I think epigenetics is going to be really hard to get trial data on, given the setting, but it is fascinating (there's increasing amounts of observational data relevant to allergy development, for example). The donor egg forums are particularly keen on it, but I think also as a psychological coping mechanism.
Yeah. This book is partly about how the large scale data we get is basically all from tragedies -- famines, mass terror, short-lived but profound loss of expected services like electricity, and the differing impacts based on where in the gestational process the stress fell. Fascinating, if obviously depressing and frustrating.
As you might expect, the surrogacy forums don't really want to talk about this stuff at all. But I'm in a different situation/set of relationships from many of these people, and have been told frequently that I'm "not just an incubator," so *shrug*.
Hope Project Make a Baby Like a Boss is going well for you! I am now in a new city with a new specialist, and trying a low-key then ramp up approach which has the advantage of starting with significantly cheaper drugs. No go last cycle, trying again.
We are in a legal/admin holding pattern for another 2-3 months, approximately, and then it will be go go go! I thought all this preliminary waiting and stuff would drive me insane and feel like forever, but my God, two months? That's like now almost, aaaaah!
Thumbs up on the new protocol. My doc has a strict 'if it hasn't worked after 2-3 tries, shake it up' mentality, which I appreciate. I assume you've looked into the extramedical nutrative things you can do about egg quality? In addition to CoQ10 and the other obvious things, I mean. I have been having noticeably good results with smallish supplementation and dietary tweaks, for my different hormone issues. But I don't know much about what you can and can't do while you're stimming.
Then again, someone I know in her late 30's with low AMH/poor responding ovaries was just finally successful on try 4 (or try 3, depending on if you count the canceled cycle). She wrote this post about what she'd done differently that time, but the bottom line was nothing, really. She just ate lots of protein and tried to relax, but she'd always done that. It just . . . happened to work that time. Kind of maddening, really.
I will be thinking of you, and -- okay, I have to back up and explain this. My sister and I were talking recently about some of the women we know who are ttc, and how some of the things they say sound so awful and stressful. Like lying on the table and crying about the money, or lying there and saying affirmations like "I will get pregnant." So we agreed that instead of any of that, I will lie on the table and read gay porn, because that seems so much better to both of us.
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Date: 2012-07-14 04:35 pm (UTC)Yeah. This book is partly about how the large scale data we get is basically all from tragedies -- famines, mass terror, short-lived but profound loss of expected services like electricity, and the differing impacts based on where in the gestational process the stress fell. Fascinating, if obviously depressing and frustrating.
As you might expect, the surrogacy forums don't really want to talk about this stuff at all. But I'm in a different situation/set of relationships from many of these people, and have been told frequently that I'm "not just an incubator," so *shrug*.
Hope Project Make a Baby Like a Boss is going well for you! I am now in a new city with a new specialist, and trying a low-key then ramp up approach which has the advantage of starting with significantly cheaper drugs. No go last cycle, trying again.
We are in a legal/admin holding pattern for another 2-3 months, approximately, and then it will be go go go! I thought all this preliminary waiting and stuff would drive me insane and feel like forever, but my God, two months? That's like now almost, aaaaah!
Thumbs up on the new protocol. My doc has a strict 'if it hasn't worked after 2-3 tries, shake it up' mentality, which I appreciate. I assume you've looked into the extramedical nutrative things you can do about egg quality? In addition to CoQ10 and the other obvious things, I mean. I have been having noticeably good results with smallish supplementation and dietary tweaks, for my different hormone issues. But I don't know much about what you can and can't do while you're stimming.
Then again, someone I know in her late 30's with low AMH/poor responding ovaries was just finally successful on try 4 (or try 3, depending on if you count the canceled cycle). She wrote this post about what she'd done differently that time, but the bottom line was nothing, really. She just ate lots of protein and tried to relax, but she'd always done that. It just . . . happened to work that time. Kind of maddening, really.
I will be thinking of you, and -- okay, I have to back up and explain this. My sister and I were talking recently about some of the women we know who are ttc, and how some of the things they say sound so awful and stressful. Like lying on the table and crying about the money, or lying there and saying affirmations like "I will get pregnant." So we agreed that instead of any of that, I will lie on the table and read gay porn, because that seems so much better to both of us.
So I will read gay porn for your embryos.