TTC Sordidagaga

Us: In our 30s

WoePath: Primary Sub-fertility --> Failed Treatments --> Natural Conception (2010) --> Neonatal Loss (2011) --> Natural Conception (2011)--> Princess Storm (2012) --> Natural Conception (2014) and arrival of Prince Calm (2014)....done with babymaking!

Current Status: Parenting!

Diagnosis for Primary Sub-fertility: Unexplained Infertility

2003

Wedding Bells!

2004 – 2005

BCPs out!!! (September 2004)

First Ovulation Study…(March 2005)…Yes, I ovulate.

Trying On our Own.

Nobody thinks we will have any problems in progeny department.

2006-2007

Hubby’s first SA (2006) – Numbers are Fine - around 45 million, motility and other facets? Apparently fine.

IUI #1, #2, #3 (2007)

Say Hello to Clomid (2007)

HSG (2007) – Apparatus is fine

Anti-Koch's for six months [TB(latent)] in 2007 - Tested 'Dubious' on the Mantoux Test... the suspect Adhesions pulling the right ovary and the uterus, were attributed to it.

2008

Begin serious charting

Laparoscopy (January)

D&C (July)

Say Hello to Femara

IUI #4 (March)

IUI #5 (August, Cancelled, Cyst is Back)

IVFw/ICSI #1 (October-November) – Lupride Protocol - 16 eggs retrieved, 13 mature, 9 fertilized, 3 transferred (on Day 3). None to freeze, nothing bloomed.

Gutted, Mud on the Face. TY 2008.

(In memory of my 3 embabies; made very lovingly by burble)

2009

Leave me alone, am not interested for a while.
But timed intercourse is still on, anyways.

First known anovulatory cycle of my history lasting 60+days (AF comes finally in August end)

Metformin and Low-dose Aspirin (started in August)

2010

Last Cycle with Clomid (January)

Steam it off

Begin His and Her micronutrients (March) – I quit in 20 days, he continues.

BFP (June) – conception happened naturally. EDD – Feb 13, 2011

Spend rest of year going for pregnancy appointments.

Things go beautifully! Metformin stopped after the first trimester and Aspirin stopped after the second trimester.

2011

It’s a girl on Jan 14, 2011.

Girl dies on Jan 16, 2011.

Can’t even blink.

Super Lochia stays till Feb 12, 2011.

AF#1 (Arrival – Feb 16) turns to a crazy haemorrhage; finally tamed with Primolut N (Continued and tapered and stopped on March 19, 2011)

AF#2 (post-birth) arrives March 21. Back to Metformin (1000 mg, beginning CD3; Low Dose Aspirin after AF says Tata!

TORCH test (February) - CMV IgG positive, IgM negative.

CBC (February) pegs Hemoglobin to be in-range but MCV, MCH,and MCHC is lower than the standard value.

SuperGyn orders a battery of tests - APA Screening, HbA1C, Homocysteine Test, TSH, FBS, PPBS. My Homocysteine levels are raised, rest everything is within normal range. (Feb-March)

Back to Active TTC; His and Her micronutrients (March)

Aspirin dose raised (50 mg x 2 times a day); B12 supplementation; Metformin still on (April). 

Clomid 100 mg - CD3 - CD7 [27/5;28/5;29/5;30/5;31/5] + Duphaston 10 mg - 14 days from CD14 (June)

Repeat Bloodwork - APA Screening, Homocysteine, TSH: Normal, Normal, Marginally Low (June)

BFP (June); LMP - April 23, 2011. Obviously the AF in May was not AF.

Unlike the last time, Metformin is continued for the entire pregnancy, but Aspirin is stopped at 34 weeks. B12 supplementation is a go too.

2012

Metformin dosage cut to half @500 mg a day citing it as a possible cause for baby not gaining enough weight. (Jan 7, 2012; around 36 weeks)

Baby Figlia is here!! (January 2012) Let's get a swing of this parenting thing!

On Norethisterone - 5 mg, to manage the post-delivery bleeding.

Rinse-Repeat Norethisterone - 5 mg in March.

Post-Partum AF#2: April 2nd. No more controlling cycles, resume normal!

Ouch! AF#3 11 days after AF#2!

Dealing with Dysfunctional Uterine Bleeding and reduced cycle length (since April 2012)

DUB controlled with @yurvedic medication: cycle length normalized but bleeding still spread over eight days.

2013

Cycles still inconsistent in their length and nature (January one was very light, and in February, AF showed up 11 days before expected date.) Continuing the medication.

Back to TTC (end-Feb/March)

March-end - Start with Metformin and the other pills. Stop after a week or so. We decide to not decide on another baby.

May-end - Back in the saddle. Begin Metformin (500 mg x 2) on CD9 (May 27, 2013). Aspirin to follow in a couple of days.

July - Decide to continue Metformin & Aspirin till my 37th birthday (falls in 2014) if I do not get pregnant before it. If still not pregnant by then, I will formally exit TTC arena and end a pursuit that lasted 2004 - 2014. Feel relieved at the decision.

November  - Get my act together and get serious with the Metformin/Aspirin cocktail.

December - Clomid 100 mg  from CD4 - CD8; Duphaston for 15 days from CD10.

2014

January - Clomid cycle #2; CD 4 - CD8; Duphaston for 15 days from CD14.

March - Clomid cycle #3; CD 3 - CD7.

BFP (April): LMP - March 7, 2014

November: Baby boy is here!

Post Script / With Script Whatever

Loads of baby making sex -> timed and untimed, with or without ovulation inducing medicines (Joy of Natural IUIs)

Tendency for Retroverted Uterus (Tipped towards the right side)

Beautiful Ovaries have a life of their own; left ovary is a sleeping beauty, and the right ovary is a brute; right ovary is more responsive, and had a single recurring cyst....removed once in the laparoscopy (January 2008), and then aspirated again in November 2008. Confirmed that cyst has not returned. (August 2009, Feb 2011)

DH went through multiple SAs and usually passed in flying colours even though in one SA his number was just 6 million post-wash (he had recovered from fever, March 2008).



Famous Non-last Words

Reproductive Rights – Reproductive Ability = Not Fair!

I want to switch to Kid TV, but God refuses to let me change the channel.