I'm home

and laying on the couch...

I got the *full bladder of the day* award...LMAO

I have pics of the embies...

One 4 cell grade 0.5
One 6 cell grade 0.0 (PERFECT GRADE!)
and
One 8 cell 1.5

The transfer was painless and went smoothly. My fav nurse was there and made me laugh.

Let me tell you, all OB's should have the tables they have there, I've never been so comfy with my legs in the air.

I got to watch on the ultrasound as they put them in. The doc says "I like this placement, here we go" and you could see them go in...SO COOL!

Thanks for all the wonderful thoughts, keep them coming for about 12 days or so will ya?

Three cheers please!!

We have

One little, two little, THREE little EMBRYOS!!

Just got the report! YAY!! YAY!! YAY!!


Transfer is thursday...I cannot wait!!

Quick update

Six eggs appeared to have survived the thaw but when they injected the sperm only 4 responded like they wanted. We'll have the fertilization report tomorrow.

Any good thoughts would be appreciated!

Six Eggs, Six survived the thaw!

Now on to fertilization!

THIS IS GOOD NEWS! YAY!!

Open Letters

Dear Frozen Eggies,
Oh my honeys! I know it's frosty in that there freezer! Be good little eggies and thaw nicely next monday will you? Don't give up now dears! Warm up be okay please? Then you can meet Daddy's swimmers and get to grow! If you really really try, you can grow up to be big kids! We are getting a nice fluffy place all ready for you to snuggle in for the next 9 months too! I can't wait to meet you!
Lots of love and kisses!
Your Mommy

Dear HooHaa,
I know that you are a little angry at the fact that you have to have little blue pills shoved up you every 8 hours. I get that and I'm none to happy about it either. Frankly, the mess grosses me out too. But do you think you could quit rebelling? It's pretty important that you clear up and get with the program! Oh, and make sure that none of those embryos "fall out" will ya? Just kidding, clearing up will be fine! We just want a nice fluffy place for the embies to grow in, work with me here!
Smooches,
Linda, who would like very badly to be able to go through with this cycle

Messy stuff

I started Estrace 3x a day orally and 3x a day vaginally on thursday. So now I have a lovely blue discharge which seems to be turning into a yeast infection. I called the study coordinator. She originally said to just get some OTC stuff....but yeah, that won't work since I'm shoving Est.race up my hooha 3x a day. So she's calling in a Rx of Diflucan to clear it up.



In addition, I'm battling a cold, a nasty one.



Let's cross our fingers and hope shall we? If this doesn't clear it up, then we have to cancel this cycle, wait until next month and switch to injectible estrogen.



I really would prefer not to be in that mess.



Thanks for your thoughts.

Ahh...Ignorance

I was filling out paperwork for my leave for the transfer.

Our secretary and I had an interesting conversation:

Hey, are you doing that artificial stuff?

Yes, we are...

My sister did that. It took a long time. I guess if your period starts you have to start all over, right?

Yes, we are doing a clinical trial so it's been put off a few times.

Yeah, it took my sister 8 months. Her husband had no sperm so they told her that this was it. You know what happened to her? She has 8 frozen, I guess that they put them all together....ya know?

You mean embryos, yes.

Yeah, well they asked her how many she wanted to put in. I guess if you only put one in, it can fall out and you have to start all over. So she put two in and now she's going to have twins! Can you imagine?

Yes, the decisions are hard to make.

And it costs so much! I mean if you have to start over, they charge you all over again. They don't have insurance coverage either.

Yes, it's expensive too.

Well, she is 31 and hasn't had any yet, I mean you have one already so it's not like you are desperate.

Well...yeah I guess we are lucky like that...

(OH MY GOD! Can I tell you how much I wanted to VANISH during this conversation????) I can't even comment on this yet. GRRRRR