Try #3

We went to our follow up appointment with my fertility doctor. And he didn't have much in the way of answers. Just possibilities. Possibly that even though the embryos have all normal chromosomes that they could not have been totally normal and that's why they failed to grow after initial implatation. Or another possibility is that I have auto immune reaction to the growing embryos and my body is shutting down the growth.  Or another possibility is that we just have bad luck.
Anyway, so I had more blood drawn to test for some possibilities. And I have been having some pain in my ribs and right side and I went to regular doctor and now she is looking at my blood work from my liver function test (that I had done because of one of the medications that I am, can cause liver damage) and she has me going to get an abdominal ultrasound to make sure my gallbladder and liver are functioning normally. Apparently high estrogen can cause gallstones.  And I have recently had very high estrogen.  Hopefully, I don't have any issues there because I don't need one more thing to deal with, with my misbehaving body.
My fertility doctor did give me a calendar for my next transfer date. December 9th.
Starting back with injections November 8th. So a few weeks away.  Only getting about 3 and half weeks without medication before starting up again.  This time my doctor has finally refined my estrogen situation so hopefully it will not get high again. And he is adding a steroid to my medication schedule right before transfer in order to help combat any auto immune issues.
Hoping that the third time will be the charm. If not I'm taking a long break before trying again.
We have yet to decide on the embryo. Doctor gave us the option of doing 2 this time because the quality isn't great.  Greg is still against 2 but we'll see what the doctor says.  He gave us also the option of thawing one seeing what the quality is and then if it's not looking good then thawing another one and transferring both.  I'm leaning towards that option but Greg is still not convinced. Also, I'm going to try not to pick the gender this time.  I'm not sure which embryos are which gender with these 4. I'm going to try to avoid finding out and making the gender a surprise until after the transfer or blood tests.
And that's what's going on with us and trying to make a baby.

Fail #2

Well it's official we have had our second fail.  Initially we got good results with the blood test.  Positive with a great number on the first blood draw.  Second blood draw was not great. Number went up but not enough.  Third blood draw number stayed exactly the same.  Fourth blood drop was a  significant decrease. Another Chemical pregnancy.  

Not sure why my embryos are implanting but not continuing grow after the initial implantation.  Hopefully on my follow up visit we will be able to look more in depth at what a possible cause could be, besides just bad luck. We only have 4 embryos left and they are the poor quality ones.  We have used up all the good quality embryos. And I'm reaching the end of my physical and emotional limit with these tries.  

Updates to follow after my next visit.  In the mean time we are enjoying our vacation in California!!!!