Getting Pregnant
islandmonkey8
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Dear Community,
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
NIAW
DH and I have decided to come out about our struggle to everyone and Facebook, tomorrow.
I know I want to link Resolve's 25 things to say and not to say to someone with infertility. I also want to change my profile picture and cover image.
I'm not photoshop friendly. I would love to do something about eggs for Easter and my eggs not working right since tomorrow is also Easter. I would love some insight and ideas from you wonderful women. If any of you are photoshop friendly and could make something I could share I would love that too.
Is anyone else coming out tomorrow or this week? If so, how?
I know there are a few ladies on here who share every year on this week. How did you ladies come out initially to social media?
Thank you all in advance. I'm both excited and nervous about what tomorrow may bring.
TTC 24 months, IUI #3 BFP 6/4/14 Beta 6/5 58, 6/9 508, 6/11 1227 TWINS! EDD 2/15/15
With heavy hearts, we said goodbye to our precious angels on 8/12 at 13 weeks 2 days.
IVF #1 Lup/Brav/Meno, ER 11/28 10R/10F, ET "Rudolph" 4AA embryo 12/3, 7 frosties.
BFP! Betas: 12/12 225, 12/15 706, 12/17 1512. EDD 8.21.15
12/29 hb 120. 1/5 perfect, GRAD DAY! 1/15 perfect at OB. NT 2/6 PERFECT, HB 158!
Baby Girl born 8.9.15 at 38.2 due to IUGR 4lb7.8oz 17"
Our princess is being watched over by her older siblings every day 
Re: NIAW
I won't change my pic because that's public, and some of my students look up their teachers. Hope this helps! I'm excited to share this with you and hope we both receive supportive responses!
It is National Infertility Awareness Week. Infertility affects 7.3 million people in the U.S, which represents 12% of women of childbearing age, or 1 in 8 couples. This means, chances are you know someone struggling with infertility (whether they are open about it or not). Please be mindful of this painful struggle and don't throw out glib cliches. If you would like some great information about infertility and the delicate etiquette it can require, definitely check out http://www.resolve.org/support-and-services/for-family--friends/infertility-etiquette.html
...hello out there!
dx with anovulatory PCOS 2005
off bcp 11/11
a few rounds of clomid and femara... no response.
injectables/IUI 12/12... BFN
Feb 13 IVF cycle converted down to IUI due to low follicle response... BFFN
one last IVF attempt April/May 2013: 19 retrieved. 10 fertilized. 2 transferred in a 3dt. 4 frosties... BFP!!
EDD: 1/21/14... Induced early at 36+6. Our LO was born 12/30/13
Poppies, I love what you're writing, but not that you have to write it.
B/w 1/8: betas 17,345, progesterone 25.6
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TTC Since January 2011 - We have bad spermBFP 2: 7/7/2014 Beta 7/8: 115, Beta 7/12: 638, Beta 7/16: 3793, Beta 7/21: 21,625
BFP 2: 7/7/2014 Beta 7/8: 115, Beta 7/12: 638, Beta 7/16: 3793, Beta 7/21: 21,625
Today begins National Infertility Awareness week. As you probably know, Jim and I have been dealing with infertility for the last 4.5 years. While, we are not lucky enough to have made it to the other side, we know we are not alone. 1 in 8. That's how many are affected by this disease. It's not a matter of just relaxing. It's not a matter of just praying for the right time (but we SO appreciate the prayers we know you give us!). There is not anything we can eat, read or do differently to change the cards we've been dealt. This is who we are. This is what our journey is.
This week, I hope to bring awareness to your eyes, so that you can support your friends and family who are on this journey like us. Some who you know, and some who may be suffering in silence because they are not ready to publicly share with the world that they are having difficulty conceiving a child.
I share this and I blog because, just maybe, I can reach one infertile who can say, "I know how that feels, because that's me. I am not alone."
Baby Boy born 5.3.15
It's still NIAW! You are probably familiar with the cycle of grief, and we all know stress. Did you know that couples who are dealing with infertility experience the grief cycle every month? Did you know that studies have shown the stress levels of people with infertility are just as high as those living with cancer or those who are HIV+? Resolve to Know More this week. http://www.asrm.org/FACTSHEET_Stress_and_Infertility/
Today's post for NIAW comes from a humor site but is all too true for couples facing infertility. The only strength within myself has come from my sense of humor about the entire process.
(Disclaimer: infertility testing and procedures are incredibly invasive. Don't joke with a friend about their infertility. For me, it's my own way of coping, but please don't joke about it to me).
Resolve to Know More this week: http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-surprisingly-outdated-problems-infertile-couples-face/
I'm just going to AW all my posts. Deal with it. ;-)
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I had this post ready to go, and yesterday I found out that fertile-bitch-pg-with-twins-oops has been telling people that she's not allowed to talk about her pregnancy because of me. I'm like, WHAT?!?!?!?! No. Hold the phone. Stop being a drama llama and stop gossiping about me. So I added in the ignorant part because that's what she is. This is going to a long end of the year with her. I am holding myself from calling her a word I NEVER use...
