posted by Mel
Chemical pregnancy. The beta this morning was just barely positive– not high enough to sustain. 5.7 at 14dp5dt. I knew it was coming, but does it ever suck to be right. Follow-up appointment with our RE next Friday.
Entries from March 2008
March 25, 2008
Confirmed
March 23, 2008
The Line is Gone
posted by Mel
You’d really have to squint to see anything there. We were pregnant for 4 days. Now we’re not. I think it’s a chemical pregnancy or an early miscarriage, depending on who you ask. I am shattered, but Vanessa is helping me slowly begin to pick the pieces back up.
Most couples would never even have [...]
March 21, 2008
Making Progress
Posted by v
We’ve passed the first milestone of getting a positive at-home pregnancy test. Correction: a dozen at-home pregnancy tests, because the first six might be a fluke.
Stay tuned: Blood test on Monday.
March 11, 2008
We did it
posted by Mel
I have two little Vanessa embryos on-board– one early blastocyst and one morula. The embryologist said they were both still too compacted to grade, but both good quality and appropriate for this stage of development. She said she felt we had an excellent chance of success. It was actually kind of fun. The RE was [...]
March 10, 2008
More info
posted by Mel
They haven’t looked at the embryos again today, but I was able to get more information on what they were going by yesterday. So here’s the tally. Where grade 4 is the best and grade 1 is the worst, we have:
1 6-cell grade 3
1 5-cell grade 3
1 5-cell grade 2
2 4-cell grade 3
2 2-cell– [...]
March 9, 2008
Lucky 7
posted by Mel
7 of the embryos cleaved and are still in it. I didn’t get a lot of detail because the embryologist called us before I could call her, and when I tried to call back I couldn’t get her, but she left a voice mail on my cell. They range from 2 to 6 cells [...]
March 8, 2008
Waiting
The waiting is unbearable. We were supposed to hear something about the remaining 5 eggs today: whether they fertilized or not. Like good patients, we waited until 4 PM to call our RE’s office– just like our release paperwork said to do if we hadn’t heard from them by then. I just called the nurse [...]
March 7, 2008
The Embryo Report
posted by Mel
Of the 10 eggs, 5 were mature and got ICSI’d yesterday. 4 fertilized normally. 1 bit the dust. The other 5 were immature but close enough that the embryologist put them in some kind of maturing medium (I didn’t know they could mature eggs outside of the body– wild!!), and they were mature [...]
March 6, 2008
The Egg Report
posted by Mel
We got 10 eggs– even though we only ever saw 9 follicles. I’m not sure how Vanessa did that. We’re both pleased. It was really amazing to experience IVF from an upright position. I hope neither of us ever experiences it from any position ever again.
Vanessa did great. She’s hardcore. She didn’t even have to [...]
March 5, 2008
The sweet sweet romance IVF inspires
indymel: Do you think we should do something special together tonight?
indyness: awww - that’s so sweet
indyness: you mean like, kfc by candlelight?
indymel: I was thinking more like poetry by candlelight.
indyness: i’m pretty sure that would make me sick
indymel: I’d like to be surrounded by beauty and tranquility
indyness: forget it - you’re going to be surrounded by [...]
