Antiphospholipid Antibodies...Big Word...Big Meaning

We are well underway into our cycle. I have begun giving myself my stimulation medications (3 shots per day mind you), Monday I go for a blood test to determine if I am getting enough hormone or not enough to produce enough follicles.

With my age, I can be overstimulated, which then I will be disqualified from the study, or I may not be stimulated enough because they are holding back on the stimulation medications, but that really isn't what this blog is about...

I am really really excited to become pregnant, and I really feel that when you work as hard as we have worked in order to do this whole thing, that the let down is even more if by chance it doesn't work. And the let down may be even greater if by chance you have something called Antiphospholipid Antibodies.

I was diagnosed with 4 strains of this disorder, which is a blood clotting disorder that doesn't allow the blood to pass through the uterus into the placenta to nourish the baby. There are a few strains of it and I have the strain causing 1st trimester miscarriages as well as the type causing 2nd and 3rd trimester still births/miscarriages.

With this new found news, what are our options....Heparin shots twice daily for 32 weeks of my pregnancy. I should be a real junkie if this all works out right.

So...are we telling anybody...the answer would be no. We are going to wait until I make it into the 2nd trimester, but I am sure that all of you will be able to guess if there is nothing about it, because I will tell everyone if by chance it doesn't work. I will just not be ready to go public with it for a while, which is what a lot of people do anyways.

So...the end of the month is retreival and transfer. Pray that it will all be okay!