We've officially made it through the retrieval and I'm so happy!
After 12 days of shots, I took the trigger shot at 10:45pm on Tuesday night.
Don't mind me, just taking artsy pictures with my needle late at night.
The timing is very precise. You ovulate 36 hours later, and that's when they schedule your retrieval for.
On Wednesday I had a break from shots but I couldn't really do much because I was sore, bloated, and really tired.
I had some nerves on Wednesday night, but we felt excited when we arrived at the clinic on Thursday morning.
Waking up from anesthesia is such a weird feeling. I'm not nearly as funny as David is when he has drugs. I didn't say anything weird, but I did try to drink water with my mask on.
We got the good news right away that they retrieved 10 eggs!
This was the absolute best case scenario, so I was thrilled. 2 days beforehand the nurse counted 6 follicles that were already the right size, but there were a few others that looked like they could catch up. The doctor told us to expect between 5-9 eggs.
And we got 10!!! 🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚
We were able to head home about 30 minutes after I woke up, and then had to wait a day to hear the results.
Usually not all eggs they retrieve are mature, and not all of them fertilize. We had great results today. 9 eggs were mature, and of those 7 fertilized.
We are now rooting for those 7 to keep dividing and growing over the weekend. You can generally expect about half of your fertilized eggs to make it to the blastocyst stage, which is when they can be frozen or transferred.
Right now we are planning on a transfer this coming Tuesday, and are hoping to be able to freeze others for future use.
I'll get a phone call on Monday to let us know details about the transfer and how many embryos made it.
After 12 days of shots, I took the trigger shot at 10:45pm on Tuesday night.
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The timing is very precise. You ovulate 36 hours later, and that's when they schedule your retrieval for.
On Wednesday I had a break from shots but I couldn't really do much because I was sore, bloated, and really tired.
I had some nerves on Wednesday night, but we felt excited when we arrived at the clinic on Thursday morning.
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| Only cool people take mask selfies. |
We got the good news right away that they retrieved 10 eggs!
This was the absolute best case scenario, so I was thrilled. 2 days beforehand the nurse counted 6 follicles that were already the right size, but there were a few others that looked like they could catch up. The doctor told us to expect between 5-9 eggs.
And we got 10!!! 🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚
We were able to head home about 30 minutes after I woke up, and then had to wait a day to hear the results.
Usually not all eggs they retrieve are mature, and not all of them fertilize. We had great results today. 9 eggs were mature, and of those 7 fertilized.
We are now rooting for those 7 to keep dividing and growing over the weekend. You can generally expect about half of your fertilized eggs to make it to the blastocyst stage, which is when they can be frozen or transferred.
Right now we are planning on a transfer this coming Tuesday, and are hoping to be able to freeze others for future use.
I'll get a phone call on Monday to let us know details about the transfer and how many embryos made it.
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