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Repost from @ivfhope.ttc - Yesterday I had a Day 3 Embryo transferred, I started clexane injections and continue with my Utrogestan 3 times a day. I feel extremely grateful for all 3 of my eggs to have fertilized, made it to day 3, 1 transferred and awaiting a call tomorrow to find out if the other 2 have made it to day 5 🤞🏼 I am remaining hopeful but nervous and staying realistic that this might not work. . . #ivf #icsi #ivfjourney #ivfaustralia #ttcaustralia #ttc #ttcwithendo #notubes #infertility #infertilitysucks #infertilityaustralia #3daytransfer #1dp3dt #clexane #utrogestan https://www.instagram.com/p/BtJdX8DhA_b/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=5st9wn4dt7yw

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18" HR-555 Wheels fitted with 225/40R18 Tyre fitted to Toyota 86 👌👌

[makingbabyglowworm]

The most beautiful sound

10 June 2016

I was nerves-a-plenty this morning as we drove to our first ultrasound.

“What if there’s nothing in there?” I asked hubs, worrying out loud. He reminded me there was no reason for there to be nothing.

He was right. Laying on the table in the most (non) ladylike of positions, the technician manoeuvred the screen so I could see. He pointed out 🐝🧀, measuring 7 weeks 1 day (my estimate was only 1 day off), with a little beating heart at 136bpm. It was so surreal. It was the best sound I’ve ever heard.

Sadly, we have now graduated from the fertility clinic and I will wean myself off the progesterone in the coming weeks (although I’m not sad about that. It’ll be nice to have my vag back). Just like that. Then we go through the process from here with my normal doctor. I admit, I wasn’t prepared to be out on my own so quickly! It’s bitter sweet, but I can’t help but feel optimistic that everything will go just fine!

🐝🧀: coming to our family late January 2017!

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Another happy customer gets 16-inch Advanti M8501 Wheels on brand new Kia Cerato

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Mercedes CLA 45 AMG Shooting Brake gets new Kumho PS91 tyres 👍👍👍

@ The Tyre Centre Australia

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Introducing the ZITO ZF Wheels. Using flow forming technology Zito has been able to make a wheel that is strong & reliable, and overall 15% lighter in weight than a cast wheel. Available in 5x112, 5x114.3 and 5x120 fitments.

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Fuel Off-Road Wheels now available at The Tyre Centre Australia

Fuel Off-Road Wheels now available on order starting from $249/ea. Wheels for off-roading must come from the world-class manufacturers, and Fuel Off-Road Wheels is a reliable proof. Custom wheels offered by Fuel Off-Road are designed and built to meet the most rigorous standards and specifications in style and quality

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Are you in there?!

2 June 2016 Our fourth Beta went up to 45 176 and the progesterone is holding steady! The clinic said the beta is very high which means everything is going really well, or we're having identical twins. Either way, it's a blessing. Scan is booked for the 10th. Will it be one or two?!

[makingbabyglowworm]

Of Hope & Heartbreak

29 May 2016

The dulcet whistle of the Kill Bill theme song rang out into the silence. It was 3pm on Wednesday 18 April, and after what had seemed like the longest 9 days of my life, the clinic was finally calling with the results of my blood work from the FET. Naturally I had put my defences up and convinced myself it had failed, so I answered the phone accordingly.

“I’m calling with your results”, the nurse said in an upbeat tone. I was hanging on her every word, trying to read every inflection to pre-empt the outcome. “… And it’s good news. You’re pregnant!”. In that instant time slowed down. In that instant I was deafened by the silence in my empty home. In that instant all the hope and heartbreak and impossibilities of the last two and a half years came crashing down around me.

I looked at hubs, trying and failing to keep it all together. I started to cry. I managed to at least sound like I was ok on the phone, while the nurse continued to tell me that anything over a Beta HCG of 25 was good, and that we had gotten 259. The next blood test would be in 4 days. I hung up the phone, shocked, and hubs and I hugged for the longest time. I sobbed into his shoulder, and then I realised he was crying too. It’s only the second time I’ve seen him cry in 11 years together.

Fast forward to Sunday 22 May 2016 and I was back at the clinic for my second Beta HCG blood draw. The results came through early that afternoon, while I was stuffing my face full of twisties. While my Beta had gone up nicely to 1340, my progesterone had fallen. My meds were upped to three a day (giving me an early start each day so I can use the med and then lay down for 30 mins), and another blood draw on Thursday.

Naturally I spent the next 4 days lamenting and stressing myself out. I read that eating can cause progesterone to drop by up to 50%, so for my next blood draw I didn’t eat or drink until afterwards. Thursday 26 May 2016 my Beta HCG went up to 7608 and the progesterone was up to 106. Everything seemed to have progressed nicely.

