https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/ Copyright (c) 2006-2013 Web Wiz Forums - All Rights Reserved. Wed, 06 May 2026 19:40:07 +0000 Thu, 16 Oct 2014 15:52:56 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 11.10 360 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=43015 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_images/web_wiz_forums.png https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/ https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=43015&PID=5875180&title=ivf-buddy-in-auckland-my-ivf-story#5875180 Author: Rinky
Subject: 43015
Posted: 16 October 2014 at 3:52pm

Hi Rose

I am new to this forum but it looks like it will be a good support to me while I am going through this IVF treatment and don't have much support.

I would like to know more about IVF acupuncture, IVF massage and IVF yoga. Could you please post more details where they are available and roughly how much it costs?

I will be back with my story of my long IVF journey.

Cheers
Rinky]]> Thu, 16 Oct 2014 15:52:56 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=43015&PID=5875180&title=ivf-buddy-in-auckland-my-ivf-story#5875180 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=43015&PID=5846174&title=ivf-buddy-in-auckland-my-ivf-story#5846174 Author: catie
Subject: 43015
Posted: 20 August 2013 at 10:05am

Hi

just thought I'd let you know that Fertility NZ (which is a charity that provides information and support for people with fertility issues) has support groups in most NZ cities, as well as lots of info on their website: http://www.fertilitynz.org.nz/

good luck]]> Tue, 20 Aug 2013 10:05:17 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=43015&PID=5846174&title=ivf-buddy-in-auckland-my-ivf-story#5846174 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=43015&PID=5842850&title=ivf-buddy-in-auckland-my-ivf-story#5842850 Author: inwaiting
Subject: 43015
Posted: 18 July 2013 at 8:08pm

Hi Rose,
We have no idea what we are having and don't plan to find out, jut leave it as a surprise.
If we do find out before hand though we aren't too worried. We'll just take what we are given! We both have our own opinions of what we think it is, and we both have the same idea. ]]> Thu, 18 Jul 2013 20:08:38 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=43015&PID=5842850&title=ivf-buddy-in-auckland-my-ivf-story#5842850 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=43015&PID=5842828&title=ivf-buddy-in-auckland-my-ivf-story#5842828 Author: daros
Subject: 43015
Posted: 18 July 2013 at 5:56pm

Hi inwaiting,

Thanks for your reply. We will try to discuss this with our FS the next time we see her. Iam so happy that you have received a great care from the specialist.

I have some close friends who knew what we do. DH family are not supportive of this so we keep it ourselve and all my family lives overseas and again they shouldnt know about the disease it just complex family arrangement that we have. But i do have good support from lots of wonderful ladies (other forum) and yoi are the first one i found so far that are doing PGD/IVF, thats why iam so grateful. Its hard to explain about ivf leave alone with pgd, its such a complicated process.

In our case, the child if having the disease it could be mild, it tend to be mild with the girls especially and we have twin. Nephews free from the condition. Other siblings are also mild only DH and his dad was a in a severe category. The blessing about this disease is that they are normally highly intelligent and sometime quite an autistic ( in a good way). We are meeting with the orthopaedic surgeon soon to discuss about the future surgery for DH to remove more bones and also what they can do in terms of bone lengthening and straightening for our child. The procedure is quite common in the USA but not many surgeon able to do it over here in NZ.

Do you know the sex of your baby yet?

Best regards

Rose

]]> Thu, 18 Jul 2013 17:56:29 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=43015&PID=5842828&title=ivf-buddy-in-auckland-my-ivf-story#5842828 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=43015&PID=5842799&title=ivf-buddy-in-auckland-my-ivf-story#5842799 Author: inwaiting
Subject: 43015
Posted: 18 July 2013 at 2:00pm

It was Richard that said we could have the 3rd cycle funded as there were no embryos up to implanting stage from the 2nd cycle. We found him to be amazing and so professional. The nurses we had in Auckland were also great. We couldn't have asked for better care.
We are off to see our specialist tomorrow, so that should be cool. We decided to go under a specialist with this pregnancy due to everything we have been through. Thankfully he is also great and makes us feel very comfortable.
We both had the thought that things will work out for us one day, and are lucky that this is our time. It's been a long emotionally hard process but hopefully once this baby is born it will all be worth it. All family and friends are so happy for us which is good, them knowing the long road that we have taken to get to this stage. From our first appointment in Hamilton till now has been 4 years. I didn't find the whole thing too difficult physically as I think I prepared myself for it to be worse than it was, but it is definitely hard emotionally which only those that have been through it will ever understand.

