Tag: in vitro fertilization

  • Quick Update

    Quick Update

    Hey readers, sorry I missed regular blog day yesterday. I’m actually on a family vacation in Florida right now. I plan to tell you more about our vacation and share some photos in a couple weeks. I did want to go ahead and share a quick update with you, though. Once we get back from…

  • Floored

    Floored

    Last Thursday, we got our Day 5 update on our embryos. As a reminder, we’d started with at least 15–potentially 19. It was a new record. The nurse said we had three nearly at the blastocyst stage and one was still at the previous stage–the morula stage. The rest were still somewhat progressing, but the nurse…

  • A New Record

    A New Record

    As promised, I’m back on regular blog day with an update.  The day of my procedure, I posted an update on the IVF That Facebook page, and as it turns out, the numbers were even better than I was initially told. I’ll back up a bit for just a minute, though, to give you a…

  • An Auspicious Day

    An Auspicious Day

    Today’s the day! For a couple of reasons… Read more in the latest blog. #ivfthat

  • Here We Go Again… Again

    Here We Go Again… Again

    Well readers, I’m sorry I didn’t get a chance to do a blog post last week. There honestly wasn’t too much going on on the normal blog day (Tuesday), and, as I find myself saying over and over again in this blog, we were “hurrying up and waiting.” The week before, I’d re-ordered all the…

  • Still Waiting…

    Still Waiting…

    Not much news to report, other than I’m still waiting on news…

  • Fits and Starts

    Fits and Starts

    I had every intention of writing a blog last week. There wasn’t a whole lot going on, but I could provide a few updates. But then I got busy at work, and, eventually, the week got away from me.  The biggest updates were about our next cycle and a procedure Nick was going to have…

  • Hope is Hard

    Hope is Hard

    Over the weekend, we received Day 5 and Day 6 embryo updates.  Last year, I received a Day 3 update as well, which was bad news. I was hopeful this year that if I didn’t receive an update until Day 5, maybe that meant there was no bad news to share before then.  I thought…

  • Timing

    Timing

    Timing is a funny thing when it comes to IVF. You might think you’ll know when a certain procedure will happen, and then one day’s lab results can upend the whole thing. The next day, it can happen all over again.  On Thursday, the nurse called with my results and dosing info for Friday. She…

  • Comparing Cycles

    Comparing Cycles

    Since I’ve been through this process once before, it’s hard not to compare the two cycles in my head. As I mentioned earlier this week, the bloating has definitely been worse this time around.  Oddly enough, though, it did seem to ease up a bit in the past couple of days. It almost had me…