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After an 8 year battle with infertility and countless struggles, our family is finally complete. This blog chronicles the journey it took for us to start and build the family we always wanted. Background on the blog (started in 2012, just days before I found out the embryo transfer for our son worked).... I decided to start a blog after realizing I have only been able to make it through my TWW's (two week waits) with the help of Google and with the openness of other women suffering from infertility sharing their own stories and giving others hope. I have time and time again found my exact symptoms on other women's blogs and felt an overwhelming sense of calmness they provided me. I thought it was time to pay it forward and hopefully provide this same thing to other women on their own journeys.

Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Semen analysis

(My blog started on 1/25/2012, but I have gone back and added our entire journey up until that point.)

Mike's analysis shows:
  • 11.6% motile (normal 50-100%)
  • 18.3% normal form (normal 30-100%)
  • NO white blood cells found

Monday, November 21, 2011

11dp5dt beta (4 days early)

(My blog started on 1/25/2012, but I have gone back and added our entire journey up until that point.)

Beta comes back at only 6.  I am told to cease and desist all medication.  This cycle is a bust.  I take it better than my first failed cycle.  Guess it gets easier each time.

Sunday, November 20, 2011

10dp5dt

(My blog started on 1/25/2012, but I have gone back and added our entire journey up until that point.)

Sadly the next morning my test line was still very faint.


Saturday, November 19, 2011

9dp5dt +HPT!

(My blog started on 1/25/2012, but I have gone back and added our entire journey up until that point.)

So I really wasn't planning on POASing (peeing on a stick) this cycle but I woke up in the morning from a dream induced orgasm.  I thought it was for sure a sign!

Turns out it was (very faint positive):


Friday, November 18, 2011

8dp5dt

(My blog started on 1/25/2012, but I have gone back and added our entire journey up until that point.)

Symptoms: final light brown spot in the AM.

Thursday, November 17, 2011

7dp5dt

(My blog started on 1/25/2012, but I have gone back and added our entire journey up until that point.)

Symptoms: still lightly brown spotting.

Wednesday, November 16, 2011

6dp5dt

(My blog started on 1/25/2012, but I have gone back and added our entire journey up until that point.)

Symptoms: started spotting (brown and light).  Hoping it was implantation bleeding.

Thursday, November 10, 2011

Embryo transfer

(My blog started on 1/25/2012, but I have gone back and added our entire journey up until that point.)

Embryo transfer went well.  1 of 3 blasts are thawed and assisted hatching is performed.









Friday, November 4, 2011

Progesterone shots

(My blog started on 1/25/2012, but I have gone back and added our entire journey up until that point.)

Start progesterone shots today.  With my IVF I used suppositories so this whole shot in the butt thing is new to me.