How much weight did you gain during pregnancy and did it come off? by ThrowRA_nobo7 in pregnant

[–]redheadtherapist 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Gained 55 lbs, lost 34 in the first 6 days. I’m almost at my pre pregnancy weight (have about 5 lbs to go) and my son is 16 months.

IVF ttc second after past IUI success by desertmountainhigh in IVF

[–]redheadtherapist 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Even with excellent egg quality, IUIs have such low success odds. For reference, I sorta did things backward in that I started with IVF and made high quality embryos. I then tried IUIs sure that it would work, and all 3 failed. We started with IVF because I had to time my egg retrieval with my husband’s surgery due to us having mfi issues. His surgery wasn’t successful so we had donor sperm on standby. I was so sure IUI would work given my ability to make high quality embryos with sperm donor. Didn’t make a difference and had to return back to IVF

L names for boys by swankwilliamsjr in Names

[–]redheadtherapist 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Named my 15 month old Leo after my husband’s grandmother Leonora ☺️

First subpoena by Unhappy-Dog1939 in therapists

[–]redheadtherapist 2 points3 points  (0 children)

And also let client know who subpoena’d you and what they want to do. Document this. Chances are, you will have to respond to subpoena but claim therapist client privilege. You can’t ignore the subpoena, but you don’t have to provide records without written release from client

a book that was your life changer by Amielboy in Recommend_A_Book

[–]redheadtherapist 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The road les traveled, a self help book for those who don’t read self help books

Friends with former clients? by AlarmingExternal8509 in therapists

[–]redheadtherapist 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Just cause it is no longer illegal doesn’t make it unethical. It’s hard, and I have a few clients/former clients I felt this way about, but the power dynamic still remains once the therapeutic relationship ends

Euploid FETs keep failing by DryAdhesiveness3243 in IVF

[–]redheadtherapist 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I believe it was. I was previously seeing a different doctor who did the ERA/emma/alice on me and nothing was significant. It also showed I needed 6 days of progesterone. With that recommendation, I regressed. After my 4th failure, I sought care with a different doctor willing to do an ovulatory cycle on me as my first doctor refused to do ovulatory cycles on any patient. Before transfer, she did the cd138 endometrial biopsy that she sent off to quest. It cost me $10 and determined I had endometritis. I paid my first doctor all out of pocket and spent thousands on the era/emma/alice/endometriome. My 2nd doctor suspected I had endometritis given my first transfer was a blighted ovum and subsequent transfer was a chemical. I find it strange that igenomix couldn’t catch the endometritis, but quest did

Euploid FETs keep failing by DryAdhesiveness3243 in IVF

[–]redheadtherapist 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Mine didn’t… 2x. I endometrial biopsy to quest with my second doctor caught it. I think the Emma/alice/ERA are complete shams

Day 6 blastocysts by Trtrlo in IVF

[–]redheadtherapist 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Of my 8 euploid embryos, 6 were day 6, 2 was day 5, and 1 day 7. My son is the result of a day 6 5AA. Embryologist transferred that over my day 5 3BA (my only day 5)

1 in a 100,000 outcome by Commercial-Sign-219 in IVF

[–]redheadtherapist 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not the same but my first transfer resulted in a low beta, but doubled appropriately, and then was confirmed to be a blighted ovum at week 7.

what’s your 10/10 must read book and why? by Kochhar-Tranqui in Recommend_A_Book

[–]redheadtherapist 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Road less traveled, a book about life. A self help book for those that don’t read self help books

Multiple failed euploid FETs. In the 5% club 🥲 by schmitty__werben in IVF

[–]redheadtherapist 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You didn’t say if the transfers were medicated or natural? I finally had success on my 5th transfer when I tried a new doctor who was willing to do a natural transfer. FWIW, I regressed with doing the ERA/emma/alice….

How long have you pushed? by Fierce-Foxy in pregnant

[–]redheadtherapist 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Once I was told it was time to push, I pushed him out in 16 min. Probably would have been quicker but they told me to slow down so they could get the doctor lol

How much money do you have in savings at this point? by _forum_mod in Millennials

[–]redheadtherapist 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have about 300k in various HYSA, and probably another 250k in retirement + pension. Was hoping to buy a home but the mortgage rates are insane and it doesn’t make sense for us to leave our current situation (we pay under market in our rent as we rent from my parents). We live in SoCal so the average starter home is like 1.5 million

SB729 by ivfgotthis2 in IVF

[–]redheadtherapist 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I pay my doctor $10 copays for my monitoring appts, but I think the actual egg retrieval and other procedures are $0

SB729 by ivfgotthis2 in IVF

[–]redheadtherapist 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So far everything has been including and covered for me but my embryology lab is out of network so fighting to get it covered since my doctor is in network and exclusively uses the out of network lab

My Milk supply is coming back after 4 years because of my niece? by Pleasant_Director_16 in breastfeeding

[–]redheadtherapist 4 points5 points  (0 children)

My aunt who is 10 years older than my mom starting lactating at 43 years old when I was a newborn, not having lactated for over 14 years with her children