Do you have some close support people that you can talk to?]]> Thu, 18 Jul 2013 14:00:26 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=43015&PID=5842799&title=ivf-buddy-in-auckland-my-ivf-story#5842799 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=43015&PID=5842606&title=ivf-buddy-in-auckland-my-ivf-story#5842606 Author: daros
Subject: 43015
Posted: 16 July 2013 at 10:27pm

Hi inwaiting,

Thanks for the infos. You are right. We should ask for this. I thought for PGD, the two cycles are not going to be enough because we naturally will lose embryos for testing. I like Dr Fisher he is awesome. I will send him an email tomorrow and ask for an appointment. Will also ask Fertility plus to consider that as well. OMG iam so happy to have found you. I too dreaming of having a baby free from the disease, DH was quite adamant that the disease should stop with him but the whole pgd ivf process are so stressful and so expensive.

Do Dr Fisher do a clinical overwrite for you to get third funding or is it something that you asked for it?

Thanks so much for your help

Xxx

Rose]]> Tue, 16 Jul 2013 22:27:33 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=43015&PID=5842606&title=ivf-buddy-in-auckland-my-ivf-story#5842606 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=43015&PID=5842601&title=ivf-buddy-in-auckland-my-ivf-story#5842601 Author: inwaiting
Subject: 43015
Posted: 16 July 2013 at 9:50pm

We were lucky enough to have all 3 cycles publicly funded. We were under Richard Fisher in Auckland. He was great. It was him that made the decision for us to have the 3rd cycle paid for because there were no embryos up to implanting stage in the 2nd cycle.
In regards to funding, there is funding for a certain number of PGD cycles per year, and a couple of years ago not all were used, I guess because it still is relatively new and not many couples knowing about it yet. Worth a try asking though, what's the worst that could happen...?
When we had an appointment in Hamilton before our last FET, that was one thing the drs said, that they were having more success with FETs than they were with fresh transfers. ]]> Tue, 16 Jul 2013 21:50:01 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=43015&PID=5842601&title=ivf-buddy-in-auckland-my-ivf-story#5842601 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=43015&PID=5842599&title=ivf-buddy-in-auckland-my-ivf-story#5842599 Author: daros
Subject: 43015
Posted: 16 July 2013 at 9:28pm

Hi Binny,

Iam sorry to hear that....xxxx it must be so frustrating for you. Wow 3 frosties sounds fantastic...not many people get that many i must say.

I think i need to say this, there's lot of research recently concluded that FET has better result than the fresh transfer. I have known myself many others who had luck with FET and only a few got lucky with the fresh one especially on the first cycle. Inwaiting is one of the example. Maybe this is meant to be, imagine if you have a fresh transfer, then you need to move to Auckland and start your new job, those could be a very stressful moment so might not be good for your embie. Perhaps, once you settled in Auckland you can plan in your FET. I ve heard of great result of FET with colorado protocol and pipelle ( and they are cheap to get done too, two weeks prior to transfer) so you might want to have a look at this option.

I used to think that fresh transfer is good but now convinced that FET is better. Couple of months ago i went to see FS at FA and was told in near future FA will only be doing FET so all embryos will be frozen to allow uterus to recover which will help the implantation.

I know its easy to say than done, as you might be all ready for the transfer and have other plan in mind. But i do feel that this happen for reason.

BTW, whereabout in Auckland you are moving to? Let me know when you are ready and if you need more support from a lot of experience ladies, i could invite you to another closed group in FB.

Take care and all the best for the moving, and the FET. I will be away for 4 weeks going overseas from the 1/8 but will be keeping an eye for an update from you.

