Still waiting on the PGD report....
***Whistling Impatiently***
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Monday, September 26, 2011
Biopsy Update!
Got an update today from my RE's nurse about my embryos!!! Out of the 11 embryos we had fertilize successfully with ICSI, 9 of them made it to day 5 (blastocyst stage) and were biopsied and frozen! Now we just need to wait on Genesis to get the results back to us! My RE's nurse said it would be 7-10 days before we get the results, but the Genesis Laboratory Coordinator told me to expect results 24-48 hours after they receive the samples. So HOPEFULLY I won't have to wait any longer than Wednesday for the PGD report!!! I am STOKED about 9 having survived!!! I never expected over 80% of my embryos to make it this far!!! Now, if only they could surprise me AGAIN and all be healthy (and female?!?!)!! That would be amazing!!! I am just praying for 1 or 2 healthy girls! But more would be awesome, too!!!!
The bad news though (never that good of news without some bad news, too!) is that my period having started on Saturday has set us back 3 weeks to start our FET. BOO!!! Now I do not start Lupron until Oct 14th. And then within 2 weeks I'll get my next period. And 20 days later I will get my transfer. So sometime around the middle of November will probably be our first FET. It seems like SO far away from now! But it will be here sooner than I know I'm sure. I am just going to try to enjoy these 3 needle/med-free weeks and hopefully time will pass quickly!
Next update will be the BIG one!!!! HOW MANY HEALTHY GIRL EMBRYOS WILL WE HAVE?!?!?! =)
The bad news though (never that good of news without some bad news, too!) is that my period having started on Saturday has set us back 3 weeks to start our FET. BOO!!! Now I do not start Lupron until Oct 14th. And then within 2 weeks I'll get my next period. And 20 days later I will get my transfer. So sometime around the middle of November will probably be our first FET. It seems like SO far away from now! But it will be here sooner than I know I'm sure. I am just going to try to enjoy these 3 needle/med-free weeks and hopefully time will pass quickly!
Next update will be the BIG one!!!! HOW MANY HEALTHY GIRL EMBRYOS WILL WE HAVE?!?!?! =)
Sunday, September 25, 2011
Samesies!
Same Story... Different Day!
Just continuing to think about my embies today!! Today would be the last day that they stand a chance of becoming blastocysts and getting biopsied/frozen! As of tomorrow it is all up to fate! I HOPE we will hear news tomorrow, but I'm starting to think it will probably be more like Tuesday (if not Wednesday). This has been the LONGEST week in the history of weeks! lol.
Come on Baby Girls!!!!!
Just continuing to think about my embies today!! Today would be the last day that they stand a chance of becoming blastocysts and getting biopsied/frozen! As of tomorrow it is all up to fate! I HOPE we will hear news tomorrow, but I'm starting to think it will probably be more like Tuesday (if not Wednesday). This has been the LONGEST week in the history of weeks! lol.
Come on Baby Girls!!!!!
Saturday, September 24, 2011
Grow Embies!
So I have been thinking about my Embryos a lot today!!! Today is Day 5... so HOPEFULLY a few of the 11 we started with have made it to blastocyst stage today and are being biopsied and freezed!!! Some may make it to blastocyst stage & freeze tomorrow, too! They say the "slow growers" are girls. So lets hope we have a FEW that make it tomorrow! lol.
I kept busy most of the morning, but since DS has been napping (3+ hours now) I have been having a hard time keeping my mind off my "babies". I just hope they are being well taken care of and are growing like they should!
I probably won't get the results from Genesis until Tuesday, but if I'm lucky I might hear something on Monday. If I'm SUPER unlucky, it won't be until Wednesday (that would SUCK!).
I am praying that we at least end up with 1 healthy girl embryo!!!
As for FET dates... that is getting more and more complicated by the day!!! I had some bright red bleeding last night, and called the service and my RE thinks that I am starting my period! I was supposed to start Lupron on CD 21 for my FET. Which WOULD HAVE BEEN Wednesday. But now that today is technically CD 1... do I have to wait 21 more days before starting Lupron? That is the first question I will be emailing my RE's nurse on Monday! lol. I will update as soon as I know more about the dates issue!
I kept busy most of the morning, but since DS has been napping (3+ hours now) I have been having a hard time keeping my mind off my "babies". I just hope they are being well taken care of and are growing like they should!
I probably won't get the results from Genesis until Tuesday, but if I'm lucky I might hear something on Monday. If I'm SUPER unlucky, it won't be until Wednesday (that would SUCK!).
