The transfer went perfectly. All my levels were “excellent” and the doctor was very hopeful. Eight days after the transfer I had multiple positive home pregnancy tests. We were SO excited. We were on cloud nine and enjoying every blissful moment. A few days later I went to my first blood test and the results came back dangerously low. I was pregnant, but our doctor was very worried because the pregnancy hormone level was so low. She kept me on my medications and brought me in for another blood test two days later but my number went down. This means we are losing the pregnancy. Our first round of IVF wasn’t successful. After months of giving myself shots, going to countless appointments an hour each way before the sun was even up, being admitted to the hospital with OHSS because I had so many eggs produced, still here we are. I continued to have positive home tests after the blood test but unfortunately they detect such a small amount of the pregnancy hormone that they can give false hope. We don’t understand why this happened but we will try to keep our faith and move forward. Please keep us in your prayers and pray for anyone experiencing infertility or loss. We were so in love with our baby already. I cannot fathom the pain parents feel when they lose their child further into a pregnancy or after they are born. Thank you for all your support. We love you all. We will have a meeting with Dr. Alford in the near future to discuss what to do next. The doctors and nurses at IVFMD have been incredible, and we are blessed to be able to call Big Mama and Sara our new friends. They have been invaluable through this process. We know we will be parents. This is just another obstacle to overcome, but we will start our family one day.
Facebook has come up with a CRAZY new plan to stop people from using their network to spread revenge porn. And all it’ll take to work is for everyone to have a deep, deep trust that Facebook respects our privacy. Their plan to prevent revenge porn is . . . having you preemptively GIVE FACEBOOK your nude photos.
All you have to do is upload all of the nude pictures on your phone to Facebook. Those would be analyzed, and turned into something like a digital fingerprint. Then Facebook swears they’d delete the photos themselves. But they still have that “fingerprint.” So if someone else tries to upload one of those nude photos, Facebook will recognize it and prevent the person from sharing it.
Right now they’re testing out this new system with a small group of people in Australia. There’s no word on when it might go worldwide.
