im hoping you haven't done more than 6 cycles on clomid?Insurance not covering infertility treatments is pretty common. Even up here in liberal WA they usually don't cover any of it. My wife and I are 3.5 years into our journey of trying to conceive and only have one miscarriage to show for it. That includes several years of clomid, a year of monitored cycles w/ HGC and 5 cycles of IUI, none of it covered our insurance. So far the doctors can't give us any good reason of why we are having such difficulties, my sperm is fine, and other than her cycles being a little off there doesn't seem to be anything wrong with her. Our next step is IVF but that is $15k+ (not covered by insurance) and we just don't have that kind of cash available right now, mainly because we burned through so much doing the HGC and the IUI. Shit is expensive.
We are just doing clomid right now and saving for IVF, but I am really hoping we get lucky so we don't have to do IVF. When we had our miscarriage we were only doing the clomid. I fully expect having a kid to make me broke, but I didn't count on going broke just trying to conceive the damn thing.
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opiate82
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Way more. The perception that clomid increases risk for uterine and/or ovarian cancer is overblown and there isn't any real corroborating research to support that claim. Yes, people who take clomid have a higher instance of uterine and/or ovarian cancer, but so do people who have irregular cycles, who are the only people who would really be using clomid in the first place. Collaborated this with my own research as well as discussion with a couple of different fertility specialist, including one who is considered among the best in the state.
Obviously we have also been keeping an eye out for hyperstimulation as well, which would be the other major possible complication with clomid. So far no issues there.
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no way my anxiety could deal with one of these, which is odd since this device is clearly designed to make you less anxious
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I bought a dropcam to use as our baby monitor. It's absolutely perfect
https://www.dropcam.com/
$150, constantly streams via your wifi in your home, so you can watch the HD stream via computer, tablet, phone, or whatever. Can check in remotely(like when I'm at work) to take a look at the kid. Since my wife and I both always sleep with our cell phones by the bedside(it's our alarm clocks), we always have a video monitor nearby if we want it. Also works well, my wife can monitor from the living room while I'm in the basement also monitoring on my PC. No need to buy extra monitors, everyones home already has multiple devices with all the PCs, laptops, tablets, and smart phones that we have nowadays.
The infra-red night vision is really good as well, it automatically makes the transition once light levels get low enough.
It also has a built-in speaker, so you can talk through it once the kid gets old enough to be yelled at for getting out of bed.
Can't recommend it enough.
https://www.dropcam.com/
$150, constantly streams via your wifi in your home, so you can watch the HD stream via computer, tablet, phone, or whatever. Can check in remotely(like when I'm at work) to take a look at the kid. Since my wife and I both always sleep with our cell phones by the bedside(it's our alarm clocks), we always have a video monitor nearby if we want it. Also works well, my wife can monitor from the living room while I'm in the basement also monitoring on my PC. No need to buy extra monitors, everyones home already has multiple devices with all the PCs, laptops, tablets, and smart phones that we have nowadays.
The infra-red night vision is really good as well, it automatically makes the transition once light levels get low enough.
It also has a built-in speaker, so you can talk through it once the kid gets old enough to be yelled at for getting out of bed.
Can't recommend it enough.
My wife and I tried for 5 years to get pregnant. Did every non medical thing, then did 3 rounds of IUI, then finally decided we had to do IVF. As others mentioned, very hard to pay for, my insurance paid about 25% of the cost, the rest was scrimping and saving. We're only in our mid 30s, so they had us only implant 2 eggs. We were very worried that nothing would "stick". My wife must have gone through about 20 pregnancy tests over the next 2 weeks. Freaking out about the whole experience and how much it cost us. At week 3 blood tests come back that show her HCG is skyrocketing and was a big indicator of multiples...
So yeah, went from scared that it didn't work, to now having it work too well. 6 Week sonogram showed that both eggs implanted. So we were going to have twins. Had a total freak out, happy, scared, panic, yeah whole thing.
8 Week sonogram comes. Doc says "you both have very well developing identical twins" I said: WHAT THE FUCK?! How can they be identical!!" He looks at his chart and sees that we implanted 2. And that last sonogram showed twins, but didn't say anything else.
I asked him to figure out right now what the hell was going on. So he says "OK let me take a look around" I shit you not, he says "Oh look, there's another one" Like he found a Penny on the floor!!
I almost passed out. One of the eggs split. So now we had TRIPLETS.
It was an insane pregnancy, and they were born 2 months premature and spent a month in the NICU.
Its now 16 months later, and my 3 little girls are happy, healthy and almost ready to walk.
It's been a wild ride.
