None at all. It was one of those very obvious don't need any tests to know kinda things.
None at all. It was one of those very obvious don't need any tests to know kinda things.
Hmmm. Did he tell you the grades of the blasts they xferred? obviously they xferred the the blasts that were without the mutation per the pgd but did he have a guess as to why the blast quality itself wasnt great? obviously her lining is a separate issue bit wondering if they are going to put you all on something to improve egg quality too between now and your next cycle? Unless the other blasts (that you couldn't use) looked good?So we'll be starting our next attempt in November. We learned a bit more about the embryos that were implanted. Apparently the 2 best embryos they would have used were infected embryos. The 2 we ended up using under normal circumstances wouldn't have been a high enough quality to warrant being used.
Looking at the results our doctor feels my wife may not have been absorbing the progesterone via suppository as well as the doctor would like so we'll be switching to intramuscular progesterone shots for this round. Those are going to be fun to administer. The sub-q shots were bad enough ugh. My wife does NOT like needles lol. She will be upping the hormone shot dosage too. Since insurance will only cover 2 PGD cycles we want to go all in with this 2nd one.
If it doesn't work this next round then we'll have to really think about how to proceed. If we take the chance without the PGD or if we go with a donor. I have no problem using a donor but we'll cross that bridge when we get there.
edit: And congrats Nester.
adoption is the other A-word optionPretty much what I said, but that's not going to be an option. The girl is from a very conservative Alabama family, and she already told her parents. My gf's family is pretty conservative too, at least her father, but that went out the window as soon as he heard. I think he realizes that his son isn't prepared for fatherhood. Either way, everyone knows the score at this point and there's pretty much no chance of abortion even being an option on the table.
The next step is to get everyone in a room and discuss the situation apparently, but the girl's family isn't in any rush. They "can't make the time" until after labor day, which to me sounds like trying to run out the clock on discussing an abortion. I'm trying to stay clear of the whole situation. As stressful as it is for my gf, I'm not technically family yet and I don't feel like I have any right to voice an opinion except to her.
It's going to end up however it ends up, but the bottom line is that her brother has to mature a hell of a lot in the next 7 months. He's not a dumb kid by any means, but he's one of those people for whom life was just easier by being a fuck up since someone was always there to catch him when he fell. He's spent his whole college experience drinking and getting laid at a party school, not really paying attention to his grades and ignoring his parents when they insist he get summer work. They've let him stumble through life for way too long, and he's completely unprepared for what's ahead of him now.
Yes they showed us the report on all of the embryos. There were several that were good quality. The 2 best just happened to be infected and 2 of the lower quality ones just happened to be uninfected. I don't recall what the other drug is but she will be on one that she wasn't on the first time around.Hmmm. Did he tell you the grades of the blasts they xferred? obviously they xferred the the blasts that were without the mutation per the pgd but did he have a guess as to why the blast quality itself wasnt great? obviously her lining is a separate issue bit wondering if they are going to put you all on something to improve egg quality too between now and your next cycle? Unless the other blasts (that you couldn't use) looked good?
We added an "Intralipid" infusion for the 4th go and that was the one that worked for us. The theory was my wifes immune system might be causing the problem (no problems with either of us, always have high quality embro, but nothing would "take') and Intralipid would suppress the "Natural Killer Cells" which may keep the embro for attaching.Yes they showed us the report on all of the embryos. There were several that were good quality. The 2 best just happened to be infected and 2 of the lower quality ones just happened to be uninfected. I don't recall what the other drug is but she will be on one that she wasn't on the first time around.
It's not a death sentence. And honestly, he's lucky bc it really falls on the female and her family. All the parents of prego teen moms that I know, don't care about shit else once they see that baby. Baby trumps all BS. But then everyone is different...I am hoping that they're considering that as an alternative, and my girlfriend has certainly mentioned it to her brother and parents. Like I said, I'm not opening my mouth when it comes to their family affairs to anyone except her.
The problem is the whole southern thing. A significant portion of religious, conservative southerners see pregnancy as a "gift from god" that you're denying if you give the child up for adoption. It's not just about abortion being bad, it's about failing to live up to god's expectations of you (and frankly, there's a punitive angle to it as well, as though you've got to pay the price for sex out of wedlock). I'm hoping that they can avoid those entanglements, but it wouldn't be the first time that adoption was discarded as an option. It's almost seen as a personal failing.