BFN

Apparently 80% isn't THAT great of odds.

List of things I will be doing starting tomorrow:
Drinking Caffiene, major amounts of caffeine.
Taking.Long.Hot.Baths
Laying in the sun (a lot)
Not planning my evenings around a needle to the butt.
RIDING MY 4-Wheeler
Drinking margaritas. Frozen ones.
Playing with my huge, jumping dogs.
Dieting
Running/Working out
Doing my job instead of surfing the web about baby stuff all day.
Throwing out a Sharps Container full of needles
Spending my money on fun things instead of IVF.

Hey--who said there isn't a silver lining?

Still waiting....

7dp5dt

Still waiting. Still haven't POAS. Holding strong. :)

Yep...I' m waiting....(and an update)

2dp5dt

I'm pretty calm actually. It's weird how calm I really am. Patience is not really my virtue (haha) usually--but I think I am completely worn out on being nervous, like maybe I physically do not have it in me to be that way anymore. Some of you have asked me when my beta is--and I do know the answer to that, but I am not disclosing that at this time. In fact, this will probably be my last post until I know the result. Why? My Mom reads this, and my sister, and a few of my close friends and I have already been robbed of being able to completely surprise people with a pregnancy announcement. I mean, the cat's out of the bag--sort of. So hub and I just decided that we will keep that date to ourselves. For those of you who have done IVF you can probably narrow it down quite a bit anyway although the exact date is not what I originally thought it would be. I just want to have some element of surprise IF it happens. And if not--I need some time to get a grip before I announce that part as well. :( Which reminds me? How many of you POAS before your beta and if so--what day past transfer day did you do it? I don't know if I will do it for sure--but I am thinking I might want to be prepared for beta day. Does that make sense?

Today is my first day back to work since the the day before retrieval. I have so much to do and I am blogging. Lol--what else is new?
So I would love to hear what you guys have to say. Especially about the POAS part...and I will update you all as soon as I have the info. :)
PS: I am still reading--even though I am not writing!!!

P.S.S.--They were able to freeze all 5 of the remaining embryos. Thank you Lord!!!

~Ash

Transfer details and previous post correction

A couple posts ago I used the title The Tale of the Transfer--when did I realize that I meant to put Retrieval??? Today. Today while I was laying on the bed doing the splits in mid-air waiting on my Transfer to take place. Someone should have corrected me!!! LOL

Transfer was today. Doctor kept going on and on about how promising everything looks. My embryos were so good that she recommended that we just transfer 1, but I asked for 2 and she allowed it. So, according to Dr. B--we have and 80% chance of pregnancy based on our age/issues/embroyo quality and we have a 50% chance of twins. Those sound like pretty good odds to me, but I am still afraid to even half way get excited about it.
Dr. B thought that we would definitely have at least 1 embryo to freeze and she thought that the chances of a baby coming from an FET for us was also very good.

Boy do I hope she is right!!!!

UPDATE of Fert Update (very confusing)

I have 4--grade 4's and 3-- grade 3's, as of yesterday at 10 a.m.
I will go for a Day 5 transfer on Monday.
And I am still having some pain. Hoping that I don't have OHSS. :-(
Fight little babies fight!

5 grade 4's. 1 grade 3. And 1 grade 2.5.

Fert Report

Out of 19 eggs, 7 fertilized. I was not thrilled with this number yesterday when I found out, I guess I just expected more. They peformed ICSI to fertilize those and nurse says that all 7 look great for now. So please keep praying that my 7 embabies fight hard!!! Will check on them later today.
On another note: I feel worse today than I did the day of the retrieval. I don't feel any signs of what I think OHSS would feel like, but it's not fun to go to the bathroom in any sort of way and I still can't comfortably wear my jeans. How long did it take you to feel back to 100% after retrieval?

~Ashley

Dun dun dun...the tale of the TRANSFER

Well, the transfer was yesterday and from what I have read (obsessed about) on many many blogs is that it went about as normal as it could go. We got there at 9:00 and sat around until about 9:15 until the nurse pulled us back to question me about allergies and etc. Then I got to put on the lovely getup and hairnet and these crazy socks, which I was a little disappointed in because I bought the cutest polka dots socks just for the occasion, but oh well. Anesthesiologist comes to talk to me and ask me all of the questions that the nurse just asked. Hub and I kept trying not to giggle because he had a really strong British accent. J kept whispering in my ear things like, "Would you like a spot of tea mate?" and "Let's put another shrimp on the barbie." because lets just face it--hub and I don't get out that much. lol
So they take me back to the OR and I lie down. Here is where my experience is different than some. (I think) They had me lay my arms out and they covered me with warm blankets...but they did not make me put my legs through stirrups which I thought they did for most people, in fact he started my IV--nurse asked me if I was okay and the next thing I know I am waking up in the recovery room. I didn't even find out that my actual RE is not the one who did the surgery until after I was somewhat awake, which is fine, I have met this other doctor a few times and she is really nice and I have heard awesome things about her as well. So--hub is sitting there waiting on me to fully wake up. IVF nurse is explaining the meds that I need to take when we get home and when she leaves I ask him several questions and he keeps giggling. The thing is that I KNEW I was asking the same questions over and over again, but I couldn't remember the answers that he had given me. He thought that was funny. Oh well.

I came to pretty easily. I was pretty dizzy for like an hour after that, but I didn't feel nauseated. In fact, I made hub take me to Buffalo Wild Wings to eat lunch afterwards. I had originally been nervous about the 2 hour car ride home--but I wasn't feeling any pain at that time so it was just fine. We went to Wal-Mart and got my prescrips filled, and then we went to the movie store and the bank and by that time I was ready to go home and lay down. So as the night went on, I started to feel a little more pain and I took a pain pill and watched movies and hub took me to get ice cream. Through the night, I peed every hour on the hour--not exactly sure why. And then this morning I am feeling some more pain than yesterday. Nothing intolerable, but not fun nonetheless.

So the most important part of this post that never ends is that they retrieved 19 eggs! My doctor seemed very pleased with this number and the way everything went. They did say that because they retrieved so many, I need to be on guard for OHSS. Hopefully that won't be an issue. And then last night my Mom sent me a text about 19 eggs and being the next Duggar family! Ha--I DOUBT IT!

I call today to find out how many eggs fertilized, etc--so I am just praying that we get some good news there.

Thanks for the prayers and good luck wishes on my last post. I am starting to really love my bloggy friends!!! :)