u/Reach_4theStarz

I’m soooo tired of seeing pregnancy announcements. And to be honest the ones from married people don’t really bother me, but the “oops this wasn’t planned” ones really piss me off. Like first of all…we’re all grown here. Everyone knows what happens when you have unprotected sex so the whole “it wasn’t planned” thing is so obnoxious. And secondly, here I am thinking I was doing things the right way, waiting to get married before I had children, but everytime I open social media another single (as in not married) person is fucking pregnant. And this is no shade to un-married people in now way shape or form. Sometimes I just wish I would’ve had kids with my deadbeat boyfriend from 15 years ago. At least I was young and fertile then smh. I’m just so tired 😪 of waiting for my dream to come true. Seriously considering getting off social media…again.

I swear it never fails every time im around my mom’s friends I get that question. And I know they don’t mean any harm, and they’re older women so they might not recognize that it’s not appropriate to ask those kind of questions but I’m just so over it smh…it honestly makes me not want to be around people. I literally have anxiety about social settings because i feel like the question is going to come up and I don’t necessarily feel comfortable sharing that I’m going through IVF with people who aren’t my close inner circle. I’m so over it 😔☹️

For those of you with “unexplained infertility” do you and your partner still try naturally? My husband and I have only had sex 3 times in the last 2 years. None of which were during the fertile window. Besides the actual act of baby making I would still love to be intimate with him but he’s not interested. Just wondering if people going through IVF still have sex for pleasure? I miss the physical touch and the act of being intimate, but my husband just doesn’t desire it like I do. On top of all of the stress from IVF, the lack of intimacy really affects me emotionally. Mind you this is something that was occurring before we started IVF. He’s just never been that into being sexually intimate with me 😔

I’m currently in the midst of my second IVF cycle. I have DOR with an AFC of 10-11 and AMH of 1.15. My first egg retrieval was an antagonist protocol with microdose lupron flare. 8 eggs were retrieved, 3 fertilized, 2 blast and 1 low mosaic embryo. This time around I primed with estrogen patches during my luteal phase. I currently have 5-6 follicles growing and it looks like maybe 3 or 4 of them will be mature, so I feel like we’re going to end up in the same place we were with the first egg retrieval. I’m hoping and praying we get at least 1 euploid this time.

My question is, for those of you who’ve had a successful pregnancy, what protocol finally worked for you? Also did you PGTA test? Thanks!