Elana's Musings: Ganirelix

Thursday, January 3, 2008

First Monitoring

Well, things are looking pretty good for this first IUI cycle. I have a bunch of little follicles and one big one on the left side - 17.5mm. My estrogen is SUPER high at 795 pg/mL and my LH is hanging in at 10.2 mIU/mL. Because my estrogen is so high, Dr Glatstein had a bit of a freak out and I have to start Ganirelix to prevent myself from ovulating. Yay, another injection. Can you feel the excitement? (Not!) I have to go back in tomorrow to check in on my follicles and estrogen, and it will probably be time to trigger. Yay!

TTC #1 & 2 / Infertility

Aug 27, 2006 ~ Married!
Dec 2006 ~ Diagnosed with mild PCOS; start taking Metformin on and off
June 20, 2007 ~ Clear HSG
Aug 21, 2007 ~ Normal S/A
Aug/Sept 2007 ~ Normal CD3 Bloodwork except for prolactin; start taking Dostinex
Sept/Oct 2007 ~ Clomid cycle #1; BFN
Oct/Nov 2007 ~ Clomid cycle #2; BFN
Nov/Dec 2007 ~ Clomid cycle #3; BFN
Dec 2007/Jan 2008 ~ Follistim/IUI cycle #1; BFP! (cycle 15)
Feb 1, 2008 ~ Miscarriage :-(
Feb/March 2008 ~ Natural IUI cycle #2; BFN
March 2008 ~ Follistim/IUI cycle #3; BFN
March/April 2008 ~ Follistim/IUI cycle #4; BFN
May 6, 2008 ~ SHG shows a small polyp
May/June 2008 ~ Follistim/IUI cycle #5; BFN
June/July 2008 ~ Suppression before IVF
July 3, 2008 ~ Hysteroscopy shows clear uterus (no polyp)
Aug 1, 2008 ~ Transferred 2 embryos (one 5 cell, grade C and one 10 cell, grade B); BFP! (cycle 22)
Sept 2, 2008 ~ Ultrasound confirms twin pregnancy w/ two heartbeats! (137bpm & 146bpm)
Oct 23, 2008 ~ Ultrasound shows Baby B to be a boy!
Nov 18, 2008 ~ Ultrasound shows Baby A to be a girl!
Dec 4, 2008 ~ Cerclage inserted
March 7, 2009 ~ Cerclage removed
March 18, 2009 ~ Chana Brocha & Dovid Yitzchok are born at 7:28 & 7:29am! Chana weighed in at 5lbs 1oz & 17 3/8 in and Dovid weighed in at 5lbs 4oz & 18 1/4 in.