Thursday 29 May 2014

IVF#9, the postmortem

Well, another cycle, another failure. And nothing to freeze. What to say about it? I had a great ER, got 16 eggs, 10 fertilized, but by day 3 they were down to 7 and by day 5 just two were still growing, an early blast and a morula. We put them both back of course. One stuck to the catheter and had to be reloaded and transferred again. And then there was the usual 2ww full of highs and lows, hope and despondency, symptoms which came and went. I guess my "women are super fertile after having a baby" window has passed, so we're back to facing the long haul.

Two things making me sad: firstly we are struggling financially and we can't afford to do another back-to back cycle. Who knows when we will scrape together enough money to cycle again. I hope in 1 month, but I just don't know. Secondly, each time we do IVF they are choosing the best sperm from what is left, so each time the quality is going to go down. So I suppose our chances are going to keep on getting worse.

Thank goodness for my beautiful little boy. If I didn't have him I'm sure I would have gone bananas a long time ago.


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