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Hoping to have baby Kai in my arms soon!
08/12-BFN KD
12/12-BFN KD
04/13-???
Hoping to have baby Kai in my arms soon!
08/12-BFN KD
12/12-BFN KD
04/13-???
My wife and I are on our first steps of TTC. We have been together for 7 years and married for 1 1/2 years of those years. We are planning on our first insemination in September and I am rather nervous. I was diganosed with PCOS and have never had normal periods..hell, I did not know what a true period was for a long time, lol. After consulting with my OB/GYN and being told the best way to have a child was to lose weight, I have lost 60lbs and have started to have periods. I have already had 4 periods this year (and that is saying something because I normall only have one or no periods a year!) I have been tracking my ovulation and will continue to this month and pray that September will be our month! I am rather nervous because of my past "lady" issues and fearful that I will not be able to produce a child. I know this is a rather LONG introduction, but I am just feeling all these different emotions and have been looking for others going through this process to talk with. Hopefully, with this forum, I have found some wonderful people to talk with and get advice from. Hope everyone has a lovely day!
Tabitha!
We are Katie and Kari from Houston, Texas. We are going to begin our TTC journey within the next 6 mths -hopefully! We have been together for nearly 5 years. We have one ds from a previous relationship and are wanting to grow our little family.
I have been charting and researching for almost a year now in hopes to limit our ttc time and be able to have our little miracle. I have definitely learned a lot from you lovely ladies and hope to continue to learn more!
9/12 - BFN
10/12 - BFN
EDD 12/13/2013
It's identical TWINS! They're GIRLS!
7/20/2013 Sweet Baby A lost her battle with IUGR.
8/26/2013 Feisty Baby B was born via emergency CSection 16 weeks premature
I am obviously new here, and trying to get my head around how this process works. I am (was?) the proud mother of a beautiful baby girl who was brought to me through the miracle of domestic adoption (done privately). I found out last week that we were missing one of the critical papers and the birth aunt found out. She demanded that the birth mother drive 13 hours with her to get the baby. They left with her on Saturday and I am now entering a long legal battle to get her back.
So here I am. A single woman, who just desperately wants to have a child. I am going to try and research things a bit here and see how this works. I remember stumbling upon this website before my daughters birth mother asked me to adopt, and here I am...
Thank you for any advice and information. Enjoy your weekend, everyone!
My Chart: http://www.fertilityfriend.com/home/3615fd
In trying/tracking mode. Known donor turned bf! ;D Riding this roller coaster known as my life and excited for 2013. Ttc #1 hoping for pink. I can't wait to be a Mommy!
1-4 Bfn 5-bf?
WWW.abohemianlikeme.blogspot.com
I have been charting for about 3 years and now I'm just trying to figure out how this actual process works.
WWW.abohemianlikeme.blogspot.com my blog. The two posts untitled "tools for your box" covers everything you'll need. If its just you at home a spec will be useless cus we can't bend that way. The cath is mostly used for IUI. You really could just do it with an instead cup and a lil preseed. I think I'll do a blog one simple ICI at home cus I had the same questions and had to do a lot of research.
http://www.babymed.com/home-artificial-insemination-get-pregnant-turkey-baster-method found this very helpful. You definitely want to check out the sticky if you're doing in home inseming.
My Chart: http://www.fertilityfriend.com/home/3615fd
In trying/tracking mode. Known donor turned bf! ;D Riding this roller coaster known as my life and excited for 2013. Ttc #1 hoping for pink. I can't wait to be a Mommy!
1-4 Bfn 5-bf?
WWW.abohemianlikeme.blogspot.com
I am a 31 year old mom currently taking a break from grad school to *hopefully* make a baby with my DH. We have one elementary age kid already, then DH had a vasectomy. Worst mistake of our lives! I was pregnant at the time with number two and we were young and poor - figured since I had such a hard time with my first pregnancy we would simplify things and do a V. Sadly, I lost the pregnancy shortly after the V....long story short, we decided that AI is cheaper and more convenient for our family than a reversal.
We are trying with one vial of ICI at a time and just did our first insem today!!!!! SO excited!!!
We even did a little ceremony/prayer together to be blessed with a child that is truly both of ours spiritually . Now the hardest freaking part comes - the evil TWW!
Wishing you all LOTS of babydust and looking forward to seeing everyones BFP's posted soon:)
My name is Chelsea (23) & my wife's name is Danielle (24). We will be having our first insemination (at home, ICI) in September. Danielle & I have been together for close to 4 years now, but have been married for 3 years. We have wanted to have a child for a while now & hope that our first try in September is our last try (Until we decide to have another child). If September doesn't work for us, we shall keep trying until our dream of becoming mommies come true. I will be the one carrying our first child & my wife will carry our second child.
