Where we are...

I've been slacking. Trying to just relax during the cycle and not overanalyze everything or worry myself to death. So I didn't get any blogging done, so lets get everyone caught up.

Well...Due to poor cycle timing we had to do a short round of birth control, and because of my high risk of blood clots (Factor V Leiden) I did Heparin injections 2x a day. Some of my lovely technicolor injection locations! Ouch, but all for the baby right? I mean it is training. I'm going to be doing these my entire pregnancy as well.

Once the cycle got started, we did a higher dose of the Gonal F 112.5mg and we had an amazing response. At trigger time we had 2 follicles that were pretty much guaranteed and 2 more that were possibly mature enough! My lining was the best it has ever been at 11.4mm! Everything was great! We went in for the IV Intralipids, our first time. It was so weird! The liquid is actually white! It looked like milk and was soooooo cold going in. 

 Our post wash numbers ended up with about 15million sperm at 70% motility.... that is really good for us! We were very hopeful. There were alot of prayers and fingers crossed! but in the end, we still were not pregnant. So now we are on the road to IVF and we need your help again. We're starting all over and we have a bigger goal. But we are confident that we are on the right path and hopeful that we will be able to raise the funds needed to try again...

Marching Ahead...

I was able to get the fluid ultrasound last week and I'm super excited to announce that my uterus is just as beautiful as ever (seriously my tech at FAM always says that)

 

 No adhesions, polyps, or endo seen. Everything looked great.

Dr. Dayal also saw what she at first thought was a cyst, but was actually a 15mm follicle on my right ovary. It was CD10 of another 7.5mg femara cycle! We have decided not to TTC until we can treat the NK cells, so we were not going to get monitoring or anything for this cycle, but the sneak peek was exciting to see. Im happy my body is still responding well to the meds. She talked with us briefly about NK cells and their success in treating them. She also agreed to let us do our 3rd IUI there with them and the IV Intralipids. This is our last shot before moving on to IVF, but we're happy to be getting it. She said that timing is a bit harder with intralids and IUI but that we could make it work. We will being going back to injections and getting the monitoring locally (sort of, my OB is still 1 hour away) and then we will need to come in several days prior to O/IUI for the intralipid IV. Whatever it takes! We're crossing our fingers that this was our missing piece!

We also will be going to SIRM in STL on Sunday for a seminar on IVF vs. IUI. They will talk about when each one is the best option and the odds and such of each working. Lots of time for questions and Dr. Dayal said she would be talking a bit on NK cells. So we're excited to get to learn more. Oh and they give away a free IVF at all seminars!! How awesome would that be?! Maybe luck will be on our side 

 We could use some baby dust!

Snapshots of our lives...

Just wanted to share some pictures from the last year or so :)