Rose]]> Tue, 16 Jul 2013 21:28:37 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=43015&PID=5842599&title=ivf-buddy-in-auckland-my-ivf-story#5842599 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=43015&PID=5842597&title=ivf-buddy-in-auckland-my-ivf-story#5842597 Author: daros
Subject: 43015
Posted: 16 July 2013 at 9:18pm

Hi inwaiting,

Thanks for your response. Sounds like you are doing the right thing. I was on major dilemma myself but decided to have it natural. At this time, the rare bone disease can be managed by surgical intervention if we do it early enough. Having said that, i might do the ivf/pgd again on September if this didnt work, can i ask you if you get 3 funding for ivf and 3 funding for PGD as well? We had 3 for PGD and 2 for IVF and the last one we paid privately. Iam wondering if we could get more help and get another govt cycle.

I was on 225 gonal F on first cycle, 187.5 on the second one and 300 (short protocol) on the third cycle. I got very good eggs, and they all fertilised and goes to blasto, unfortunately we have been vert unlucky with PGD. Like the last cycle all of them were affected.

Who is your FS may i ask. We went to see Dr Robert Fisher for a private consult at FA and did our cycles with Fertility plus and my gynea is at Repromed.

You really have given me a big hope. Btw, my husband is also from Taranaki, he's from Hawera.

Rose]]> Tue, 16 Jul 2013 21:18:12 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=43015&PID=5842597&title=ivf-buddy-in-auckland-my-ivf-story#5842597 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=43015&PID=5842513&title=ivf-buddy-in-auckland-my-ivf-story#5842513 Author: Binny121910
Subject: 43015
Posted: 16 July 2013 at 11:42am

Hi guys,
last week thursday i had my egg retrieval.Doctor ( different Dr. not the usual doctor i deal with) came in to room and said that i will have transfer on 16th july and blood test on 25th july if they get any good embies. Few minutes later embryologist came inside and told that i will have no fresh transfer as my progestrone level is too high and does not match with the cycle!!!!.Apparently doctor didn't read my results and instructions properly. Me and my husband got in to argument with embroyologist and asked them why didn't they notify me about my results ( they had full two days) before but just at the last minute. Then everyone came to us and apologized for the communication problem.After this long drama I was taken to the theater and they retrieved 12 eggs. 8 follicles had eggs. out of 8 eggs 6 were good quality and ICSId with sperm. Today they freezed two good quality embies and probably one more tomorrow. So in total this cycle i might have two to three embies. But no fresh cycle all the embies went for freezing. In ten days in have to move to auckland and join a new job. The situation is very frustrating. We are planning to freeze and transfer all my embies to auckland FA so that i can have transfer there.     ]]> Tue, 16 Jul 2013 11:42:24 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=43015&PID=5842513&title=ivf-buddy-in-auckland-my-ivf-story#5842513 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=43015&PID=5842498&title=ivf-buddy-in-auckland-my-ivf-story#5842498 Author: inwaiting
Subject: 43015
Posted: 16 July 2013 at 10:17am

For me, the number of follicles has never been a problem, just not all contained eggs. My body responded well to the meds. In our first cycle, 8 were sent to monash to be tested. The results came back that 5 were fine and 3 affected. With our condition, the percentages are 50/50.
They implanted one fresh on day 5. Of the 4 left, two were ok to freeze and two couldn't be.
During 2nd cycle, they collected 29 follicles but only 6 contained eggs. Of those 6, 4 weren't mature enough to use and the other 2 never fertilised which was difficult.
Our last cycle in Augusut last year, 5 fertilised eggs were able to be tested, two were affected and 3 fine. The fresh implant never took but the other two were able to be frozen. This pregnancy is the result of one of the frozen embryos and we therefore still have one frozen.

With our genetic condition, the boys get the disease and the girls are the carriers. Each generation the condition seems to be getting worse and boys been effected younger, therefore if we had a boy with the condition he may not live past 2 years old which we don't think we could cope with. Our other reason for going through PGD was because we though if we didn't pass it on to our kids, then the condition will be stopped in our family. It was a hard decision to make but we feel we have made the right choice.
We thought we couldn't live with ourselves knowing the risks of our children having the condition and us doing nothing about it.
And we were prepared that if this didn't work that we may not have any children but I'd rather that than have them and lose them at such a yang age. Everyone has their own ideas though.
I defInitely think this one worked more for us though because of a decrease in stress levels on my part and the doctors trying a few different options which could help with implanting and miscarrying.

As to your comment about increasing the number of eggs for testing I'm not sure there is anything you can do to increase that, but that might come down to the many of gonal f you are on, I'm not sure.

