Hello! I am new here and very happy that I found this forum! From the posts I have read I am amazed at the kindness, understanding and support that is expressed. I am still trying to figure out how to use this forum...so bare with me...I'll check out the acronyms soon ...as for now they are a bit new to me...
I am 40, happily married to wonderful man and we have 2 adorable funny cats. I have a very low ovarian reserve so we just tried our 1st IVF with an ED on Dec. 22. I did quite a bit of research before we began but we still have so many questions. The 2ww and uncertainty is already getting to me along with my hormones. I think it would have been easier if we had eggs left over to freeze. It may sound crazy to be worried about having no frozen eggs when I don't even know yet if I am pregnant or not but it could take a few cycles to get our
We chose an ED who is young, healthy, has 4 children of her own, a previous ED where the recipients got pregnant and delivered healthy babies. As a bonus the ED even looks quite a bit like me. My Dr. retrieved 20 eggs, 15 fertilized and looked good until day 4 when many of them stopped dividing. My Dr. transferred the surviving 3 embryos so we are
that we get a
on Jan. 3!!
Has anyone has a similar experience where there were a large quantity of eggs and then most of them arrested? This shocked us and even our Dr. because they started out as high quality embryos!!! I would be interested in hearing other people's experiences and I look forward to reading more posts!
I hope everyone had a great Christmas!!