It was Friday.
Six days after our fresh donor egg cycle transfer. The official blood test would not take place until Wednesday. Hopes were still sailing high for our move to donor eggs. A hatching blastocyst had managed to give us our second embryo transfer in six cycles. We were grateful to our donor and to the clinic for providing this opportunity. Past issues with the clinic were laid to rest, and we began to look to our reproductive future with anticipation.
Then it happened. Continue reading Little IVF earthquakes
The bleeding stopped almost as quickly as it had started.
It was Sunday. Mother’s Day.
Our Pregnancy had been confirmed just four days earlier after a fertility clinic blood test. My hcg reading was well over 300, meaning it had more than doubled since the sneaky blood test performed at my GP’s two days earlier.
The clinic had issued congratulations and sent us a slip for our seven week ultrasound and our due date. On nurse advice we made an obstetrician appointment to avoid problems due to a local shortage of doctors.
We were on our way! Continue reading Mother’s Day
A second line on the ubiquitous pee on a stick (POAS) home pregnancy test soon takes on mythical proportions in the mind of the long term IVFer.
Yet there we were late on a Saturday night looking at a sight that seemed as unlikely as seeing a dodo sitting on a pot of gold, situated at the rainbow’s end on the far side of Brigadoon. Continue reading Along the lines of IVF
