Dear Hope: 12 Lucky Eggs!!!!!

Monday, April 11, 2011

12 Lucky Eggs!!!!!

Dear Hope,

I am home and resting but have good news to report. They were able to retrieve 12 eggs!!! Very fitting because my dad and sister are in town visiting and the #12 has always been my dad’s (and kinda mine) lucky number!!!! It’s a great starting point but now is when the real work has to happen. They are probably fertilizing the eggs right now and we will find out tomorrow how many were mature and how many fertilized. I am so nervous but staying positive and that we have healthy embryos! This week is going to be long and stressful but everything is out of my hands at this point and I have to HOPE that our embryos are strong and make it to Day 5. But, one day at a time and tomorrow is a big one!

Kate

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My IVF Stats:

1st Cycle: 13 eggs retrieved, 11 mature, 3 fertilized- day 3 transfer of 2 embryos (last 1 pushed out to day 6 but didn’t make it)

~Egg Retrieval- 5/19/10 ~Transfer – 5/22/10 ~Positive Pregnancy Test- 6/2/10 ~Miscarriage/D&C- 7/30/10

2nd Cycle: 10 eggs retrieved, 7 mature, 5 fertilized - day 6 transfer of 1 remaining embryo (but didn’t implant)

~Egg Retrieval – 10/12/10 ~Transfer – 10/18/10

3rd Cycle: 12 eggs retrieved, 9 mature, 6 fertilized - day 6 cyrofreeze of 1 remaining embryo

(PGD test confirms genetically normal)

~Egg Retrieval – 12/9/10 ~Cryopreservation of 1 embryo – 12/14/10

4th Cycle: 20 eggs retrieved, 16 mature, 10 fertilized - day 6 - 0 made to freeze(day 3- all 10 embryos, day 5- 4 embryos day 6- 0 embryos made it)

~Egg Retrieval – 2/11/11

5th Cycle: 12 eggs retrieved, 8 mature, 7 fertilized

(PGD test confirms both embryos genetically normal)

~Egg Retrieval - 4/11/11 ~ Cryopreservation of 2 embryos - 4/17/11

Frozen Embryo Transfer (FET)
~ 2 embryos - 6/6/11