[-]i have my embryo transfer last thursday (transferred only one grade A 8 cell embryo) we had 5 remaining embryos culture - one the exact same as the one we transferred and the rest only slightly worse. i just got a call from RE to tell me that none of my remaining embryos made it to freeze. anyone have this happen and still have a BFP?
6 replies [ Reply | Watch | Options ]I transferred one frozen blast two weeks ago with RMA and learned Friday it was a no go. The fresh cycle we'd done (our last out of five) retrieved multiple eggs, many fertilized and so on, but following PGD, none were chromosomally okay. So we had to go with the one blast from last year. Didn't work. But I was hopeful, and that is really all you can be too! I wish you the very best and am sprinkling virtual baby dust your way! Now, on to donor egg for us...I think.
[ Reply | Options ]i'm sorry. gl with the donor eggs! have you been happy with RMA? this is my second cycle there. first was 2 years ago and geve me DD. this time around i am not feeling as though i am getting as much personal attention as i was. am starting to think that if this cycle doesnt work, i may switch to cornell. or i could just be producing crappy embryos and it has nothing to do with them....
[ Reply | Options ]Oh boy, have I been where you are. Was even considering the same switch - to Cornell. But at the end of the day, they know me, we have history and a son from them, and I really do love Dr. Copperman. He seems to genuinely care and tries to ease the pain a bit. I also don't think it has a damn thing to do with them. It is my screwed up biology (age, translocations). We'll probably do donor egg through them, though I'm not certain we won't make the switch to Cornell.
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[-]Would appreciate recommendations for a good doctor who performs CVS in Manhattan. Thanks!
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i didn't have the arrogant and pompous experience, but i had a very routine CVS w no issues.
[ Reply | Options ]oh, i went for consult w him and sat in his office for an hour while he showed me pictures of his many meetings with celebs and dignitaries--the pope, various presidents, kings, queens, etc. he spent quite a bit of time telling me about how hes the worlds biggest expert, etc. i had a very complicated situation though, and i dont know that any other dr wouldve been able to help besides him.
[ Reply | Options ]I didn't find him to be arrogant or pompous either but found him a little bit heavy-handed in his "guidance" regarding selective eliminations. I was pregnant with twins at the time and her spent a lot of time explaining to me that twin pregnancies were inherently more dangerous and that selectively eliminating one was a perfectly valid option. I was quite clear that I was willing to "risk" having twins (altho, in the case of high multiples, I understand his point) and he eventually let it drop. So other than a pretty strong POV, I found him to be excellent, professional and had two routine CVS screens without incident.
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Dr. Wapner - he practically invented the procedure He works out of columbia in the east 60s. I think he's the best. He did mine and does many twin pregnancies as well. People fly in for him from all over the country and the world
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[-]Anyone have morning sickness/fatigue get better around 10 weeks and still have a healthy pregnancy? It's not like I enjoyed feeling sick, but worry that symptoms going away so early means something bad...don't have another check with OB scheduled for almost 2 weeks. TIA.
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ANYTIME! Come on. Seriously? If you're old enough to be pregnant, you're old enough to know yourself in this regard. If you feel you'd need the support anyway, should the pg miscarry prior to 10 or 12 weeks, then by all means, celebrate vocally. If on the other hand, you're more private and deal with pain on your own, then wait until you at the very least have a confirmed heartbeat and a fetus the size the doc expects it to be. Safer of course to wait until 12 weeks.
[ Reply | Options ]On this board you essentially asked, "How long before you started showing?" and the competivie moms are arguing over who managed to go the longest. You can tell people whenever you want to. Some wish to wait because they worry about mc or telling their employer, others just want to scream it to the world as soon as they see a heartbeat or even as soon as they get a +hpt.
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[-]Anyone else get the h1n1 vax in first trimester of pregnany?
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[-]Am I showing faster with #2 than with #1, or is it my imagination (or just fat)?
7 replies [ Reply | Watch | Options ]I'm as big at 6.5 months with #2 as I was at 8.5 months with #1. It's not just your imagination--it's the stretched out stomach muscles.
[ Reply | Options ]Yeah, muscle memory or something. Def. sooner the 2nd time, BUT I also think that what you / DH see as showing no one will notice for weeks and weeks. Was in maternity swimsuit for a week on vacation and at the end mentioned I was pregnant and the people we were with with (other guests, not our friends) were surprised.
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[-]I am really REALLY mad about the fact that some of the Big Wall Street firms (ie: Goldman, Citi) and the NYSE comandeered H1N1 vaccinations before many, many OBs and Peds in NYC. Some of the firms got more vaccine than even the hospitals have received. I am 30 weeks pg with asthma and I have a 21 month old son. We are going to drive 1.5 hours today (one way) for the *glimmer* of a hope to get the vaccine (unfortunately it will not be thimerosol free but I really don't know what my options are at this point). I feel like not only has Wall Street messed up our world economy, now they are effectively saying "our lives are potentially more important than yours or that of your children." I would LOVE to see some moms from this board organiz...
