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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My wife lost three babies and had a few failed IVF cycles between our first and second child. By the third miscarriage, followed by a BFN IVF cycle, our entire family thought we were insane for sticking to the path. Hell, I kind of thought she was insane for sticking to it. But then, lo and behold, she got pregnant and it stuck. He's about to be one.

If your doctors are telling you that you can't get pregnant, my opinion is that you're talking to the wrong doctors. However, my wife's success was as much about her doing research and advocating for herself as much as it was about the treatment, in my opinion. We switched clinics and sought immune treatment before having our rainbow baby, and she also made significant changes to her diet, supplement intake, and did acupuncture regularly. [/quote]
Can you share more details of your wife’s experience. Did she get pregnant through IVF? What diet changes did she make, and which supplements did she take? Which clinic did you all go to, and what type of immune treatment did she receive?[/quote]

PP here, and sure.

Of note is that we are a same sex couple, and after trying AI and IUI years ago (before our first child) it became clear that DW would always needs to do IVF. At 28, her FSH wasn't great, but she was accepted into an IVF clinical trial in New York and got pregnant with the one embryo that resulted from mini IVF - this was our first son who is now 5.5. When our first child was 16 months, we started working with Shady Grove and did shared risk. DW got pregnant on the first cycle, but we lost the baby due to chromosomal abnormalities. There was one embryo left from that retrieval, which we then had PGS tested and found out it was normal, but that transfer didn't work. Following that we had a few miserable cycles at SG with nothing to show for it. We think their protocol of high dose stims was to blame, and they weren't really willing to make changes. We ended up switching to Dr. Davis at Cornell. DW started doing day 3 fresh transfers with co-culture, and did get pregnant twice on this protocol, but miscarried both. Testing showed both were chromosomally normal. Through all of that time at Cornell, DW made a lot of diet changes (used to be vegetarian but started eating poultry and lots of eggs per her acupuncturist's recommendation) and added a lot of supplements based on her reading of It Starts with the Egg. She also did acupuncture weekly or bi weekly. After the second miscarriage with Cornell she started working with Dr. Braverman, and based on her immune work up with him, she first had a laparoscopy, then she was on neupogen, prednisone, lovenox, baby aspirin, metformin, high dose fish oil - and this was all in addition to the fertility meds. She continued to work with Dr. Davis at Cornell who did her IVF protocol while Dr. Braverman monitored her for the immune protocol. The first cycle on Dr. Braverman's protocol was a BFN, but the second cycle worked. She transferred two embryos frozen on day 1 with that cycle. She also eliminated gluten while working with Dr. Braverman to reduce inflammation.

I attribute her success to both of these doctors, but also to her own determination. It was clear that a low dose stim cycle was best for her, and Dr. Davis saw that. The lab at Cornell is excellent, so I must give credit to them as well.

Part of this is a numbers game. Sometimes you get lucky (like with our first child - one embryo from one retrieval that worked on the first try) and sometimes you don't get lucky. I guess we were just determined to keep going because we wanted to know that we had tried everything possible.

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