May 2013: Husband and I decide it's time to really try and have a baby. Have a few strange periods in September 2013.
May 2014, Husband does one of those at home kits to check his sperm count. It doesn't register anything. Next step, urology appointment to get sperm tested and make appointment with fertility clinic.
Clinic says we can't do IUI bc of husband's counts. Need to do IVF. Also I have a polyp that needs to be removed. (explains the weird cycles).
June 2014: Polyp removal and hysteroscopy and HSG. All goes well, polyp benign.
July 2014: 1st IVF. 14 eggs retrieved, 12 mature, 5 fertilized. Only 2 left by day 3. Transfer 2. Negative beta 11 days later. Back to drawing board.
August 2014-December 2014: Take time off of IF to get healthy, get mind right, (start seeing a therapist) and ramp up for another IVF cycle. Can't start until January 2015 because we won't have the money until then.
Feb 2015-June 2015: Start and stop a lot of different protocols. One cancelled cycle
July 2015: Finally, baseline looks good. Start directly with stims, no Birth Control Pill lead in. Cycle looked good. Got 16 eggs, 12 mature, 4 out of 6 fertilized with donor sperm, 4 out of 6 fertilized with husband's sperm On day 3 we had 2 from donor left, and 1 from husband We pushed to day 5 and husband's embryo died on day 3, and donor sperm had 2 embryos on day 5, one severely compacted and another with vacules. Nothing to freeze/transfer on day 6.
August 2015-December 2015: Grieve, lose weight, get healthy. Know we need to do donor egg now if we ever want to grow our family. Visit with 2 new clinics. Looking for a guarantee program. Look at two, settle on the one locally. Love our new doctor.
November 2015: Got approved for the guaranteed program with new clinic. Had all testing completed, mock transfer and mock eep, had therapist sign off on donor egg program.
December 2015: Selected donor! Now we wait for further instructions! Hoping 2016 is our year!
