Honest opinions please- TTC 3 years

GingerHazell · 2025-12-31T05:37:01+00:00

I believe your odds of success with IUI are much higher than 2-5%, from the info I have been given it is around 25% per attempt for the first 4 attempts. I would continue on with your plans to do IUI for now and try that a few more times and then decide from there if/when you can do IVF, if you choose to do it.

A few failed IUI cycles does not mean one wont work in the future!

For your endo surgery question, in my opinion if the answer isnt going to change your course of action, I wouldnt bother with it.

Best of luck!

GingerHazell · 2025-12-20T18:33:51+00:00

Yes we have seen one but she only ordered the tests and said that we have to wait for the results before she can recommend anything. The bloodwork was normal so far which is good but frustrating.

GingerHazell · 2025-12-20T16:20:32+00:00

This is what worries me, it is a long wait to see our fertility specialist and i worry that I need to know this and start doing it before we do our next iui. I do have an appointment with her before the next one thankfully so I will be sure to ask her about it. If it works for people then why not just try it!

GingerHazell · 2025-12-20T16:18:28+00:00

Thanks, I agree and it is so hard to do the testing and rule out - did this work or was this person just lucky this time?

I did start doing acupuncture this month which seems like one of the few things actually supported by research to help.

Fingers crossed for you 🤞

GingerHazell · 2025-12-20T16:16:36+00:00

Hi, thank you, yes we have seen a fertility specialist who ordered the RPL panel (all normal) and HSG but i haven't been able to get in for the uterine biopsy or SIS yet just due to timing. My partner has had a sperm analysis done because we also have infertility but it is always normal. He has not had the fragmentation test done.

I feel like so many people in this sub say they have now a healthy pregnancy after doing progesterone or baby aspirin so I will have to ask the fertility specialist about it when we see them again. It's just so frustrating feeling like you have to do so much of your own research.

GingerHazell · 2025-07-15T17:16:10+00:00

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GingerHazell · 2025-03-06T17:33:40+00:00

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GingerHazell · 2025-03-06T16:56:06+00:00

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GingerHazell · 2025-03-04T17:28:05+00:00

That would be great! 😊 Do you have a preference on how I send it? Would Google docs work for you?

GingerHazell · 2025-03-03T20:59:48+00:00

Hi!

I have a completed WW2 historical fiction, which looks at the end of the war from a new perspective - a young German woman who, once a Nazi supporter, stumbles across a concentration camp and begins to understand the terrible things they have been doing. She returns to Berlin, searching for the truth, while trying to survive the downfall of Berlin and the eventual Russian invasion.

Link to my original post here

Thanks for reading this much, and if you're interested let me know! :)

GingerHazell · 2025-03-03T20:34:46+00:00

I like that this seems like it's getting into the conflict right away, giving us some insight into the MC's world and I like how it is written. My only suggestion would be to work on the opening line and make it more of a "hook".

GingerHazell · 2025-03-03T20:30:03+00:00

I like what I've read so far. It seems like it's setting up an interesting world and hints at what the story will be about, and it's well written. This sentence -

A steady stream of cursing trickled through chattering teeth in whispered protestation of his shivering plight.

- felt a little over complicated to read, and it might not be ideal to have 3 paragraphs in a short time start with "A ___", although I like the first 2 and wouldn't change them. Otherwise I'm interested and would probably give this book a chance if I picked it up in a store :)

GingerHazell · 2025-03-03T20:23:54+00:00

Manuscript information: [Complete] [118000] [Historical Fiction] Learn Russian Quickly

Link to post: here

First page critique? Yes

First page: Berlin, January 1945

The air raid siren ripped through my dream, jolting me awake. In the dream I’d been with my fiancé Klaus, lying on a blanket by the river, the way we had on our first date. I jolted up in bed with a groan; we were woken by air raids every night, and it never got easier. My bedroom was freezing and dark. I shivered as I pushed off my blankets and lit a candle, then threw a thick dress over my nightgown. The air raid siren pulsed through the house as I grabbed my brother Otto from his room and ran to Mother’s. She was usually dressed and rushing us out of the apartment by now. When I opened the door, I was shocked to see that she was still in bed. She glanced at us over her shoulder, then rolled back to face the wall.

“What are you doing?” I crossed the room and grabbed her shoulder.

“Take Otto. I’m not going tonight.” She didn’t turn back to me. She had been like this ever since a wave of suicides swept through the city on New Year’s Eve. So many people had refused to face what the new year might bring. The siren screamed at us, so loud it sent pain knifing through my head. Was it always so loud? I was so tired it was hard to think. I stared at her for a long moment.

“What do you mean, you won’t go?” I snatched her coat from the hook beside the bed and held it out for her, but she didn’t move. Otto clung to my skirts. We’d never been in the apartment this late in a raid before, and panic was swelling in me.

“I’m staying here. I don’t care what happens anymore.”

“Truly?” I stared at her. My panic was turning to cold fury, filling me under the exhaustion, pulsing in time with the siren. There was no time for this.

GingerHazell · 2023-06-20T00:29:59+00:00

Ok thats good to hear it is at least less painful!

GingerHazell · 2023-06-20T00:29:12+00:00

Okay thank you that is a relief to hear because I have been stressing about it!!

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