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@Jenn23: Yay!! Congrats! Lots of ultrasounds early next week going on:)

@mrswin: I am so glad you have said that about the progesterone. My clinic never got one since my BFP which had me worried but I have had no spotting and my progesterone before transfer was good so I was thinking they weren't worried but in the back of my head I was wondering if it was an oversight? But I had 2 betas so you think they would have drawn it then if they wanted it.

@macintosh: Good luck tomorrow my dear! Praying everything goes smoothly. I had no idea that it was the norm some places to not have partners in the room for transfers! Never crossed my mind. My husband was in the room holding my hand which I needed! Hope your DH can be in the room too:) They had me not use the restroom before transfer but there wasn't a need for a full uncomfortable bladder either.

@Jenn23: Yay!! Congrats! Lots of ultrasounds early next week going on:)

@momazon- I've been thinking of you, how are you doing?

AFM... on the mend still. Feeling a lot better. Lost about 6 of the 13 pounds gained. My stomach is still huge and looks like I am 6 months pregnant which stinks, it is literally impossible to hide so even though I am feeling well enough to leave the house finally fI don't want to out of fear I will run into someone I know. My family is going on vacay in a couple days so it will be nice to get away and not worry about running into people I know. I'll just own the belly and let people think I am further along than I am haha. Stupid OHSS.

@FliegepilzHut: Thinking of you as always. I can't wait for you to do a FET soon!! Thinking positive thoughts for you!

@momazon: How are you doing? Hope you are doing OK!! I know it has been a rough few weeks, but I hope you are doing better.

@macintosh: Good luck today!! Can't wait to hear all about it!! Our first IVF in 2012, my husband was with me. Then my clinic moved to a bigger building last year and now has a different OR restriction policy and nobody but staff and patients are allowed past certain doors, so my husband couldn't be with me this time for the transfer. I was upset when I found out about it, but it was just fine. I definitely missed having him there, but nothing we could do about it. I can't wait to hear how it goes. Good luck!! Definitely agree with not needing to drink the entire water amount that they say. I drank about 2/3 the amount of water and didn't start chugging too much of it until closer to transfer time.

@momazon, @Mrs.Pinecone316, @Jenn23, @lazypanda, @FliegepilzHut: thank you all for the well wishes!

ET day was pretty stressful, but it's done! First, DH was exhausted and had to wake up early. Then we had to drive to downtown Chicago right during rush hour, and he almost got carsick. We made it, but 20 mins late.

Luckily it was not a problem. I sat in the room with DH and my full bladder for 20 minutes. Then I overheard the nurse in the hallway saying that my RE wasn't there yet. I was dying, so they let me release a specimen cup of urine only, which was very uncomfortable! Then the doc showed up and we got started, but my bladder was still too full and I had to do another partial release. Ugh!

But my RE transferred one perfect blast! We had one ready to freeze today, and a few more that they will keep until tomorrow. Hopefully we will have 4-5 more to freeze tomorrow.

DH declined to go into the procedure room, which was probably for the best. He was still very sweet and supportive and I was glad to have him there. RE said no exercise til after my beta in 10 days.

@macintosh: I'm glad to hear that your transfer went well today! Take it easy and FX that your little one is snuggling in!

@Jenn23: thank you & congrats!

@swedishfish: If you don't mind my asking, did you and your husband know you'd need PGD before you started IVF? I'm not sure if insurance will cover everything since we haven't tried for 12 months even though we already know ahead of time about it, my MTHFR mutation, and that basically every specialist I see thinks IVF is the best way to proceed

I'm wondering because we are as far as I know not infertile but I've been on BC for over a decade so I have no clue if I actually can ovulate. My periods were very irregular before I started the pill. I ask because I take several medications that are contraindicated in pregnancy, so going off the pill is not ideal for me except to do the stims.

We decided we don't want to take our chances and try naturally because of my health and our genetic disorder. A potential affected baby and termination (please don't judge, I hate to even think about it but the affected baby would suffer so much, if it survived) would devastate me psychologically, hence IVF and PGD.
@macintosh: how exciting. Fingers crossed for a sticky baby. I remember your story from WeddingBee & at the risk of sounding like a stalker, I'm so happy to see you and your husband doing well and trying for baby! You were both in my prayers.

