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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
Donor number
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
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I'm currently in TWW and I am so excited for you that you received a positive HPT!!! Please keep me posted! Good luck to you!!
I had THREE mature follicles last month, the sperm was GREAT - 32 million, 3+ - 4 motility (they said 4 was the best)... so I felt like it was going to happen! I was even concerned about triplets, lol.. and I really do think I conceived, I just think there was an implantation problem. I was getting some major symptoms... either I am really in tune with my body or my mind is playing tricks. Anyway, I was SHOCKED when the pregnancy test came back negative. I was sure that I was pregnant. The morning prior to my test, I was up at 4am in the bathroom with AWFUL...excruciating pains... that worried me. I think that's when my body rejected the embryo(s)... but then again, maybe it had nothing to do with that. My doctor sent me for a blood test (pregnancy) and it came back negative.
I am going for another IUI tomorrow... yesterday I had one follicle measuring at 22mm and another one at 15mm... she said the one at 15mm would likely not grow anymore. I am nervous that the 22mm will be too big by tomorrow to be viable.. I read that anything between 18mm and 25mm is ideal... I'm going crazy over here. My anxiety is building up and I can't even take my anxiety medication (I went off of it due to trying to conceive). I triggered last night at 7:30pm and my appointment is tomorrow at 7:30am. AHHH! Fingers crossed!!!
The cycle before this was very similar to yours. I swear I conceived. But even on progesterone my cycle came 3 days early. That has NEVER happened on a medicated cycle. And I was in miserable pain. I truly believe my body rejected that pregnancy.
For this last (and successful IUI) I had to follies. One was 22, one was 16. I only had 8 million sperm, as compared to 32 million the last time! I probably only had the one egg, since I triggered the night that we saw the 22mm one, and it worked out great!
I hear you on the anxiety. I fully gave in to pre-conceiving behavior and had wine and a bath the night before my IUI. I just couldn't relax at all, and I know the stress doesn't help things.
I had much fewer symptoms with this round, but I just "felt" it had worked. I even had someone tell me a week after the IUI that I was "glowing". Lol. Ill be thinking about you, keep me posted!
I was wrong, the follicle on my left size measured 12mm today, I don't know where I got 15mm from. The other one on my right grew to 25.4mm. She said it looked perfect and my lining was measuring at like 10... sperm count was 20 million and I know I'm about to ovulate (I can feel it and it should happen by 3:30pm EST today, lol). I even laughed at myself during the IUI today.. I was thinking about how my feet were cold and how I had to get them warm (have you ever heard of that...?) so that my uterus would be warm, lol. Then when I got to work I was eating some of the pineapple I cut and when I reached the core, I said out loud "I really have to eat this??" and started poking my finger at it... lol it was as hard as a rock, I'm surprised I didn't chip a tooth bahahahaa. Supposedly the pineapple core is supposed to help with implantation? Sigh... who knows, lol, worth a try! These next two weeks are going to DRAG.
So, you have about another month (ish)... I can understand why you'd be so nervous, but it seems like everything is going GREAT!!!
How are you feeling??
continued success and love to all the beautiful people on here trying to become parents.
continued success and love to all the beautiful people on here trying to become parents.
Yes, I'm on progesterone. In fact, today is my last day of being on them provided my ultrasound goes well. It has given me the worst side effects! Bloating, nausea, headaches etc. It is not a fun med to be on for sure. And by the time you get to come off of it, you are pregnant and the symptoms are there from baby!!
I'm super tired, nauseous etc. I have an other ultrasound today. Provided everything looks good, I will move on to my OB, and see her next week! I'll let you know!
How are you doing dimples?
I'm doing fine. I decided to try again this month. I also decided to try a cycle on clomid on days 3-7. let's see how this works out. I'm keeping my faith and hope that I will be successful again and make it to full term this time around. thanks for sharing your story and keeping me updated and checking in. I appreciate it more than you know and it's helped me through this process. I love hearing everyone's stories and know that I am not alone.
xoxo
I got pregnant in 2014 after 4 rounds of IUI (three unmedicated and one medicated) and was due to deliver 4/30/2015- a little boy we named Thatcher. He ended up coming on 2/8/2015 and was stillborn. The unimaginable... I delivered him at 28w3days.
Spent the next 5 months in intensive therapy to deal with my anger and issues over losing a child. Did three more rounds of IUI (all medicated) and ended up getting pregnant with triplets. Due to a health issue that they learned I had, which is what killed my son, the RE, two MFM's, and two OB's told us we needed to reduce the pregnancy that I had a snowballs chance in hell of making it with three. That it would be a tough road to make it with one. WE proceeded against medical advise and here I sit now. a few days shy of 32 weeks (which was the magic number) and things are going well so far. Anything could still happen, but for now we have made it much much farther than any medical professional ever said was possible and sometime within the next three weeks (C-section scheduled for 5/18) but they could come at any point now... we hope to be holding three, living, breathing, miracles.
Don't let anyone tell you it cannot be done. Listen to yourself, your spouse, and your body and NEVER GIVE UP HOPE ladies.
Pot, I can't wait to hear about the healthy birth of your three perfect babies!!
J, how are you hangout by in? Are you going to do an HPT?
We had our 9 week ultrasound and all looks good. Strong heartbeat of 174 and good growth. 3 more weeks until I will feel confident enough to tell the world!