You’d think I’ve learned
After my victory dance around the house at winning my appeal, I noticed that the amount they said they would be paying the clinic was not what I thought they should be paying the clinic. It was more. Much more. Now, what I should have done was ignore it and let them all go their merry way. But then I had visions of the fertility clinic being overpaid, the insurance company then trying to get the extra money back, and me ending up getting screwed (not in a good way) in the end. So I did the responsible thing and
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May 9, 2012
Twin Thoughts
The comments over at Akeeyu’s really got me thinking about the decision to transfer two embryos vs. one. I’ll admit, we didn’t really think that hard about it. Our RE gave us a 40% chance of the IVF working at all, which I thought was pretty decent. If it worked, and if we transferred two embryos, given my age, they gave us a 30% chance of twins and <1% chance of triplets or more. I felt that was acceptable. The only thing Dave and I really discussed was whether or not to go for more than two. We decided
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Nuchalness
I had a screening test today. One that included more than dead/alive. Alive/Alive for the record. Our risk for Down’s, Trisomy 13, and Trisomy 18 is less than 1 in 10,000. Excellent considering I have a family history of Down’s. There were a few tense moments though.
Everything started fine. The beasties were jumping around and hitting themselves in the head. Beastie A’s heart rate was 160 and Beastie B’s was 178 (is that too high?). Beastie B is finally catching up measuring 13w0d and Beastie A at 13w1d (I’m 12w3d). Then they wouldn’t cooperate. Apparently
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