101 replies [ Reply | Watch | Options ]I just watched the coverage about this on the Today show. The problem is that GS, Citi, etc. probably played by the rules and just applied for a share of the vaccine and NYS gave them a share. The problem is that Wall Street has such a bad reputation that the blame goes to them and not the State that actually allowed it. The right thing for Wall Street would have been to donate their share to a local hospital and ask their employees to stand in line with all the other people that don't work for them.
[ Reply | Options ]I really don't understand people's outrage. These companies applied for the vaccines like any other entity, paid for it, and got it. If you want medicine to be completely govt. run then get behind your president and change the health care policy. But as it stands these firms have not done anything wrong, and are simply protecting their workers which I commend them for.
[ Reply | Options ]How do you explain that Lenox Hill Hospital got the exact same number of vaccines as Goldman Sachs did? I agree this is a problem with how the state is distributing the vaccines and it's always been like this that companies with medical offices can apply for a share. Nobody did anything legally wrong but there are ethical implications. Let's not talk about image.
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Ordinary people work for these firms. You do understand that, right? PG women, people with small children, and people with health problems just like you. Are you saying you think their lives are less important because of who they work for?
[ Reply | Options ]No, I think people are saying that the high risk groups are not over represented at GS - (ie no children, pregnant women make up a very small percentage of their work force) and the vax were not ONLY given to pregnant women or asthma suffers. The right, moral thing to do - when GS/Citi saw the shortage would have been to donate theirs to peds/hospital in order to vax the AT RISK groups and allow their non at risk employees to wait. But right and moral have a hard time finding a place in Wall Street Firms.
[ Reply | Options ]morgan stanley got 1000 shots -they are donating them back. I'm pretty sure goldman got more than 200 shots if MS got 1000
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If you don't like the rules, complain to the government. These firms played by the rules and got the vaccines, you can't blame them for that.
[ Reply | Options ]I think this is a big part of what is wrong with society today. Yes, you can blame them. There is and always has been the letter of the law and the spirit of the law. We should not excuse questionable behavoir, by saying well... they did follow the rules. We need individual and collective moral people. As moms, are we trying our best to teach childrent to get whatever they can as long as they find a loophole - or are we teaching them to be kind, thoughtful, considerate and sometimes sacriface for someone else?
[ Reply | Options ]So if your pediatrician got his supply and can give it to you, but the local hospital needs it, you would donate it? Come on.
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I actually think there is going to be a big backlash. I almost think these guys are going to need armed guards because some crazy is going to take a gun and shoot them. It just keeps getting worse. The favoritism, the bonuses, now the flu vaccine. Let the bail me out. Obama is in Goldman's pocket and they do think they are better than the great unwashed.
[ Reply | Options ]Morgan Stanley disingenuously "donated" their ONE THOUSAND vaccines to area hospitals. There is a vulgar irony to this. And for those defending these cos., how many pregnant women, young children, etc. really high risk people? My dr had the shot and my ped still doesn't so my 1 yr old is still waiting while mr/ms muckity muck doesn't? hmmm.
[ Reply | Options ]this is absurd. how does one disingenuously donate anything? Back when these were ordered nobody knew there was going to be a big delay in the production of the vaccine. The company thought it was getting its fair allotment and then when it was clear there was a shortage they donated them back. You're showing your colors as a bitter hater, which just voids your "opinion" since it's irrational.
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The problem is that there's a shortage - full stop. The school district next door to us has the vaccine, ours doesn't. Yet I'm not trying to assemble an angry mob against them.
[ Reply | Options ]But its a school, not an IB largely populated by healthy middle age men and women not "high risk" categories. So you can remove your halo now.
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^^^available for everyone that is high-risk. That's the heart of the issue, and it's not Wall Street's fault. Someone with your profile that happened to work for Goldman Sachs would be just as "worthy" of a vaccine as you are.
[ Reply | Options ]np: then why are people at GS who are not in the high risk group being given the vaccine. that's completely irresponsible.
[ Reply | Options ]Yes, that would be irresponsible if true (which I'm not sure it is - I read that only high-risk employees were being vaccinated). But that's not the OP's issue - she's pissed they even got the vaccine in the first place, regardless of how they're using it. Like if the principal of my neighboring school took all her vaccines home and passed them out to friends and family, that would be irresponsible also.
[ Reply | Options ]If you are at GS, you need to be in a high-risk group. A friend of mine is pg and she had to stand in line with others and be screened by a nurse before being alowed to get the shot. When they hand out the regular seasonal flu-shot it takes about 30 seconds to go in, read the pamphlet and get the shot.
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As another mother waiting for the vaccine for her 3 young children, I understand the frustration but let's direct it where to the agency that is mishandling this situation. The NY State Health Department and the NY City Health Department are responsible for distributing the vaccine to facilities and agencies that have applied for them. It is NYCHD's responsibility to say who is a priority group and they have been (re)instructed by the CDC to insure that health care workers, pregnant women, kids etc are vaccinated first. I can't stand GS or Citi either but it's not their fault that they've been given the vaccine in lieu of higher priority groups. Picketing Wall St is pointless... if you have a beef, take it to State Health Commissioner R...