So yeah, went from scared that it didn't work, to now having it work too well. 6 Week sonogram showed that both eggs implanted. So we were going to have twins. Had a total freak out, happy, scared, panic, yeah whole thing.
8 Week sonogram comes. Doc says "you both have very well developing identical twins" I said: WHAT THE FUCK?! How can they be identical!!" He looks at his chart and sees that we implanted 2. And that last sonogram showed twins, but didn't say anything else.
I asked him to figure out right now what the hell was going on. So he says "OK let me take a look around" I shit you not, he says "Oh look, there's another one" Like he found a Penny on the floor!!
I almost passed out. One of the eggs split. So now we had TRIPLETS.
It was an insane pregnancy, and they were born 2 months premature and spent a month in the NICU.
Its now 16 months later, and my 3 little girls are happy, healthy and almost ready to walk.
It's been a wild ride.
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I can't decide if ending up with multiples is my biggest hope or fear when it comes to all this infertility stuff. On one hand, after all we have gone through it would be nice to get all the baby-making out of the way in one shot. On the other, I can only imagine the stress, especially with the potential complications of a high-risk pregnancy.
Multiples run in both mine and my wifes family. My Grandpa on my dads side is a twin and my wifes dad is a triplet, and outside of the "litter" her dad was a part of her grandma had two other sets of multiples.
I'm glad everything worked out for you (I was going to say more or less, but I think in this case you definitely got "more").
Multiples run in both mine and my wifes family. My Grandpa on my dads side is a twin and my wifes dad is a triplet, and outside of the "litter" her dad was a part of her grandma had two other sets of multiples.
I'm glad everything worked out for you (I was going to say more or less, but I think in this case you definitely got "more").
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no - identical twins and a third. One of the embryos split.
Stbb that's a crazy but awesome story!
I just want to say thank you for all who are sharing on these infertility subjects. It is hard to find people locally to talk about this stuff with. My wife and I are having issues as well and it is a very stressful and emotional time going through all of this.
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Yeah, it is very tough, I hear ya. I think the hardest thing for my wife is that she has had to watch several close friends and co-workers get pregnant while we have been trying. The latest are some close friends of ours who were told they probably couldn't conceive w/o major medical intervention (which they didn't want to do) just announced they are expecting. They were about to give up on "kind of trying" and were going to go back on birth control so she could go to school w/o worrying about getting pregnant. When she went for her appointment to get back on birth control she found out she was pregnant. Not that we aren't happy for them, but it is hard to continue to hear news like that and not feel upset at our own situation.
Doesn't help that my wife is also a nurse in the Childbirth Center at the local hospital so she gets to see all the losers and drug addicts popping out kids on a daily basis.
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Anybody have some dietary recommendations for gestational diabetes? Wife was diagnosed yesterday and we we're looking through our fridge this morning and really scratching our heads. Both of our mothers can't eat gluten and this shit is worse than that. Limiting carbs and sugars is pretty much Atkins, no?
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A few of our friends have had gestational diabetes while they were pregnant, and in every case their pediatrician/OBGYN/hospital referred them to a professional dietitian(many hospitals have them on staff), I'd start with that. It's usually covered by insurance in a situation like that.
Kiddo slept for 6.5 hrs last nite. We haven't been cleared to feed on demand but he had been waking up every 3 hrs anyways so I never set alarms. That said we had our 2 week appt today and he's gained back all of the weight he lost so they're happy with the progress and not too worried.
My kids a skinny alien. Head is 75th percentile, weight is 10-25 percentile, height is 50 percentile. I think it would be hilarious if we had a skinny kid. I realize these percentiles are just baselines. Still funny to think about.
Skipping feedings is no joke btw. Thank Jesus for pumps.
My kids a skinny alien. Head is 75th percentile, weight is 10-25 percentile, height is 50 percentile. I think it would be hilarious if we had a skinny kid. I realize these percentiles are just baselines. Still funny to think about.
Skipping feedings is no joke btw. Thank Jesus for pumps.
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So we had retrieval in Wednesday. we found out found out Friday that 9 of the 10 eggs retrieved successfully fertilized. That should give us some good odds at getting embryos that are negative for FAP. it's a straight 50/50 chance to inherit it.
It's incredible how they are able to flag the 1 chromosome that has been mutated and can test 1 single cell from the embryo for the mutation.
We'll find out this weekend at some point how many are positive or negative this weekend. Implantation will be on Monday. Then we wait 2 weeks. Gonna be a loooooong 2 weeks.
It's incredible how they are able to flag the 1 chromosome that has been mutated and can test 1 single cell from the embryo for the mutation.
We'll find out this weekend at some point how many are positive or negative this weekend. Implantation will be on Monday. Then we wait 2 weeks. Gonna be a loooooong 2 weeks.
