Just an update, I had to call the IVF lab, i couldnt wait until monday to find out about the other embryos. The embryologist said that the 4 cell became a 5 cell and the 5 cell became a 6 cell (both grade 2) so both have been frozen. We have two snow babies!!! Yahoo!! These two were the last to be injected she said so that would be why they were behind. She said that the embryos were 60 hours old when we transferred so not quite 3 day embryos, hence why they didnt have 8 cells. Anyhow, not much we can do now. We are so pleased with the result from 5 mature eggs, 2 to transfer (by choice) and 2 frozen. Thank you everyone for encouraging us through this up and down cycle.
Twomums - thats great results - i'm really excited for you both! Thanks also for the reassurrance - second scan and b/t tom am at 845 so will update tom. xx
Well i just had a P/C from FC - had my second u/s and b/t today - e2 up to 1450 5 large follies and 20 in total - plan for b/t and u/s wed then EPU fri/sat !!!!!!!
I feel much better because it was my regular nurse who called and she was lovely and reassurring and gave me lots of info (the one who called me on sat was disinterested and didn't really tell me anything!). Anyway i'm cleaning my house so will BBL for personnals.
Bella55- Great news. All the best for this week. Fingers crossed for you.
TwoMums- Also great news for you. I hope the twins are sticking. Hopefully all goes well for you and the snow babies won?t be required for a while. Good luck
JBM- Sorry to hear AF has shown her face. Good luck with what you decide to proceed with.
xxRobxx- Good luck with transfer tomorrow. Praying for you.
Kurby- Hope the pill popping is going well and good luck for the commencement of sniffing later in the week.
Loops12- Glad to hear you are commencing a new cycle straight away. Good luck with it all.
Sara69- Hi, good luck with your cycle. Fingers crossed.
KMond- Glad to hear synarel is going great. I know what you mean by unsure if it is doing anything, that?s how I felt. All the best with your cycle.
MissMagpie- Congrats on your BFP. Hope all is going well. Wishing you a happy and healthy 9 months.
EmmaPenguin- Hope your 2ww is going well. When is your BT? Have you POAS yet?
Lea F- Hi, Welcome. Hope all goes well with your cycle. You have joined a great spot for advice and support. Wishing you all the best.
Possums- Good luck with trying to conceive naturally.
AFM- I am starting acupuncture tonight not really sure what to expect. I am scheduled for frozen transfer on Thursday.
Quick one from me as I haven't been around the past few days and there's lots I still need to catch up on. Just wanted to wish TwoMums all the best. VERY excited for you!!! Hoping for some good news.
Lani, wishing you all the best for your upcoming epu. You'll like acupuncture. I was having regular treatment last year and was feeling great but then stopped this year when it really would have counted I'm starting up again with an appointment tonight to try to get my body prepared for my next IVF cycle which seems sooooooooooo far off right now.
Have to go for an u/s and bt tomorrow morning so they can tell me whether my follicles have been reabsorbed into my body and take me off synarel so I can then wait for AF and have a whole natural cycle before beginning IVF/ICSI again on the antagonist cycle. So I think it's still a good 6 weeks before I can start getting excited again. The countdown has begun
16 eggs at EPU
15 were good to use
11 fertilised
3 made it to Blastocyst and are on ice
We are a little disappointed because you always hope for greatness. But 3 is better than none. Now we have to wait until they are comfortable to do an FET in about mid May. I feel fine, but apparently I am still at risk of OHSS until then???
They told me that they used a new technique of freezing called vitrification. Apparently they have been testing it for 2 years and have found that 80% of blasties survive the thawing this way. Has anyone else heard of this? They use a kind of long knitting needle with a thin hook on the end. Then they place a drop of solution on the hook and place one blastie in the drop. Then they touch the knitting needle to a frozen block of steel and it freezes in under one second. They supposedly defrost in pristine condition??? I think it obviously takes them longer to do than the test tube as they repeat the process for each embryo.
Also, has anyone found themselves bloated up and full of gas for a couple of weeks following EPU. My stomach is hard as a rock and doesn't seem to want to go down. I've been taking heaps of acidofallous (sp?), which isn't doing too much. Any tips?
2 mums: great news on the frosties, now the TWW. i'll have my fingers crossed for you. are you usung a known donor for sperm? sorry just wondering as may have to be an option for us in future, donor that is. good luck to you.. this is it. xxoo
bella: countdown to EPU, do make sure to rest afterwards, i did too much as felt fine then got sick, not nice 4 me. praying all goes well 4 u. xx
lani: how was acu, i love it and it was others on BB that told me how good it was. hope you had a good acu person, mine is great !
not long to FET, counting down 3 days to go now.
AFM: nothing has changed for me. af is winding up now and prob finish on wed. feeling a bit better now but still not sure of next step?
at least DH and i are talking now and my mood is changing, i even sent my friend a congrats on her recent preg announcement, was hard but felt ok about it.
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I'm starting up again with an appointment tonight to try to get my body prepared for my next IVF cycle which seems sooooooooooo far off right now.
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