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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
3 days down, 11 to go...
babynumber2
Junior Member
I had my first IUI on Wednesday (May 18). The last 3 days have felt like 3 weeks, at least! What do you guys do to make the time go faster? 
I have a 2 year old little boy already (I was married previously and had him), and am trying to keep myself distracted by doing lots of things with him. Two weeks feels like a lifetime though! And I know it is probably way too early to have any symptoms, but any little thing and I start to think I MUST be prego. 11 days left...maybe sooner, as my period is actually due 2 days before my scheduled blood test. We'll see!
Good luck to everyone else in their 2ww.
I have a 2 year old little boy already (I was married previously and had him), and am trying to keep myself distracted by doing lots of things with him. Two weeks feels like a lifetime though! And I know it is probably way too early to have any symptoms, but any little thing and I start to think I MUST be prego. 11 days left...maybe sooner, as my period is actually due 2 days before my scheduled blood test. We'll see!
Good luck to everyone else in their 2ww.
Comments
Hoping the best for you!
I've found myself bleeding lightly nearly a week early of when my period should come. I've read a variety of comments on when and how long implantation bleeding occurs. Did you experience anything?
Sibemom, any other symptoms for you? Fingers crossed for you too! Which donor did you go with? I went with 4001, and got vial #2. Do they send those in order? If so, vial #1 worked, because he has reported a reported pregnancy! Here's hoping 4001 is the most fertile man on earth...
Wishing you a BFP tomorrow!!!
I'm not super hopeful this month for several reasons. I think my body is just rebelling at the fact that I'm trying. The month I took off it was right on schedule, but both times I've tried my ovulation comes early and my period even earlier. Meh. I hate the thought of trying to add trigger shots to the mix... the waits at the doctors office alone are nightmarish.
Get a good night's rest and try to chill this evening. Fingers crossed for you tomorrow. I may actually do an at home tomorrow, we'll see.
Good luck everyone!
Amber (35)- IUI #1 5/25/11 - clomid/hcg trigger
Mom to Jaden (5) via adoption
Good luck to you girls too...thanks for the updates, it helps knowing that I'm not the only one going thru this
Hope everyone gets a BFP soon.
I talked to the nurse today, she said she wants to do Femara this next round with a trigger shot. My cycle is all off already, so that is probably best anyway (I'm 3 days late this time, and still just spotting for now). My guess is we'll do the IUI the middle of June. I think I might switch donors...not sure though. Wish they had another special this month like they did for Mother's Day! Maybe they'll do a Father's Day one?
My wife and I did our first IUI on 5/26th! It was cool to find your posting.
Nicole said that she has had this full feeling since the day after the IUI and has been very, very tired. She did the trigger shot and is now on progesterone suppositories. Her sense of smell went insane yesterday which is a good sign and today she was feeling cramping and some back pain. It's too early for any period cramps plus she never gets cramps before her period anyway.
We tested yesterday to see if the HcG was out of her system and got a BFN! What about you??
Be cautious about 2WW symptoms and certainly before the 10 day implantation time frame. See this thread as an example: http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/ ... ge#1576900
But similar discussions and responses can be found in every trying to conceive thread. That being said (just to be sure you don't get hopes dashed), I hope you are having symptoms or symptoms or not you are pregnant!
Well said Tillie!!
Oh, just a word of advice from someone that has gone through the same protocol THREE times.....The hCG trigger shot AND Prometrium suppositories will MIMIC pregnancy symptoms (remember these are hormones that are very active during pregnancy). Don't be fooled. Yes, you will have things like increased fatigue, feeling full, gassy, tender breasts, moody, peeing frequently, sore back, crampy ovaries, vivid dreams, the munchies, and my all time favorite a "late' period. The Promtrium (which is progesterone) WILL delay your period. If you get a BFN then when you discontinue the Prometrium, AF will show up in about 2-3 days. My MD said that well timed IUI's have about 20% success rate, it's the same chances of doing it the old fashioned way. It really comes down to sheer chance.
Not trying to dash your hopes but just keep you informed. Hopefully you will only have to do one cycle and have success, but know that if you get the BFP that you are within that small lucky percentage. And it's time to celebrate and by a lottery ticket too
Good luck and lots of baby dust!
Good luck to everyone...we'll all get BFPs soon
I'm going to do this month (and July if needed) before I move onto injectibles in August. I'm really hoping that isn't necessary.
I've also just starting looking at adoption. As a single woman approaching 40, that will have it's own challenges and I hope that this works instead.
Good luck to all you ladies!
Good luck to all of you! Hope you had better luck this month than me!
I'm also starting to look into adoption. I'm going to keep trying but figure it can't hurt to start looking at other options. However, adoption seems almost more daunting/scary to me when I start looking at the legal hoops to jump through and the costs
We started looking at adoption as well with the idea that perhaps we could do both (lessen some of the stress of THIS situation) and like you, we were amazed at how much it would cost to do so. Hopefully, neither of us will have to go down that path. Baby dust to you and everyone else!!!
Moe
I will be going the adoption route sometime in the future.....if this 3rd IUI does not work out...I have one more vial and will try a 4th. Then I"ll stop everything and go adoption route too....I whole-heartedly believe in adoptions and am very passionate about it. whether or not I have a biological child, I am planning to adopt in the future as well.