Easter Eggs

We started our IVF cycle on 3/22, anticipating a 4/2 egg retreival. Things went fairly smoothly during the stim process, although if you ask my husband I probably wasn't too pleasant to be around for a while. We ended up scheduling my retrieval for Friday 4/3, but of course with me things do no go quite according to plan. My Dr wanted to do a Lupron trigger since I had produced a lot of eggs, to try to bring my hormone levels down a little faster. In reading about it, I could see that there are rare cases where the Lupron trigger doesn't work and asked the nurse about it. Was told that they would get bloodwork done the day after to check levels and make sure the trigger worked. Well. Went in Friday for the retrieval, and before even going in had sort of a disaster as they couldn't get an IV on me, ended up being stuck about 8 times for the IV and Jacob ended up being the one to get it. This is all as Dr is pacing outside the door saying that we really have to get started and can't be late. No pressure.

So then I get in the room, he starts getting eggs and realizes that I have not triggered. What??!! I really couldn't believe that they had messed this up, and not caught it with the blood work. Apparently my progesterone level was elevated, but given the number of eggs I had it should have been much higher to mean that I triggered.

Back home on Friday, with black and blue arms from all the sticks. Ended up doing another trigger on Friday night, this time HCG, and scheduled the second retrieval for Sunday morning. Went in to hospital to Jacob's colleague on Saturday afternoon to get an IV put in to try and prevent another disaster like Friday morning. So, I spend an uncomfortable night Saturday trying to sleep with and IV in my arm, but got up Sunday and went in and things went much smoother.

Overall results: they retrieved 44 eggs, fertilized 37, and as of today (Day 1) have 30 embryos. This is good so far.....we will see how they are doing on Thursday and then decide how many to send for genetic testing. Now fingers crossed that a decent amount have good genes.....