ER Update/Results

Everything went well yesterday at my egg retrieval. I was nervous going into the procedure but it was over so quickly and they were able to retrieve 9 eggs! Which is a fairly average number, we want quality not quantity.  I did cry when I was waking up from the anesthesia and I totally scared Ben! He was like please stop crying, haha.  I wasn’t sad or in pain, just emotional I guess. So he got me some chicken nuggets and french fries as a treat on our way home from the hospital. They have my eggs so my diet doesn’t need to be sooo strict, er, at least that’s what I chose to believe yesterday. today I’m back on the healthy bandwagon.

There is some change in the IVF cycle plan though. Apparently while we were holding off ovulation with medications my body continued through a normal cycle process and is ready now to implant an embryo.  But science is still 5 days away from implantation.   So whatever eggs are fertilized we will freeze and transfer back into my body next cycle.

So we’re yet again pushed back in this process.  The doctor is very optimistic though with everything that’s happening. He would rather wait to put the embryo into my body, then transfer it back when my body isn’t willing to accept it.

My clinics success rate for freeze/de thaw of an embryo is 95%, and they said there success rates with pregnancy during a Frozen Embryo Transfer (FET) is also almost 100% because they’re able to time and plan perfectly when your body wants to accept that embryo.

So you guys have another month of hearing about me getting injections and taking medicine. But we’re getting closer.

Now we just wait to see how many of my eggs are actually fertilized and make it to 5 days so they can be frozen.  We’re hoping to hear the results of the FERT report (what I just described) sometime today.  So please keep us in your thoughts!!