Using donor eggs

After my second failed cycle, my Re suggested that we use donor eggs. I didn't know anything about donor eggs. I thought maybe the clinic had a freeze full of eggs and we would just go pick some out if we chose to use them. We put our name on the list for a donor at our clinic. It took 8 months until we got the call that it was our turn to chose a donor. During that time I was able to come to terms with the fact that using donor eggs was the only way I could become a mother. Recently I have come across several blogs of ladies who have been told they should use donor eggs. Several of these ladies have had numerous failed cycles with their own eggs and are still trying with their own eggs. For whatever reasons, they don't want to try DE. It makes me so sad to read about the pain they are going through as they continue having failed cycles. I hope they are successful with their own eggs, but if they aren't, I hope they will give DE more consideration. I know they would be so happy if they were to be successful with DE. Now that I have my beautiful dd, I am so thankful that my eggs were crap! I love her so much and can't imagine having any other child. It doesn't matter one bit to me that we aren't genetically related. She's my hunnybunny and I'm her mama. I believe that God has a plan for all of our lives. It was His plan all along for this wonderful little girl to be my dd. I just hope and pray that it is His plan for us to have more LOs. If not, I know I am so blessed to have Lydia.

The Wait is on

I'm so tired of waiting for my next cycle to begin. I am so ready for it to be mid Aug. already so that I can get started. I have my calendar for my cycle already, have appointments set for the b/w and u/s. It seems sooooooo far away. I'm not really looking forward to the horrible lupron headaches, but unfortunately there's nothing I can do about them. I'm also ready for summer to be over with already!!! It's too darn hot outside and I HATE, HATE, HATE hot weather!! Why can't it be 75 degrees everyday!

First post, oh how exciting

Here goes, my very first post on my first ever blog. Not sure that I have anything that anyone else would find interesting to say really. I will be doing my 5th IVF cycle next month in hopes of giving my dd a sibling. My dd is from my fourth cycle. I had done 2 cycles with my own eggs and then did 2 cycles using donor eggs. Next month I will be starting a FET cycle. It will be my first FET. Although we have 8 frozen embies, I don't feel very hopeful that I will become preggy. The embies aren't very high quality and after 3 previous failed cycles it's hard to have faith. I want more than anything to give my dd a sibling, but know that I am so very lucky and blessed to have my dd. Anyway, that's pretty much what's going on with me. I hope to be able to use this blog as a way of expressing how I feel as I go through yet another cycle.
LM