Hi ladies
I will reply properly tomorrow, post EC, as lots to catch up on with you all
Apols for the me, me, me, will do personals when I’m back home from the clinic safely ensconced on the sofa :)
So, I triggered last night (‘release the hounds!!!’ as my friend said her DH said when she triggered 
) and I go into theatre @ 9am tomorrow morning for egg collection.
We’ll know before I leave the clinic, once I’ve come round from the sedation, how many eggs they got - although we won’t know at that point how many are mature.
Then squeaky bum time begins. We go home, and my eggs and DH’s sperm get jiggy in the love lab overnight (we have several hundred million of his finest swimmers in the freezer as an insurance policy after last time, so even if he comes down with amoebic dysentery tomorrow, we still have sperm). Sleepless night waiting for the phone call on Tues morning to say how many have fertilised. A good fertilisation rate is 75%, so I’m desperately hoping that my high FSH won’t mean my eggs are absolute crap and we get shocking fertilisation.
If there are at least 3 good quality embryos on day 3 (Thursday) then they will recommend culturing to day 5. There is usually quite a drop off between day 3 and 5, but anything that doesn’t make it to blastocyst was never going to be able to become a person.
‘Normal’ women who don’t have crappy lining then have embryo transfer at either day 3 or day 5, however whether or not we can do a fresh transfer really depends on what my lining is doing.
Dr said he will scan me next week and if there is any doubt about the thickness of the endometrium, we will freeze all the embryos and try and build my lining up next month for a frozen transfer.
As I think I've mentioned, I have chronic pain due to a spinal injury and take pretty hardcore pain meds - which obv I have to be off by transfer. It takes a while to come off everything slowly enough to avoid going into withdrawal, so I’ve been in a fuck of a lot of pain the last few weeks and I’m not even off everything yet. If I don’t get a transfer AGAIN and I’ve been tapering off everything for nothing - which is a distinct possibility - I will hit the fucking roof.
Scuse potty mouth but BLOODY BODY!!! 
The priority right now is getting some embryos, so here’s hoping we get some decent eggs, and that they’re not all total duds and we get absolutely shit fertilisation
I think I will be breaking out the valium for Monday night, waiting for the Tues morning phone call with fertilisation numbers!!!!
newleaf If we have to freeze all (or if we were lucky enough to be able to do a fresh transfer and have something left over of good enough quality for the freezer) they would freeze them at day 5 or 6. Doesn’t matter whether the embryo was made from a fresh or frozen egg, it can still be frozen.
If we can’t have a fresh transfer because my lining is too thin, then everything would get frozen, and we would do a FET (frozen embryo transfer) cycle - they would only thaw a single embryo about 30 mins before scheduled transfer time.
If we make it to blastocyst, we would only transfer one. Transferring two blasts counterintuitively doesn’t actually really increase the pregnancy rate by much - but it brings the risk of multiples to 1 in 2. So if you want to have 2 blasts transferred on your first cycle, and you’re under 37, you have to sign a bit of paper saying you’re transferring 2 against medical advice and you understand the risks of multiple births.
If we didn’t have enough to go to blast, then we would transfer 2 cleaved (day 3) embryos, as the likelihood of both taking is that much smaller. My consultant is absolutely insistent we need to avoid twins in me at all costs, as the health risks are that much greater in someone with my various medical conditions (with hypermobile joints the risk of my pelvis essentially falling apart is already pretty high even with a singleton pregnancy). However we agreed it would make sense to transfer two day-3 embryos - twins are still possible, but much, much less likely.
Flat my consultant said his minimum was 7mm - he has had pregnancies in women with 6.5mm, but he wouldn’t want to risk transferring a good quality embryo into a suboptimal uterine environment. I was at 7.6mm the day before trigger, and regressed to 6.4mm on EC day, so I’m desperately hoping my lining doesn’t decide to spontaneously combust again like last time!
Lily hopefully the Progynova (oestrogen tablets - aka HRT!) will help to thicken up the lining
Right - I’m off to bed. I have my superman socks (with little capes!) to keep my tootsies warm when I’ve got my legs up in stirrups - ought to give the Dr a giggle when he’s down the business end with superhero feet either side of his head
Will report back from the other side!!