Good luck]]> Tue, 16 Jul 2013 10:17:25 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=43015&PID=5842498&title=ivf-buddy-in-auckland-my-ivf-story#5842498 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=43015&PID=5842440&title=ivf-buddy-in-auckland-my-ivf-story#5842440 Author: daros
Subject: 43015
Posted: 15 July 2013 at 9:58pm

Hi Inwaiting,

It was nice to hear from you and finally i found someone who did ivf/pgd. And congratulations for your pregnancy and fingers crossed everything will be sailing so smoothly for you.

I did 3 ivf cycle too..the last one was June this year, unfortunately 5/5 embies went to blastocyst but all affected by the disease. It was so hard and we have decided to try naturally and take the chance. If iam not pregnant by next month, i will do another cycle on September.

Would you be able to share how many eggs did you get, and how many goes to day five, did you do day 3 biopsy with Monash as well? Can i ask you what sort of genetic condition and what are the % of passing it to the child? We thought ours would be 50/50 but from our experience so far its more like 75% chance.

As you can imagine doing PGD is really hard and i really dont think i could face the chance of not having any embie for transfer again, thats why i would like to give it ago naturally. Thought maybe by having one child first will help.

I plan to do pipelle too..in the next cycle if not pregnant. Iam keen to know on what sort of protocol do you do, i am interested to hear ways we could increase the number of eggs for the testing.

I look forward to hear from you soon. Iam so happy for you and you have given me hope xxx

Rose]]> Mon, 15 Jul 2013 21:58:10 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=43015&PID=5842440&title=ivf-buddy-in-auckland-my-ivf-story#5842440 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=43015&PID=5842341&title=ivf-buddy-in-auckland-my-ivf-story#5842341 Author: inwaiting
Subject: 43015
Posted: 15 July 2013 at 1:34pm

Hi ladies,
My husband and I have been through ivf/pgd due to a genetic condition in my family.
During our first cycle through fertility associates in Auckland we had 3 viable embryos. The fresh that was implanted and took. Sadly when we had an eight week scan, there wasn't a heart beat with either twin. They had only implanted one which split. This was a tough time for my husband and I. Of the other two embryos, the second didn't take and the 3rd miscarried at 5 weeks.
During our 2nd IVF cycle we had no embryos that could be used through some not being mature enough or didn't fertilise.
In August last year we went through our 3rd iVF cycle. Again there were 3 embryos that could be used after pgd testing. The fresh didn't take.
Our dr suggested that I have a minor operation done, where they scratched the inside of the uterus which can help with implanting and also go on aspirin.
The embryo was implanted mid April and I'm pleased to say I am currently 15 weeks pregnant and everything is going great.
So, don't give up cause it does eventually happen. Just gotta try and be as stress free as possible and take it how it comes.
We are expecting our first baby right at the beginning of January.
We are also from Taranaki so understand the other person who posted on here about travelling to Hamilton and then Auckland for treatment. We have been extremely lucky to have been under great drs at both places!

Hang in there and the best of luck to you all!!

Edited by inwaiting - 16 July 2013 at 10:18am]]> Mon, 15 Jul 2013 13:34:25 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=43015&PID=5842341&title=ivf-buddy-in-auckland-my-ivf-story#5842341 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=43015&PID=5841746&title=ivf-buddy-in-auckland-my-ivf-story#5841746 Author: daros
Subject: 43015
Posted: 09 July 2013 at 11:10pm

Hi Binnie,

So happy to hear from you n the number of follies sound really good..are you going to have an acupuncture before n after ET? Also dont forget to buy brazil nuts five a day apparently n five a day walnut right through the TTW.   And lucky socks for EC n ET. 1/5 pineapples including the core a day for 5 days from EC n coconut water to help with the recovery after EC. You can buy from Nuju website or from the new world. Relax n try to listen to some meditation music n visualise the implantation!!!

Yeap i did put on weight nearly 10kg afterv3 ivf cycle but i did sort of back to back cycle within 2-3 months or so but am slowly getting back into shape now. I think you will be fine..

