Cycle Update and Future Possibilities
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- Опубліковано 25 сер 2024
- I'm starting another cycle which will probably be my last. It does make me sad, but the hope in a different direction is also exciting. Especially if my own natural ability is gone. Thank you to all of you who are here with me. For those of you who wanted me to do a gofundme, I did start one for this specific purpose. If I get pregnant naturally, the money will help with those costs, if I don't, it will help with the ivf process. I am so grateful for women like you who dive in and do what you do. You are all amazing women.
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The way you glow when you speak about finding out you were pregnant with your daughter is what I hope and pray to see for you soon with another baby (babies). I always go back to that time and I pray I get to experience it again too ❤️. Always praying for you 🙏
Yes, I always go back to that time also. I feel like it all happened so fast and it was so easy back then. Thank you so much for your encouragement as always! I would love to experience it one more time in my life.🙏♥️
I prayed for you... For us. For us all. One more time. From your lips to God's ears. Cheers and Amen! I'm going for # 5 here... May our deepest desires be granted❤
Thank you so much for all your prayers! I would love to be surprised with a miracle. I hope you get your miracle number five soon! Thank you so much for your encouragement!♥️♥️🙏🙏
I hope and pray for your miracle, no matter what way leads to your dream family, it will be a beautiful experience. My youngest child was conceived naturally at 45, she just turned 6months but we want to try for another #4 and it will be most likely donor egg due to my age.
Hey Andrea, so excited for you!! I hope it all works out for you! I've pretty much let go of any hopes of conceiving again. I haven't bought opks in 2 months and have kinda let some of my supplements go. At 47 I just don't have much hope of a healthy egg. I'm finally at peace and excited for what the next stage of life with my family holds.
Good luck to you!!! Always rooting for you!❤
Yes, I am feeling the exact same way. And I feel like I have found some peace as well. I’m glad your family is doing so well! Thank you so much for your support and encouragement as always!♥️♥️
I'm going to have you in my every night prayer... I hope God Blesses Your uterus and Gives You an amazing baby ! Have faith 🙏 ❤ declare your blessing !!
Thank you so much for your prayers and encouragement! Yes, I declare it every day! Thank you so much!🙏♥️
Praying for you to bring forth that golden egg. I had one biological daughter at age 38, adopted two embryos and had twins at age 47. Getting ready to have one more donated embryo transferred for baby #4, I just turned 50.
It‘s important that you just do what feels right to you. I can only say that for me this was the best decision ever. And don‘t underestimate epigenetics and the influence of nurture.
Thank you so much! I found your channel not long ago and subscribed to you! You are definitely an inspiration! Thank you so much for the encouragement and I look forward to seeing how your next embryo transfer goes! It’s so nice to meet you and follow along and I love seeing Germany in the background Since that’s my heritage on my dad’s side!😊♥️🙏
I am sooo doing embryo adoption. I'm 47 and had breast cancer. I wish every fertility clinic in the US stored donated embryos. It's easier, cheaper and less invasive than traditional IVF.
Wow ❤
I have donated and hope you reach your goals as always. 💕🐨💕
Wow Tracy, thank you so much! You are so generous and I am so grateful to you!! ♥️♥️
Love you so much hope the best for your journey - keep us posted
I will! Thank you so much!♥️♥️
I am both sad and happy for you. Sad that this will be your last own cycle but happy that you are looking into donor egg. There is still hope of having another baby. Please keep us posted.
Yes, it is sad but exciting at the same time. Thank you so much for your support and understanding.♥️♥️
I’m sending you alll the baby dust and luck!
Thank you so much, Kelly!♥️♥️
Sending you all my love ❤❤❤
Thank you so much, Brooklin!♥️♥️
Andrea you do what makes you happy, I will support you and be there for you whatever you decide, sending you lots of love and luck for this cycle, praying for you ♥
Thank you so much, Lucy. I really appreciate your encouragement and support!♥️♥️
As always got my fingers crossed 🤞 for you Andrea and sending lots of baby dust 💜
Thank you so much. I really appreciate that!♥️♥️
Fingers crossed for you, no matter where this journey takes you! I had my last at 43 and am also thinking of going back to school. I’m scared but, yes kids are expensive and I had planned to be a SAHM but life seems to have other plans!
🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 sending baby dust!! I believe it will happen soon!❤❤
Thank you so much, Melanie!♥️♥️
Andrea, Good Luck Love!! Here we go again!! God Bless You!! I REALLY hope this month is our month!!🙏🏼🤗🥰🙏🏼👣
I just want to add to what you said, Andrea. I got pregnant with my first son at 19. Turned 20 and had him 3 weeks later (he turns 17 in 2 months). My second son was born at 23. He has some serious disabilities. He had a stroke in-utero which affected the left side of his body. He can't use his left hand and has a limp. It also caused CP, epilepsy, damage to the optic nerve so he has poor vision and Hydrocephalus. He had his first brain surgery at 3 days old to place a VP shunt. He's had so many shunt revisions I've lost count. He had a skull expansion surgery at 4 years old. He's now 13 and doing well but life is still harder for him than most 13 yr olds. My 3rd son was born at 28 and my 4th at 30. (I'm about to turn 37 in a month) He is high on the spectrum and is NV. Idk if I'll ever get to go back to school like I had planned after I had my 3rd because my youngest needs me. He turned 6 in January and is only able to go to school from 7:30-11am so I'm not able to work. What's worse is we pay $1500 a year for him and his brother to go to that PUBLIC school because the one in our district doesn't have a good SPED program. We are not poor but we are not middle class. Me being able to work would help us a lot but idk if it'll ever happen. I worry so much for their futures. I have so much to say but dk how to and I feel like I'm just dumping all this in a comment on your video for no reason. I just felt heavy in this moment and needed to get it off my chest I guess. Also, I feel like I need to add that with all 4 pregnancies I didn't drink, smoke, do drugs or anything. (Some people have asked that when I've told them about my situation in the past 😒) You never know what life is going to throw at you. I never thought I'd have this life, that I'd be this mom, but here I am. It's scary and stressful at times but we make it through. I might be home taking care of Memphis (my youngest) until I die but I'm okay with that. Thankfully I have a great husband who works to support us. But, god forbid what happens if something happens to him? Anyway let me stop before I go on for hours telling my whole life story 😂.
P.S. I love watching your journey and I hope you get that baby soon. I really, really do. And thank you for saying that people shouldn't assume anything about someone else's life because that is so true. ❤❤
@@VictoriaMarch13 oh I’m so sorry you’ve had such a hard time! Don’t feel like you’re dumping, you can always feel free to share anything you want to on my channel. This kind of thing really does help so many other women that are in the same boat. We are all here to help and support each other, and I hope that my channel can be a place where people can feel safe and comfortable to get the help and support that they need, whatever that may be.♥️♥️
Rooting for you so hard for this cycle and anything beyond. You are deeply knowledgeable. I would love to hear an informational video from you on "this supplement for x, this supplement for y" on anything you have taken and especially what worked. I have not heard about silenium from anyone but you, and you have such a relatable way of speaking and educating.
And ugh, it's complicated trying to lay out your life when you're young and not knowing how things will go with your competing priorities. I so hear you on that. As someone who went back to school, unfortunately depending what you go for, that investment can be expensive, too.
Yes, you got that right! It is so hard to juggle all of those life situations and prioritize. Well, thank you so much for such a wonderful compliment. I really appreciate those kind words! I will do my best to try to let you all know the supplements that I have taken over the years and the ones that I think were helpful and worth taking. Thank you so much!♥️♥️
I'm excited and so hopeful for you! How are you'll feeling after not eating for 2 days?
I pray the consultation goes very well, and I can't wait for an update!
Fingers crossed that this is the cycle you get your 2nd miracle!
Thank you so much, Lexi! Yes, I will update as soon as I can! And I felt great after the fast, it was really good and the time really flew by, which was weird. I felt great after and I can’t wait to do another one!♥️♥️
Good luck!!!! I'm so invested in your journey ❤
You got this Andrea 💪🏻
Thank you so much!😊♥️
Sending many prayers for positive results next time.
I nearly lost my mind when i found out ICSI was a seperate procedure, because that is how i always thought IVF was done! Good luck as always Andrea
Yes, I know! I feel like it’s an automatic procedure now with IVF and they’re not really giving you a choice. I would much rather have the eggs in a dish and let the sperm enter them naturally the way traditional IVF used to be done. That way it can still be somewhat natural, thank you so much for all your support Sonia. I so appreciate you!♥️♥️
Wishing you the best and sending you baby dust your way from Texas,🌠🌌🌼🌻♥️ hoping for the best for my fet transfer in August 🙏👶💙💜💕♥️
Thank you so much and same to you! Let me know how it goes!🙏♥️
Absolutely I will 🙏💯♥️🙏
I'm wishing you lots of blessings and that God restores your eggs to surprise you with a HUGE blessing you wait and see God's got you! Bless ya!
