Cycle number 2.

I am conscious that I have not been on here for a while and thought I ought to update you all.

Don't worry I'm fine, in fact I have spent the last month enjoying myself and avoiding all things IVF. I've been whisked away to London by my hubby for our wedding anniversary and just enjoying not thinking or doing IVF for a month. I think its good to not let infertility rule your life and I have to say this month off has done me the world of good and I am now looking forward to getting myself and my body in ship shape order in time for the next cycle. So as of today it is back on the healthy wagon in preparation for cycle number 2, which I think will be towards the end of November/beginning of December.

So I will update you when I know more......

BFN

Its offical. I got my negative Beta results yesterday. Boo!!!

Oh well, onwards and upwards. IVF cycle 2 to start at some point in October. I will update you when I know more. xxx

PUPO!

Ok so I am now pregnant until proven otherwise! I so hope it is not proven otherwise.

We ended up with 7 high grade embryos and one that was ok. So we decided to implant the best one, freeze the other 6 for future use and discard the one that was only ok.

The procedure was fine, just a little uncomfortable and only took around 20 minutes to do. It was however the most overwhelming thing I have ever been through. I had a picture of the embryo on the screen in front of me and I also could see the fluid go into me on the scanner screen and it was like I was in a dream. A very good dream, but still a dream.

And then the waiting began...........

From Tuesday last week and up until the transfer on Thursday I have sore nipples and felt like I was about to get me period. The pain was so bad on Thursday night that it woke me in the night. However when I woke up on Friday it had gone and has not come back so I am hoping that this is a good sign.

Speaking of signs, I am trying to spot them everywhere and it is driving me mad. I know I should be looking on the internet for symptoms but I couldn't help it! It didn't help, in fact it has made it worse and now I am even more confused. It seems there are a whole host of things that could be a pregnancy symptom but they could also be side effects of the hormones that I am still taking and even signs of getting my period.

So if anyone is interested and would like to know these are the symptoms' that I have been getting:

Sore throat

Stuffy nose

Excess saliva

Slight pinching pains in my tummy

Feeling dizzy

But please note that there are also a whole lot more that I have not been getting, so who knows!

So for now I will go away and try not to try myself insane. More soon xxx

Eight

So we have confirmation that 8 of the 11 eggs have fertilised. We were also told that the 3 eggs that did not fertilise were immature eggs and therefore would never have reached fertilisation, so we have achieved 100% success which we are over the moon about. My husband is so pleased that his little swimmers did what was expected of them.

I will receive a phone call in the morning to inform me what grade of embreyo's we have but I was told this morning that we are in a very good position and they can see no reason why would would not have at least 1 top quality embreyo to transfer tomorrow afternoon.

So I will update you further next week as I am going to put my feet up and relax for a few days. xxx

Eleven

I have just been informed that we have 11 eggs allocated to us! Yippee!!

The eggs and sperm are now being introduced to each other and then left overnight to do their business! I am told that they would expect around 65% to fertilise but this is just guesswork.

They will call me in the morning to inform me how many have fertilised, I am so excited and I am struggling to write this post as my hands are shaking!

Hopefully we will have more good news in the morning and I will update you then xxx

Day 15 scan.

My scan went well this morning and my lining has increased from 1.5 to 8.7 so everyone is very pleased. My husband's swimmers have been analysed this morning and they are looking good and ready to go. We are now just waiting to hear from the hospital as to how many eggs the donor has produced and how many we get allocated to us. The donor has to produce at least 8 eggs for us to continue on the egg sharing scheme. Any less than 8 eggs means that she keeps them all and we have to wait for another donor to become available and start all over again. The nurse did hint that it looks like we should get eggs from what they can tell from her scan on Friday. I'm not sure but I think that they can see how many follicles that she has which gives them an indication as to how many eggs she may produce. But if you know different to that please let me know.

So we are back to the waiting game for another few hours! but on the plus side I had my last Buseralin injection this morning Whoop Whoop.

I will post later with how many eggs we have.......

Some piccy's

I have been reading some other blogs today and I have noticed that they are more interesting with pictures.

So I am going to have a dig around at home for the lead that links my phone to my laptop. I'm sure I have one somewhere. So i intend to upload some pictures at some point. I also like the idea of doing a whats in my handbag and haul posts too.

So keep with me peeps as I am trying to make this more interesting for you xxx