So excited for you, good luck for Thursday, n here for a big fat follies xx]]> Tue, 09 Jul 2013 23:10:00 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=43015&PID=5841746&title=ivf-buddy-in-auckland-my-ivf-story#5841746 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=43015&PID=5841648&title=ivf-buddy-in-auckland-my-ivf-story#5841648 Author: Beta22
Subject: 43015
Posted: 09 July 2013 at 11:59am

All the best Binnie, I hope it goes really well! Do let us know how many eggs you get.

I picked up my drugs today and will start on Monday or Tuesday probably.]]> Tue, 09 Jul 2013 11:59:47 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=43015&PID=5841648&title=ivf-buddy-in-auckland-my-ivf-story#5841648 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=43015&PID=5841644&title=ivf-buddy-in-auckland-my-ivf-story#5841644 Author: Binny121910
Subject: 43015
Posted: 09 July 2013 at 11:42am

Hi Ladies,
Little bit of update here,
I had a scan on Saturday which showed 13 follicles all together,mixed sizes : few bigs,few medium and few small.
I had an another scan on Monday to conform the growth. My dr said I have 6 fully matured follicles and few medium ones and no small ones.looks like big ones suppressed the growth of small ones. Dr said better the follicle size,better the quality of eggs.I will have my trigger injection today and egg retrieval on Thursday.
Nurses told me to expect some weight change since i have been induced with so many fertility drugs but till know there is no change in my body weight but Tummy look blotted.
Just hoping they retrieve more good quality eggs.Thanks for your tips rose...heading towards countdown now.. ]]> Tue, 09 Jul 2013 11:42:11 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=43015&PID=5841644&title=ivf-buddy-in-auckland-my-ivf-story#5841644 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=43015&PID=5841082&title=ivf-buddy-in-auckland-my-ivf-story#5841082 Author: Beta22
Subject: 43015
Posted: 04 July 2013 at 11:29am

Thanks Binnie, all the best to you :)

Sorry Rose, I misunderstood.

We are doing IVF with ICSI. My DH had a vasectomy reversal in December which initially worked however it has now scarred over so our only option is IVF. I've had lots of tests and all looks ok from my end however I have had endometriosis for 17 years.

Is that enough detail?

No one except my parents know about out journey so it's good to have others to talk to and hear about their stories.]]> Thu, 04 Jul 2013 11:29:19 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=43015&PID=5841082&title=ivf-buddy-in-auckland-my-ivf-story#5841082 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=43015&PID=5841078&title=ivf-buddy-in-auckland-my-ivf-story#5841078 Author: daros
Subject: 43015
Posted: 04 July 2013 at 10:55am

All the best Binny121910... Hopefully there will be many juicy follies there...i agree with you, the short protocol is awesome..it makes sense you are doing the treatment there so you would continue this cycle with them..gosh must be so stressful too with moving plan n IVF at the mo...xoxo

I still go to FAA to see Dr Fisher for a private consultation n Dr Neil Johnson at Repromed for a second opinion..Fertility + has been quite good to us now and we are staying with them at the moment.

Good luck for the scan n EC next week...just some tip,,to try coconut water, walnut or brasil nut and pineapples post EC to prepare for implantation...i have all fingers crossed for you xx

]]> Thu, 04 Jul 2013 10:55:40 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=43015&PID=5841078&title=ivf-buddy-in-auckland-my-ivf-story#5841078 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=43015&PID=5841073&title=ivf-buddy-in-auckland-my-ivf-story#5841073 Author: Binny121910
Subject: 43015
Posted: 04 July 2013 at 10:44am

Hi Beta,
I will update about the my scans,EGR,ET so you know what to expect for you.I am sure we all going to have a happy baby soon.]]> Thu, 04 Jul 2013 10:44:04 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=43015&PID=5841073&title=ivf-buddy-in-auckland-my-ivf-story#5841073 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=43015&PID=5841072&title=ivf-buddy-in-auckland-my-ivf-story#5841072 Author: daros
Subject: 43015
Posted: 04 July 2013 at 10:41am

Hi Beta22,

I dont need your name just a bit of a background of your TTC journey. Is there anyway we could private message in here?]]> Thu, 04 Jul 2013 10:41:59 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=43015&PID=5841072&title=ivf-buddy-in-auckland-my-ivf-story#5841072 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=43015&PID=5841071&title=ivf-buddy-in-auckland-my-ivf-story#5841071 Author: Binny121910
Subject: 43015
Posted: 04 July 2013 at 10:41am