For the last 4 months we have been tracking my cycle, charting my temp & everything about my cycle is regular and constant. If our tracking continues to be accurate we will be trying towards the end of the second week of September. Well that's a little bit about us. Many blessings to all the ladies on here who are TTC.
I'm Anna, 34 (almost 35) and my gf is Lori, 37 (almost 38). We've been together for 2 1/2 years. Very much in love, in a way I never knew existed.
I've always known I wanted children. When I was young (18), I married a horrible man because I was naive and gullible, lived in a small town, and didn't think anything better would ever come along. And I wanted children. Inside my head, I always thought I would leave once I was pregnant, and I would never tell him. Awful, I know, but again, I was young. I never used birth control and never got pregnant, though I wasn't actively trying (didn't have a clue how then). My periods were irregular since menarche.
Fast forward a few years later:
With my first real gf, we both wanted kids and she didn't want to carry. We tried home insem with frozen sperm, home insem with fresh sperm, Clomid and frozen, Clomid and fresh, injectables and IUI with frozen, had a SAS, hysteroscopy, more injectables and IUI. The Dr. office told us if we didn't get pregnant on the next try, we'd have to go to IVF. Insurance didn't cover that, we had no substantial savings, and gf wasn't willing to go into debt for any reason. I was battling depression and was bloated and fat from the meds and stress. We broke up (not necessarily because of the TTC, but I think it exacerbated our problems).
A few years later:
New gf. A few years in she decides she wants to foster/adopt. I say absolutely not, I want to carry a child. Besides, we would never have been approved as foster parents, as she was usually unemployed and we barely could keep our lights on and food in our fridge. But I had insurance, and she found some free (don't ask me how) frozen donor sperm, so I went to the gyno and got a script for Clomid. We did 2 cycles of Clomid with monitoring and Trigger shot and home insem. 2 BFNs. I changed jobs and lost my insurance, and we both decided we really weren't ready for a baby after all anyway. We broke up a year or so later.
Now:
I had COMPLETELY given up on having children. I buried my grief about it and developed a sarcastic hatred of breeders. I took time to focus on my own likes and hobbies and career. I met my awesome gf, and was happy that she didn't ever want children, either. I didn't think I could ever go through the heart-wrenching process of TTC and failing again. We planned a wonderful child-free life together. I still had this nagging fear that I would be old one day and look back on my life with regret because I never had children. But I was afraid to bring it up to her, because she was so adamantly anti-kid.
Then one night, over a pitcher of margaritas, I broke down and told her that the anti-child thing was really a facade, and that the pain of failed TTC had made me hardened, and I knew I was going to be 70 years old and look back and feel that I missed out on so much. I told her I knew she didn't want kids, and I would never expect her to change that. I would stay with her no matter what, because I love her more than anything, but deep down I would have regrets.
She looked at me and said, "I think you're really not okay with not having kids. I've kind of been thinking I want kids too, lately. I think we need to try."
So.....
after a lot of soul-searching (because I was SO AFRAID of falling into that depression again, and SO AFRAID of the toll TTC can take on a relationship), I knew in my heart that I wanted to try. But I an self-employed and have no insurance, so it seemed like a moot point.
My wonderful gf has domestic partner benefits and she added me to her insurance. Turns out they even cover IVF.
Now, she is just as excited as I am. She even said she will support me in being a SAHM if I want (I do!).
**Sorry for the LOOONG post, but I felt all of it was relevant to my story.**
My name is Kristin (27) and my wife's name is Shannon (31). We've been together since 2009 and were married in July in 2011. We both knew we wanted kids right away! We started trying last September but we were a little unsure if we were ready and the timing just never seemed to work out with the doc so we've tried only been able to try 4 IUI's with our RE. We've spent lots of money on tests, offices visits, etc. so far with no results. We're both very tired of the RE we've been using and his lack of involvement and lack of interest in our journey (we are admittedly pretty high maintenance).
Long story short, we've decided to try at home ICI's for a while with NW donors! We're very excited about being able to do this at home, without the stress and impersonality of doc visits! We just placed our order with NW and our first try will be later this week! We're really hoping #5 is the charm
Welcome. Most do it back to back as long as money and health allow. If you wait a month you'll be trying with the same ovary each time.
My Chart: http://www.fertilityfriend.com/home/3615fd
In trying/tracking mode. Known donor turned bf! ;D Riding this roller coaster known as my life and excited for 2013. Ttc #1 hoping for pink. I can't wait to be a Mommy!
1-4 Bfn 5-bf?
WWW.abohemianlikeme.blogspot.com
TTC #2: IVF April 2017
BFP: FET Due February 2018