Buns in my oven (hopefully)

Friday marked the first time that I have ever had a fresh implantation. They put in 2 excellent 8-celled embryos. Now we wait. 10 more days. 10 more loooong days. I have to travel on the 3rd and 4th to LA and back to Seattle, I hope that's not a problem, otherwise I'll cancel. I'll call my doctor and find out what he says. If he says no, then they'll have to get along w/out me and I'll keep my feet planted firmly on tera firma.

I am still waiting to hear about the rest of my little embryos. Last I heard was that there were:
2 - excellent 8-celled (implanted)
1 - very good 9-celled
3 - very good 8-celled
1 - very good 7-celled
12 that were not that great.

The 12 are being grown out to blast if they can be, and then frozen. The remaining were frozen at day 3. I am waiting to hear back from the clinic tomorrow to hear what the outcome was. Complicated? Yes, but I wasn't going to risk the excellent to very good embys on blast when last time it went so horribly wrong. Besides I read an article that indicated the a woman in my age range only will have a 5% better chance of success with cleaved vs blast embryo transfer so cleaved is the decision I made. Hope that it works out.

tick toc - 10 more days. I need one of those countdown clocks that show the days, hours, minutes until I know.

19

UPDATE: Of the 32 eggs they retrieved, 27 were mature and ICSIed and 19 fertilized. They will call me later to give me their status after 24 hours of growing.

32

I had my egg harvesting surgery this morning. I am working very hard to keep from going into OHSS. Drinking lots of fluids and keeping to low sodium diet.

When we left to drive into Seattle to the clinic, it was pouring rain, traffic was gnarly, and we ended up being 30 minutes late. The good news, so was the anesthesiologist and the doctor. :) Whew. Then when it came time to hook me up to the IV, it took 4 tries to find a good vein. It took all I had to stay conscience, but man am I going to have some pretty bruises. Then into the OR. Next thing I know, I am in recovery and they tole me that everything went well. They retrieved 32 eggys. I'll find out tomorrow how many were sucessfully ICSIed. I am still keeping up my hopes for a fresh cycle.

So far I have only gained 4 pounds. I'll see what I weigh in the morning to see if I am gained too much like last time. Last time i gained 15 pounds which meant to fresh cycle. Also last time they got 23 eggs, so i don't know if the fact that they got more means OHSS for sure. well see...