A Year in the making: Scan to Transfer
With two rounds of IVF with my own eggs under my belt, proceeding with Donor Eggs & Donor Sperm was a completely different experience. I was on Progynova 2mg tablets, and Cyclogest. So the clinic and I decided that tablets rather than patches was the way forward as a wedding photographer they were worried that…
A Year in the making…
Well, its been a while. I last wrote about choosing my egg donor – and then things seemed to get busy, things started to return to “normal” with work after COVID-19 and before you know it I was starting my round of IVF with double donor – which ended in a BFP and I now…
Choosing my Egg Donor
Having already gone through the in-depth process of choosing my Sperm donor in 2020 I knew what to expect when choosing my donors this time around. Due to Coronavirus the donor egg bank unfortunately got quite low and there then became a longer waiting list. I joined the donor matching list at the end of…
Donor Matching take 2!
My Donor Matching at Leeds Fertility included blood tests etc but when it came to actually finding the donor, that was all down to me. I remember thinking well what am I paying for really if I have to do all the leg work! I can however say that Donor Matching at Manchester Fertility is…
Moving Clinics
As I have mentioned previously, I decided that once I knew that moving forward with my own eggs was not going to work for me and I was going to venture into being a solo mummy with a double donor baby I knew I need to move clincs. I’ve never mentioned the clinics I was…
What’s New?
It’s been a while since I wrote as I wanted to get enough information to be able to make informed decisions for myself. After my follow-up Consultation at my current clinic, it came clear to me that my egg quality was actually part of the issue. This is age, weight and based on the endometriosis…
Follow Up Consultation – Round 2
My Follow-up Consultation for the failed round two of IVF was just before Christmas. I was told to wait until I had started to bleed and a confirmed negative to book my consultation but I didn’t, I booked it straight off the bat – because I just KNEW. I had to book my consultation via…
IVF Round 2: The Cycle in Full.
At the time of my IVF cycle, as it happened, it wasn’t really much to write about – things were very similar to the time before – so it wasn’t really a “brand new” experience. I was on exactly the same short antagonistic protocol with the same dosage of drugs. I knew what to expect…
IVF during Lockdown 2.0
It’s been a while since I’ve written an update properly about my last round of IVF. I didn’t think that doing a cycle of IVF during Lockdown 2.0 would be too much different from the first. But infact it was. Weirdly, really different. Being Self-Employed I knew that I would have to close the business…
TTC Abbreviations & Acronyms
Starting the IVF process, there is a whole host of another language to learn. Theres so much terminology, but when you’ve got the acronyms for the basics its like literally a brand new stream of new terms to learn. So, here’s a guide to commonly used abbreviations that often appear in TTC forums – That’s…
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