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@Jenn23: hooray!!! Buckets of sticky baby dust and wishes for a happy healthy 9 months! Last time we were fall mommas together now we get to be spring mommas together!

@Jenn23: OMG!! That is a gorgeous line, clear as day! Congratulations!!!! You must be thrilled!

@Jenn23: Beautiful line!!! Congrats and have a happy and healthy 9 months! Does this mean baby will be born on your wedding anniversary?

Thanks, ladies!!! Not sure if it is psychological or not, but I feel totally different today. Much more sleepy, a tad nauseas, and slightly dizzy. Wonder if these are already pregnancy symptoms? I didn't think that would happen this early. I could be just looking for symptoms.

According to the due date calculator online, my due date will be 4/25/15. And we will have to schedule a C-section one week early at 39 weeks like last time, so that would be 4/18. Our anniversary is 4/17.

@Jenn23: Congrats!!! That is a perfect to me! So happy for you!!

@Jenn23: beautiful BFP, congrats!

I'm a little behind on this thread , but I just had my ER today!

I came down with a terrible head cold on Tuesday night, but I made it through. I got up at 5:30 am, got DH out of bed, and had a caregiver come to stay with him while I was gone. I picked up my friend (she doesn't have a car) and drove downtown to the surgical center.

The procedure was easy and I was more uncomfortable than nervous. I had 20 eggs, wow! I felt good after and we had a nice lunch. I even drove home because my friend had a migraine.

Now I'm just really crampy and I wish I could take something more than Tylenol. I'm excited for the fertilization report tomorrow. I hope this works

@mrswin: yep, I've got my trusty heading pad right here. Thanks!

Hello. I'm officially on the IVF train! We had our WTF appt today following our failed trio of IUIs. I'm waiting for AF to come and then I'll be put on BCP for a month. In that time, we'll do bloodwork, injection class and meet with the IVF coordinator. RE thinks we'll get in our first IVF cycle by the end of the year. Sounds like a far away, but maybe the IVF coordinator will have an earlier schedule for us. I asked about meds and I'll be on Menopur and follistim for the stims. Then progesterone, Ganirelix, estrogen after the transfer, I think. I'll continue taking the metformin and dexamethasone to treat my PCOS and DOR.

Oh, my RE said that he won't be doing a fresh cycle, just frozen transfers. He said that recent research shows fresh cycles aren't that successful and that when they fail, they sometimes blame it on the embryo when really it was the lining or some other reason. So he and his clinic likes to give our embryos a better chance. That's probably why we have a longer timeline to getting to the transfer. Once he retrieves my eggs and fertilize it (with ICSI), I'll be given a 1-2 month break before doing the transfer. A lot of waiting is about to happen...

@FliegepilzHut: I think the RE said within the last year, they stopped doing fresh transfers. Maybe there might be exceptions to the rule, but I got the impression that they stopped doing it. Thanks for the luck!

From my clinic's SART data, it looks like there is a 30 percent chance of live birth from a fresh cycle and for frozen transfer there is 50% chance of live birth. But I guess it would depend on number of other factors like the number of embryos transfered and stuff.

I think it's all down to specialists. My centre tries for a fresh transfer, but has fairly good rates with FETs too - but it's so much based on the embryo with them.

Hey Bees I forced myself to take a 10day/2 week break from infertility chatting and obsessive googling so still need to read through everyone's news. I had my final consult with RE yesterday to review the recent bloods and get going with our IVF schedule. Needless to say my future will now involve a LOT of chatting and worrying and googling

After the RE cons, I met the IVF nurse assigned to me, she gave me the injectables crash course and the first 5 days of stim meds. Started Provera yesterday to organise an AF for CD1 - looks like we'll be on track for a first week of Sept ER!

Finding it all incredibly surreal that with some science and luck, I could very well be preggers by the end of September! It's been a long road to here

@bluestriped bee: when I was doing IVF this time last year one if the other bees clinic also only did FETs and she had success! So excited for you!

@bluestriped bee: So exciting! I have seen those research studies as well about FET's being more successful than fresh. My RE and I talked a bit about it. Unfortunately with my first cycle we had to do a 3 day transfer and none of mine made it to freeze, so I don't know if an FET will ever be possible for me. We will see! By the way, I know it seems like a long way off but it will fly by!

@Robyn_ZA: That's great! Good luck to you! I'll be right behind you. ER should be the week of 09/15 for me!

@Shutterbug: how are you doing?

@macintosh: 20 eggs is great!! Can't wait to hear how many fertilized!!

@bluestriped bee: Sorry you have to do IVF, but at least you have a plan in place!! That's awesome! Wow, that is interesting about the frozen transfers. Both of my IVF cycles, none made it to freeze, so I don't know that it would have worked well for me, but it sounds like your clinic has had good success with that.

Line is still getting darker each day which is good. Today I'm exactly 4 weeks. Beta is Monday which can't come soon enough!!

Thanks, everyone.

@Jenn23: Yay! So glad your line is getting darker each day!!!