3dp3dt

None made it to freeze. We didn't think they would, but it would have been a nice surprise. My husband says optimistically "that means we chose the right ones to put it". I hope so.

Day 3 transfer complete

Our clinic always has you come in on day 3, to get the quality report and decide whether to transfer on day 3 or 5. With 10 embryos yesterday I was sure we'd be waiting for day 5. Not the case when you have poor quality eggs. We had 7 left today, 3 of them pretty good for day 3, 2 ok and one shitty little guy. It was pretty obvious that there really isn't a point to waiting for day 5 because the only ones likely to make it, can just go in today. Because I have never had implantation, the decision was to put in 3 or 4. So we put in 4, under no delusion that we'll have quads. Just hoping for one to stick.
The nice thing about them going in earlier than I thought, is I am off work until Tuesday. So I'm taking these 4 days to lay around.
I'm feeling really good really. I thought I'd be more disappointed to end up with none for freezing after such a great response to stimulation. But I'm feeling very positive.
Embryos transferred: 10 celled grade 2 (my clinic grades them 1 to 5 with 1 as the best), two 8 celled grade 2s and an 8 celled grade 3 for luck!

10 little embryos

13 were mature and 10 were fertilized via ICSI. Those numbers sound pretty normal.
Grow little fellas, grow.

20 ovum

It was pretty painful today but that's fine with me since the result is 20 eggs.  Wow, the ovaries are huge when you have a normal amount of follicles.  Again I say, what a difference from my other cycles.
I've been lying around all afternoon and plan to continue that tonight.  I'll wait anxiously for the fertilization report tomorrow.  Since I'll be getting that call at work, I hope I'm emotionally stable (yeah right, while I'm full of estrogen).
Off to drink more water to ward off any chance of OHSS.

27! CD 13

Today showed a total of 27 follicles ranging from 10mm to 23mm.  Some of those are obviously too old and too new, but it does sound like we should get about 12 to 20 good ones.
Wow.
Trigger tonight and Tuesday is the retrieval day.  It's really the day after that I'm excited for, because I'd like to know if the "quality" is any better this time since the "quantity" is obviously much improved.

CD 11, still happy!

Things are still looking very normal. How that can be makes no sense to me. No one at the clinic seems to notice the dramatic shift. I guess no one would look at my numbers now and compare to my other cycles. IF i get the number of eggs that it looks like I will, someone is going to be a little shocked with the next set of "orders".
First: left has 9 between 12mm and 16mm, 7 around 10mm
Right had 7 between 12mm and 16mm, 7 smaller than 10mm.
I go back on CD 13 with the plan of taking a trigger that night. The doctor expects a few eggs to be too mature at retrieval now but feels the largest amount will be ready if we wait the extra day.
So right now it's looking possible to get 20 or more eggs, some will be too mature and some not mature enough but that could leave us with 10 at least (I think). We do ICSI b/c my egg numbers have been so low in the past. But the doctor also wrote to transfer them all on day 3. Obviously that won't happen if we have more than 3 or 4 but I'm looking forward to watching the conversation about that order.
I'm rather uncomfortable now, feeling pressure at my groin. I did not feel this much pressure/discomfort in the past 2 cycles. So again, I guess this is what people normally feel. Woo hoo!

Continuing with good news, CD9

I have 8 follicles between 10mm and 14mm on my left, 4 on my right. I still have another 10 total less than 10mm too. Something is TOTALLY different this cycle b/c these numbers sound pretty normal. I'm still taking a tonne of meds but they're actually producing the correct results. It's so nice to continue feeling happy, instead of usual highs and lows. So back in 2 days for the count that is usually most predictive.

CD 7, things are different this time..

Today my u/s showed 3 follicles over 10mm (12mm at the most) and a total of 19 little ones!  If you've followed my other cycles, you will know that this is insanely different than I've ever had.  CD7 in the first cycle showed 5 (I think) ranging from 10 to 20mm.  CD7 in the second cycle showed 7 ranging from 10 to 12mm.  But there were never a whole bunch of little guys that may or may not respond to stimulation.  I may be jumping ahead here, but today sounded like a NORMAL IVF cycle.  I told the doctor I've never had numbers like these and she said not to get too excited until the next couple of visits to see if many of the little guys are stimulating.
But I am.  Things are different.  That's got to be a good thing.

Small update, CD5

So after 3 days of injections, I've had 2 days of headaches.  They aren't migraines though, and since I'm used to migraines, I can handle headaches.  They're just tiring.  Otherwise, I'd say I just started feeling my ovaries "doing stuff" in the last 6 hours or so.  I'm incredibly hungry and don't remember feeling this way during my other two IVF cycles.  Maybe it has nothing to do with the meds.

CD3, B/W and U/S

"All is quiet" in my ovaries.  Apparently that is what should normally be said on CD3 but I've only ever been told about my right sided cyst and the 4-6 follicles seen on the left.  Today, "all is quiet", and I guess that's a good start.
Injections start today.  We're sticking with 300 pur.egon and 75 me.nopur so lots of injections.  Go ovaries!

Still waiting

I want a baby. I'm tired of waiting. That's all I have to say tonight.

Ovulated!

My temperature went up on CD31.  Considering my cycles have been 24-26 days for at least a year, this is an insanely long cycle.  But, I feel good because at least now I have a timeline for IVF again.