Anywho, here's the post:
We are halfway through NIAW! This blog post is an excellent midway post. I love her title ("Why can't infertile women just get over themselves?"). Unfortunately, this is an attitude I've come across too often from ignorant people who don't understand and don't want to understand.
I think this blogger does a great job of explaining why living with infertility can be so difficult (and she doesn't even touch on the social side effects). It's a long post, but here's my favorite part:
"We’re not crazy infertile women like you see in the movies. I wish it was more apparent to people that its not that we’re not thankful, its not that we’re not appreciative of what we do have, its just that our dreams, our husband’s and our children, are dying. On a repeating loop. Right in front of us. We are mothers to invisible, never-living children, and we are mourning. Death cannot be moved past until it is properly grieved."
Read more and Resolve to Know More: http://matchingmoonheads.wordpress.com/2011/01/19/why-cant-infertile-women-just-get-over-themselves/
TTC since 1/13 DX:PCOS 5/13 (long, anovulatory cycles)
Clomid 50mg 9/13 = BFP! EDD 6/7/14 M/C 5w6d Found 11/4/13
1/14 PCOS / Gluten Free Diet to hopefully regulate my system.
Chemical Pregnancy 03/14
Surprise BFP 6/14, Beta #1: 126 Beta #2: 340 Stick baby, stick! EDD 2/17/15
Riley Elaine born 2/16/15
TTC 2.0 6/15
Chemical Pregnancy 9/15
Chemical Pregnancy 6/16
BFP 9/16 EDD 6/3/17
Beta #1: 145 Beta #2: 376 Beta #3: 2,225 Beta #4: 4,548
www.5yearstonever.blogspot.com
I'll be honest. I've often had trouble relating to a lot of common 3T emotions because I feel like our journey was different. My husband and I went into our marriage knowing that there was a very strong possibility that IF treatment was in our future. I never had to grieve the loss of that "normalcy" because it's not something I ever really had to begin with, so it wasn't mine to lose.
So thank you for sharing this post. I appreciate getting to read that perspective.
dx: Unexplained IF (mild MFI)
TTC since May 2011, 1 year trying, and then 3 TI, 2 IUI = BFN
IVF #1 (May 2013): Antagonist Protocol:24R, 18M, 15F w/ICSI; 5dt of 2 early blasts, no frosties = BFN
IVF #2 (August 2013): Lupron Stop Protocol:
28R, 23M, 15F w/ICSI; 5dt of 1 partially hatched blast, 7 frosties = BFP
EDD 5/23/14, blighted ovum (6w6d), D&C (8w6d)
FET #1 (April 2014): transferred 2 5d blasts = BFP
C.J. born 01/09/15
One of the greatest things about being semi-open about our struggles in the past has been everyone who has supported us. Friends and family have rallied around us to cheer us on and listen when we need to vent. Not every struggling couple is as lucky as we are, and even I have heard every single one of these comments/bits of advice. What couples who are going through fertility treatments need more than ever is to have someone who will listen and grieve with them, not someone who will tell them this just isn't in God's plan.
Infertility is a medical condition. No amount of relaxing will help. No, a vacation doesn't work either. None of these were in the brochure from our RE; trust me, they would be if they actually worked. Keep these in mind if someone opens up to you, or just enjoy a horrified laugh at some of these. Resolve to Know More this NIAW: http://www.blogher.com/10-things-not-say-your-infertile-friend
dx: Unexplained IF (mild MFI)
TTC since May 2011, 1 year trying, and then 3 TI, 2 IUI = BFN
IVF #1 (May 2013): Antagonist Protocol:24R, 18M, 15F w/ICSI; 5dt of 2 early blasts, no frosties = BFN
IVF #2 (August 2013): Lupron Stop Protocol:
28R, 23M, 15F w/ICSI; 5dt of 1 partially hatched blast, 7 frosties = BFP
EDD 5/23/14, blighted ovum (6w6d), D&C (8w6d)
FET #1 (April 2014): transferred 2 5d blasts = BFP
C.J. born 01/09/15
B/w 1/8: betas 17,345, progesterone 25.6
B/w 1/8: betas 17,345, progesterone 25.6
Last NIAW post! Thank you to everyone who has reached out in one way or another. So many amazing people have shared their stories and journeys with me this week. I stand with you and honor your struggle.
A special thank you to those who have been incredibly supportive over the past few months. You've sat and cried with me/us, and you share in our grief. I will forever be grateful for your love, friendship, and compassion. Thank you.
***I'm totally comfortable with the passive-aggressive subtext.
Getting fit for IVF!