Hoping for a good one

I had my retrieval the other day, and thankfully am feeling much better (so far at least) than after the first one. They retrieved 29 eggs of which 20 fertilized. So now we wait for a few days to see how many grow normally to be able to biopsy and send for genetic screening before they get frozen.

If things go well and we have one (or more) that come out normal we would look to do a transfer in 4-5 weeks; if not we'll be back on the road of looking at other options, probably through either donor eggs or donor embryos.

Let's hope that out of 20 we got at least ONE good one.....

And again.....

Today is day 5 of shots for our second round of IVF. We decided to try one more round and see if we can get lower quantity but better quality eggs this time, so I am on about half the dose of all of the stimulating drugs compared to last time. If this doesn't work out, we'll most likely look into the different options of donor eggs, donor embryos, or adoption.

Certainly not where we were hoping to be at this point- it seems funny now that we deliberated so much over the first round of IVF and then pretty quickly jumped into the second round but I guess it's one of those things that once you convince yourself it's the right path you are all in.

Anyways, fingers crossed that this time goes better both for me and my eggs!