- Jan 12 -- Julie’s cycle began and she started on her round of medications. IVF medications can get rather complicated but they include a few drugs to suppress egg growth (so no eggs grow out of turn) and several types of drugs to then stimulate lots and lots of egg growth under controlled conditions.
- Jan 29 – Diana started taking her medication. All we had to do was trick Diana’s uterus into thinking she was ovulating.
- Feb 23 – Eggs were harvested from Julie & fertilized through ICSI. Julie had twenty follicles from which they harvested thirteen viable eggs. Six were fertilized with one donor; seven with another. Eleven embryos developed and grew into blastocysts.
- Feb 28 – Embryos were transplanted into both Julie and Diana. Julie received two embryos fertilized with one donor; Diana receives two from the other donor. The embryos then presumably implanted into our uteruses within 24-72 hours after transplant.
- Mar 10 – First official pregnancy tests comes back positive (although we cheated and took home pregnancy tests earlier, which were positive as well).
- Mar 26 – We heard the babies’ heartbeats for the first time.
- Apr 30 – A first trimester screening was completed to assess risk for birth defects. Everything looked good!
- Jul 1 -- Ultrasound appointments. Diana is carrying a boy and Julie is carrying a girl. All seems to be progressing well.
- Other milestones will be added as they occur….
- Nov 16 – Projected due date
Glad tidings...
- Plus Two
- What a fertility adventure we had! Our children were eventually conceived through in vitro fertilization and were born in the fall of 2009. Julie is the biological mother of both kids... Diana was the gestational mother for our son and Julie was the gestational mother for our daughter [the first couple of blog entries provides more detail]. Together, we are one lucky family!
Saturday, May 30, 2009
Dates, Milestones, and Such
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