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.