Waiting for a miracle: January 2016

Timeline

Spontaneous Pregnancy#1-Jan-March 2010-(natural missed miscarriage@10 wks-Not tested-embryo stopped growing at 7 wks)

Oct 2010-First IVF consult

June 2011-IVF#1 -retrieval(10 eggs) 3 of 5 embryos made it to day 3-Transferred 2 embryos-BFN

07/2012-start weekly Acupuncture treatments.

June 2012-IVF#2 retrieval (11 eggs) 1 of 5 embryos made it to day 3-Transferred 1 embryo-BFN

Continue Acupuncture and I start Ba zhen Wan(women's treasure) chinese herbal pills. Dh starts chinese pills for men Liu wei di huan wan. I am convinced that these chinese herbs helped give us our 2nd Bfp after 3 yrs of ttc, opk's, bbt temping, fertility yoga and neg pregnancy tests!

Spontaneous Pregnancy#2-Feb-Apr 2013-

beta#1 02/14(Valentine's)-35, Beta#2-02/23- 667

u/s#1- 7 weeks- no heartbeat (missed miscarriage-D&C@10 wks-karyotype-tetraploidy-92xxyy(male)

Named our baby Cupid

Spontaneous Pregnancy#3-May-July 2013-

Beta#1-100,Beta#2-244,Beta#3(1 wk later in Barbados)-5,401

u/s#1- 7 weeks-Heartbeat-109 bpm.

u/s#2- 8 weeks -No heartbeat :( and CRL measured 7 weeks 3 days. Missed miscarriage-D&C @10 wks-Karyotype-Trisomy 16- (female)

Named our baby Firefly

Karyotyping done on Eric and me- Both Normal

RPL panel-MTHFR (c677t heterozygous), Positive anti-nuclear antibody (ANA). Dignosed with Fibromyalgia and finger joint pain. Everything else negative.

Aug 2013-Donor egg consult

12/14- choose Egg Donor, meet with psychologist

02/05/2014-

Ivf/donor egg retrieval-7 fertilized, 1 transferred, 5 frozen

02/10-fresh sET-Grade AA blasts transferred

02/16-23-BFP!-Pregnancy#4

02/23-Beta#1-20 :(

02/27-Beta zero(chemical-5 wks)

05/27-IVF-FET#1-sET-Grade 5AA blast transferred

06/02-BFP!-Pregnancy#5

06/09-Beta#1-1,137!

06/11-Beta#2-1,939

06/13-Beta#3-2,842 (officially in beta hell)

06/16-Beta#4-3,463

u/s#1-6wk1d-Heartbeat! 108 bpm, measured 6w 1d

u/s#2-7wk1d-Heartbeat 109 bmp, measured 6w 5d :(

u/s#3-8w5d-No heartbeat :( CRL measured 7wk 6d

Named our baby George.

Anora test-Normal female but with Maternal Cell contamination so we don't know if there was a chromosome abnormality or not. Devasted:( We have to assume there may be an immune issue.

RE agrees to add lovenox (blood thinner) to protocol.

Aug-Dec 2014-wait for PGS Natera 24 chromosome CGH results. Lots of delays. 4 months!!Clinic sent Dh's blood to Councyl lab instead of Natera. Found out he's a carrier for Cystic Fibrosis. Luckily our donor is negative. She also had to do another genetic councyl test because more genetic disorders been added to the panel. Tests all negative. Phew!

Nov/2014-Start Wobenzyme N (9 pills a day) Pain free! yay!

(Spontaneous) Pregnancy#6

11/21-Beta # 1-183

11/24-Beta# 2-453

11/26-Beta#3-780

11/28-Beta#4-931-admitted to ER for bleeding

12/02 (natural m/c @6 wks 1 day)

12/23/2014-PGS results in after 4 long month-3 Normal, 1 abnormal (female monosomy 20-Grade 5AA!)

03/23/2015-FET#2-sET grade 5AB blast (PGS normal female)

03/30-BFP on HPT 6dpt-10dpt-Pregnancy #7

04/06-beta- zero -chemical pregnancy@4 1/2 wks

Consult with MFM Dr Hamersley- New protocol. RE approved it.

05/26/2015- Laparoscopy to remove endometriosis- 2 sites on uterus.

08/23/2015-FET#3-sET day 6 AB blast (PGS normal Male)

08/29-BFP on HPT 6dpt-14dpt- Pregnancy#8!

09/04-Beta#1- 27.9 :(

09/07-Beta#2- zero- chemical pregnancy@ 5 1/2 weeks

12/04/2015-FET#4-sET day 6 BB blast. Expanded to AB grade after thawing (PGS normal- our last embryo)- Faint BFP on HPT 7dpt.

BFN on beta day.

07/04-2016-Spontaneous BFP on HPT!-Pregnancy #9!

07/18- another chemical pregnancy at 5 1/2 weeks (not confirmed by blood test)

Waiting for a miracle

Tuesday, January 5, 2016

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