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big day tomorrow - 9dp5dt and still no POS
OK, so we are 9 days past our 5 day transfer. We decided no peeing on a stick this go round. First blood test is tomorrow. Made it almost the whole waiting time without obsessively reading fertility blogs and boards. Cheated a bit this morning and cruised a few on my iphone when I first woke up...
Made a big check list of things to do today to take my mind off things. We'll see.
2dp5dt
Transferred one perfect "hatching" blastocyst on tuesday. Procedure went super smoothly. Best of all the transfers I've had to date. I arrived an hour early and proceeded to drink 3 LARGE glasses of water. You have to fill your bladder in order to get a good ultrasound picture for the transfer. My DH and I went into the transfer room to check everything and they told me I needed to drink another glass of water and wait a bit. In the meantime, my DH has actually been to the restroom 2 times. Hmmm.
Transfer went smoothly. I was told to take it easy for the rest of the day and then to go back to my normal activity the following day. Now for the dreaded 2 week wait. I promised myself this time not to over think everything. So far so good... we'll see if it lasts.
Starting today...
I've been meaning to start writing about my experience for a long time. I'm starting today, on my 5th IVF transfer day.
We go in at 12:40 PM to do a day 5 embryo transfer (blastocyst stage). Not sure how many we will transfer yet. We'll chat with the doctor and make the final call today.
This time I am using a process/technique that uses frozen donor eggs. This is a relatively new option for folks like me and my DH. Here's the basic process...
First we selected our donor. It's a bit like match.com but maybe more like real estate/buying a house as you have to move quickly if you see a donor you like or they might get snapped up (no pressure!). The retrieving clinic shipped a batch of 6 eggs to our clinic, we then followed the standard hormone protocol (pills & shot -- the intramuscular kind –– OUCH!) and are ready to go. ISCI took place on Thursday May 30. All 6 fertilized (YAY!) and have continued to grow. As of Saturday we had 5 grade A (some good/some fair) and 1 grade B (fair).
Keep your fingers crossed for me.
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PS: I've gone through lots of IUIs and then IVF with my own egg (used "natural cycle" IVF), fresh cycle donor egg and now frozen donor egg. I've used four different doctors in three states and two countries. I'll fill in the blanks on the whole process over the coming months.