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Going through IVF/PGD in hopes of my DD

An emotional journey in order to get my little girl!

May 2009 - Posts

  • No,Pippi, Still undecided!

    I had my appt with SIRM Dallas on Tues and the doctor there is hilarious! He is just a gem. He, just like the CA Dr, think well....your eggs & embryos are great. You donated your eggs and got other people pregnant then no problem you will get pregnant. Only thing is, this time around, I've heard that garbage before and NO baby!!

    I'm so trying not to buy into it b/c I did the last time. Oh, it is so easy. Just do the FET and shabam...It's a girl!! Yeah, right. I've been down that road and I ended up at a dead end.

    My DH and I have talked about this over and over. I have basically decided on a Russian adoption (a definate baby!!) and he has decided on an FET and another fresh if that doesn't work...maybe even another FET after that.

    Honestly for him it has come down to the $. For $30000 we get a baby from Russia and he thinks it will take less than $30000 for us to get a baby from IVF. I absolutely HATE that it is all about the money. He fails to see this little baby that we could take out of an institution. arghhh.....

    On the other hand, I am almost as bad - I want a baby girl so bad that I would do just about anything to get her. So, I'm not sure that it makes me any better.

    So....we put a time limit on it. We have to decide by the end of this month (Sun). Adoption or IVF?????Whatever we decide we are going full force on it! We don't work well without a deadline so I think this will help collect our thoughts.

    My mom also wants me to do the FET. She isn't crazy about the adoption route. Sometimes Iook at my DS2. He is just so beautiful. I often get..."he's too pretty to be a boy" and I think why couldn't you have just been a girl!!! I know that sounds horrible but he would have been an adorable little girl with his light brown curly hair! Oh well!

  • faxing!

    I'm off to fax my 2 medical requests to Ca. I am getting my records send to SIRM in Dallas and Plano ARTS. I am ready to move forward! The consultations will help me decide just how to move forward!

  • I'm a victim

     

    We had our talk with the Dr Friday over the phone and it went pretty well. This was the most helpful he has been so I was excited that I didn't have to get mad b/c I didn't have any energy left that late in the week.

    He told me that they really couldn't believe that I didn't get pregnant. I was a text-book example of everything and my embryos were "perfect". He said I merely fell victim to the odds. So, I was able to find out the rest of my embryo's grades too. Both of my boys are grade 1 hatching blasts. Grade 1 being the highest. I have a girl grade 1 hatching blasts, grade 1 not quite hatching and a grade 2 hatching and a grade 2 not yet hatching. He said the 2s were high 2s like a B+.

    It was good to hear that I have some great looking girls on ice!

    So, every single day (for awhile now) I have a terrible headache. I know it is stress. I just don't know where to go from here. I am ALWAYS a girl with a plan and I am just swimming around in a sea of indecision and I feel like I'm going to drown!!

    I tell myself I want to adopt and then I decide that I should do the IVF. I keep hearing a still small voice telling me just to trust in the Lord and He will do what is best. I am terrified of going au naturale. I am so scared I will just have another boy. Yes, that sounds terrible....I know.

    Before I went to bed last night I asked for a dream to tell me what to do. In my dream I had a little baby girl. I saw her I held her and I saw her beautiful face. She had a little tiny pink bow in her hair and had just a tiny bit of dark brown hair (just like my boys did) and she had the darkest little skin (just like my boys). The skin thing is so funny b/c my babies have both had the most beautiful complexions when they were born. My DH and I are pastey white so it is a huge deal that they are so dark compared to us. However, that goes away in the first month! My younger one has a little bit darker skin but the oldest is stark white just like me and DH. We were sad his pretty coloring faded away.

    Anyway so I was holding this beautiful baby and showing her to my friend that lives out of town b/c in my dream she was visiting. She has a DD 6 mo older than my DS and her DD2 is 2 wks younger than my DS2. When we found out we were pregnant at the same time with #2 we both wished so badly for opposite genders. We couldn't believe that we both ended up with 2 of a kind. So this friend is in my dream with her family but in my dream she had 3 DDs instead of 2 DDs(which is what she has in real life) The youngest was about a yr old in my dream. She just looked at my DD and asked "Did you do anything differently?" and then I woke up.

    So, DID I Do anything differently?  If this dream is truly a vision of what my future holds it is telling me that I won't be adopting Internationally. That I will have to wait for my friend to have a baby before I will even get pregnant (and she isn't pregnant now or has any plans to be in the very near future) and that I will finally get my DD.

    So, did I just give up on IVF or was this an IVF baby? Did I go natural or did I sway? Am I reading too much into this dream? YES!!!

    So another day (s) , week(s) go by and still undecided. I only know that I was a victim.  

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