a brief history of our IVF

our IVF journey has begun again !

This will be our 3rd full stimulated cycle - we had 2 full stim's in 2007 - 1 in March and the 2nd in August .. we also did 4 FET (frozen embryo transfer) cycles - all of which were BFN apart from a suspected chemical pregnancy in Sept 07 ..

A brief history on our cycles from 2007 :

March 07 - FULL STIM - collected 8 eggs, 1 was imature, 1 died - 6 fertilized ! .. I ended up in hospital over with Ovarian Hyperstimulation - NOT NICE ! .. our embies were frozen at DAY 3 - because we couldn't go ahead with transfer ...

April 07 - FET cycle - 2 x day 3 embies - BFN - 2 x progesterone pessaries

May 07 - FET cycle - 1 x cavitating morula, 1 x blastocyst - BFN - 2 x progesterone pessaries

August 07 - FULL STIM - collected 23 eggs, 3 they couldn't do anything with, and 13 fertilized ! - all frozen on DAY 1 - due to hyperstimulation again !

September 07 - FET cycle - 1 x compacting morula, 1 x hatched blastocyst - suspected chemical pregnancy - 2 x progesterone pessaries ..

February 08 - FET cycle - thawed out all 9 remaining embies .. 2 survived .. ET was a bit rough .. I ended up on gas because julie couldn't get the catheta in .. 2 speculums, 3 catheta's and gas later - the 2 embies were on board - sadly another BFN ..

So there you have a quick run down on our 1st 2 IVF's and 4 FET cycles ... we are about to embark on our 3rd full stim and we are very excited !