Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Fertilization report & update

Its been four days since our last update. Things have been super busy but here is an update in a nutshell. The day of the egg retrieval my pain was pretty bearable. However, as time went by the pain meds were leaving my body and it was more uncomfortable. I took some Tylenol and put a heating pad on my ovaries and took a six hour nap! I woke up feeling SO much better in fact I think that long nap really helped me recover a lot faster. I was scared of getting OHSS with all those eggs they took out but my doctor put my on a fluid restriction right away of only Gatorade and protein at every meal. Well let me tell you by Saturday evening I was walking as normal as I could and my pain was not that bad. I also did not feel bloated. On Sunday I felt great! So I did beat OHSS! I do believe the Gatorade really, really helped me! That is what did the trick!!

On Saturday we got our fertilization report. Out of the 31 eggs only 25 were mature. So in reality we only had 25 eggs. Out of those 25 eggs 14 fertilized with ICSI. We were a little bummed at first with this number but we got a call yesterday about our 3-day report and all 14 are still dividing correctly and strong! So we feel good going into day 5 with 14 embies going strong!

Tomorrow is our embryo transfer! Holy smokes! Where did time go?!

Today we plan on going to a movie and having a chill day. We are trying to get out of the house because for the next five days we will be house bound!

Will report tomorrow about the transfer! Transfer is set for 9AM!

Please pray for us!

8 comments:

Meela said...

14 is awesome! Especially to make it to day 4 :). And very exciting that your transfer is tomorrow!! Enjoy your day of rest today and after your transfer. We'll have our fingers crossed for you and your little embies :)

Lexi + Sarah said...

Meela, thank you! We are pretty excited. We keep praying and crossing our fingers all of them survive. We know that not all will and thats okay we are lucky to be where we are. We are getting pumped for the transfer tomorrow!

Ryann said...

Oh my goodness that is so exciting!! I will be thinking of you two tomorrow as I will be in the same boat!
14 embryos is AMAZING!! I still can not believe that your at this point, I feel like I just met you and we were talking about doing this in terms of months, not hours!! Lots of prayers and hugs!!!!

Anonymous said...

Congratulations! It sounds like you did really well. Good luck at transfer!

non-fat-caramel-does-lesbian-baby-making said...

Woohoo today is the day! Sending TONS of good thoughts for transfer!

Journeyof2beMommies said...

YAYYY It's today! I can't wait to read how everything goes/is going today!! Fingers crossed :)

AboutVero said...

Hi I just found youer blog! Best of luck with your tranfer!

Lexi + Sarah said...

Thank you! Everything went well! Now we just wait lol!

 
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