We found out today that out of 27 eggs retrieved, 17 have successfully fertilized. We will find out for sure tomorrow whether they will be doing a 3 day or 5 day transfer.
Grow embies grow!
Saturday, December 8, 2012
Friday, December 7, 2012
Retrieval Report
27 eggs! Yahoo! Yippee!
Hopefully with this many eggs to start from, we will end up with several great embryos to choose from. I think the next time we will hear their progress is Sunday afternoon, where we will find out how many of the eggs successfully fertilized and started growing. With a number like 27 we will almost certainly have enough good ones to grow them out to day five, but you just never know.
Right now I'm thinking positive and keeping my fingers crossed for a great fertilization report!
Hopefully with this many eggs to start from, we will end up with several great embryos to choose from. I think the next time we will hear their progress is Sunday afternoon, where we will find out how many of the eggs successfully fertilized and started growing. With a number like 27 we will almost certainly have enough good ones to grow them out to day five, but you just never know.
Right now I'm thinking positive and keeping my fingers crossed for a great fertilization report!
Wednesday, December 5, 2012
It's Official...One Week Until Transfer!
Ok, so it's not totally official, but it sounded better than Official(ish) so I went with it. The donor is triggering tonight and her retrieval will be Friday morning. We will find out on Sunday afternoon how the embryos are doing and what day transfer will be - either Monday or Wednesday. Since there are so many follicles at this point, it will most likely be a 5 day transfer but you just never know.
So I will have my bags packed and my Sunday evening cleared in case I need to make a flight out on Sunday night for a Monday transfer. Once I get the call that it's a 5 day transfer, I will push my flight back to Tuesday night.
12/12/12 transfer...almost there!
So I will have my bags packed and my Sunday evening cleared in case I need to make a flight out on Sunday night for a Monday transfer. Once I get the call that it's a 5 day transfer, I will push my flight back to Tuesday night.
12/12/12 transfer...almost there!
Tuesday, December 4, 2012
Still Waiting for a Transfer Date
My appointment today went great. My lining is up to 10mm, and is a triple stripe. Normally the ultrasound techs don't comment on my lining or tell me their results (I don't think they are supposed to), but the tech today was excited to tell me how beautiful my lining looked. Also, she was already faxing the results to the clinic in Chicago before I finished getting dressed. I guess they don't want to have to deal with another fiasco like last week! Later this afternoon I got a call confirming that my uterus is a go for transfer. Unfortunately, she couldn't provide me with my med schedule from here on out because...
The donor went in for her appointment today and she is still not ready for retrieval. She is going to go back tomorrow morning, and will probably end up triggering tomorrow night, making her retrieval Friday. There is a small chance she still won't be ready, in which case it would get pushed back another day. So, my transfer is probably going to be next Wednesday, 12/12/12...there has to be something lucky about that date, doesn't there?
On the bright side, even though the donor is stimming slower than expected, it looks like she's going to have lots and lots of eggs to retrieve...they counted 31 follicles at her appointment today!
We are supposed to get the final word on when retrieval will be tomorrow, so I will update then.
The donor went in for her appointment today and she is still not ready for retrieval. She is going to go back tomorrow morning, and will probably end up triggering tomorrow night, making her retrieval Friday. There is a small chance she still won't be ready, in which case it would get pushed back another day. So, my transfer is probably going to be next Wednesday, 12/12/12...there has to be something lucky about that date, doesn't there?
On the bright side, even though the donor is stimming slower than expected, it looks like she's going to have lots and lots of eggs to retrieve...they counted 31 follicles at her appointment today!
We are supposed to get the final word on when retrieval will be tomorrow, so I will update then.
Monday, December 3, 2012
Egg Donor Update
I found out this morning that when the egg donor went in for her appointment yesterday, they decided she wasn't quite ready yet, meaning her eggs are not big and mature enough yet to be ready for fertilization. So they are giving her a couple more days to stim and she goes back for an appointment tomorrow. The retrieval should be sometime between this Thursday and Saturday, pushing my transfer back a bit to next Tuesday-Thursday.
I go in for my last lining check tomorrow, and otherwise I just continue on the med protocol I have been given until I get word that the egg donor triggers (gives herself a shot to force her body to ovulate).
I go in for my last lining check tomorrow, and otherwise I just continue on the med protocol I have been given until I get word that the egg donor triggers (gives herself a shot to force her body to ovulate).
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