2 Puppies in the Making!

Da..ta..da!  These two little buggers made it.  Can you believe it?  Another crazy day though.  I wasn't sure if I should transfer one or two but the net of it is, last time only one embie survived to day 5 and because of the lower volume of eggs they wanted to transfer on day 3 because they have a better survival rate if inside me rather than the dish.  So on average, for my age group, my clinic transfers 3 embryos.  There is a 0% chance that live births result in more than one baby.  There is an 8% chance that a live birth will result in one baby.  So.... I transferred two.  Of course there is still a chance I will have twins but the chance is next to nothing.

So the doctor graded these much better than the last ones.  The 4 cell was a 4 out of 4 and the 8 cell was a 3 out of 4.  Granted these are a day 3.  The last one was a day 5 and was probably a 2.  Makes me wonder what that little guy looked like on day 3.  Oh well.  I guess it doesn't matter. 

Beta is Feb 5.  Fingers crossed!

Fert Report

Holy cow!  They fertilized!!!!  When the nurse called, I was crying, they were crying.  BOTH fertilized!  I almost can't believe it.  So because of the small number they are saying to transfer on day 3 instead of day 5.  The embies will be safer in me than in a petri dish.  Wow... am I dreaming?  One hurdle down.  Now they just need to survive till tomorrow morning.

Here is my Do Over

So here we are again.  I purposively took some time off from writing.  Just needed a break from it all.  This cycles baseline looked good so I opted to move forward.  I began with an FSH of 15 and a handful of antral follicles.  Fast forward to a couple of weeks to an estrogen level of 2610 (my all time high) and 6 follicles.  Technically 7 but they thought that bonus one was not gonna make it.

Fast forward another couple days to yesterday which was egg retrieval day.  The day started off not very good.  Someone was (read between the lines here) having performance issues because of wanting to be selfish the night before.  So we had to go to the doctors office empty handed.  Fortunately, we have some popsicles :) in the event of an emergency.  So glad I did that freezing thing. But we all know that microwave meals are not nearly as good as fresh out of the garden.  Oye....  So I wake up from surgery to be told they got 2 eggs.  WHAT? ARE YOU KIDDING ME????  I just don't get it.  My E2 was fabulous.  I spoke to one of the nurses later and she told me it was one of a few things:  my age or eggs were lost in the process.  And the E2 could be showing that the eggs they did get were extremely good quality.  What a disappointing and emotional day.  The person I was to count on couldn't step up, nor did the doctors get all those eggs... if there were that many eggs.

So here, this morning I wait for the office to call me.  Probably in an hour or so they will.  Fingers crossed they fertilized.  Fingers, toes and all appendages.  My little spirit voice for which some day I will name, said to me wow this one is so strong and showed a heartbeat that I could feel.  I hope they are right.  Actually as I write this I wonder if it is my mother?  Could be.

Ok.... I will write back shortly!