Fertilization Report

Well, out of the 24 eggs only 12 of them fertilized. It's still a great number and we are happy. Considering my age, 24 eggs is a lot and I was expecting that most of them would not be a good quality. Sometimes it's better to have less eggs of better quality. But in the scheme of everything, we'll take what we can.

It hit me today that we sort of have 12 kids growing in the lab!!! If 6 or more make it to Friday, they will likely do a 5 day transfer on Sunday. This would allow the embryos to grow into blastocysts and increase our chances of success. If there are less than 6 on Friday, I will be having my embryo transfer at 11am. I will be awake for this. It's similar to the IUI's I've had. They gave me some valium to take if I want to. I'm pretty sure I am going to take it. It will help me when I get home to stay on bedrest.

Today I was still in quite a lot of pain. It feels like I have a grapefruit sitting in my pelvis. I was walking kind of funny mostly when I first got up from sitting. I went to work thinking the walking would help and took Motrin all day. When I got home, I took 2 Percocets and now I realize I should have stayed home and taken the Percocet. It works much better. I don't know why I always feel compelled to go to work. I guess it's habit.

So now we wait till Friday morning. The lab will call us and let us know how our embies are doing and when the transfer will be. I'm fine with either day. The sooner the little guys and girls get back into me where they belong, the better I will feel. We will know sometime the week before Christmas if this IVF was a success or not. I don't think I have to tell anyone that every Christmas since 2002, this was all I wanted. Maybe this will be the year. Only God knows....