"And can it be that in a world so full and busy, the loss of one weak creature makes a void in any heart, so wide and deep that nothing but the width and depth of vast eternity can fill it up." - Charles Dickens
2010:
9/6 start OPK
9/8 mock transfer and follow-up 3D u/s (ready to go, finally!)
9/11 bilateral mammogram (more fun!, but cancer-free), IVF meds arrive
9/12 FIL passes away unexpectedly, IVF #1 on hold until we return from India in Oct. (sister dx w/cancer during routine surgery while we are gone, later has another surgery and is cleared)
10/1-2 CD1
10/15 + OPK, call AF for schedule, DH gives sample for SA and frozen
10/20: SA #3 results in: count 80MM, motility 48%, morphology 4% (improved)
10/23 begin 10 units Lupron and baby aspirin nightly
11/4: CD1 (begin personal leave from work)
11/5: baseline b/w and u/s
11/6: acu, Gonal F stims (225), HCG (4), baby aspirin (AM), 5 Lupron (PM)
11/7: AM: 112.5 Gonal F, 4 HCG, baby aspirin, PM: 75 Gonal F, 5 Lupron
11/8: AM: 112.5 Gonal F, 4 HCG, baby aspirin, PM: 75 Gonal F, 5 Lupron
11/9: follie check u/s and b/w, baby asp, PM: 188 G-F, 4 HCG, 5 Lupron
11/10: AM: 112 G-F, baby asp, PM: 75 G-F, 4 HCG, 5 Lup
11/11: follie check u/a and b/w, acu, baby asp, PM: 300 G-F, 4 HCG, 5 Lup
11/12: AM: 150 G-F, baby asp, PM: 112.5 G-F, 4 HCG, 5 Lup
11/13: AM: follie check u/s and b/w, PM: 300 G-F, 6 HCG, 5 Lup, BA
11/14: AM: last follie check u/s and b/w, PM: 225 G-F, trigger @ 10:30pm
11/16: ER @ 8:30am, 10 eggs retrieved, ICSI, begin tetracycline and medrol
11/17: Fert report, of 10 retrieved, 7 mature, 5 fertilized, 5 embies growing, add baby aspirin and PIO
11/18: pre-ET acu (just in case), stop tetracycline
11/19: Get the call, 3dt of 2 embies (1 8-cell and 1 6-cell), stop medrol
11/20: post ET acu
11/21: 2 embies to cryopreserve! :)
11/22: DH turns 35
11/23: start estrogen patches (3 new, every 3 days)
11/27: First ever + HPT! (8dp3dt, after testing out trigger)
(EDD 8/8/11 - a little Leo and my MIL's b-day :) )
My pregnancy s/e: huge, swollen, and tender breasts, nausea, fatigue, freq urination, easy crying
11/28:
11/29: return to work
11/30: Beta #1 = 104! (14dpER), transitioning off of PIO to Crinone (2x/day)
12/3: Beta #2 = 490! (17dpER) (32 hrs doubling time)
12/5: wean off of E2 patches (down to 2 today, one on 12/8, then stop)
12/10: Beta #3 = 3764! (24dpER) (all betas above avg. for a singleton pg) - last day on E2
12/21: Our first (and only) ultrasound @ 7w1d, measuring right on track and we have a heartbeat!, stop BA, graduated to OB!
12/22: DH leaves for India to take care of late father's affairs for 2 1/2 wks
12/25: Our very first pregnant Christmas! :)
12/29-30: spontaneous m/c overnight @ home @ 8w2d, exactly 8 wks after LMP
12/30: hCG = 16,503 (9 hrs post-m/c) (baby: normal female, unknown cause of m/c)
To us, you are perfect (46 perfect little girl chromosomes)
3 perfect betas + 1 perfect u/s = almost five weeks of pregnant bliss