Yes, that would be amazing! Thank you so much!🙏♥️
I nannied for a woman who had her first at 45, via egg donation, and second at 49, same egg donation! It’s a beautiful way to expand a family if that’s what you choose! I hope it all works out for you ❤
Wow that’s wonderful! Thank you so much!♥️
Saying so many prayers for you Andrea and Sending you all the positive vibes and baby dust this cycle im excited for you either way you go you deserve so much for you to have your rainbow baby or babies your an amazing person with a big heart I wish you all the luck 🍀 🤍🫶✨👶🌈
This is amazing and exciting and I so can't wait for this next journey for you❤
Thank you so much, Alana! Not sure what’s going to happen, but I’m feeling very hopeful!♥️♥️
Which ever road you take, I hope it brings you to your miracle baby ❤
Either way it will be loved and adored
Looking forward to your updates
Absolutely I will 💜💯💜
Your skin looks younger since starting the E and selenium
Thank you!😊♥️
I'm rooting for you hun.
Good luck xx
I would Def go with the egg doner ! So exciting ❤
Thank you so much!♥️♥️
Can I ask? If the egg would be donated and the sperm would be donated, would an adoption be a possibility? To give someone in the system a beautiful life full of love.
@@lilienburesova1522 I’m not sure I fully understand what you are asking. Are you saying that if I do double donors, would I adopt out any of them? As far as I know, I would do everything in my power to keep them all. There are over 1,000,000 frozen embryos right now(last I heard) that need adoption and I’m not sure why a place like CNY takes so long with it. I know someone who got 6 in just a matter of months from the Brown clinic, but they are untested, and could potentially be several very expensive chemical pregnancies. 😞♥️
@@andreapoole4778 I meant since the egg would be donated and also sperm the baby wouldn’t be biologically yours. In that case would you consider an adoption of an existing baby to extend your family? Sorry for the question I was just curious if adoption is on the table.
@@andreapoole4778 oh my goodness! I didn’t know that there is so many frozen embryos out there! Just waiting to be born? That’s wow. Now I understand. Thank you for explaining. I did hear a story once that a woman “rescued” one of the oldest embryos that were about to be discarded. I don’t remember the years but those embryos were created before she was even born. She gave birth to both of them. That story gave me chills.
Really hope it works out for you 🙏 ❤ xxx
Thank you so much Kerry!♥️♥️
I love omega3! I really recommend taking MARINE omega 3 , it’s the best kind of omega we can give our bodies, it does cost a little bit more than normal omega but wow what a difference.
Awesome I’ll look into it! Thank you so much! Yeah, I’m really excited about it too! ♥️♥️
Apply castor oil on your lower belly every night. Make sure it's a good quality oil that comes in a glass bottle. Please do your own research on that, but I have read it helps with the endometrium lining. It doesnt hurt to try. Stop after ovulation since it can provoke contractions and if you conceive it wouldn't be a good thing. May God Bless you.
I'm so sorry you were not able to have another child with your genetics like you were hoping for. Its ok to take time to grieve. Infertility is an incredible hard thing to go through.
Hi Andrea! Can’t wait for your updates on ovulation and your consultation! Do you plan to have the potential embryos PGT tested?
In addition to your supplements video, I’d love to hear more about how you found your Facebook donor. Does he have a maximum number of successful pregnancies he plans to donate towards before he stops? Really curious about that process, if you’re willing to share.
Thank you Casey! Yes I need to make a video in the next few days to let you know what I’m finding out! And I have been meaning to ask the sperm donor how many he has and for how long he plans to do this. He jokes around a lot so it’s hard sometimes to get a straight answer. I hope you’re doing well and are having fun preparing for your baby girl!♥️♥️
Our sweet 13 year old granddaughter ia a egg donor baby. 3 years of infertility 2 positive miscarried 2 did not take at all . Egg donor took instantly aging ovaries. Born premature but doing extra superb. Long long story. Our miracle baby.
Wow what a story! And congratulations! Thank you for the inspiration and encouragement!♥️♥️
Hey Andrea, very excited for you that you have found a donor that makes you excited for next steps!
What are you planning on studying?
Thank you so much, Lauren. I really appreciate that! I first became a dental assistant 20 years ago with the intention of going back for dental hygiene, but never did it. Being in dental, it would only be natural to go into hygiene than anything else. So I will attempt to take the prerequisite courses and see if I can get into the program in a year or two. That would give me a good 15 years to do the job, which would be great!♥️♥️
Where does your husband stand on all of this? I have been following you for many months, rooting for you. I only hear you say "I" with regard to anything baby related.
I find this so disrespectful, frankly it’s none of your business. Obviously she’s uploading videos on UA-cam , I’m sure her husband is aware. And FYI “I” say “I” all the time because “I” doesn’t mean my husband doesn’t support nor isn’t happy about anything.