That brings us to today. I’m currently 5 weeks and 4 days pregnant. I’m still shocked and delighted that it has worked so far. I know there is a long way to go until the first trimester is over, and one of the shitty things about infertility is the joy it steals from you. The knowledge you have of everything that can go wrong at this point. I’m doing my best to stay positive and take each day as it comes. I’m focusing on making it to (and through) the next appointment, which is Thursday’s Beta HCG. It’s funny to think that for now we have finally done it. For now we have beaten infertility.

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5 Days Post Transfer

14 May 2016

Today is 5 days post my 5 day transfer. I feel completely normal and can easily pass anything out of the ordinary off as medication side effects. I’m slowly driving myself crazy, wishing I could feel something to know whether our little frosty (or Bee cheese - 🐝🧀 - as we call it as it's a combination of our nicknames for each other) has decided to make itself a home and stick with us.

Blood test will be this week to check the HCG, or human growth hormones/beta levels, in my blood. If it’s a number over 50, then it means 🐝🧀 is sticking around. At least for now. Keeping everything crossed. I’ve never wanted something so badly in my entire life!

[makingbabyglowworm]

11 May 2016

A beautiful friend reminded me of this tonight 💗

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The Final Ice Age

10 May 2016 The final freeze report is in and we have 4 little frosties which are well developed and back in the deep freeze! 1 blastocyst graded at aa (this is the best grade given and is the same as the frosty which came home with us) 1 blastocyst at ab 1 blastocyst at ba 1 blastocyst at bb (which showed signs of hatching which is great news). I've been feeling pretty normal today, with a few minor cramps here and there. Hopefully that is our frosty getting nice and comfy for implantation!

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Transfer day

9 May 2016

If there was ever a version of the excitement kids feel for Christmas, but for grown ups, this is how I felt about transfer today!

I woke up at 3:30am, and was unable to get back to sleep before hubs alarm went off at 5:10am. I was just. So. Excited. We left home about 6am and made our way to the clinic, where we were directed to make our way upstairs to the theatre area. There I was, sitting outside the procedure room with hubs at 6:35am, in the same waiting area where I sat before my egg collection so many months ago. With each passing minute, I was getting nervous and more excited. I couldn’t believe we were finally at this point. We were finally being given a shot at starting our family.

After putting on that sexy, open backed, blue paper hospital gown, we got called in to the room and I hopped up onto the bed. The formalities of checking ID were completed and as I looked around the room, something on the screen next to the bed caught my eye. Then I saw it. It was a textbook perfect blastocyst. And it was coming home with me.

I laid back and my legs were put in stirrups. It was just like having a pap-smear, but longer and slightly more uncomfortable. A catheter was placed through the cervix and then a thinner catheter with our blastocyst inside was fed into the larger catheter. After the embryo was placed into my uterus, we had to wait 30 seconds for it to float away from the catheter. Then the embryologist took the smaller catheter and checked the blastocyst had not stuck to it. It was all clear. Our perfect little embryo was back home. Then I was wheeled into the recovery area where I had a rest with hubs for half an hour. After that, we were free to go!

Hubs and I went out for breakfast and now I’m just relaxing at home. I go for a blood test late next week to find out if the transfer was successful.

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Out of the deep freeze & into the Petrie dish

7 May 2016

❄️Defrost Day❄️ The clinic beat me to it and called me this afternoon with an update on how the thaw went. To my surprise they thawed all of them, but the fantastic news is 🎉 all 9 embryos made the thaw 🎉

The embryos will all be cultured to day 5 blastocysts and all the viable ones will then be re-frozen. Oh yeah; the one left over that doesn’t get frozen?! It’s coming home with me!

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A Date With Destiny

3 May 2016 Blood draw #4 today. As the mornings get darker, I'm finding it harder to get going, but the plus side is I get to see the most beautiful sunrise each time I make the early start to get to the clinic and it brings a smile to my face and some peace to the start of my day. The wait for the phone call from the clinic with the results this afternoon was agony, but to my relief when they did call it was good news. My hormones are surging and I'll ovulate in the next 48 hours. I will start the progesterone pessaries on Thursday (can't wait) and a little frosty will be thawed on Saturday for 2 days of TLC and daycare in the lab. I'm imagining the lab staff will be singing to it, cooing over it and telling it how beautiful it is! I'll call the lab that afternoon to see how it's all going (the thaw, not the other things). The most exciting thing is: transfer day (commonly referred to as "turkey baster day" or "re-entry" by a select few) is on MONDAY! We will find out what time when we speak to the clinic, but when I got the call with that information I could have cried! This is the closest we have ever been to starting our family. I'm so excited and so grateful that we even have this opportunity! I'm not quite sure how I will manage to contain my excitement for the next week! So freaken' EXCITED!!

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1 May 2016

FET blood draw #2 today, and the clinic called this afternoon to say my oestrogen levels (E2) are at 700 so they think I’ll likely ovulate in the next few days.

They have asked me to come back tomorrow for another blood draw and an ultrasound with my mate the dildocam. We have met so frequently in the last few months that I feel like he should have bought me dinner first! Haha!