Pocos- Yikes I'm terrified of storms but glad you have family to stay safe and maybe also provide much needed distraction from all this. I will keep you in my prayers with your embabies, we must remember God is in control now. When do you think it will be safe enough to go back to your house? I will pray everything is safe and sound there too. Speaking of parents, dh has to work on Saturday so in a bind he called his mom today to ask her to come down and take me to the transfer on Saturday. I love her to death but this seems a little much since his dad is also coming down too (she has jaw trouble so he wouldn't want her to drive 6 hours down here) and my house is a complete mess. He told me he has to work Saturday but the last thing I need is family coming, Is it too late to call my best friend instead? But part of me would feel bad for cancelling out on them, but another part would be morified if they saw my house. Yikes how can I get out of this, the nurse told me someone would have to take me because they are giving me valium and I won't be able to drive. Ok that's my moment of being freaked out. Dh said he would clean the house before they get here but I'm thinking when would he have time with his 2 jobs? Maybe I should call a housekeeping service am I over-reacting I've known his mom since 1994 but still it's his family. Yes my clinic is 3 hours away also so I would have to get someone to make that commute with me.
Tawny- I couldn't take my eyes off the staff during my transfer over Halloween the girls were in costumes dressed as nerds, tthat was so much fun. When I got all prep, dh walked in and chatted while we waited for the dh...I told him I was getting very sleepy but forced myself to stay awake but then I couldn't stop crying and the nurse walked in asking me if I was ok just nervous? I couldn't say anything much without breaking down. She brought me warm blankets and tucked me in as dh held my hand. Those socks (they gave me) I ended up leaving behind because everything about them reminded me of my d&c.
AFM: OK I saved the best news for last...we got 16 eggs!!!!! Much earlier when my IVF coordinator dropped by we found out 8 follicles were bigger then 15mm and I looked disappointed I know and she said Christy all we need to work with is really 4 good ones. She told me though they would retrieve as many as possible, big or small. I was put to sleep, didn't feel a thing.
I found out they more commonly perform 3 day transfers whether then five days.
(Pocos are you reading this?) I was puzzled because my previous clinic believed in blastcyst, so I had to ask for her explanation! She said if you look at the clinic's overall success rate the ones who do the 3day transfer have a higher likelihood of not being cancelled and successfully making it. Hence the embryos that looking good but not excellent have a better chance of making it. She said we'll watch them very closely and we consider a good embryo to have 8 cells. She said more studies have shown transfers being cancelled with 5day embryos becasue they may not make it that far, she said for this reason they have more 3 day transfers at this clinic and this has given them a higher success rate with women over 35. Right or wrong (I know it's controversial) I'm just going with the flow. I did find out for the remaining embryos they stay in the lab until blastocyst happens before freezing them. I guess they would be more vulnerable to freeze on day3? That will be a question I ask later on for sure with my RE's visit. I should of asked that question but part of me is still focussed on the quality while the other part is leaning on quanity but it wouldn't matter if the quality isn't good nothing else would matter. In the big picture we have 5 more chances so I shouldn't throw in the towel just yet, at least the hard part is over with for now. They will call me on Friday with embryo update giving them 36 hours.
. Wow you have some good follies growing, good job! Were you able to sleep a little more today?
ok enough about that, where is everyone hiding? How was your Halloween/party/marathon? Annabelle and her mom were my only trick-or-treaters tonight, she dressed up as Alfred Hitchcock, Absolutely loved it!