. I go back next Thursday to see how things are cooking. I so wanted to be pregnant before my 38th birthday but that didn't work...let's try before 39 at least lol.
Welcome ck2014!! For whatever reason, it takes some time for everyone's initial posts to show up. You should be good now
Welcome to the newbies and baby dust to moonlit and houston!
Denise and Jan- thanks for the info!!!
Oh and AF came today. So hopefully by the end of next week or the beginning of the following week I will again be in the tww.
She just has some interesting info on there and maybe there is some stuff like that near you. The yoga and helpful stuff to help sleep during fertility process.
Denise- I'm officially out of my pity party and super excited you get to see your little baby tomorrow. I hope you can get a pic and show us.
Welcome to the newcomers!
And hope congrats on all the ladies in TWW.
Kisses
Thanks Lisa! You are such a strong and amazing woman. You time will be here before you know it! It is probably a good thing to have the break before IVF since it is so much more involved. You wouldn't want to rush into it without making sure you spent enough looking up info in the process and medication.
Trying to believe that what will be, will be so no use in worrying. Easier said than done.
I've not done any testing DNA wise. It wouldn't change my decision to have a baby knowing. I believe we are all carriers of something. Be it diabetes, breast cancer, mental illness, high blood pressure etc. Like you said what will be. These are things certainly out of our control genetically. You can right now have the faith that your baby will be beautiful and healthy.
I certainly am guilty of googling too much. Like today looking up the side effects of fertility drugs. And it kinda freaked me out. Then I told myself I could have none of these and feel just fine. It's a step I'll have to cross if I get there. Until then knowing that info gives me the knowledge to maybe incorporate stress releasing exercises. Meditation. Eating a little different. Trying new positive things.
I'm glad you said something. Sometimes for me. Actually a lot of times. If I write things or say them out load it takes away it's power.
I hope that helps.
Kisses
I'm so down for a giant baby shower. You ladies sharing your stories and keeping me distracted during this process has be invaluable to my sanity!
I did the genetic testing. Now I wish I hadn't because I'm negative for everything but CMV and I could have used that money to pay for another iui if this one doesn't work! I've got 5 days left before I know for sure and it's driving me nuts. Only symptoms are some cramps that could just be my period ramping up. I'm so scared that since last pregnancy was so painful but zero sickness that if this one is a go I will feel ok except for a constant need to vomit!
Wow - I'm 1dpIUI and already obsessing. This is really limiting my productivity at work!
So Moonlit has 5 days left while Robo and I are just starting the TWW....anyone else?
Technically I am 6 weeks, 5 days but my doctor does not think I am that far along. He is guessing closer to 6 weeks. He said I might have ovulated later than what the home test read. Either way, it worked so I am fine with it. He estimates my due date as April 15, 2015.
I was so awesome to see the picture but then we could even see the heartbeat!!!!