So that period I was looking for 25 days ago has finally arrived! Right at exactly the wrong time. This cycle - the one where I took the Clomid (yes, I'm still in that cycle) - took 59 days. Tomorrow, I am ...
Today is Cyber Monday. It is also day 35. After taking 200mg Clomid one last time, on the advice of our consultant, this is D-Day. No period by now meant one of two things: pregnant or the drugs didn't work. Sadly it's the ...
We've done very well. We took a step off the fertility train in June after a failed IVF attempt, to lose 1-1.5 stone and then return for more. I have now in fact lost 2st, and John's lost just over ...
A week after our negative result we were back at the clinic to talk with our consultant about the next steps. That week contained a lot of tears and sadness, but also a lot of gratefulness for what I already have. ...
The test was negative. We were not surprised. Despite continuing medication as advised, by today my bleeding was very heavy, and had been so for a good 48 hours. I think we both still had a tiny glimmer of hope. But ...
Wow, it's been hard. When we first started IVF, our consultant told us the two week wait from embryo transfer to taking the pregnancy test would be the hardest part of the process. After our disappointment on egg collection day, I ...
We have gone for embryo transfer this morning. The embryo has done well overnight! We were told it had divided to two cells, and was graded as B on a scale from A-D (with A being the best). The transfer was smooth ...
We have fertilisation!!! We're so happy to get this good news this morning. I had a strange kind of restless peace last night that fertilisation would happen. We had a real heart to heart with God, with all our doubts and ...
We're gutted. For all the talk of over stimulation and the risks, when they went to harvest the eggs this morning they only got one. One. Everyone is surprised. No one really knows what happened to all the many follicles we saw as ...
Finally!! At my scan on Friday we discovered one ovary has several follicles at 9-11mm (so still a bit short of the 17mm target), and the other had one 17mm follicle, a few 14-15mm ones, and various smaller ones. They have decided to increase ...