Hey Trishy I was crampy after my trigger too - like within a couple of minutes, right up until now. Had my egg collection yesterday so I am still bloated and sore - seems like this is gonna be how it is for a while!

Good luck for your egg collection, really hope it goes well. What a stress having to think about babysitting on top of everything else - my clinic doesn't let anyone bring children even to their tests/scans etc and I often wonder how people manage who have kids! Hope you've been able to call in some favours and it's all sorted now.

my egg collection went well - much better than I expected, my laparoscopy last year was much more traumatic with the general and bad pain afterwards. I am fine now, they said 4 excellent looking eggs so they stopped collecting (we only wanted to use 4) but it did hurt a bit at first until the pethadeine kicked in! It was an issue that so many of hte follies were smaller due to be being only on mild stim, so thankful they had enough of the big ones.

After the first bit of pain I don't remember anything including the whole part where they showed us things on the screen - just as well DH was there but he was so surprised that I have amnesia for like the whole thing. I thought it was only a few mins in there and it was actually like 45min! Apparently I was so sedated I wasn't breathing much so the nurse was trying to wake me up by talking to me and I remember I started going on (half teasing DH) about how DH is really squeamish about medical things and was he looking okay, how he can't even watch House on telly and might need to leave at some point. Then the nurse started getting worried and saying oh maybe he should leave! I was like 'oh no does he look green then? is he ok?' (stressed now) and nurse didn't say he looked okay and started telling a story about a husband who fainted and broke his nose... by now I was really worried! DH said afterwards he was mortified and didn't know how to explain to them that he was quite okay and that I was being a bit squiffy on the drugs.

Ringing for my results at 3pm today... so nervous!!! If there's only one fertilised they planning to do a day 2 transfer (tomorrow) or if more, day 5. I was reading more about how 50% of embryos that look okay at day 2 still have genetic problems, so if you do day 2 transfer it's much more likely to fail. As you can see I am prone to overthink, wish DH was here for this!

xx
sara

(my very first cycle of IVF, me 34 DH 27, unexplained)