Tue 1 Mar 2011
…I’m just not pregnant yet.
The lab called. Out of the 18 eggs they retrieved from me yesterday, 12 were mature and able to be ICSI‘ed. So they fertilized those 12, and 11 “took” and became embryos. That’s a 91.7% success rate right there! I thought statistically it was more like 50%, but the female embryologist who called from the lab said, “Not for us, we’re more like 80% success rate.” Then she looked over the numbers from everyone they retrieved from and fertilized yesterday. There were two 100%s, and everyone else was in the 90%s (of course I don’t know how many eggs those women had). Given that there are so many viable embryos, the embryologist said she’s going to put me on the lineup for a blastocyst transfer on Saturday. In these 5 days, genetics and the quality of sperm and egg will determine which of the 11 potential kidlets will survive to Saturday, and they’ll take the hardiest of the remaining and implant that one. The implant procedure itself will take 5 mins, altho I’ll have to be on bedrest for 48 hours afterwards.
The pain from yesterday’s procedure has subsided at least 90%, the sun is shining, we just got good news, Mr. W has already started drinking (yesterday), so we’re gonna take advantage of OC Restaurant Week and find a cool new place to have lunch! Yay!
That’s GREAT!!!!!!!!!! Congrats!!!
**Clapping in great glee*** YEA!!! Have Mr. W have a drink for me too! I’m there at lunch with you in spirit!
Congrats! I was thinking of you yesterday while I was at work sending you happy thoughts.
holy moly! it really WAS love at first sight! congrats on the good news =)
Flat Coke – Thanks! =D
Maggie – *clapping with you* He had a blood orange spicy martini today with lunch (at Andrei’s; you’d like that place). We’ll just call that yours.
Vanessa – thanks, your happy thoughts worked!
flip flop girl – thanks! I guess hubby knows his boys!
First progesterone shot tonight. Two nurses, a doctor, and someone who’s been thru this before all warned me that this is the stuff that hurts. Given that the other shots have often hurt, I was SCARED. It’s 1cc, which isn’t awful, but it’s intramuscular, and the last (and only) intramuscular shot I took was on Saturday. That ache didn’t go away until this afternoon, 3 days later, and that medication was water-based. THIS is sesame-oil based which means it takes longer to absorb into my body. So, what? 5 days of aching per shot? It doesn’t help that I have to get one shot of this a day so I’ll be multiply sore.
I whimpered and made crying noises as hubby prepped the shot upstairs. I expected the worst, especially given that the needle was even thicker than I’d ever had (22 gauge) to administer such a viscous liquid into dense muscle tissue. But the stab was fine, BARELY a pinch sensation. The administration was sensationless. I was SO relieved. When he withdrew, I couldn’t even tell that there was anything in my muscle. He massaged the area and applied a hot damp compress. I started feeling a little bit sore, but it’s NOTHING like what I’d experienced with gym soreness, or the Saturday shot. Maybe it’ll hurt more tomorrow. But tomorrow will be another shot.
This time, despite forgetting once again to draw back to check for blood, I didn’t bleed much more than a speck on the surface, unlike the dribbing that happened with the Pregnyl shot on Saturday. Maybe the thickness of the med is what stopped the bleeding.
I’m glad it wasn’t so bad. Sorry I fell asleep before I could say “yay”, so I will say it now. Yay!!!
But…I did see a response from you. I saw it the next morning, tho. So I thought I fell asleep on YOU!
So far, the bruised feeling on my (newly shot) left side is pretty minor compared to my poor right side after that first Pregnyl shot. Hope tonight goes as well as last nite. *crossing fingers*
ONE of these days I’m gonna stop panicking and crying to you via text before an intramuscular shot.
This is pretty awesome news. So how soon before I’m an uncle? You know I don’t like waiting!
If all goes well, the kid will be debutting in November. 🙂
Day 2 progesterone shot: didn’t hurt going in, didn’t feel it after it went in, but MAN was my right outer buttock sore the next day! The left side that got the first progesterone shot didn’t ever get that bad. He did remember to draw back on the syringe to chekc for blood this time. No blood.
Day 3 progesterone shot: He went a little high on the left side so that when I moved, the meds felt like it was in my lower back. I felt this needle go in, too. My left side flinched and clenched involuntarily when he stabbed. He said “sorry,” and later said the needle had a harder time sliding in. Maybe it was too high. Left side sore, right side sore. Feels like I’ve been doing lateral squats holding 20 lb dumbbells.
Will you hear anything about the kidlets before tomorrow? I wonder how many are hooking up?
Ya know…Nov 18th would be a GREAT day to have a baby!! It’s a red letter date.
I’ll be thinking about you tomorrow and the lil one making his/her debut inside you.
Hope the soreness eases up!
What do you mean by “hooking up?”
I don’t think the soreness would have much of a shot (har) at easing up cuz I’m shooting into the same muscle every other day, and that’s not enough time to heal before the next shot. I mean, I’m switching sides daily and trying to switch sites, but the nurse limited the “target area” to the upper outer quandrant of each side so that’s not a lot of space to pick new injection sites.
Thanks for your positive thoughts tomorrow!
i am going to be checking for updates all day tomorrow. don’t make us wait too long! have you gotten an interim status update about how many of the “hookup” lasted beyond a one night stand? =P
Flip Flop answered my “hooking up” question. Thanks! Love the one night stand analogy. 🙂
Haha, you chicks are so funny! =D
The lab hasn’t given me any updates since the call I reported. I called the office to set up my appointment time tomorrow, and it’s for 11:30a. I wonder if I can still type from the supine position to give the update tomorrow. Maybe they’re not THAT literal about “bedrest,” altho the information sheet advised me to take a shower in the morning cuz I’m not allowed to for the next 2 days, and I’m supposed to only get up to use the restroom and to sit up to eat. =P
I’m gonna be BORED!
1) can’t wait for the update at 11:31!
2) commandeer mr. w’s ipad. it’ll help pass the time.
3) milk it! you will be waited on, hand and foot. demand palm fronds and grapes while you’re at it 😉
Is it soup yet?
flip flop girl – sorry, was on bedrest the past 48 hours. =P that means, I couldn’t reach the computer.
Bat – eh? what’s that mean?
Have you never seen “Rocky Horror Picture Show”?
no…it’s before my time. and it sounds gross.
Technically it was before my time too, but it was a lot of fun to go to a midnight showing when I was a kid.
everything I’d heard about that movie/show/event at the theatre was that it was some drugged-out, free-for-all orgy situation.
No!! It’s an entertainment extravaganza! People dress up, yell things at the screen, throw things, get up and dance. I always had a blast.