My ER was today, with 10 eggs retrieved. Not bad considering that on our last try at IVF#3, in March, I never made it to ER due to two leading follices, and cycle was converted to an IUI. This time around, I was officially acepted by my new RE as an IUI patient with the option to convert to IVF if I had at least 4 follies, due to my "poor history," so I trumped the 4-follie criterion.
I had a 6:30 a.m. conference call for work, and then woke up DH at 7:30 a.m. He was up til 2 a.m. last night chatting with his niece and nephew after we all went to see the Police at Red Rocks (great show!), and needless to say, was not too excited to be awakened. Of course I think, why does he have to be a grump when we're trying to make a baby. But then I figure, it's not like he was up late drinking -- he was up late being a very cool uncle to two teenagers who love him to death. And anyway, he cheered up once we got to the doc. Being a health care worker himself, he always goes out of his way to make the health care workers smile because he knows what it's like to be in their shoes.
Things were quite a bit different at Conceptions compared with CCRM. At Conceptions today, I was the only ER patient of the day. When I had my last ER -- with CCRM back in November 07 -- I was the 12th, and last, patient of the day and was wheeled out to my car in the dark. Seems like the fact that they have only my eggies to focus on today is a good thing.
Tomorrow we'll get the fertilization report, and on Friday (day 2) the embryologist will be able to tell us if it's a 3-day or 5-day transfer. At that point (day 2), the embies should be at the 2- or 4- cell stage. Should be interesting to see what embryo quality is since last time we had high fragmentation. With 4 straight months of 2x/week acupuncture, and HGH, I'm hoping for better quality. The criteria for day 3 versus day 5 transfer is that, if > 4 look good on day 2, then they plan a day 5 transfer. I prefer a day 3 regardless of what they look like on day 2, but I'll wait to see what they look like before putting my foot down. No sense being adamant now about going against their preferred ways of doing things if I'll only have a few good ones anyway.
I'm happy that on transfer day, the embryologist is going to have a full size pic of every embryo for us to look at. I've never got to see pictures before. My first embryologist, in Tampa, said that taking pictures was bad for the embryos. The current embryologist says that's not the case.
Not much to do now other than send those little embies happy thoughts.