I am praying that we at least end up with 1 healthy girl embryo!!!
As for FET dates... that is getting more and more complicated by the day!!! I had some bright red bleeding last night, and called the service and my RE thinks that I am starting my period! I was supposed to start Lupron on CD 21 for my FET. Which WOULD HAVE BEEN Wednesday. But now that today is technically CD 1... do I have to wait 21 more days before starting Lupron? That is the first question I will be emailing my RE's nurse on Monday! lol. I will update as soon as I know more about the dates issue!
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| A Picture of a Blastocyst! Lets hope I have some of these! |
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Update Time
So much has happened since I last updated! I keep forgetting to post here since I post almost everything on GD!
Well, out of the 49 eggs I had retrieved, 31 of them were mature. Out of those.... 17 were FROZEN as eggs... and 14 were fertilized. Out of the ones fertilized, 11 were still growing on Tuesday morning. So that is the last I have heard about my embies and as far as I know that is the last I will hear until Genesis gives the report to RBA. Which could be 7-10 days. But Genesis assured me that once they get the biopsies it would be 24-48 hours before I hear results. They said that they "don't like to keep customers waiting". So that is good. I would say that means I should hear the news by Monday or Tuesday.
Then on Wednesday (9/29) I start the FET protocol. It is approx 2 weeks of Lupron and then a period. Then a bunch of other meds for 20 days before the actual transfer! It is a little bit more flexible than the fresh "harvesting" cycle. So I would *guess* my FET will be end of October/beginning of November! I have mixed feelings on this! On one hand, I cannot wait to be done with this whole process! But on the other hand... once I'm pregnant I possibly get to suffer through 18+ weeks of morning sickness and other miserable 1st trimester sensations... Bleck... Maybe I'll get lucky and get pregnant on my first FET AND not get any morning sickness! HA. A girl can dream, right?
Now, as for my 17 frozen eggs. That was drama... The last time I spoke with Dr. T... I had 27 follicles on my u/s and he was guessing 20ish would be mature and said that since I will not get too many more than 20 eggs that we would NOT be freezing any. Well, that day I THOUGHT I made it clear that I was relieved b/c I had changed my mind and did NOT want to freeze ANY eggs no matter what. And I KNOW for a fact, that I told the RE who actually DID my ER that I did NOT want her to freeze any. I remember saying, "Fertilize all of them". Even Jay can confirm that I said that. He knows we made that clear. Well, when I found out that they had frozen MORE THAN HALF... you can imagine how upset I was. I cried all afternoon. All during the 6 hour drive home from Atlanta. I was very upset. Dr. T called me and said we must have "gotten our wires crossed", b/c he thought that if I got over 20 it was assumed we would freeze the excess. Well, that still doesn't explain why MORE THAN HALF were frozen. If anything, they should have frozen anything over 20. So fertilize 20, and freeze the remaining 11. I have no idea who made the call to freeze so many, but I sure as hell hope that out of the 11 I still have growing at least 1 or 2 of them is a healthy girl. Dr. T has already agreed to cover any costs for thawing and PGD'ing the frozen eggs if we need to use them since it was against my wishes to freeze them.
Anyway, enough blabbering about that. I just HOPE that everything goes perfectly and these 11 embryos go on to make at least 1 healthy girl and she becomes our sticky baby!!!
Well, out of the 49 eggs I had retrieved, 31 of them were mature. Out of those.... 17 were FROZEN as eggs... and 14 were fertilized. Out of the ones fertilized, 11 were still growing on Tuesday morning. So that is the last I have heard about my embies and as far as I know that is the last I will hear until Genesis gives the report to RBA. Which could be 7-10 days. But Genesis assured me that once they get the biopsies it would be 24-48 hours before I hear results. They said that they "don't like to keep customers waiting". So that is good. I would say that means I should hear the news by Monday or Tuesday.
Then on Wednesday (9/29) I start the FET protocol. It is approx 2 weeks of Lupron and then a period. Then a bunch of other meds for 20 days before the actual transfer! It is a little bit more flexible than the fresh "harvesting" cycle. So I would *guess* my FET will be end of October/beginning of November! I have mixed feelings on this! On one hand, I cannot wait to be done with this whole process! But on the other hand... once I'm pregnant I possibly get to suffer through 18+ weeks of morning sickness and other miserable 1st trimester sensations... Bleck... Maybe I'll get lucky and get pregnant on my first FET AND not get any morning sickness! HA. A girl can dream, right?
