Fert Report

I'm beyond PISSED!!!!

Got the call from the lab and the lab idiots decided not to do ICSI on all the eggs like they were supposed to and split the eggs up did ICSI on half and let the others TRY to fertilize on their own. My last IVF we had ICSI done on all the eggs and my doctor knew this so why would they leave it to chance for my last freaking IVF. I'm so mad I don't even know what to say.

Because of this we only have 3 fertilized - yep thats right! Only 3! I don't even know what to say. And please save the it only takes one because thats the last freaking thing I want to hear right now. I swear it is always something!

So provided these 3 grow and divide as they should....needless to say all 3 will be transferred with a 3DT on Monday.

Update:

I had two options today:

1 – I could sit in bed and cry all day and feel sorry for myself or
2 – I could get up, dry my tears, get dressed and go to my church dedication service.

I chose number 2 and it was the best decision I could have made. I was reminded in church that this is not my fight but from the very beginning I put it all in God’s hands. God is watching over my 3 babies who I have officially named Pooh, Tigger, and Piglet. I will not allow myself to get worked up and stressed out over this cycle but I will continue to pray as I have been and keep the faith that I will get my healthy baby or two that I’ve been praying for.

But to add - I asked the nurse when she called why they didn't ISCI all of them and she said the paper work said for lab discretion and obvisously the lab didn't look at my history to know that ICSI was needed for all last time. This will be something to discuss next week, but for now I'm just trying to clear my mind and focus on my 3 babies that I have growing.

Out the oven and into the dish - Egg Retrieval

17 Retrieved!

Thanks so much for your support it really means a lot. I was so tired and pooped today. We went to the Keyesha Cole Platinum party last night and we didn't even get to see her. It started at 9 p.m. and we were there from 8:30 - 1:15 a.m. and still no K.Cole so we left. It was so packed in there...they had no seats just standing room and it was so packed that when people were trying to walk by they would be like chest to chest with you trying to move through the crowd. So we got home around 2 a.m. and my alarm went off at 5:30 a.m.. The surgery went good....I was out like a light when the guy said you're about to have a good dream and I was gone. I had a hard time waking up from the meds and slept on our 45 minute ride back home and crawled into bed as soon as I got home.

They said they will call with the fert report before 1 p.m. tomorrow. So the wait begins!

Oh yeah the doctor said we are planning for a 3DT because they never decide if they will push to a 5DT until the 3DT. So he said (wasn't my regular doctor but he was really nice) he said that we may be on our way Monday and they call us and tell us to go back home and come back on Wednesday but right now plan for Monday and it may adjust to Wednesday.

Happy Valentine's Day!!!

My wonderful husband had me 2 dozen of red and white roses delivered to work. Then I got home before he did and he called and told me to go in the back room and look in the closet and thats where he left the balloon. Then he had me go to the other side of the bed in the back room and thats where the other red dozen of roses were at. I was really surprised as I thought the flowers at work was it, but he really shocked me.

He is amazing and I'm truly blessed to have him! All the ladies at work were walking pass my office saying I knew that you would get flowers!

Update: Oh my goodness he was not done....he just brought me a big bag from Victoria's Secret! He is really doing it up! I love this man! He is too good to me!!!!

Stim Day 12 - Trigger Tonight! Woo Hoo!

So I woke up this morning and got out of bed and was thinking to myself, I don't feel my ovaries at all. So I went into the bathroom and weighed myself, 120 when I'm usually 123. I was like okay ovaries....I hope you're still in there working. The reason I was thinking this is with my first IVF cycle I only made it to 8 days of stimming my E2 was 5,500 when I triggered and I was miserable...I was bloated, I was cramping, I was throwing up, I had diarrhea, I had gained like 7 pounds in water weight and looked like I was about 3 months pregnant and to get up this morning and feel absolutely nothing made me think something wasn't right. So I was talking to my ultrasound tech telling her the stuff above and I was like so I hope they're still in there working and she was like yeah they are definitely working.

Lining: 13mm
Right: 17,17,16,15,14,13,12,12,11,11
Left: 18,17,16,15,15,15,14,12,12,11,11,10,10

Last cycle they retrieved 16 eggs, 10 were mature and 9 fertilized and this cycle they are measuring 23 and we shall know soon enough how many were mature and how many fertilized. I was just sitting here thinking how this cycle and my first cycle are like night and day.....crazy huh?

Update: I'm Cooked!

E2=3134

Trigger tonight at 9:00 p.m. Arrive at the surgery center at 7:30 a.m. on Friday morning for a 9:00 a.m. ER. My doctor is also starting me on 2mg Estrace vaginally the night of ER. She said their reason is because my E2 is high they are afraid that when they take the eggs my E2 will dive and start to break down the lining. So to prevent that they are adding estrogen to keep the lining nice and plump which she said I will stay on till 6 weeks pregnant. I start baby asprin and PIO on Saturday night as well.

Stim Day 11.5 - One more night

E2 = 2515

Todays Report: Lining 11mm,
Right = 17,16,16,13,13,11,11,10,10
Left = 16,15,14,13,13,13,12,12,12,10.

My nurse said my doc wants one more push so she dropped me down tonight to 75 Repronex and 75 Follistim and 150 Follistim tomorrow morning with one more ultrasound tomorrow morning at 7 and I'll trigger tomorrow night with my ER on Friday morning. Wow....this is actually happening....the IVF cycle that should have took place in Nov 07 is finally happening.

After set back after set back I'm finally about to trigger. This is my first cycle that I've made it to with my new RE and since my 2nd surgery to remove my Stage IV Endo and cysts (check out the pics in the October 07 section) and since my diet change.

Lets hope and pray that this is the cycle!!!!

Stim Day 10.5 - Getting Close

E2 = 1642

I found out yesterday's E2 and it was 1,118

Todays report: Lining 11mm Right = 16,14,13,12,12,11,11,10 and Left = 14,14,13,13,13,13,12,11,11,10,10

My nurse still wasn't sure when I would trigger so either tomorrow or Wednesday. She said we should know for sure after my ultrasound tomorrow. I had my acupuncture appt today, it was really good and relaxing. I will have one more before retrieval and if we do a 5DT I'll have another session two days after transfer. He said they don't do acupuncture on the day of transfer but around the time implantation should be taking place.

I feel so much better about this cycle now, I was really starting to stress out about it and thought I was going to have to cancel again, but my body finally decided to respond.

Thanks ladies for all your well wishes, it does mean a lot.

Stim Day 9.5 - Looking Good

Today's report....we are 99% sure that I will trigger on Tuesday with an ER on Valentine's Day. How sweet my babies will be conceived on Valentine's Day. Wait till they are older and we explain to them that we didn't actually have to do the do to make it happen! :wink: Lining 10.1mm Right = 14,12,11,11,11,11,10,10 Left = 13,12,12,11,11,11,10,10 so I have 16 in the running. Right now they are only growing like 1 point a day which by Thursday will put the 11's at 15 and I've read that anything 15 and over has the potential to have a mature follie in it, so I think we are in really good shape and may be able to do a 5DT again, but this time with the Endo gone and transferring 3. I'm hoping that the smaller ones start growing 2 points a day which will move them closer to being mature. But either way its looking good now. I didn't get my E2 today because my nurse said she wasn't gonna call because she had already spoken to my doctor who said she wasn't changing anything.