I don’t have to tell you that this time of year can be rough on couples or individuals struggling with fertility.  When we go to see our families and friends, we hope and pray that they finally took the hint to not ask us about kids anymore.  But for whatever reason, they still do.  Why… Continue reading Holidays Can Be Rough

It is hard to keep updating a blog when the journey becomes stagnant. Earlier this month you have read that my wife and I had an unsuccessful IVF cycle. It was our second try and it was heartbreaking.  We as a couple haven’t talked much about it recently but I am sure it still weighs… Continue reading When the posts stop

Dear Diane, We are going through a rough time.  It wasn’t the news you wanted to hear.  I was holding onto hope that since the call came before lunch it was going to be good.  It was not.  The odds were stacked against us.  2 Day 5 morulas transferred gave us a shot, but more… Continue reading I Love You Diane.

We are in the waiting room waiting for blood to be drawn. The wait for the results is excruciating. I remember last time that the call seemed to take forever. Instead of letting them leave a message we said we would call back, but when we called back they were on lunch break. We have… Continue reading Beta today

We sat in the car earlier this weekend.  Amidst her sobs, she says she does not want to go through another round of IVF.  I support her decision, no matter what it may be.  I hope we don’t have to go through another one either.  I hope this one works. My wife is pretty upset.… Continue reading Not Feeling Any Symptoms

We woke up around 5:25 AM to a hungry dog wanting an early breakfast. It was hard to go back to sleep because we were both anxious about the call from the embryologist. Today is day five and we are doing a fresh embryo transfer. The anxiety partly resided In not knowing if we had… Continue reading Make it a double

Today is the day after our egg retrieval. I got a message from my wife that there was bad news. Of the 22 eggs retrieved yesterday only 12 were mature and only 2 fertilized. This was shocking because we both felt things were going to be different our second go round. In our first attempt… Continue reading Only 2 fertilized

I think last time I wrote about was how things did not work out with our transfer.  My wife has been pretty strong through this process, but tonight she revealed some of her despair.  I won’t get to into it, but she summed it up with this image.   I am trying to be a… Continue reading Things are just things.

Hi this is Patrick. . . As you can probably piece together from the title our beta results returned a negative.   Diane’s numbers were good except for of course the hcg so we do not know why it did not work out.  The hatched egg had a very good grade, but things did not… Continue reading Unsuccessful Wishes

It’s been over a month since we last caught up so let’s fill you in. One day after work your mom had Pandora’s Hawaiian station on.  She spoke how bad she wanted to go because the stress of IVF.  With that said that night we booked our tickets to Hawaii and in a matter of… Continue reading Catching up