Ttc first baby 1 year + thread 3

[orangeloo]

Started new thread as precariously close to 1000 @KatBeCool @starkid @MotherOfShihTzus

@KatBeCool I'm excited for you. I mean, I'm far from naive and IVF is so tough and downright crap at times. But keeping everything crossed for you.

@ValidUser thank you! This better work for me, I'm so exhausted from trying month to month.

@KatBeCool - good luck tomorrow, 17 follicles sounds positive! Don't eat mcdonalds on the way home like i did, I puked straight after haha

Embryo transfer was really quick and easy this time, in and out the clinic in half an hour, but my god that speculum BURNED going in this time, my eyes watered!

@starkid all fingers crossed for you! I am definitely not eating McDonald's. I don't know how others can just eat it right after waking up.

I was so hungry beforehand and had my collection late with no food all day so thought I'd be starving, but yeah one bite and it immediately came back up, silly me. Maybe something light and refreshing would have been fine but not a nasty burger!

@KatBeCool best of luck for today!

How was the lining looking @starkid ? Sounds like you did all the right things :)

We have final nurses appt tomorrow so we shall see what they say. Hoping we can push on quickly! But everything has been painstakingly slow thus far.

@MotherOfShihTzus - they actually didn't say how thick the lining was, but it was 11mm on Friday so I presume it didn't get thinner..!
Good luck with your appointment tomorrow and fingers crossed for speediness going forward!

Out of 16 follicles they got only 7 eggs, don't even know if they're all mature, so I'm quite upset. Won't know anything until later. On the other hand, anesthesiologist was great, and I was only a little sore afterwards and no nausea whatsoever.

@KatBeCool aw I can see why you'd be disappointed after the potential of 16 but keep positive, 7 chances of a baby still at the moment. I only had 7 eggs too.
Great that you didn't have nausea afterwards. Look after yourself and keep us updated 😊

@KatBeCool that's tough going. Here's hoping they're mature and good quality. x

@ValidUser not as great news as I had hoped. Got a call today, they retrieved 9 eggs, 8 were mature, but only 4 fertilized. We also added on four donor eggs, only two survived the thaw and both fertilized. We decided to freeze on day 3. Hopefully they at least all make it. Transfer would be next cycle. I still cannot believe how easy this retrieval was on me. We went hiking today for like 3 hours!

Wow glad you feel ok after the egg retrieval, sorry you didn't get as many mature eggs from all those follicles. So you have 6 potentially being frozen?

@KatBeCool impressed with your hiking! Sorry to hear the eggs weren't what you'd hoped. Looking forward to your updates, though, and hoping one of those becomes your baby.

@starkid yes, six were on their way. I should find out tomorrow their grades upon freezing and hopefully they all made it. How are you doing?

@KatBeCool - Ah cool well fingers crossed for lots of good ones to freeze :)
I'm doing ok yeah! I had some strange twinges/cramps in my very lower abdomen the early hours of yesterday morning, apart from that no symptoms or anything of note, and doubt that was anything exciting as was only 1-2 days after tranfer.

Blood test is Tuesday 1st June, glad I have lots of things happening over the next week to distract me during most that time :)

@starkid twinges are always good. All fingers crossed!

@KatBeCool - hi how did it got with freezing?

@starkid all six made it to freeze! One thing that worries me is that was when most of my embryos dropped off last time, after day 3. So hopefully these ones are all viable.
How are you doing? Not testing yet?

@KatBeCool aha nice congrats! I'm gonna try not to do any home tests :O Wouldn't even know when I'm due on my period to be honest, my cycles the last 2 have been longer than usual, and don't really understand when to test after a frozen cycle haha so I'm just gonna leave it til at least like, next Saturday? I don't know - it was a day 7 blastocyst transferred Tuesday 18th. Not a clue what that correlates to regarding post ovulation dates!

@KatBeCool - so they froze them all at day 3? Shame they didn't leave a couple to see if they get to day 5 for freezing at blastocyst level, but great that you have 6 in the freezer ready to go :)

@starkid I debated whether to push them to day 5 but in the end decided against it and the embryologist agreed its best to do day 3. She said the thaw rate for day 3 is about as good day 5.
Well if you're not testing, I won't tell you what the appropriate time is :)

@KatBeCool - nice, least you know they're all in there safely frozen now :)

@starkid twinges are good! How have you felt since?

@KatBeCool great to get so many embryos in the freezer - this is all looking good!

@orangeloo are you still on fir end of may transfer?

Well it's CD1 for me again and going for baseline for FET on Thursday. AF came unexpectedly early, I didn't even get a break.

@MotherOfShihTzus how's everything going for you?

@orangeloo we will be very close together for the transfer! If my math is right, I'm looking at June 11.

@MotherOfShihTzus - hey, nothing since then, no signs of either pregnancy or period that I can tell!