TTC for 12 months +

Hi everyone!

I have not popped in her for a long time and am so surprised by all the wonderful news that has happened in here. Congrats to you all on your successes and new babies that have been born this year! (sorry I have been off since about April so sorry if I don't mention names)

A.girl, BC hiiiii! So happy to see you both post briefly in here too. I'm sad to hear things are still not happening the way you want them to in this area, I have been quietly hoping we'd get a "pop in" message to say you'd both had some success.

A.girl I think we (and most likely plenty of others I'm sure) certainly make for some interesting stories lol I odn't think alot of people I tell about me having 18 CP's quite believes me either! Unfortunately my year hasn't been successful either, and agree with a.girl it just got too difficult being in here so had to step away. I had to step away from all the googling, all the success stories all over the web etc and it's helped put me in a place where I may finally be ok with it never happening for me! The remainder of our IVF failed in May (4 rounds, 12 transfers), and we finally got our name on the wait list for public funding. Have already found out we will be with Repromed, rather than FA where we have been for 4 years. We are hoping this time we will get enough to test, rather than continuing to hope that we get a sticky one (coping mechanism I guess) I also met with another doctor at FA who put me on a strong round of antibiotics for two weeks back in August. She thought perhaps something had happened with my daughters birth, that caused a small, undetected infection in the lining of my uterus (one that will only be picked up if actually looking, or testing for it). But DH and I have actually been enjoying (me mostly lol) the days of no timings for pills etc, appointments etc while still "trying". Still no luck yet, but maybe 2018 will be different. We have decided it will be our last year trying, as it has already been 6 1/2 years for us.

A.girl I would love to join an infertility forum/group if you come across a good one.

I hope everyone continues with the amazing success in here!


Edited by Storm11 - 20 December 2017 at 12:01pm

a.girl, storm, I do recommend reddit.com/r/infertility. Especially as they don't allow talk of success (outside specific results threads) so it's less in your face than it's been on here the past year.

I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas.

Thanks a girl. I’m not sure I’m strong. But I was determined. I also think I havnt fully dealt with what has happened and still have moments. I’m still shot scared I will somehow miraculously get pregnant and have another. I was paranoid the whole pregnancy with DS that it would go pear shaped. This journey for kids is just f*****n hard
After one round of IVF I’m not sure how some of you ladies endure multiple rounds

Thanks ladies! Roubaix it's lovely to hear from you (as brief and rare as it seems to be now for some of us) How is your TTC going? Did you manage to get in for Feb so far?

Star thanks hun, I'm not at all sure where my determination comes from, but a lot that has happened over the last few months has pushed me to be ok with giving it one last year. A year ago at least, I would'nt have been anywhere near being ok with throwing it all in! I don't think our 12 month wait comes up until May or June this year, so a few more months yet.
I know from chats over the years some have had to make contact with the clinic on their wait time - anyone know when I should make contact just to make sure I'm still there etc lol

In the meantime we have just got back on track with trying naturally again - currently 6dpo so fingers crossed!!!

Hey Storm, when we were on the public wait list (although that was back when it was OFS in Dunedin) they told me to call in every month with my day 1 and speak to a nurse who would note it down and check for me that I was still on the list/give me an update of wait time. I also once got a tip from one of the nurses that every now and then someone would cancel a publicly funded cycle at the last minute so they would have a space open up and if you just happened to call in with day 1 on the right day you could be lucky enough to take that spot even if you weren't next on the list.  I'm not sure if that happens at other clinics or not but it sounded legit at the time!

FA have since taken over in Dunedin and I have to say the change in the level of service / responsiveness is amazing. They're super helpful, quick to come back to me... wow is all I can say. I met with their Dr (Kate - she's so nice!) last week who said their success rates have doubled since the time I had my IVF with OFS... so I have to admit I'm a little bit hopeful about our FET next month. Although right now I'm having trouble remembering to take my Estradiol 3x a day, whoops...

Hi all just checking in to let you all know our wee boy arrived into the world on 28th February at 3:03pm , 2 days after his due date after being induced the day after his due date. Was a marathon of a labour and nothing went as planned but now he's here and safe that's all that matters. We have called him Casey and he weighed a hefty 10 pound 10 ounes and 60cm long.

Good luck to everyone still on the journey, hang in there.

Congrats Faith and ADN. We had our little boy 2nd Feb, 5 days over due. I was induced after waters were breaking for 24 hours. Very fast labour and 7 pound 9 born.planned a home birth but every thing changed and was stuck to the hospital bed.

All the best to everyone else still on this journey, I think about yous all often. Xx

Congrats FurBabies!

Sweetpea, do update on plans going forward. We're 2 months behind you but thinking the same. Also need to figure out when to make that call.

Yay Star! keeping fingers crossed and sending good vibes your way!

Thinking of you Star. When do you test?