Thankyou

Thankyou everyone for your thoughts. You have no idea how much they have helped me over the last few days. I'm still feeling pretty down, which hasn't been helped by me coming down with the flu today, but I guess we move on. It's not like we have a choice in the matter.

They couldn't give us any answers on Monday about what went wrong. I'm going to ask about the possibility of three day transfers versus blastocyst transfer, and also whether they will consider doing a double embryo transfer if the next cycle doesn't work. I know they laughed me down last time, but there are only a finite number of cycles that we can financially and emotionally afford. I fear that if we don't fall pregnant by the end of this year, which is three or four cycles away, we won't be able to keep trying.

I'm still doing the HRT, if I stop taking it I will get AF straight away and that will stuff up my body apparently, so lucky me is still pumping myself with hormones.

I have an appointment with our fertility specialist on Monday morning. I think we are going to go back to trying normal IVF. I really do believe in IVM and would love to continue with it, and we may still go back to it, but right now I need the percentages on my side. I need to do something, anything to make this happen.

I'm trying to find research that I'm sure I have stumbled across before but can't seem to find now. The journal article (I think) was about using a combination of IVF and IVM, doing a normal IVF cycle but taking the mature and immature eggs at egg collection. They can treat the mature eggs as per normal and then use IVM on the immature eggs. I'm sure I have read something about this but for the life of me can't find it. If anyone has seen this before, can you please forward me the source? I would really like to be able to take it to my clinic as an option.