I agree that it is a very special space here. I’m sorry it’s some bullshit that bonds is all together here, but I couldn’t ask for better company.
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On minute 15 of hold just to try and schedule my baseline scan. Ominous start for this transfer cycle, vis a vis clinic functionality.
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They hadn’t entered any orders 
which also means now the billing department is like AHHHH YOU NEED TO PAY BEFORE YOUR BASELINE and that’s in an hour and the portal isn’t posting a balance for me. Loooool. Mess.
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Guess who has two thumbs, speaks limited French, and has one PGT-A tested normal day six embryo? This moi!
My streak of hitting hunger games predicted stats continues, I sent two embryos for testing and normal rate at my age is about 50%. Gearing up for a mid-January transfer. Feeling very lucky to have something to transfer.
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Wishing you soooo much luck with this transfer.
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Gogo tiny Bernadette embryo! Rooting hard for you! 
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Fingers crossed for you!
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These are my stickiest emojis
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Woowoooo! Well be on close timelines then, my transfer will be early ish January.
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Everything crossed for you!
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Finally a date to look forward to! for a good result.
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Yes yes yes!!!
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For my fellow IVFers, can I get your thoughts on transfer types?
My clinic’s default is to do fully medicated frozen transfers. In a perfect world, I’d want to do a transfer on my natural cycle, and with a trigger shot to ensure we nail the timing. I have an intense family history of preeclampsia with no previous risk factors, and I’ve seen that fully medicated transfers seem to be associated with higher rates of preeclampsia.
If it makes a difference, my lining has always been normal during 4 monitored IUIs and the two HSG/SIS cycles, and no one has suggested that I’m not ovulating on my own. My doctor is open to the natural + trigger shot cycle.
However, my clinic has a history of missing the window for trigger shots: we’ve tried to use it four times for IUIs, and they missed the window 3/4 times. This was across two people, so while I used to assume it was a quirk of my body, it seems like this is on them at this point.
I’m guessing that if they miss the trigger shot window again, we’d just skip the month and wait for the next month? They wouldn’t unthaw the embryo in advance? I wouldn’t want to risk a transfer without a trigger shot, since the most likely explanation of what’s going wrong is that we haven’t been timing my ovulation right.
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The embryo is thawed on the day of transfer, within a few hours of your planned transfer. Trigger shot would be many days beforehand. If the window is missed and it’s clearly missed, you can skip/cancel and embryo stays safely in its liquid nitrogen bed.
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I appreciated the fewer clinic trips with the fully medicated- there was ALWAYS a wreck! It also isn’t that many more meds. The big downside is that I was sore for months from the PIO.
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Tragically our shared clinic mandates PIO no matter transfer type, so I won’t get to skip that one 
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When he wanted me to go to 12 weeks instead of 10 he let me do every 3rd day PIO and the rest Endometrin!
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So some folks have probably figured this out by my posts, but since we had one IUI vial left, wife gave it a shot to see what would happen. Tested today and not pregnant, unfortunately. Bummer but I know the odds aren’t on our side.
During the procedure, the doctor said something that confirmed what I’d expected: the timing was a little chaotic, but she said it was fine because sperm lives in the body for 3-5 days. That is definitely true for fresh sperm! Frozen sperm lives in the body for 12-24 hours, though. I’d had a feeling that they didn’t know much about working with frozen sperm, but this confirmed it.
I know I’ve been complaining about their lack of queer competency, but the lesson learned for me is that that matters because they don’t know how to get us pregnant, not just because it hurts my feelings. I love where I live but this is when I wish I lived in CA/NY/MA, because there are enough of us there that doctors know how to get us pregnant.
I’m grateful that we have a stash of IVF vials, we have either 2 or 3 left. Hopefully we can get some good embryos out of those!
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Aaaah. FFS, you would think they would have done IUI frozen before. And the fact they aren’t available 6 days a week.
Your clinic is infuriating
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