Just the one egg

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 ...

The end is in sight!

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 ...

Growth!

Finally some good news! I went for a scan on Friday, and my follicles seemed to have perhaps grown a mm or so, possibly. So I was kept on my current dose of 150IU until today, when I went for another ...

An honest account

I've been thinking about this blog a lot recently. It's turning out very differently to the last time we were trying to make a baby. This time I have a toddler and very little free time to write. But I ...

Day 10 Scan

Well, no growth of follicles again today. They've increased my FSH dose to 112.5 IU and I'll have another scan on Tuesday. I briefly chatted to Mr Walker our consultant.  He seems of the mind that I might well just suddenly ...

IVF: Three weeks In

We've now been taking 75 IU of FSH for 7 days, and I had a scan on Tuesday to check progress. This was an extra bonus scan for us, as I'm at high risk of OHSS. This stands for Ovarian hyperstimulation ...

And we’re off…The start of IVF

We've been doing IVFs for just over a week now. I'm done with the progesterone tablet, and am expecting the imminent arrival of shark week (yes, I Googled slang terms for period and this is my new favourite.) We've also been ...

A success and a failure.

The good news is - John's operation went ahead and he is now recovering at home and doing well. That pesky gallbladder has been removed, and he is now taking some time to reboot into version 3.0 (2.0 occurred after ...

The day I set up my own office and conference call at Bath Fertility Centre

I had a scan on Tuesday and another today. I think that takes us to 5 so far. This is possibly the most frequent action I've seen down there since Toby was born*. On Tuesday we saw one follicle that perhaps ...

Jab Jab Jabby Jab

It's been a while, and I'm blaming the bed crisis in the NHS for this. I began taking the drug to induce a period on 2nd January, as planned. It was pretty uneventful, though I did feel a bit more moody ...