A whopping 6 dpo.  The pee stick called my name.  It’s all over now — the dam has broken. Read the rest of this entry »

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Someone in my IVF Buddy Group said her nurse once told her that if IVF doesn’t work, you have your whole life to deal with it, but from the transfer to the Beta — you’re pregnant! With that in mind… Read the rest of this entry »

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Skip called work today and said he might be in late, as we wanted to talk to the RE and see if we might transfer today. Calista stayed home from school.

The RE’s office opens at 8:30 am, and by 8:50 am, I was tired of waiting, so I called them (hey, I gave them 20 minutes!). I spoke with the embryologist who first gave me the SA results. Skip has been on supplements and made diet changes, and we did see improvement. Read the rest of this entry »

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Well, we got the call.  I’m feeling pretty numb.  Out of 9 eggs, 5 were mature.  Of the 5, they were able to fertilize only 3.  With the immature ones, they put them in dishes with sperm to hope they would grow and fertilize, but so far — nothing.

That’s it…  3.  My next update will be Monday when they tell me how they are dividing.

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I’m home from the egg retrieval. They retrieved 9 eggs — 6 from my right and 3 from my left. The embryologist said that three of them looked “tight”. I asked what that meant, and he said that it means that they are a little less mature and may have difficulty fertilizing, but he’d give them some time to see what they do. Read the rest of this entry »

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I am really uncomfortable now, and I sneezed a bit ago — I swear I thought I blew out my ovaries! It hurt so bad I yelled “OW!” really loud. Every little pain scares me that my eggs are going to get damaged or something. Probably unlikely, but I just need this to go well tomorrow.

Talked to my husband a bit tonight, and he’s just as scared as I am. Read the rest of this entry »

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