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I’m excited to get rid of the anonymity and announce that this winter the Piñata family will be a family of 5! We are still shocked that our first round of IVF was successful and feel so grateful that there is a little life growing inside of me that we can’t wait to meet in […]

This is an anonymous post series following one of our blogger’s ivf journey in real time. You can read parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 here. I woke up Wednesday morning with a feeling of dread. I knew it was the day I was getting the blood test done to see if our IVF […]

This is an anonymous post series following one of our blogger’s ivf journey in real time. You can read parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 here. After egg retrieval we knew that 10 eggs were retrieved and that 8 of them were mature, which meant only 8 had the ability to even fertilize. We […]

This is an anonymous post series following one of our blogger’s ivf journey in real time. You can read parts 1, 2, 3, 4 here. On Monday, I went again for a follicle check and bloodwork. I was really hoping it would be my last monitoring appointment since my clinic is 2 hours away and I have to […]

This is an anonymous post series following one of our blogger’s ivf journey in real time. You can read parts 1, 2, 3 here. On Wednesday, I again woke at 5am to drive 2 hours to our fertility clinic to get my check to see how many follicles I had growing. They also tested my estrogen level […]

This is an anonymous post series following one of our blogger’s ivf journey in real time. You can read parts 1 and 2 here. We have officially started our first IVF cycle! Last Tuesday (March 22nd), we left the house at 5:30am for the 2 hour drive to our clinic for our consent appointment with the doctor and IVF […]

Not a whole lot has happened since my first post about how we planned to start IVF, except that the start date is getting nearer! My husband and I have our final appointment before the process starts on March 22nd, where we will go over all the consent forms (the packet is almost 40 pages […]