Now, as for my 17 frozen eggs. That was drama... The last time I spoke with Dr. T... I had 27 follicles on my u/s and he was guessing 20ish would be mature and said that since I will not get too many more than 20 eggs that we would NOT be freezing any. Well, that day I THOUGHT I made it clear that I was relieved b/c I had changed my mind and did NOT want to freeze ANY eggs no matter what. And I KNOW for a fact, that I told the RE who actually DID my ER that I did NOT want her to freeze any. I remember saying, "Fertilize all of them". Even Jay can confirm that I said that. He knows we made that clear. Well, when I found out that they had frozen MORE THAN HALF... you can imagine how upset I was. I cried all afternoon. All during the 6 hour drive home from Atlanta. I was very upset. Dr. T called me and said we must have "gotten our wires crossed", b/c he thought that if I got over 20 it was assumed we would freeze the excess. Well, that still doesn't explain why MORE THAN HALF were frozen. If anything, they should have frozen anything over 20. So fertilize 20, and freeze the remaining 11. I have no idea who made the call to freeze so many, but I sure as hell hope that out of the 11 I still have growing at least 1 or 2 of them is a healthy girl. Dr. T has already agreed to cover any costs for thawing and PGD'ing the frozen eggs if we need to use them since it was against my wishes to freeze them.
Anyway, enough blabbering about that. I just HOPE that everything goes perfectly and these 11 embryos go on to make at least 1 healthy girl and she becomes our sticky baby!!!
Monday, September 19, 2011
49 Eggies!
My ER was this morning and it went well!!! At my last scan before ER, I had 37 follicles, but today at ER they were able to retrieve 49 eggs!!! I cannot believe it!!! No wonder I have been feeling full, bloated, achey, and just plain miserable the past 2 days! I am not even sure how it is physically possible to have 49 eggs, but I guess it is!!!
I'm cautiously optimistic! I realize that sometimes a greater quantity does not necessarily equal high quality. When the RE brought up the issue of freezing some eggs I told her "no", that I wanted all of my eggs fertilized. I just feel like my eggs have a LOT to go through and I want the highest odds that we will get some healthy XXs at the end. They have to survive fertilization, survive 5 days of in vitro growth to reach blastocyst stage, and then be tested normal on all levels by CGH. Honestly, I would feel blessed to have at least 2 healthy XXs after all of that. So we shall see how everything goes.
I am trying to take it easy today. I realize that this many eggs puts me at high risk of OHSS. I am trying to rest, stay off my feet, drink gatorade, eat salty foods, drink protein shakes, and my RE also put me on Dostinex which I started Saturday evening. I am just praying that I stay nausea-free. So far so good, but I know that I might still have some of the IV meds running through my body.
Keeping everything crossed for some healthy XX embryos out of the "litter"! lol
I'm cautiously optimistic! I realize that sometimes a greater quantity does not necessarily equal high quality. When the RE brought up the issue of freezing some eggs I told her "no", that I wanted all of my eggs fertilized. I just feel like my eggs have a LOT to go through and I want the highest odds that we will get some healthy XXs at the end. They have to survive fertilization, survive 5 days of in vitro growth to reach blastocyst stage, and then be tested normal on all levels by CGH. Honestly, I would feel blessed to have at least 2 healthy XXs after all of that. So we shall see how everything goes.
I am trying to take it easy today. I realize that this many eggs puts me at high risk of OHSS. I am trying to rest, stay off my feet, drink gatorade, eat salty foods, drink protein shakes, and my RE also put me on Dostinex which I started Saturday evening. I am just praying that I stay nausea-free. So far so good, but I know that I might still have some of the IV meds running through my body.
Keeping everything crossed for some healthy XX embryos out of the "litter"! lol
Sunday, September 18, 2011
ER in the AM!
Well, getting ready to turn in for the night! Getting up bright and early for my egg retrieval in the morning!!! My ER is at 9am, but I have to arrive at RBA by 7:30am. I am super ready to have the ER over with! But I am super nervous about the possibility that I might have ovulated all my eggs away before ER time. I just hope the RE was taking good care and me and knew what he was doing to prevent this from happening! Out of 37 follicles I really hope I get at least 20 mature eggs. Wishful thinking maybe, but a girl can dream!!! I also am nervous b/c the last time I went under anesthesia was when I had my wisdom teeth removed in 2002. I did not tolerate the anesthesia well. I vomited profusely for 24 hours straight. I seriously hope that dose not happen this time. I just want to hurry up and be done with this whole process and be pregnant with my baby girl! Please, oh please, let this process be quick and painless!!!
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