Thanks for your care Rose,
Actually I am in a short protocol.I was in short protocol on my first cycle as well.I was responding well to that protocol so doctor said to follow the same protocol for this cycle as well.
By the way I am moving to Auckland next month anyway for job reasons.But planning to continue my treatment with Hamilton fertility associates. My first scan is on Saturday and next week i will have my egg retrieval. Will let you know about the number of eggs I have produced this time.
We will catch up sometime when I come to Auckland.
Thanks for your care again ]]> Thu, 04 Jul 2013 10:41:29 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=43015&PID=5841071&title=ivf-buddy-in-auckland-my-ivf-story#5841071 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=43015&PID=5841070&title=ivf-buddy-in-auckland-my-ivf-story#5841070 Author: Beta22
Subject: 43015
Posted: 04 July 2013 at 10:39am

Hi Rose, thanks for your reply. I don't want to put my name on here, so am I able to Facrbook message you with the details? I would just need to know your Facebook username.

Thank you in advance :)]]> Thu, 04 Jul 2013 10:39:58 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=43015&PID=5841070&title=ivf-buddy-in-auckland-my-ivf-story#5841070 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=43015&PID=5841060&title=ivf-buddy-in-auckland-my-ivf-story#5841060 Author: daros
Subject: 43015
Posted: 04 July 2013 at 9:55am



Hi Beta22,

Thanks for your message. And i hope that you are doing well.

Yeap there's ladies in CHCH in that group too. I could add you in if you have a facebook account, i had to advertise your name for 24 hours for other members to see if anyone object, if no one object i could add you. This is to protect everyone privacy as it is closed group.

Iam not trying to be insensitive, just a requirement to add, we need to know a bit of your background TTC, would you mind to write a bit of your background journey so far.

Take care and i look forward to hearing from you soon


Rose]]> Thu, 04 Jul 2013 09:55:55 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=43015&PID=5841060&title=ivf-buddy-in-auckland-my-ivf-story#5841060 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=43015&PID=5841040&title=ivf-buddy-in-auckland-my-ivf-story#5841040 Author: Beta22
Subject: 43015
Posted: 04 July 2013 at 9:11am

Hi Rose

I would like to be connected to the Facebook group if possible too please, although I'm in Christchurch, not Auckland.

Thanks :)]]> Thu, 04 Jul 2013 09:11:42 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=43015&PID=5841040&title=ivf-buddy-in-auckland-my-ivf-story#5841040 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=43015&PID=5841032&title=ivf-buddy-in-auckland-my-ivf-story#5841032 Author: daros
Subject: 43015
Posted: 04 July 2013 at 8:37am

Hi Binny121910,

It was nice to get a message from you and iam sorry to hear about your lost. Where are you now in the cycle? Travelling sounds like a hassle iam sure especially from Taranaki, my husband is from Hawera so we are connected in a way. Since my last message here, i had done 2 more cycles which one was private, one was chemical pregnancy on April and recently all our embryos were affected so i didnt get any transfer on my 3rd cycle. We were devastated. Iam going to do another private cycle on September/Oct as going away overseas for a holiday on August for a month.

Do you have much support at all? I have not been here much because i was introduced to an excellent support group some where else, if you are interested i could ask to add you in as well as long as you have facebook account. In this TTC via IVF world can be very lonely, frustrating and cruel, so having a safe place to rant, to ask question or share happiness and sadness and not being judged on would be very helpful because normal people just didnt quite understand what we have to go through.

Btw, i did 2 cycles on long protocol and the last one on short protocol. The last cycle has been excellent, the injection was only for 8 days, we got the same high quality eggs ( after my first cycle, i started on many great supplements and has improved the quality of my eggs by ten fold, i swear by it) and quantity, and i didnt get any side effects at all. What sort of protocol are you at the moment, it sounds to me that you are on the long protocol? The short protocol seems to be much easier to handle and also cheaper so we will be doing this protocol next time again.

I really hope that this cyle will work for you so you dont have to move to Auckland, but if you do that would be a great idea in terms of getting access to them quicker. If you have an appointment in Auckland, and need a place to stay let me know.

