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AngelMae's hope for a daughter

Our journey through the high tech world toacheive our dream of a daughter for some balance in our family.

October 2008 - Posts

  • Here we go again!!!

    Af arrived a day earlier, throwing a stick in the spokes as usual, now I had to do bloodwork on day 2 between 7am and 8am, very busy time in my house getting my guys ready for school, so Sat would have been much better, but we will deal with it, today I left my 16year old home with everyone strict instructions, the little guys were still sleeping and the other 2 were to get ready for school, and make the bus, I would drive my oldest to school once I got back.  The office is only 10 min away, and b/w and sono ususally take 15min max, so I figued I would be back within a 1/2 hour... Not today the nurse was late openimg the office, the u/s nurse was late, so I was there at 7am, but I didn't get b/w or sono until 7:30, and got home by 7:40, of course my 13 yr old missed his bus, and my 10 yr old was not dressed so I got them all together and drove the older guys to school, then got the other 3 ready....Not a smooth start, but at least I only have to go weekly, so I think I have to figure out a better plan for next fri monitoring visit.

         OK I don't know how I feel one minute excited the next  I am so sad, and the next I am afraid I will get pregnant and lose her again.  I know one step at a time, lets pray she makes it through the thaw.... then lets pray she STICKS!!!!!!!!.... and then when we pass that hump we will pray she holds on for the next 9 months!!!!!!!!  Please Lord I hope you are listening!!!!

            I feel I could jump out of my skin,  I am so afraid I will never have a DD, I just could Scream!!!!! If I thought it would help I would do it, so I guess I need to focus on getting my body ready to hold my little girl for the next 9 momths.  Off to the web to find out the best things to do for a successful FET!!!!!!   Come on my snow baby make it through the thaw and STICK!!!!! I know you can do it.

  • Our last chance at knowing 100% we are having a girl!!!!

    After calling the billing Dept at my RE's office to find out what my FET would cost, they decided to tell me I owed over $7,000 for my 1st and 2nd cycles???? I paid the RE's office $12,085 for my first cycle, this would give me 4 chances at pregnancy, I would have one natural cycle and 3 FET, all included in that price, it also included all b/w, monitoring and office vivits.   Luck would have it that we had 2 male embies and  only had 1 female embie and she was our worst looking embie, that resulted in a chemical pregnancy.  We cycled again and paid for the single cycle $8,400, we did have 3 female embies this time and we put back 2, our 3rd embie grew another day and was strong enough to freeze,so we paid another $1,000 to have her cryopreserved and stored for 6 months,   we put back 2 and had a frosty to fall back on.

    I never even thought I would be coming to get her.

    We got our BFP and it lasted about 9 weeks, I had a D&C a little over 10 weeks.

    Talk about throwing salt in a wound my Re's billing dept is trying to charge me for things we never even heard of they said they were extras, the only extras I was told about was ICSI and embryo glue, and we were told by our Re that we did not need either one.  so we should not have been charged any extras...

    It took months, and many phone calls, I finally got threw to the person in charge of all of billing and he cleared it all up, so now we were back to owing nothing.  In my attempt to figure out what was paid I did find out that my RE's billing Dept charged our insurance for things we had paid for, and my insurtance company paid them, My insurance company said they would pay for blood work and monitoring and nothing else, yet they paid for office visits, testing, monitoring, blood work, even  part of my egg retrieval and embryo transfer.....  I had already paid package prices to my RE, so they were getting paid by both of us, We had paid them a total of  $21,484(we also paid $8400 for the PGD, to a seperate lab) and my insurance company paid them well over $10,000. Now since I did have insurance to cover the monitoring I knew they would go through them for that, but the more research I did the more I found out that those things should be covered through the packages we paid for.

    I just found out that my RE's office now says we have a credit, and it should be more than enough to pay for our FET, and probably they will owe us $, and If our embie doesn't survive the FET, we will not be charged, so I guess this is a sign to overcome my fears and go get my SNOW BABY!!!!!!

    Here we go again!!!!

    Now I am not going to get my hopes up I keep telling myself, she has a 25% chance she will not survive the thaw, and I am not sure what the chances of 1 frosty taking is, but I am sure it would be better if we had more... That being said it seems like a slim chance we would be successful... but I have to admit I have this tiny glimmer of hope,  but I keep pushing it down, I don't know if my heart could take anymore sorrow over this and I think it best if I protect myself before... So if it does work than great!!!!
    and if it doesn't we then have the closure we need to walk away from this high tech journey.

    I just pray to God that I will be blessed with a Daughter.  I hear good things come to those who wait, and I have been waiting a long, long time.

    Please let this be my turn for a happy ending, please Lord Praybless me with a daughter.

  • Saying good bye to our baby girl 6-30-08

    I have never been through something like this before, I feel like I have been walking around in a dream, someone elses dream... I am fertile, I am healthy, and I get pregnant easily, I never have any complications, I have text book pregnancies and deliveries, I have been told many times, that my body is made to make babies, and deliver them!!!! 

    Well how could something like this happen to me??? How could the baby making machine lose a baby, what did I do?? where did I go wrong?? Was it my tempting fate trying unnatural methods to capture my dream?? Maybe my body doesn't like artificial reproduction??   I was so close, I was pregnant with my DAUGHTER, and in a heart beat or lack of a heart beat she was gone... she will be forever in my heartHeartbroken

    I miss her, how can you miss someone you never met?   I have pictured her a million times, and I will never get to hold her, I guess she wasn't meant to beHeartbroken

    6-30-08  I had my D&C We went to labor and delivery early that morning, sitting in the waiting room with all the excited parents waiting to deliver their babies, I sat waiting to have my dead baby scraped out of me... My feeling numb!!!!  I tried so hard to hold back the tears I really did, my mother came with me and I didn't want her to see me so upset, and I knew she would cry and the we would make all these people who were so happy upset, I didn't want to ruin their day, after all I had 5 healthy boys, I don't begrudge anyone the hapiness of a healthy baby being born.  After all I remember vividly with my last two births coming up to this floor and waiting and seeing women who barely looked pregnant waiting and looking so sad, I just knew what they were here for, so I didn't go in there... I walked the corridors so they wouldn't see me, so I wouldn't be in their face, I didn't want to make them feel any worse seeing my big belly and my excitement of giving birth, when they probably felt so sad for their loss.... noone gave me that courtesy that day, they were all sitting with their husbands rubbing their bellies, so I left... my mother talked to a nurse and they put me in a different waiting room, the waiting room for families of preemie babies, a little more my mood at the time, yet feeling so bad for these families and their babies, it made my situation a little more bareable, Oh how I pray for those little babiesPray

    We were soon brought into the labor room where I was given the choice of a local or to be put out... I told them I don't want to know a thing, put me OUT!!!!! It seemed like I was out for seconds when I awoke and was told everything went smoothly and my little girl was completely intact in her placenta... everything looked healthy and the placenta looked great, just a fluke, and I am an oddity to have had 5 children already and not to ever have a miscarriage.  Why Oh why did my body wait until I was pregnant with my little girl to decide to become part of the norm????

    Truth is we will never know, and it was just dumb luck, the luck I seem to have sometimes, but I have so many other precious gifts that I need to be thankful for, so I will get through these days and count my blessings, we will get through this, and I pray to God I can someday count a Daughter as a blessing in my life, and she can sit along side her 5 brothers just as happy and healthy as they arePray

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