Well, after a cycle of IVF, I am pregnant!! TTC for 3+ years and finally there is good news. My beta 18 days after retrieval was big so maybe twins?! I go for more b/w on Thursday and maybe we'll have a better guess .

Congratulations on your big news! What a present for the holidays.

Oh, congrats! Great news!

My first beta with Alex was very high too, but was only one. It does often mean twins, but not always. You'll probably have to wait for the first u/s to know for sure.

How exciting! I hope you have an easy pregnancy and feel healthy!
P.S. I love the idea of having twins. I tell my fiance that he can't get a sports car because 2 car seats won't fit, haha.

Yeah! Congratulations - good luck with a fun (and uneventfull) pregnancy.

Thanks everyone. It is still so unbelievable! Jill and jps, I hope you both have a wonderful pregnancy as well . Take care.

That is wonderful news!!! congratulations and a healthy and happy 9 months to you!

Great News Sunny!!! I'm Thrilled for you.

Best,

Nicole

Yep, I am pregnant with twins!! I just had my first ultrasound and we saw two hearts beating.
I guess we're making up for lost time.

YEA TWINS!!!! Very happy for you Sunny!

I've started my 2nd IVF round. I should be doing the frozen embryo transfer in early Jan... around the 6th. Hope to be with you, JPS and Jill soon!

Have a wonderful holiday. Enjoy all of this!

Nicole

Thanks Nicole! I will be thinking of you. Good luck with your FET. Keep in touch.

What wonderful news! Get lots of sleep now LOL!

Congratulations! Wonderful news.

How are all of you affording IVF? Is it covered by your insurance? It's just not an option for us and we've been TTC for over 2 years.

IVF is horribly expensive. My husband and I took out a medical loan.

In MA, insurance must cover fertility treatments. I think it stems from the fact that the first test tube baby was born here adn the heavy science base from all the Universities in the area.

As long as you follow a specific protocol - 3 IUIs with oral medication, 3 with injectible then you can do 3 IVFs at no charge. If you get pregnant through IVF and have a live delivery, you can then do another 3 IVFs (no more IUIs) for another child.

Because of the low success rate of IUIs and the higher risk of multiples, my drs petitioned the insurance company to let us skip 4 of the IUIs so we did 2 IUIs with oral meds and then IVF. We had our son from that first IVF. We did a frozen cycle in the spring of 07 that resulted in a miscarriage. We did our second fresh cycle in November and I"m now 10 weeks pregnant. We feel very fortunate to have had such success and to have the insurance coverage. It certainly removed a huge stress from an already stressful situation.