I never got a dye stealer. The frers were a disappointment. My easy@homes showed better progression. I have an almost 8 month old from that transfer. Soft congrats and wishing you an uneventful 9 months!
Almost my exact timeline as the first comment, but for a year earlier (Thanksgiving '22 ER and Jan. '23) for the same reason. That December/holiday break is used for the labs to do all of their yearly cleanings and maintenance. I was really lucky and had success with a live birth.
Oh no lol. The betrayal.
My cat did this growing up. We found out after YEARS of him doing this. He was very overweight. We were baffled how the other family thought that he was homeless. He would just show up to their house for food apparently and then leave and come back to our house.
Playing with my 6 month old from my first FET. Couldn't feel luckier. I cry all the time thinking about how lucky I am.
Plot twist: IVF is God's plan.
I'm so sorry. No real advice. I hope he's able to be more reasonable about this and changes his mind
I had a friend who did something similar.....we are not friends anymore. It sucks you can get space as easily with a family member.
Give yourself grace to feel whatever you feel. It's completely normal to feel this way. To say this is all just an overwhelming situation is such an understatement and really doesn't do it justice. One day at a time. Do whatever you need to do, and feel however you need to feel to get through. I'm wishing you only good check ups. Hopefully, with time, the joy will creep in too. (I say too bc it's really a slew of emotions that I felt all at once all of the time, but I tried to let myself feel joy when I was able to. Which wasn't all of the time!)
I haven't tested it yet but maybe I will. Thank you for the suggestions!
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Hi! I lucked out and this protocol seemed to work out just fine for me. That FET was successful and I now have an almost 6 month old from it. Best of luck to you, and I hope your body likes this protocol as well!
Add to say, compact cherry laurel is probably the best cherry laurel choice. I also second viburnum sandankwa. Other ornamental tree options would be Texas Redbud or maybe Anacacho Orchid. American beauty berry and oak leaf hydrangea would be less tall options.
Eh. For me it was sort of a combo of the IVF and very early pregnancy. Fear IVF won't work. Fear that after it "worked" it actually was too good to be true and sort of just waiting for the bad news. But I was eventually able to have less fear. So I think I'd say IVF was prob a bit worse for me, mentally.
I also sort of felt this way, so we just let the embryologist choose. But I don't think it's weird or bad for anyone to choose an embryo themselves. It's definitely not something to feel guilty about. Just go with your gut and if it bothers you too much you can always decide not to choose.
I've graduated IVF (once, maybe will need to graduate at least the transfer process again sometime in the future). And honestly, I got REALLY lucky on the physical aspect of it. The shots for me were usually only mildly painful or not at all (the ganirelix was the most painful for me, but still not bad). I didn't have to do progesterone shots and I do know that those are not fun. Mostly I got fatigue from them. BUT, the mental and emotional aspect of dealing with infertility and IVF (and still feeling trauma from a past mmc) was absolutely debilitating for me. The way it consumed my entire life, my every thought. Like you said, what I put on and in my body. Trying to do "normal" life stuff just seemed like a mountain I could not climb while going through fertility treatments (iuis, and then IVF). I consider myself to be so so extremely lucky, but I never want to act nonchalant about it, and I don't think I ever will be able to. However, I understand how others could and would block it out, or "forget" as a way to protect their mental health. That's just not how I've ever been able to deal with hard life things. I'm always happy to share the facts and my feelings about the whole process with others. But I don't want my experiences to influence how they feel or how they experience IVF. So I don't share much unless someone asks questions. I don't want people to think that their experience should be their experience. This whole process is such a gamble like you said. And every experience is going to be different in at least some ways.
I second cicada. They make these holes when climbing out of the ground to molt. Same can be said for beetles.
What is making these hole in my yard?
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