i had my egg retrieval on wednesday (yep, the 4th) and we were fortunate enough to have 23 eggs. way more than the 8 we had our first cycle. got our report from the embryologist yesterday and of the 23 eggs, 18 were mature enough to use. still a ridiculous number, right? of those 18, 17 became embryos thanks to ICSI. waiting for a follow-up report tomorrow that will let us know how many of those 17 embryos have progressed! we will be freezing all of the embryos this cycle because i am at a very high risk for ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome and holy buckets - i feel it. this retrieval was more difficult than my first and i am still taking tylenol and ibuprofen to deal with the pain. hoping to do a FET (frozen embryo transfer) sometime in september... always a waiting game!
so we're just over here waiting and hoping for good news about the progress of our embryos. i am hopeful that the pain will subside as well; i'm usually pretty good w/ pain, but this is pushing me over the edge.
xo
mama porch
* guys, what if we end up with 17 embryos?! imma need a minivan!!!
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| not my favorite kind of shots! gotta love filling up a sharps container! |
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| trigger shot! this is what tells the ovaries to let the eggs go after days of stimulating and telling the ovaries to hold on to them all. |
so we're just over here waiting and hoping for good news about the progress of our embryos. i am hopeful that the pain will subside as well; i'm usually pretty good w/ pain, but this is pushing me over the edge.
xo
mama porch
* guys, what if we end up with 17 embryos?! imma need a minivan!!!
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