IVF 2.0 Part One

Egg Retrieval

Thursday, January 20th at 10 a.m., my husband and I walked into Dr. Miracle’s office. I walked in with a huge smile and my head held high, as I have high hopes for this IVF cycle. We were greeted by everybody (like usual) and waited for the other couple to transfer to recovery before we could go back. Tyler and I had to finish signing consent forms and we joked around with Dr. Miracle that we better never have to sign them again. He smiled and said, “I hear you. I know exactly what you’re saying. We’re going to try our hardest to make this work.” After signing the forms we returned to the waiting room.

At around 10:30 a.m., I was brought back to the surgical room where I met with the anesthesiologist(I'm going to change his name to Dr. Misunderstood). It was the same man that put me to sleep last time, but to my surprise this time he was sugar sweet. Apparently Dr. Miracle had a talk with him and he felt terrible for the things he said. I guess he didn't think before he spoke. He acknowledge that I experienced nausea after our first egg retrieval and gave me some extra medication for that. Before I knew it the room was full of people, I felt dizzy and that's the last thing I remember.

I woke up from my egg retrieval and the only person in the room was Dr. Misunderstood. The first thing I asked was, "How many eggs did they get?" He replied with, "23!!!". I was soon later taken to the recovery room where I met with my husband. Dr. Miracle and Nurse Awesome came in and said everything went as planned. A short time later... we were on our way home.

Fertilization Report

The next morning my phone rang at 9:30am. When I answered it and discovered Dr Miracle's voice instead of Nurse Awesome's my heart sunk. Every time he calls it's usually not good news. He proceeded to tell me he was calling with the fertilization report and the embryologist and himself were both stumped. Out of the 23 eggs they got only 4 fertilized. He began to tell me that my eggs are poor quality and my husband's sperm is not able to get through them. The embryologist had to strip my eggs and fertilized them with ICSI. He informed me that we will more than likely not have any embryos to freeze again this cycle. This was very stressful news. I was hoping we would have some extra babies to freeze for future use, but I was happy with what we had.

Continued in Part 2 :)

Almost Baby Time

Hello my dear followers :) I'm sorry for being a slacker and not keeping you updated, but to tell you the truth... there wasn't much to report.

The injections are going well. Let me tell ya, there isn't one thing funner than poking yourself multiple times every night. I got quite a bit of bruising going on, but it's okay, anything to get pregnant. Haven't really had sickness this time around, just head aches (more like migraines), hot flashes, and fatigue. I think once pregnancy does happen for me, I'm going to be a pro at handling all the symptoms ;).

Appointments have been going okay. My ovaries are HUGE and responding well. My left ovary is once again being stubborn and behind my uterus. Dr. Miracle hasn't been able to get good pictures of it because he has to do a lot of pushing and with my ovaries so big... it's very uncomfortable. He counted 7 follicles on my right ovary. I was hoping for more, but anything is better than nothing.

My egg retrieval is scheduled for Thursday morning (1/20) at 10 a.m. I feel like a little kid counting down the days until Christmas. I just have a really good feeling about this one. I just pray Dr. Miracle retrieves a lot of eggs.

As of right now, embryo transfer is scheduled for Sunday (1/23). I can't wait! Tyler and I discussed transferring three embryos. Yes, we will have a chance of triplets, but the chances are very slim. We will make the final decision on Sunday morning.

Dr. Miracle, Nurse Awesome, and I also discussed bed rest. After IVF 1.0, I was on bed rest for 10 days. It was the longest 10 days of my life. My mind drove me crazy and played tricks on me. I think being on bed rest actually made me loose hope of a successful cycle. This time around I'm only doing two days bed rest and then returning to work light duty.

I'm full of excitement and hope. I just pray this one works and in 38 short weeks we will bring a beautiful baby into this world. Keep us in your prayers, we need them.