What to do other people do with left over embryos?
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by becja
4y ago
Before starting IVF, having numerous embryos ‘left over’ was my biggest fear.  I mean obviously I was going to do one cycle, have my 1.8 children (1.8 being the average fertility rate in Australia) and then have all these embryos left over that I had created and didn’t need anymore. It was why I wasted over a year doing several IUI’s despite being told I was not really the best candidate for it and also why I asked the laboratory to limit the amount of eggs they tried to fertilise on my first IVF cycle.  But to be fair, it also had a ‘protective factor’ in that it was also why I was n ..read more
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Is the keto diet good for IVF?
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by becja
5y ago
I’ve been doing the ketogenic diet for a couple of weeks now and despite being seemingly the only person to do the ketogenic diet and not lose half their body weight in the first week*, I am loving it.  Clear, defined guidelines around what is and is not ‘allowed’ is what I’m all about.  My relationship with chocolate (and any source of refined sugar for that matter) was never about ‘moderation’.  All or none is how we roll, and at the moment with the keto diet, it’s ‘none’.  Plus, I love using the urine test analysis strips which tell you if you are in ketosis or not (is that TMI?).  Cle ..read more
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7 must knows for an IVF first timer
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by becja
5y ago
You’ve chosen your fertility clinic, got a grasp on the type of cycle you’re doing and you’ve got an action plan for administering those needles. There is just a few more things you need to know… 1.  It all takes so much longer than what you anticipate. I don’t mean to start all negative here, but it really does and you are either going to develop your patience skills to equal that of Mr Miyagi in the Karate Kid, or go a little cray-cray.  I’m sure it will be the first of those two options, but if it’s the second, take a breath and remember you’ve got this.  And if you haven’t got thi ..read more
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Why aren’t clinics talking about this?
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by becja
5y ago
Without a doubt, I had the highest level of success that you can have when doing IVF – that is a healthy baby.  Although by some standards, my journey was one of the shorter ones, taking seven cycles of injecting medications to get there, at the time it felt anything but short.  Even with that final successful round, we had poor egg numbers, poor fertilization rates and ended up doing a day two transfer – cause with only one embryo at day two, it is ‘better in than out’, right? To sum it up, I thought there was far more luck than science involved in helping my daughter come into the world ..read more
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