Testing one, two, three...and for a change not me

We are now in the testing phase. Dawn, her husband Ron, and my husband Matthew all have to be run through a battery of tests and exams to make sure they are all healthy.

We will all meet with the same therapist that cleared us for egg donation last year.

Once all that has been completed we move on to...more testing! The same sorts of testing I have completed each cycle including saline sonogram, ultrasounds, and mock transfer.

Once all that is done, we move on to medications. If all goes well Dawn will start her medications in January and plan to transfer at the end of January.

By the way, we have to squeeze Christmas in here with all the other festivities. It will be a busy couple of months!

Same blog, same characters, different tagline.....

Welcome to the new chapter in our ongoing saga. When we last left our heroine she had just failed her latest pregnancy test. It was then that she called her sister and asked, "Do you still want to be my babies Momma?" Without missing a beat, she said yes.

So...we are off again! In case the last post was not a good clue, we are planning the transfer for the end of January.

If you thought egg donation was complicated, wait until you hear about surrogacy!

Calculating due date with assisted fertility

When planning a fertility cycle, everyone wants to know one thing...when will the baby be due?

Well with assisted fertility this is no easy question. However, you can find the answer by doing what I did...Google it.

http://www.ivf-infertility.com/calc_preg.php
is a great little calculator to find the answer to this very question.

So for example: if you transferred 5 day embryos (blasts) on January 30, 2009, then you would be due on October 18, 2009. Pretty nifty huh?

It is official

We are not pregnant. I guess we have some healing and thinking to do.

Theresa

Tears and yet more injections

Still nothing on home pregnancy test...it should be positive by now if it is going to be, so I am losing hope. Last night was really hard, I cried the entire time Matthew was giving me my shot, the pain in my heart is killing me.

Why does this have to hurt so much. Blood pregnancy test is Friday.

frowns and looks at test

I can't believe it still says

Not Pregnant

Blood test is Friday. Perhaps we will just have to wait until then to know for sure.

HPT negative this am

If it is negative, then I want the nausea to go away!

Boo, anyway try again tomorrow.

For all the family and friends who do not understand this obsession with pee on sticks I offer the following from a fellow cycler. Keep in mind this is a quote from someone else not me.....I have not yet had a positive test.

"My transfer was monday and I started on friday, I know it was too
early and would get a neg but i did it anyway. 2 days and 13 tests
later I finally tested positive last night. My beta is wed"

Theresa