Just One More…

Sorry, no lines to take pictures of today.  :(

By 8-10 minutes, there was a line, but it was one of those only-an-obsessed-woman-with-super-hpt-vision-can-see kind of lines — nothing I can scan or photograph. (Read on …)

I did my morning test.  Now I must tell you, I am super anal when I test.  I get my watch and when the second hand is 10 seconds away from 60, I dip the test.  I leave it for 10 seconds, then I lay it down and I watch the clock.

I had another barely there line before ten minutes.  At exactly ten minutes, I ripped the case open to be sure I was really seeing a line, and it was there. (Read on …)

Quick post — MIL is here through the weekend.

Today’s test wasn’t very exciting. I got Accu-Clears yesterday, and did one yesterday (baseline test ;)) and one this morning. There is a line on today’s, but I don’t think you can see it in this lousy picture. I’ll try to re-take it later. (Read on …)

A whopping 6 dpo.  The pee stick called my name.  It’s all over now — the dam has broken. (Read on …)

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 on …)

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 on …)

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.

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 on …)