If you look back on older videos andrea explains these kind of questions but yes I find this disrespectful to
Athina was asked the same question by another yt user a month ago. If her husband knew they were ttc...
Those questions are rude AF 😒
She wouldn't do all of this if it wasn't for her husbands support. 🙃
Thank you so much for rooting for me, I really appreciate that. I say I, because I am the one trying to get pregnant. My husband cannot participate as I have explained before that he is not able to have children. So I use donor sperm. My husband wants me to be happy and would be happy to have another child knowing that that is what I want. 😊♥️
@@brooklin_bernek I asked the question respectfully. Andrea doesn't owe me an answer. Content from UA-cam is very public and I'm sure derives income. Truthfully, I've seen Andrea's urine more than anyone I live with since they are out of diapers. I say that in jest as I appreciate her sharing the hard stuff. If she wasn't comfortable with the type of content and the questions that can arise then she wouldn't be posting. I didn't accuse or assume. I asked a question based on the "I" statements. I did know that he does not have sperm to make a baby but I wasn't sure where he stood on the embryo adoption as it's much more involved than the IUI process.
Hoping you will either become pregnant this time or someone who follows you may have some embryos they would like for you to adopt
I went to school after ttc for 4.5 years and putting it on the back burner. I made it a 2 semesters before getting pregnant. I had to drop out due to him being early.
Tried again for 4 years and when I went back to school again we got pregnant again lol. But I finished my degree this time lol.
Oh, that’s so funny! Good for you that you kept going!♥️♥️
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How much selenium do you recommend?
Hi Andrea, I apologize if you have answered this before or stated it somewhere in your videos, but can I ask what your AMH levels have been throughout your 40s? I am 40 and trying to conceive naturally for the first time. We have been trying for 6 months. My AMH is 1.29 and everything else seems normal. Thank you, and I am praying for you 🙂
It’s ok, I am always happy to answer these questions. My amh was tested last year and was .08 at 47. When I was tested once at 40 it was I believe .17 and that was a year before conceiving my daughter at 41. So compared to me you have a great amh! 😄 However since it’s been 6 months I would start working with a doctor if you’re not already. Time slips away too fast. Thank you for being here and your prayers! I hope you have a baby in your arms soon!♥️♥️
have you thought about switching donors? I know you were reluctant to previously because you felt it was working with all the chemical pregnancies, but perhaps there's genetic reasons the zygotes never develop from him? you're very focused on why your body isn't holding onto zygotes, but it could be that your body is letting go of what won't work, not that it itself isn't working. wishing you all the best!
Thank you! That is a possibility but I really don’t think so in this case. I used my daughter’s donor for two straight years after she was born and had nothing but chemical pregnancies with him. So getting pregnant multiple times with chemicals with this new donor doesn’t make me think it’s him. Plus he sends out announcements and shows me photos of his many successful pregnancies and growing toddlers from a variety of women.Thank you for your encouragement!♥️♥️
Hello Andrea is there a way I can speak with you. I may be able to help you. I was trying for 4 years and finally succeeded.
Sure you can always find me on facebook messenger 😊
Can you share in one of your videos what supplements you have tried and liked and which didn't work for you ? I recently started myo inositol and so far I feel good about it . Good luck !
Sure, I might be able to do that! I have had other people ask about it so I will try to put something together soon!♥️♥️
@@andreapoole4778 Thank you
Who is the UA-camr that talks about fasting that you mentioned ??
Dr. Mindy Pelz! She’s awesome!♥️♥️
Idk what your issues are specifically. But I’ve had horrible fertility issues and doing carnivore has hugely improved my issues. I ended up expecting almost a year ago. Had my baby two months ago. Someone to listen to is Dr. Ken Berry. He’s good at what he does. He has a channel on here. Best of luck!
That’s great that the carnivore diet worked for you! I definitely eat meat, but I eat vegetables also. My issue is age and low amh. I am in perimenopause. Thank you for the encouragement!♥️
@@andreapoole4778 ohh gotcha. Well I wish you the best of luck :))
May I ask y you don’t try IVF?
I have many times. Thank you for watching!😊
Off topic....anyone every tell you that you look like the actress Kate Walsh?
I think someone mentioned it a few weeks ago. What a huge compliment! Thank you!😊♥️
Does race matter to you?
I’m so excited for you either way, whether you use the egg donor or not ❤ You are so deserving of baby #2🤍🤍🤍 sending all the good vibes! 🙏🏻🙏🏻 keep up updated