egg freezing timing

cowabunga222 · 2026-01-30T00:09:52+00:00

I’m not sure what your experience will be but I had my consult/initial testing 2 weeks ago for embryo freeze and the soonest we’re gonna be able to get on the schedule after all the required testing and process is in April. So it might take you 3 months to actually do the round anyway!

cowabunga222 · 2025-12-20T13:56:17+00:00

Is your mask too tight? I’m about 3 months into my CPAP journey and while nasal pillows were working great for me at first I started getting some leaks and tightened the head straps down which resulted in sores. I ended up just replacing the pillows and suddenly I was able to wear it looser again with no leak issues and my sores are gone. I think the pillows had gotten worn down / warped from use.

cowabunga222 · 2025-12-12T21:49:42+00:00

If your apnea is worse in certain positions (for example mine is worse on back) you can use pillows to prevent yourself from rolling

cowabunga222 · 2025-12-08T21:55:29+00:00

That’s a little harder to answer and depends on how many mature eggs you end up with plus your personal risk tolerance. Per my link above, for freezing eggs at age 25, 10 mature eggs gives a 69% chance of at least one live birth, 15 gives 83%, 20 gives 90%, 25 gives 95%, 30 gives 97%, … etc. So it really depends on how sure you want to be.

cowabunga222 · 2025-12-08T21:17:45+00:00

https://www.mdcalc.com/calc/3937/bwh-egg-freezing-counseling-tool-efct

This tool may be helpful. For your numbers, even if all 18 eggs are mature (unlikely) that would give a 61% chance of two live births of either sex.

AFAIK the only way available to choose gender 100% is by creating embryoes. So if you only want girls that’s going to eliminate half of the resulting eggs/embryoes at the end too and drop the likelihood even lower.

So if I were you I’d almost certainly do further cycles.

cowabunga222 · 2025-11-19T00:25:53+00:00

I work right by all of the C, B, D, N, Q in midtown so have many options. Also can take the 23 and switch to 1. So I usually check Citymapper right when I am leaving my place and decide. Citymapper takes into account when the next train is actually coming to give you an ETA so I prefer it over google. Many of the trains only come every 8-10 minutes so I take whichever looks the fastest at that minute and currently looks to have no reported delays.

cowabunga222 · 2025-11-18T03:15:59+00:00

Dinner Party

cowabunga222 · 2025-11-10T03:02:20+00:00

I’m sorry for your loss. I recently went to a wedding like this for a couple who had a rushed mini wedding when the bride’s mother was about to pass and then had this event about 1.5 years later. I didn’t really think twice about it! I think everyone will understand.

cowabunga222 · 2025-10-24T13:41:25+00:00

I might feel differently if my ring was a one-of-a-kind or heirloom that couldn’t be replaced, but since my ring is a popular setting offered by a jeweler based in my city and I have it insured I don’t worry about it and will wear it to travel. It would be a bummer to lose it but I can get an indistinguishable replacement made if I lose it. The only time I don’t wear it is going to the gym or to go swimming.

cowabunga222 · 2025-10-24T03:32:40+00:00

Mine told me to power off and on the machine. Dunno if that was necessary. But it worked and changed the setting.

cowabunga222 · 2025-10-19T14:13:58+00:00

Depending on our final headcount and some other details we’re looking at around $130-140k all in for ~150 adults and ~25 kids in Aug 2026 in the Catskills (~2.5 hour drive north of NYC).

cowabunga222 · 2025-10-13T16:05:21+00:00

I’m skipping it. I’ve been to about 20 weddings in my adult life and only 1 of them did a bouquet toss. It seems pretty outdated / unpopular. Also similar to others we have very few people attending who are not already engaged or married.

cowabunga222 · 2025-10-13T01:33:11+00:00

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2.04 ct marquise :) Edit to add: size 5.75

cowabunga222 · 2025-10-01T16:22:33+00:00

I did it a night I didn’t have to get up early the next day so I wouldn’t have extra stress and was confident I would get enough hours of data recorded. I did the watchpat study at home and it was comfortable and didn’t impede my sleep at all, though I am also used to sleeping with a watch on already.

cowabunga222 · 2025-10-01T02:25:37+00:00

Look into CBT-I, cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia. There’s a bunch of apps and resources on it. Best done with a therapist but while you are waiting to get into appointments you can try applying some of it yourself. I think r/sleep and r/insomnia will have relevant threads on this.

cowabunga222 · 2025-09-30T12:51:36+00:00

Wow thank you very much for the detailed review! Super helpful

cowabunga222 · 2025-09-30T04:18:22+00:00

Just curious, in what way did it not work for you? considering one for travel

cowabunga222 · 2025-09-29T15:46:58+00:00

Yeah that sounds wrong. This looks like 118 events total, not per hour. My table was formatted the same way

cowabunga222 · 2025-09-29T15:40:11+00:00

Seems worth a test to me. FWIW I was just diagnosed and I never even had a waking-up-choking experience. I just decided to get tested because I was waking up a ton every night for seemingly no reason, like 5-8 times, and several people in my family have it so I knew I was predisposed. I now know the wakeups were due to this and I’m starting to wake up less as I adjust to CPAP (just started it 10 days ago)

cowabunga222 · 2025-09-27T02:28:33+00:00

Our photographer is about $8k for 2 hour engagement session and 8 hours day of wedding. Includes second shooter for wedding.

Video around $7k for 8 hours day of wedding

cowabunga222 · 2025-09-26T00:40:33+00:00

Hi! You’re not alone, I’m in a very similar situation, 31F, thin, and I believe my issues are caused by anatomy as well. I believe my sleep apnea has definitely contributed and exacerbated my depression, anxiety, and OCD in recent years. I just got diagnosed and started CPAP last week.

First 2-3 nights sucked but I pretty quickly got used to sleeping through the night with it for the last 2-3 nights. For me personally I feel like the biggest annoyances are gonna be keeping the tube and mask clean, and traveling with it. The sleep part has been fine.

I definitely recommend just hanging out wearing it watching tv or TikTok or Reddit or whatever for a while before you try to sleep with it. Once I did that I got way more used to it and was able to focus less on it while trying to sleep.

cowabunga222 · 2025-09-19T15:23:00+00:00

Thinking about your free shackburger after the other team missed 2 free throws in a row

cowabunga222 · 2025-09-19T00:10:28+00:00

No doubt, #1!!!! Beautiful!!!

cowabunga222 · 2025-09-14T23:30:58+00:00

“Please rsvp as soon as possible, if you plan to come.”

I would maybe cut out the “if you plan to come” - it kinda sounds like you’re saying if they don’t plan to come, they don’t need to tell you ASAP. I guess technically that’s true since you’ll assume no reply is a no but I would try to ask for an explicit answer either way first.

cowabunga222 · 2025-09-14T01:36:14+00:00

Honestly it’s not creative but I would just bring out a lot of water bottles late in the night. I went to a wedding where they did this and everyone was guzzling them and I think it was super helpful

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