I really hope you will get a BFP in this cycle and i look forward to hear more from you. And do let me know if you like to have a bit more support to other TTC group. This group are close group and has great bunch of other ladies like us. They are very supportive, knowledgeable and active so we always get our questions answered/acknowledged. Might be able to connect you to other ladies closer to your area if you preferred. I personally havent met anyone from the group face to face yet but must say they have been my full time support group throughout the journey so far.

Take care and look after yourself. Have faith and miracle do happens sometime xxxx

Rose]]> Thu, 04 Jul 2013 08:37:49 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=43015&PID=5841032&title=ivf-buddy-in-auckland-my-ivf-story#5841032 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=43015&PID=5840916&title=ivf-buddy-in-auckland-my-ivf-story#5840916 Author: Binny121910
Subject: 43015
Posted: 03 July 2013 at 1:25pm

Hi Rosey,
I am new to this forum.I had my first IVF cycle in fertility associates Auckland. It was privately funded.they retrieved 9 eggs,5 fertilized and two made in to blastocysts. I had one fresh cycle and FET both was a failure    . I am now undergoing new IVF cycle which is public funded. I am living in Taranaki now so i have to drive to Hamilton every week during the treatment. It is frustrating but have no choice.We are planning to move back to auckland so that we can continue our treatment in auckland.
Thanks for posting your experience. It is really useful and I could see good and empathetic you are.God will give you everything you need in your life.
Let me know how things are going on your side. Lots of hugs and all the best. ]]> Wed, 03 Jul 2013 13:25:22 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=43015&PID=5840916&title=ivf-buddy-in-auckland-my-ivf-story#5840916 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=43015&PID=5825524&title=ivf-buddy-in-auckland-my-ivf-story#5825524 Author: daros
Subject: 43015
Posted: 31 January 2013 at 5:25pm

My name is Rose and iam new to this forum. Next month going to start my next ivf/pgd cycle. Miscarried at five weeks last year november. It was hard but we come through it. Me 31 DH 34 due to inherited rare bone disease we have over 50% chances for passing it to our children if conceive naturally. Part of the issues, it causes significant deformity to the bone that require multiple surgeries throughout life. Also it has higher chances to be cancerous. The condition is called HME. We volunteered in a genetic research four years ago as there less than 100 families affected by this condition in NZ and we are the first one to try on IVF/PGD for HME in this country. So here we are in IVF journey, hoping to have a healthy baby we so desired.

Hubby's family all siblings has the rare bone condition, the difference were only from mild to severe, female sibling tend to have a very minor impact than male siblings. The eldest brother didnt have any. The other two male siblings has very mild to moderate symptoms with only small deformities. Hubby were the severest in the family, which the same level as his dad. This rare bone disease starts from his grandmother but she has a very mild case again. Our nephews (identical twins) from the sister are free from the condition. Hubby suffers a lot throughout his childhood time, in and out hospitals for surgeries after surgeries, work discrimination even he is brilliant. Hubby has a very good job and he is highly intelligent man. He cant play sport due to his conditions, we would like to give all opportunity to our child so we hope ivf would be the answer.

I have been to acupuncture since last year Sept which proven helpful,now ive started some fertility massage once every three weeks as well, also started a gym exercise to reduce weight..i put on lots of kilos since the last cycle. Also started taking few new vitamins like folic acid with iodin, women one daily multivitamins, maca, network anti oxident, l arginine, royal jelly, vit c, vit B12, omega oil, cq10, organic wheatgrass and spirulina drinks, eating one avocados every day and also 1'pineapples every week at least. I recently went to see Dr Fisher at the Fertility Associates for a private consult and he said all these supplements are good for fertility, the only thing is i need to stop taking anything with herbal based prior to day 21 of down regulation. The rest can be continued.

You would see,that i mentioned about pineapples. A dear friend of mine whom i just met prior to Christmas last year told me, she suffered with Endometriosis, and few other health problems, went through surgeries, miscarried four times and 5 failed IVFs. She had two last eggs that was severely fragmented and frozen from the last ivf and got transferred both embies in two years ago, one stuck and she now has a beautiful daughter. She was told by her embrylogist at Fertility Plus that they only did the transfer because they feel sorry for her and that she will never got pregnant. See miracle do happen and all it really need is faith and only one embie..only one... She said the only thing she did differently was someone told her to eat as many pineapples as possible while doing the ivf and the day before embryo replacement and the day after,embryo replacement, she ate the crust or the middle of the pineapples. She sworn by it. So i did lots of research on this, i was surprised that many successful ivfs stories in America were mentioning about the pineapples. Well pineapples are delicious anyway and it has lots of vitamins in it so it gives no harm. Apparently there is some kind of enzyme inside pineapples that is good for implantation. So feel free to research this more or try it. Ive started few weeks already now and will continue to do so until the day of transfer.

