Hi all, just popping in to give an update. We've just started our second cycle and I'm on day 3. I've been put on a higher dose of Gonal F to try to produce more eggs this time. Hopefully more eggs = more embies = more chances of healthy embies My FS is aiming for 20ish eggs, but told me not to tell anyone that, hehe. I know it increases risk of OHSS but as I had no side effects last time we are keeping fingers crossed that all goes well.

We are still waiting on our karyotyping test results which were meant to be back a couple of weeks ago. Apparently the lab got backed-up over easter. FS said we should go ahead with this cycle anyway, as the likelyhood of our results showing something abnormal is pretty low. We can always stop the cycle if we need to.

Jaki - Everything went rather well last time. The only hiccup was when I discovered that I had stitches inside me 2 1/2 weeks after EPU that I knew nothing about! Talk about freaking me out! Turns out there must have been some excess bleeding that they stopped by putting in some stitches, but someone was extremely naughty and forgot to inform me!

Yes, our embies are being tested on day 3 and then transfer would be on day 5. I had a question though, and I asked the FS and got an answer, but I still wonder about it... One of our embies last time wasn't able to get any pgd results due to a problem during testing. Seeings as the test only took them a couple of hours, I wondered why they can't go back and take another cell and test that one? When I asked the FS he told me that if they took another cell it would lower the viability of the embryo and increase the chances that it wouldn't survive. I accepted his answer at the time and left the appointment. But since then I've been thinking more about it... Right now we have a frosty embryo that unfortunately will never be given the chance at life because we feel we can't take the risk that it's not healthy. So right now it has 0% chance of becoming a baby. If they had taken another cell and found that it was a healthy embie, there would be a chance that the testing process would make it not survive, but there's also a chance that it MAY have survived. So by testing another cell, surely it's giving the embie at least a higher than 0% chance at life. Does that make sense? Why wouldn't they just retest?