The 2 Week Wait Is Over

December 3, 2009

Today heralds the end of my two week wait.  The spot of red on the toilet paper today told  me a story I did not want to know.  I am not pregnant.  Nine cycles and no results. Countless embryos and no result. Countless injections and drugs and no result. Countless waiting around to see if I get pregnant [...]

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The IVF Waiting Game

November 30, 2009

Well I am officially in the 2 week waiting zone but the reality is, when you are doing IVF, every aspect of your life can become a waiting game.  And it’s a game that is not always fun. The problem with IVF is that all one ever does is WAIT! Your life becomes measured in [...]

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Day 5 IVF Results

November 27, 2009

Embryo transfer on Tuesday went off without a hitch – apart from the fact that I think I unsettled the embryologist. No necessarily a good thing when they are the custodian of your embryos.   The embryologist came in as usual and informed me that they had chosen a mature blastocyst that was just starting [...]

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Fertilization Results Day 4

November 23, 2009

Well the moment of truth has arrived.  As the clinic has not been accessible over the weekend, I learnt today that we have 8 remaining embryos.  Essentially, the development of one embryo was arrested (I think this means it stopped developing) and the other two were growing a bit slowly and were behind. As I [...]

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Cycle 9: Egg Retrieval Results

November 20, 2009

Yesterday’s egg collection yielded 17 eggs – 16 of which were mature enough to commence the delicate micro-injection process for fertilisation. This egg retrieval was pretty unremarkable.  Out of six stimulated cycles, this is one of the cycles where I have had slightly less eggs. That is what it is like with IVF, the results [...]

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Antagonist IVF Cycle and Acupuncture

November 12, 2009

Today is Day 7 of my cycle and the 6th day of follicle stimulating injections. I had my first ultrasound and blood test for cycle 9 yesterday. Goodness my IVF cycle count is getting on the high side. The ultrasound was interesting – they spotted 16 follicles in the right ovary and 14 in the [...]

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Change in Antagonist IVF Treatment Procedure

November 9, 2009

One major change from the treatment protocol I had last time is the fact that instead of injecting the antagonist in the evening an hour after the follicle stimulating hormone, I now need to inject the antagonist in the morning. I asked my new nurse why the treatment protocols had changed. She replied that an [...]

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IVF Antagonist Cycle #9

November 7, 2009

Yesterday was first day of cycle number 9.  Due to the forthcoming Christmas period, I will be doing another antagonist IVF Treatment cycle – the second antagonist cycle in my total treatment.  The benefit of doing this is that my cycle will last 28 days instead of the usual 2 months and won’t cut into [...]

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Cost of IVF Increases by 15%

November 4, 2009

The cost of IVF has increased by over 15% since July.  This increase marks the second price increase in less than 12 months putting further pressure on would be families. At a leading Melbourne Clinic, a typical IVF cycle in July cost $4,666 in up front fees.  As of November, the cost increased to $5,387.25 [...]

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Role of the IVF Nurse

November 1, 2009

One of the more positive aspects of IVF is actually having regular contact with your IVF nurse.  Your nurse will fill in all the gaps that your Doctor hasn’t told you about or that you have forgotten to ask. Your nurse who take you through the whole IVF treatment process step by step. She will [...]

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