Ready to Try Again

I had my follow up appointment with my doctor yesterday and he says that it was just bad luck that my transfer didn't work.  He decided to have me redo some blood work that I did in 2013 before I had my transfer with Alex, just make sure nothing has changed, like my thyroid, etc.  All those tests were normal 3 years ago and he doesnt expect them to different but it's more a of precaution before doing another transfer.
Which brings me to another transfer.  Going to try another transfer on September 26th. About 6 and half weeks away.  Enough time for my body to get rid of all the previous hormones and start over. And my lower back to recover from the bruises from the progesterone shots.  And my belly has some extra time to recover from the patches. Back to starting shots this month on the 26th. And going to try patches again but a different brand and hopefully I will not have same reaction.
We will again only opt for a single embryo.  The risk of twins with transferring two embryos is still 50% and that number is too high for Greg.  Which is fine with me because I do not want twins either. We only want one more child. With that being said, we are not sure if we will choose a male embryo (since 2 failed this time) or have another girl (since we had success with one already). That is to be determined at my baseline ultrasound.

So fingers crossed we have better luck this time both with the medication and with little embryo sticking!!!

Fail!

Monday I had my second blood test for my HCG level and it doubled.  Which was fantastic news.  Even more than little more double, it went up to 19.  So we had some hope that the embryo was growing. Today I had another blood test to see if my HCG doubled again. Unfortunately, it did not. It went down to 14. That means this is the end of this try/cycle. Doctor told me to stop all my medication.  Now we wait. I have an appointment with my doctor next week to discuss trying again.

I am disappointed to say the least. We lost 2 good quality male embryos in this cycle. And I went through a lot with the medication this time. I suppose that when a person goes through IVF they can't get lucky every try.  So this is our fail. And I am hopeful that next time will not fail.  We still have 5 embryos frozen. Although we only have 1 good quality embryo and then 4 fair quality.

I'll update next week after my doctor visit