Tag: infertility

  • 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…

  • The Approval Letter

    The Approval Letter

    The Approval LetterMay 10, 2023 Last week, on blog day, I was still waiting to hear back about whether our next IVF cycle would be approved by Kaiser or not. The very next day, I received the approval letter! I wasn’t overly worried the procedure would be declined, but it was in the back of…

  • 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…

  • Embryology Update

    Embryology Update

    Like 2022, 19 eggs were harvested during my egg retrieval procedure and the numbers breakdown starting out was also pretty similar. The morning after, the clinic called with an update. Below is a comparison between my two procedures: 2023 2022 These numbers are incredibly similar. So much so, that I’d be lying if I said…