2010 - The Year Of The Baby...

Apparently this year is the Year of the Tiger......

Hmmmmm
I'm renaming it to The Year of The Baby...

According to Dr T this was going to be our year.

A list of our year so far......

Febuary 2010 - Ovulation induction with gonal f.
                          No Baby

March 2010 - Ovulation induction with gonal f
                         No Baby

April 2010 - Ovulation induction with gonal f
                       No Baby

( are you starting to see a pattern here)

Well after 3 Ovulation Induction cycles and no baby - Dr T suggested we try IUI.
So IUI will be the go.. the answer to all our prayers.

May 2010 - IUI with gonal f
                    NO BABY... Which was a bummer because our insemination day was on Mother's Day. How perfect would that have been to think we conceived on Mothers Day? But yet again there was not to be any baby.

Dr T went ahead to suggest we try IVF. He didn't see the value in doing another IUI.

July 2010 - We start our first IVF cycle.
Our first cycle was a breeze !!!
I had no side effect from the drugs and it was all too easy...

On our EPU day. The Dr was only able to retrieve 5 eggs. - I WAS DEVASTATED !!! I cried all through recovery, all through the ward and all the way home that afternoon.
The next day the scientist from the clinic called and notified us that 2 of our little eggies hadn't made it. so we were left with 3, 2 day embryos.
That's not too bad.
All 3 made it to day 4.
Day 5 Transfer day....
We had decided to let our little embryos got to day 5 in hopes of them becoming little blastocysts.
We were so lucky that ll 3 made it to blast stage. We were thrilled.

The transfer went off without a problem.... Now we just wait...

WAITING WAITING WAITING

Final blood test day....... Well i didnt have to wait for the results AF arrived that morning at work.. It was horrible. I took the next few days off and WJ and I went away for a little break. (thank God for that man - he is my rock)

September 2010 - We decided to do a Frozen Transfer.
We were able to freeze 2 embryos from our last fresh cycle. So we decided to use one of them.
On the day of our transfer the scientist informed us that they had to defrost both embryos because the first one didn't defrost properly. Here come the tears again... there goes our little insurance policy.
Well this FET was going to be it.. We were going to get pregnant after this.

Unfortunately It wasn't meant to be.....

Scotch and Coke became my best friend..