[ Reply | Options ]I agree with you, but maybe I'll start a new post: Why doesn't GS get their sh*t together and work on their public image? For a "successful" firm, they seem clueless.
[ Reply | Options ]Which is an entirely different question than: How dare GS go thorough proper channels to obtain 200 flu shots for their high risk employees?
[ Reply | Options ]yes, but they should have been smarter to manage this information better. It's common sense. A PR person would do them a world of good. I can think of a thousand ways that they could have put this info out there in a better manner. They don't seem to realize they have a PR problem.
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OP here: I am getting ready to leave for the long car ride now. I am glad for the debate that this has generated. I would be happy to know that the vaccines that went to GS, NYSE, etc. truly went to those at high-risk (of course, their employees have the opportunity to get to doctors like we do, so why didn't their doctors get the doses)? Anyway, if high-risk ppl got it, great. But what I got from the interview with the head of the health dept in NY was him throwing up his hands and saying, basically, "It's up to the companies to decide who's high risk." Let me guess... the guy at the top who has high BP? C'mon... Anyway, regardless of how you stand on this issue, please wish me luck that we can get the shot -- we are basically trav...
[ Reply | Options ]Please, if you are THAT worried, quarantine yourself and your db until flu season is over. There isn't enough vaccine to go around, period, so even if GS and MS didn't get any that still doesn't mean it would make your plight ANY different. And for God's sake, stop watching the news and reading this board. Your getting yourself way too worked up over this.
[ Reply | Options ]and here, you can read this so you feel better about not getting the flu shot: http://www.aolhealth.com/health/fall-health/flu-shot-desiree-jennings?icid=main|main|dl2|link3|http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aolhealth.com%2Fhealth%2Ffall-health%2Fflu-shot-desiree-jennings
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You can't listen to the sensationalist media's bent on this and trust it. They are trying to get people stirred up, and it is working. GS got 200 vaccines and are distributing them to their own high-risk employees, such as people with asthma and elderly people. Every GS exec is not getting the vaccine. And the GS workers who are getting the vaccine through work are as deserving of it as any other non GS-employed at-risk person.
[ Reply | Options ]I'm 30 weeks pregnant and have been searching for the H1N1 shot. My ob @ Columbia Pres can't get it. I've been calling everywhere. After hearing about Goldman I decided to call them to see if I could 'buy' a shot. At first they said - no, sorry, none left. I then told them I was an investor and the guy told me to hold on as he was transferring me to their nurse. The nurse said they used all their shots the same day they received them. I'm still frustrated but I find it more annoying that I was given the brush off until I claimed to be an investor.. then they were happy to try to help.
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Hey I am a journalism student at Stony Brook University in Long Island and I am trying to do a broadcast piece as my final project about the shortage of the H1N1 vaccine and people who are in the high risk group who have been turned away because of it. You would be a perfect person for me to interview. Would you mind contacting me. My name is Christine and it would be extremely helpful. My email is christine.l.vargas@gmail.com or you can call me which might be better anyway at 914-843-6708. I think it is crazy that it is a known fact that young children and pregnant women are at high risk of getting the swine flu and the government recommends them to get it, but yet it is very hard to obtain. Please give me a call. I think this is a major p...
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[-]Has anyone used Castor oil to kickstart labor? Does it really work? I don't think that is how I want to start labor but was just curious if anyone has tried that route.
5 replies [ Reply | Watch | Options ]Castor oil may move it along as a fairly non-toxic option but it's yucky. Try some curry, if possible-sex,and unless you're parched or tend to be dehydrated, cut down a little on your drinking water/fluid intake.Have ytou been massaging your perineum with Evening Primrose oil? That type of stimulation can be helpful IF the the baby is ready to be born.
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[-]breastfeeding moms: is it normal that one side makes like 3x's as much milk as the other all the time. second baby - happened last time too....
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[-]37 weeks pregnant and my husband is driving me crazy. I know its probably the hormones but everything he does/says seems to get under my skin. I feel bad for him because I know I haven't exactly been fun the last couple of months but i feel we are starting to snap at each other a lot more and it takes all my patience not to rip his head off at the smallest things.
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Get rid of the stash and everytime you want a piece just imagine the same amount of fat as the size of the chocolate being added to your hips.
[ Reply | Options ]there is candy everywhere at work- someone sent us a 5 lb box of see's choclate. I've had like 10 pieces already, plus some halloween candy this morning. I have been SUCH a junk food junky this pg-
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[ Reply | Options ]wow, i am jealous. i gained 50 lbs with all dc's and normally very skinny/tiny. eat the chocolate -- enjoy -- you have nothing to worry about. and sees are the best!!
[ Reply | Options ]thanks, but started out this pg with 5 pounds left from last pg (from which I only gained 25 pounds so I might not gain a lot but then I don't lose a lot either) and started the first pg with 5 pounds of infertility weight. So I actually really need to limit the weight gain- normal BMI but I know myself and I was overweight to start-
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nothing wrong with chocolate - enjoy. Simple pleasure while your pg. Unless your obese I guess
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