Getting current

Well I have decided I would Blog my experience with IVF and the creation of life. But in order to bring you current I should give you my past. I am a 30 (almost 31) year old mother of 2 boys ages 11 and 7 from a previous marriage. After the birth of my second son I had my tubes tied. Well burned in multiple places actually. Because of how the surgery was done it was not reversible. I know this because when I got divorced and moved on to a new relationship. We talked about having a child together. Well after much research we discovered the only way would be through IVF. Now because my husband is my soul mate and best friend I want nothing more than to give him a child of his own. Even through my complete and utter fear of needles I continued on with IVF in April/May 2009. The doctor felt optimistic given my age and all other thing considered. Well come retrieval time we were able to retrieve 10 eggs. I was sure I would have made more than that but the doctor seemed pleased. The next day we got our fertilization results and 8 of my eggs had fertilized on their own (no ICSI needed). The doctor decided we would do a 5 day transfer. So 5 days later we went in for transfer. We had 4 beautiful blasts that had made it. We decided to be conservative and only transfer one. I was obsessed waiting to find out if it had worked. I started to POAS at about day 5 after the transfer. Well it came out negative. So then day 6 it came up POSITIVE!! I was elated. I went in to the doctor for confirmation on day 8 via a blood test. My BETA came back at only 39.5. I felt like it was low but the doctor seemed unconcerned. Two days later another blood test confirmed my BETA doubled and the doctor was pleased. She wanted to do one more test a week later, which they said they would be happy with anything 500 to 1000 and it came back 1941 :) !!! So I stopped worrying and started to get excited. We had an U/S scheduled for a week later. Well this is where this happy story takes a downward slope. The U/S showed no an empty sac. So more blood work for me. Well to my surprise my BETA came back at over 14K. So the doctor suggested we do more in 2 days. Which it came back at over 18K. We remained cautiously optimistic and scheduled another u/s for the next week. Well sadly the sac still showed no baby. At 8 weeks pregnant it ended with a D&C. Now we are current. We had 3 frozen blastocysts still so we are moving on to completing a frozen embryo transfer. I am excited to get going. But I dont begin my cycle until 9/15/09. That is when I begin taking my Lupron injections. I will blog my journey and hopefully my pregnancy from here on out. Thanks to everyone who read this all the way down. the next one will not be so lengthy.