In the last cycle i did a minimum, just taking folic acid, thought if you have no fertility issues it shouldnt be a problem, well i was wrong. I have taken a minimal intake of wines every now and then in the last cycle. this cycle I completely stopped wines and i am a non smoker and I dont drink coffee so that is good. Hubby is healthy too we both just started a pre ivf detox kidney and liver cleansing few weeks ago. The detox will last for a month. Ive started pre ivf pregnancy kit at the same time which i ordered from the USA. I was told it is best to do the pre ivf detox first, then three months prior to ivf to take the pre ivf pregnancy kit, but i dont have much time as my next cycle will start end of Feb so had started this at the same time. I consulted the herbalist of course, she said it was fine.

The last cycle i was under lots of stress, my neighbour was giving lots of trouble, and the front neighbour also stole our cat etc, i travelled lots for my job and friends come to me for their problems and we did huge house renovations. This time around we have decided to slow down and not to do much other than looking after our health. I also would like to take up some fertility yoga soon. My friends were sworn by it, her second child was like walking out of her womb lol and the only different was she did yoga 7 months prior to birth.

As this is our last funded cycle, we want to make sure that we did what we can so no stones are left unturned. We are at fertility plus at the moment but also had been going to fertility associates for private session with Dr Fisher. Fertility plus hasnt been that great experience but we dont have many choice in this. If the second cycle also fail we will probably pay for private cycle at fertility associates.

In the last cycle, i had 9 follicles, six eggs all fertilised with isci, had day three biopsied in monash australia, result received on day five only. All reached blastocyst stage and were beautiful high grades embryos. Unfortunately three of my embies carry the gene/condition, one embie, monash cant get result on so they exclude that and only two were unaffected. Fertility Plus then transferred one embie in and the other one they left it to day six in the lab as waiting for my embie to hatch unfortunately it stops growing. I was gutted with that as wish they could put in both or freeze it straight away when the result of the biopsy was back on day five itself. Well a review meeting with Fertility plus indicate that they have given me too high dosage of gonal f, i was in a borderline of hyper stimulation from that cycle. We spoke to the Fertility Plus again and they have agreed that on the next cycle the gonal f dosage will be reduced, so hopefully i will have more eggs and still in high quality.

The reason that iam sharing all this with you, so that you know that there's people out there who understands, and would like to offer support to anyone who is going through ivf due to fertility issues or in our case due to genetics. I am a career oriented person i am so used to take control of things and ivf is the only thing that i have no control of and its frustrating. My last 12 months boss was awesome now iam back to old bosses due staffing issues i had to return to the old team to coach the newbies, i dont get a long with this boss, she has female partner of her own, clearly indicated that she has no desire to have any children she is vague and can be quite mean too. I am doing my best not to think too much about her because i want this last ivf journey to be as pleasant as possible.

If you would like to meet for a chat, or need someone to talk to, i would like to reach you. Iam going through process all alone too..i mean with hubby of course. I have three other friends who did ivf and was successful in their last attempt and two others were successful through their first fresh cycle. We could share the knowledge and support each other. If you are from outside Auckland please do not hesitate to contact me too, and if you need a temporary place while in Auckland in between your treatments in Auckland, come and stay with us. We live very close to both fertility plus and fertility associated less than 10 minutes drive and very central. Iam doing this only because on my first cycle, how i wish i have someone who know this and going through the same thing. I was struggling and hunger for informations, and spent hundreds of hours reading blogs, forums and books etc. Our journey of ttc is special and I would like to help and be there for others too. Recently my Acupunturist told me that some of his clients drove all the way from Hamilton to get treatment on weekly basis, and i feel sorry for this family, hence that we are offering a place to stay.

I look forward to hearing from you soon, meantime baby dust to all xx

Rosey
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