August ICLW

Welcome to my little piece of the blogging world. I haven’t been here for very long but the benefits I’ve reaped have been wonderful! I am so grateful for the support I have received.

Currently, I am in the middle of a whole new type of TWW. I am going through my second round of IVF…we have two frozen embryos right now and are waiting for the results of the PGD testing. I am really hoping we’ll have results at this time next week. We had to send a blood sample this week in order for the lab to map out our chromosomes as a part of the testing for the embies.

Here is more about us and our journey:

·         I suffered three early miscarriages between October 2010 and July 2011.

·         After the 2^nd miscarriage I had the blood work done for the RPL panel and had an HSG. Good news was all was clear on the HSG…bad news? I have a Robertsonian Balanced Translocation. In a nutshell, the long arms of my 13^th and 14^th chromosomes are fused together. I have all of the correct genetic material but it becomes a problem when trying to conceive.

·         Found an RE in the area based on the recommendation of one of J’s co-workers. His wife gave birth to a healthy baby girl after 5 rounds of IVF that resulted in 3 losses.

·         I did not respond well to the meds in the first round of IVF in May so it was turned into an IUI. BFN L

·         2^nd round of IVF produced 10 follicles that resulted in 4 eggs at the time of retrieval. All 4 were mature and all 4 fertilized with ICSI. After 5 days 2 were biopsied and their cells were shipped to NJ for testing.

·         We have a 66% chance that each embryo will be healthy. When I think of that other 34% I just think of the quote above to remember we have a good chance of having at least one healthy embryo. We feel like we’ve already struck out enough and now it’s our chance to hit a home run. (Grand slam if both are healthy!)

·         We live in South TX…all of our friends and family live in MA. It gets lonely for both of us at times. Blogging really helps take away some of the lonely feelings.

·         We have 2 golden retrievers who make us smile each and every day. I don’t know how we would have made it this far without them. I think they have become therapy dogs for us. J

I look forward to reading and commenting this week and getting to know you a bit better.

Happy ICLW!

Stuck

I am trying so hard to not have each post read as if it was written by Debbie Downer but I am a bit down in the dumps today. I have some work stuff going on that is really pulling me down. I am not going to go into details but I've done what I need to do and now I am waiting to hear back from my boss. The waiting is miserable. I am really, really hoping a resolution will begin today.  Not sure if it's possible to have the situation completely resolved today but if I could get a next action from my boss I'd be happy.

J and I did our best to have a fertility-free weekend. We did pretty well with that - took the dogs to the dog park each day, went out for a couple of beers (with the dogs in tow) on Friday, and worked on our home improvement project. With the exception of having work hanging over my head it was a really good weekend.

The ironic thing with deciding it would be a fertility-free weekend is I forgot to pay attention to the dates. Saturday marked the one year anniversary of my 2nd miscarriage. I am not sure if that's good or not; it definitely feels strange that I did not realize it until this morning when reading blogs and read about someones worst July ever. I wear a necklace with a charm for each baby lost so they are never really forgotten, even if I miss a date.

I am going to have four hormone free days this week (stop bcps tomorrow and start stims on Saturday), hopefully I can produce a positive post during that time!