Destination Parenthood: July 2010

Sunday, July 4, 2010

Intro

3 comments Posted by Staci at 1:28 PM

This blog was created so that family and friends could follow both our physical and metaphysical journey to parenthood. On September 1, 2010 my husband and I will be journeying to Istanbul, Turkey where we will be spending 20 days there undergoing IVF (in vitro fertilization) treatments in hopes of conceiving a baby or two! We look forward to sharing this journey with you all. Thank you to all of you for your prayers and support thus far. So sit back and enjoy the ride, remember it could get a little bumpy at times, but hang in there! ;)

Fertility Abbreviations/Lingo

TTC=Trying to Conceive

IVF=In vitro Fertilization

ICSI=It's a procedure in which they fertilize the egg by injecting the sperm into the egg.

Sperm Aspiration=where they take a needle and extract the sperm from the testicle.

ER=Egg Retrieval

ET=Embryo Transfer

HCG=Pregnancy Hormone

Sticky Vibes=positive thoughts that the embryos stick!

BFP=Big Fat Positive (meaning your pregnant!)

BFN=Big Fat Negative

Follicles=Eggs that are growing

Blastocyst=an embryo that has reached the 5 day stage of growth. It should be around 70-100 cells by this stage.

5 day transfer=they will transfer the embryos five days after the egg retrieval.

Beta=Blood Pregnancy test

Lupron= 1st injectable med I start off with. It keeps me from ovulating all the eggs that I am growing. It also suppresses all my hormones so they can manipulate them as needed. I will continue on this until right before egg retrieval.

Gonal-F=An injection med that will cause my eggs to grow. I will start this after being on the Lupron for two weeks. In which, I will be doing both Gonal-F & Lupron.

HCG Trigger Shot=this shot will be given when my eggs are ready to be retrieved. This shot helps my eggs to fully mature so when they retrieve them they are completely mature and able to fertilize. Approx. 34 hours after this shot is administered they will retrieve my eggs.

Progesterone Shot=I will begin these injections the evening after the egg retrieval. These will keep my uterine lining nice and fluffy so the embryo can implant and it will help me sustain the pregnancy once they do implant.

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Sunday, July 4, 2010

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IVF #2--It worked!! We are pregnant!!!!

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