After another unsuccessful transmyometrial transfer (under anesthetic, via needle through the uterine wall), i made an appointment to talk to the Fertility Doctor about my options.
I was reassured that he doesn't believe there is any other reason for me not falling pregnant as yet (apart from my obvious cervical problem) and we decided to grow my embryo's on to blastocyst stage as we still had 10 day 2 frozen embryo's.
He advised that we would likely lose a lot of embryo's in the process (possibly all of them), but if we could get one or more to this stage then it would certainly increase our chances of a successful pregnancy.
I had to go for a blood test to confirm that ovulation had occurred, my results weren't quite what they wanted (low progesterone level of 8 on the day of testing), so ordered another test a couple of days later - thinking that this was going to be a huge let down and another missed cycle, i wasn't holding my breath waiting for the result - it was actually a great result and my progesterone level was within the range that they need to support a growing embryo & hopefully a pregnancy.
Transfer was scheduled for the morning of 4th June at 6.30am. Travelling to my appointment that morning, i did not even know if there would be an embryo to transfer and even after arriving and getting in my hospital gown, it was still another half hour before the scientist came in to let me know how things were going - good news & bad news!! We did infact have one great blastocyst for transfer on that morning, although that's where the good news ended. Out of all 10 of my embryo's, we had the one blastocyst for transfer, 7 had not made it, and we had two that were slow growers that they were going to grow on for another day to see if they would "catch up" (wasn't feeling very hopeful).
The transfer went to plan and we started the long trek home. It just so happened that we were heading to Melbourne that evening for a week of R&R, so after the long trip home i finished packing my bags and then did the trip to the airport.
I got a call from the clinic the next morning regarding my two "iffy" embryo's - it turned out that one infact did make it to blastocyst stage, so has now been re-frozen!
All went well with everything whilst i was on holidays - my boobs began to feel more tender than usual about 3 days after the transfer which i took as a positive sign, even started to get my hopes up that this would be "the one". Once again i decided to do a pregnancy test a couple of days before my period was due, but only one line appeared :(
I couldn't believe that this was happening again :( :(
My fertility specialist is going away on holiday shortly, so we get a month off from this whole horrible process before we try our lucky last transfer. I just can't believe that out of our original 20 day 2 embryo's that we have still not been lucky enough to fall pregnant - especially given that we fell pregnant naturally with our daughter on my second month off the pill (prior to my cancer surgery).
My turn has to be coming soon, surely!!
