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A little update from On-the-pill-ville *Periods mentioned*

As most of you know I’m on the pill to restore my very attractive PCOS ovaries to their previous state of wonderfulness.  To the way things were before my E2 crashed from 15 000 to 1000 in 2 days.  This time is especially frustrating seeing that my boobs are big as Barney, but thankfully not [...]

30Jun2009 | InVivo | 5 comments | Continued
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Our First Live Blastocyst !

Without further ado, I present to you the first addition to the Live Blastocyst Library!
Day 3 Blastocysts

Day 5 Blastocysts

Note the lovely cavity, thin membrane and well differentiated inner cell mass.
It’s textbook, like this one on Dr. Licciardi’s blog
The patient’s story is as follows:
Short History:
TTC 7 years.
I Natural pregnancy ending in miscarriage at 9 weeks.
5 x [...]

30Jun2009 | InVivo | 3 comments | Continued
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One step at a time

After several failed cycles of infertility treament the excitement dampens and an odd brand of despondency takes it place.  Thesedays I try to devise mental strategies to channel my emotions into something more positive and hopeful.    I shudder to think that I might have to go through yet another failed cycle.  I lign myself up, [...]

26Jun2009 | InVivo | 9 comments | Continued
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The Live Blastocyst Library

I’ve wanted to do this for quite a while now, so I thought let me give it a shot, see if we can get this up and running.  Mommy Infertiles, we need your help!
If you have succesfully completed infertility treatment via IVF and have images of the blastocysts that resulted in a live baby, please [...]

17Jun2009 | InVivo | 12 comments | Continued
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Silent Sorority – Tender, Wistful, Intelligent

Finished Pamela Mahoney Tsigdinos’s book Silent Sorority this weekend. In between much family commotion, which included a family dinner with my four nieces (my sister has four girls!), sister, BIL, mom & dad, and meeting my newborn niece Juane (my brother’s first), my birthday buddy – born 11 June 2009.

Could I have chosen better circumstances [...]

15Jun2009 | InVivo | 4 comments | Continued
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Embryology 101

Look, I’m no expert, but I had to make myself understand a few things, so here goes, hope you can take something away from this.
Making heads from tails from my own embryology was a bit of a challenge, simply because I’m no embryologist, but I wanted to understand what’s going on there, so I started [...]

1May2009 | InVivo | 5 comments | Continued
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Facing the facts

I had to decide whether I wanted to put GIFT on hold and follow the intolerance diet for a while first, but have decided against it.  Truth is, the likelyhood of my fertility being linked to some food intolerance is minute.  Very, very unlikely, although it might help the cause of conception, it’s not the [...]

26Apr2009 | InVivo | 6 comments | Continued
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How do you Google this?

Ok, so I’ve been trying to compose the perfect search term to locate blogs of individuals that have had three failed IVF’s (I know I’ve only had two, but I need some extra reassurance – I’m a hope monger I know!), zero positives, PCOS, poor(ish) embryo quality and eventually fell pregnant.
Anyone like to give it [...]

14Apr2009 | InVivo | 5 comments | Continued
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Appendix A to Notes on Plan C

Went for my Food Allergy bloods this morning and mentioned to Dr.V2 (henceforth Dr.V is FS/RE, Dr.V2 is Nutritional Therapist) that Dr.V wants to know if immune system activation is not simply a general phenomenon, population wide due to hazardous lifestyle conditions.  She smiled, she did not entirely discredit the question, but her answer was, [...]

26Mar2009 | InVivo | 5 comments | Continued
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Intralipids – All you need to know

I’ve taken the liberty of posting a thread from a UK Discussion forum here for the information of others: http://www.carefertility.com/ivf/viewtopic.php?t=39200 Many thanks to Jane Reed and CareFertility

Intralipids

Information gathered from Immunologysupport group discussions
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/immunologysupport/

Updated 1/7/09

Contents:

I. What is Intralipid?
II. Dosage and administration
III. Cost
IV. Where can I obtain Intralipid for Reproductive Issues?
V. The patient trial [...]

24Mar2009 | InVivo | 3 comments | Continued
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