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Lifeslurper resides in a big brown land called Auuustralia. Her early years remain a mystery cloaked in a veil of depression.

Age 42 Lifeslurper meets the vague but gorgeous Wobbles. “What took him so long to arrive?” She asks.

They make their way together in the world just fine, but are not fine to make a baby – not without some outside help. Enter ART and 2008 the year of 4 IVF cycles & one lousy big fat negative.

Lifeslurper is now 47 years old! Time for a baby is running out fast, so too is her sanity. Now it's 2011 - Lifeslurper & Wobbles have moved into top baby making gear. Donor Egg Cycles are the way to go, after a long pause to take stock after a glorious donor egg BFP & the subsequent loss. This year saw 2 cancelled FET cycles, & and menopause causing delays.

Where to from here? After 10 cycles Lifeslurper & Wobbles now await their WobblyBub who is due in May 2012 - actually make that...um....*sigh*...what's the point?

Stitching up the IVF game

It seems no matter how prepared you are for the ‘worst’ with IVF there are always greater depths to be explored.

Our fourth IVF cycle has now ground its way to a complete end.

There were a few close calls. Just when we thought we had it worked out, we were side-blinded – again.

Leaving before dawn yesterday morning we got to the clinic without a hitch. Considering our recent travel incidents, this was an excellent start. Continue reading Stitching up the IVF game

Day One Mk IV

Oh no!

 

That came around suddenly, kind of….

 

Today marks the first day of IVF cycle IV.

 

Ever since the unsuccessful end of IVF Cycle III it was presumed there’d be another. Doing cycles two and three “back-to-back” as the footy commentators like to say in place of the term ‘consecutive’ (as in “Geelong won back-to-back premierships”*) was quite a challenge, especially when compared to cycle one. That first doomed cycle took forever to begin. When it did begin, it never got that far. Cancellation saw it end rudely before ‘egg pick up’ or EPU.

 

Cycle one also left me with a large ovarian cyst, and a growing realisation that our chosen fertility specialist was past caring. With no period meant no way to commence further IVF. A cyst meant no period, but Professor (later dubbed “Professor Doofus” by one bright spark) said we could do nothing but wait.

Continue reading Day One Mk IV