Timeline

2007
  • L and I get married.

2008
  • November - stop using BCP.
  • December - first BFP (completely natural).
2009
  • January 
    • first M/C
  • April
    • cardiac catheterization to make sure my heart can handle pregnancy.
  • June
    • my second open heart surgery. Goes very well, am considered "repaired."
  • September
    • follow up cardiac catheterization. Lots of scar tissue - get three stents.  
  • October
    • another follow up cardiac catheterization. Green light to go get pregnant!
2010
  • February
    • HSG shows right tube might be partially blocked.
  • April
    • because of my long cycles (ever since my first m/c) OB puts me on Clomid. BFP! But it's a chemical.
  • May
    • another Clomid cycle - BFN.
  • June
    • another Clomid cycle - BFN.
  • July
    • switch to an RE. Undergo a transfallopian catheterization to make sure my tubes are open. They are.
  • August
    • IUI #1 - BFN.
  • September 
    • IUI #2 - BFN.
  • October
    • IUI #3 - BFN.
  • November
    • Scheduled laparascopy to check if there is endo. Cancelled week before because hospital it was scheduled to be at couldn't do cardiac anesthesia. 
  • December
    • Rescheduled laparascopy at a different hospital. 2 minutes (literally) before laparascopy, it is cancelled because they were not prepared for cardiac anesthesia.
2011
  • January
    • IVF cycle #1 - 12 eggs retrieved, 7 mature, 5 fertilized.
      Transfer 2 on day 3 - BFP, but chemical pregnancy.
  • February - L and I start paperwork with an adoption agency.
  • March
    • IVF cycle #2 - E2 plunges from 1255 to 349 two days before trigger.
      18 eggs retrieved, only 4 mature initially, but 8 others matured overnight, 12 fertilize.
      Transfer 2 on day 5, freeze 4 - BFP!
    • Put adoption paperwork on hold.
  • May
    • At 7 week ultrasound, only 1 hb is detected. Baby B is gone.
    • 8 week ultrasound - all look good.
    • 9 week ultrasound - hb of 161 - looking good!
  • June
    • NT Scan (11w2d) Baby A has no hb.
    • D&C - all testing shows baby was chromosomally normal.
  • August
    • Start  up adoption process again.
  • September
    • FET #1 - Transfer 2 snowbabies. BFN.
    • Discuss infertility with inlaws, who offer to help us out with surrogacy if we want to go that route.
  • October
    • Homestudy ready!
  • November
    • IVF cycle #3 -antagonist protocol, E2 gets to 2109.
      17 eggs retrieved, 11 fertilize, only 3 make it to day 5.
      Transfer 2, 1 on ice, BFN.
  • December 
    • Reach out to surrogacy agency in MA, get two profiles to look at.
    • First adoption profiling opportunity - indirect placement. We don't get picked.
2012
  • January
    • Phone call with potential gestational carrier. 
    • Second adoption profiling opportunity - direct placement.  We don't get picked.
  • February
    • We meet with the potential gestational carrier and her family. We get along so well, we decide to work with each other.
  • March
    • Third adoption profiling opportunity - direct placement. We don't get picked.
    • We sign the gestational carrier agreement and start working on pre-testing for a carrier cycle!
  • April
    • Fourth adoption profiling opportunity - direct placement. We don't get picked. 
    • Pre-testing starts for the carrier cycle.
  • May 
    • Gestational cycle (IVF #4) begins.
  • June 
    • 1 day before trigger, E2 plunges from 1834 to 1479.
      8 eggs retrieved, 6 are mature, 3 fertilize.
      Transfer all 3 embryos on day 3. BFP!
  • July 
    • First ultrasound - 3 hbs! (115bpm, 118bpm, 122bpm)
    • Second ultrasound - still 3 hbs! (173bpm, 182 bpm, 182, bpm)
    • Put adoption profilings on hold, as we are not allowed to do both.
    • Carrier tells me she will not carry 3 to term, we must reduce 1 of them.
  • August
    • Third ultrasound - still 3 hbs. MFM agrees with carrier to reduce.
    • Emergency fourth ultrasound due to bleeding after s/r. Still two heartbeats.
    • Fifth ultrasound (scheduled, not emergency). Two good heartbeats, 171 and 167bpm.
    • Sixth ultrasound, still two good heartbeats in the 160s.
  • September
    • Our 5th wedding anniversary, and we hit the second trimester!
    • Seventh ultrasound - GENDER REVEAL - two girls!! (no heartbeats given).
    • Gender Reveal party for friends.
    • Eight ultrasound - all looks well
  • October
    • Parentage petition process starts
    • I spread the news via FB (one thing I always swore I would not do)
    • Ninth ultrasound - anatomy scan and fetal echos, everything is still perfect.
    • Babymoon to Colorado!
    • 10th ultrasound - everything good, babies now breech.
  • November
    • 11th ultrasound - Gabby diagnosed with Pemphigoid Gestationis (1 out of 100K pregnant women get this. Nice. Otherwise looks good.
    • 12th ultrasound - Still looking good! Baby A(isha) now turned the right way.
Still hoping and praying for our happy ending.

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