lucie glad you’re home, and hoping those little embies of yours are fighters
star if they’ve recommended ICSI, do ICSI. It overcomes any male factor issues (which will be why they’ve recommended it) to bring the fertilisation rates in line with IVF. As lucie says, it will all depend on the sample on the day. They can vary so much, so it just depends what, er, comes out on the day. We just did what the embryologists recommended
sammy hurrah for temp rise!
trixie so sorry to hear about your DH, hope he’s on the mend soon! And glad you don’t have to wait too long for the next available appt.
AFM, we’re going to blast! Day 3 update: we have 11 good quality embryos, 2 OK ones, and 3 laggards that I imagine will conk out fairly soon. But 11+2 is beyond even my wildest dreams - I didn’t think I’d even get more than a couple of eggs with my AMH
I felt absolutely fine after EC - ovaries felt a bit battered and bruised for the rest of the day, but the following day I felt right as rain. My incredible enormo-bloat had actually disappeared overnight- 24h after EC I had abs again. Bodies are weird
Interestingly, the embryos from the frozen eggs are kicking the arse of the embryos from the fresh eggs. The 3 good go-ers from the frosties are 9-cell, where the 8 good go-ers from the fresh lot are 6-8 cell. Maybe it’s like veggies, when you freeze em you lock in the goodness?!!!
We decided not to have the PGS testing this time - my consultant said he didn’t generally recommend it for a first cycle in someone under 35, and in his experience when he has done CGH, the chromosomally normal ones have turned out to be the morphologically good quality ones. That’s not always the case of course, but we felt at £2800 a pop for testing, and if the consultant and the lab all recommended against it, we’d not pursue it this time.
Trixie we would definitely only transfer one blast (whenever we may actually get to ET!!). The likelihood of pregnancy (counterintuitively) only goes up by 1-2% when you transfer two blasts, but the risk of twins goes to 1 in 2. Given the enormous morbidities associated with multiples, as much as part of me would love a two for one special, in reality, we’re doing this because we want to have a health baby. I know two couples who very sadly were pregnant with twins, but left the hospital with only one baby 
And of the many others (only a few of whom were IVF, I think) I know with twins, almost all had to spend several weeks in the NICU. Plus my consultant is adamant that with my own medical conditions (spinal injury, epilepsy, hyperbole joints - meaning my pelvis could essentially fall apart even in a singleton pregnancy) we need to avoid multiples at all costs. All that said, we did agree that whilst we’d ideally transfer a single blast, as we didn’t expect to get to blast, that we’d transfer 2 x day 3 embryos, as the risk of twins was so much smaller
Big big question mark is whether we’ll get a fresh transfer or not
Lining scan tomorrow - desperately hoping the progynova and progesterone will have worked their magic, and I’ll be on for ET Sat morning
If we don’t get the green light, then anything that makes it to blast will go straight into the freezer, and we’ll start work on building my lining up for a FET as soon as I get my period in 2 weeks time
Thinking thick!!!!!!