5 day transfer

That's right. On Saturday at 8:45 am we get to meet our embabies. So excited...so freakin' excited!!

ER and fert report

ER itself went fine. The last thing I remember is them putting my oxygen mask on and then next they were asking me to shimmy my hiney onto the bed. As soon as they wheeled me out, I started cramping. My body was definitely not pleased with getting everything sucked out of it. I was extremely uncomfortable for about 12 hours, but as it came toward bedtime, things got better. Let me tell you though, using the restroom...not fun.

Today is much better. I did stay home again today (which was good, still sore), and just heard my fert report.

Out of 19 eggs, 18 were mature. All 18 were ICSI'd, and 13 are up and growing.

13 embabies...13 babies...13 possible children sitting in a little dish in an incubator, just waiting for their parents.

God, I can't wait.

They will call tomorrow or Thursday morning and tell me if it will be 3 day or a 5 day transfer (right now, it looks like 5).

I can't wait to be a mom.

Last follie scan-ER monday

So we trigger tonight. Dr. Vu has me stim for one more day and we went in this morning. We have nine on the left and 12 on the right all at 18mm or more. I'm excited that we have so many but nervous about ER.

I really trust Dr. Vu and his staff. I know it will work out.

First follie scan

We are happy campers so far. We are on day six of stims and so far I have 12 follicles at 10-11mm on my right side and 13 follicles at 10-11mm on my left side.

Holy follicles, batman!

We're so freakin' excited.

Next scan is Wednesday.

Started Stims today

This morning I went in for my baseline ultrasound and E2. One of the nurses was nice enough to administer my follistim for me (DH normally does all my injections). It feels really good to get into the real meat of this process now. Dr. Vu believes we might break 30 on the number of eggs at retrieval. I know they will not all be mature and not all of them will fertilize. However, if we can get a third of those to divide properly, I would be thrilled. We would have two put back in and freeze the other eight, with the hope that four would survive the next defrost.

BTW, looooooooove the follistim needles. I didn't even know anything went in. Freakin' awesome.

"I love Mommy" Onesie

That's what DH presented to me for our 3rd anniversary. We were in front of the fountains at the Bellagio in Vegas and he pulled out a bracelet jewelry box. I opened it and there was this adorable green onesie with the words "I love Mommy" on it. I fell apart and sobbed into his shoulder. I was so touched. He is so wonderful.

Quick update

I have much to tell, especially about what wonderful DH gave me for our 3 year anniversary, but I don't have the time at the moment.

I did want to mark this day, because today we administered our first injection at home (lupron, of course).

Easy, cheesy. Just a pinch and we were done. DH is awesome at administering the injections. I'm so lucky.