@swedishfish: Sorry. I was just explaining what my RE told me. I know every clinic is different and there are definitely success stories to every protocol. It is interesting how different protocols can be.

Sorry for taking forever to respond. haha. 5 days later... My cold turned into bronchitis and hit me Saturday. I finally feel a little better.

@thisisme: thanks. Yeah, it is a long wait but I'm still hoping to get pregnant in 2014. Hoping...

Sorry, responding 5 days later. My cold turned into bronchitis over the weekend and been coughing up a lung since.

@Shutterbug: Oh, great!! Thanks. I'll have to wall them or check through old IVF threads.

Sorry, responding 5 days later. My cold turned into bronchitis over the weekend and been coughing up a lung since.

@Jenn23: yeah, I need to talk to my RE to see what happens if none makes it to freeze.

Congrats on your !!

@macintosh: thanks! Trying to stay patient.

@Espion: thanks!

So question for you all, probably more for those of you who have to pay out of pocket for IVF.

How do you get past the jealousy of paying so much for IVF and others don't?

Maybe this is something I'm struggling with because my 6 IUIs didn't work. Maybe (hoping) this can be a normal reaction to people who have to move on from IUI to IVF.

I spent probably over $1200 each for my last trio of IUIs ($3600 total) but I never thought of the money. Yeah, I knew how much I was spending but the money part of it wasn't a huge part in my jealousy before. Now that I will have to spend 10-15X that amount on IVF, the money part is a bigger part.

For me, it's not really people on HB... Maybe a little. But it's the recent pregnancy of my sister who is 11 weeks and my SIL who is about to give birth to my third nephew. Why are family pregnancies so hard?

Also, I might have been on Pinterest and read a snark ecard about Sorry about spending my child's college education to conceive a child.

I need to stop reading those negative IF quotes. Need to be more positive.

Is this just a phase? I don't know if I can be this jealous during my IVF journey. Maybe getting this off my chest will help.

@swedishfish: @jaguar: Thanks. Feeling a bit better. Still coughing. Still not sure if I should go to work tomorrow.

@bluestriped bee: The money part is definitely a struggle, as I've always been conservative about spending. I just keep reminding myself of how lucky we are to actually have the funds saved up to be able to afford these advanced fertility treatments. Yes, it sucks to spend it, but buying the chance to have a baby is so much more important to me than anything else I'd spend the money on in the future. So many women would give anything to buy this chance, but can't because they can't get loans or otherwise gather the funds. I try to remind myself that it could be worse.

And now that we have several failed IVF cycles under our belt, I'm also just grateful that I purchased the multi-cycle plan, because our financial situation would be much more dire right now if we had gone for the single-cycle option. We may need to move on to donor eggs, and finding the money for that would be nearly impossible without the guarantee program we signed on for.

Also, you probably already know this, but if you order any meds from Freedom, make sure to submit for an online quote first as it will have a $100 coupon attached to use on your first order. There's also an online coupon available for Endometrin that you can use for one box every two weeks, so start ordering early enough that you can take advantage of multiple $50 off coupons if you're going to be on that after your transfer (although will they put you on PIO instead maybe since you're doing a FET?). BCPs and estrace and Zithromax were so much cheaper at WalMart than anywhere else I found.

@FliegepilzHut: Not sure if my insurance will cover the karyotyping, but I have an over $6000 (!!) yearly deductible, and none of my infertility treatments or injection meds or acupuncture appts have hit the deductible, as infertility and acupuncture are both excluded from my plan. So, I haven't made much of a dent in my deductible yet. Good luck getting yours covered, and keep us posted!

@macintosh: Hope you're taking it easy and feeling good after your transfer! Sending you best wishes for lots of patience for your TWW!

@FliegepilzHut: I know! There are quite a few of us with no IF coverage here on the IVF boards-- our babies will have to fund our retirements since we can't tuck it all away now! Ha!