We have 5 frosties!

I recieved our call this morning.  We were able to freeze five embryos.  Hopefully, this is a good sign of things to come.

IVF calculator

IVF.ca Pregnancy Due Date and Fetal Development Calculator
	Congratulations, you should be 2 weeks, 5 days, pregnant!
	First beta:	December 20, 2012
	Singleton Due Date:	August 28, 2013
	Twins By Ave Gestation:	August 06, 2013
	Triplets By Ave Gestation:	July 10, 2013
	Quads By Ave Gestation:	July 03, 2013
	Embryo Retrieval and Transfer - By standard traditional measure you are beginning the third week of pregnancy and the two-week wait to confirm it.
Pregnant Until Proven Otherwise (PUPO)
Egg/Sperm Fusion	6-7 days	9-10 days
December 06, 2012 Embryo Formation	December 12, 2012 Implantation Start	December 16, 2012 Implantation Complete
Trimester Stages
by Development	by Gestation	by Conception
Begin 2nd Trimester February 13, 2013	Begin 2nd Trimester February 23, 2013	Begin 2nd Trimester March 04, 2013
Begin 3rd Trimester May 29, 2013	Begin 3rd Trimester May 27, 2013	Begin 3rd Trimester June 01, 2013
Typical Prenatal Testing Periods
	From	To
CVS	January 30, 2013	February 13, 2013
Nuchal Translucency	February 06, 2013	February 26, 2013
Amniocentesis	March 13, 2013	March 27, 2013
Gestational Diabetes	May 08, 2013	June 05, 2013
Approximate Stages of Embryo/Fetal Development
Embryo Development
Cardiac Contraction Begins December 28, 2012	Limb Buds Forming January 01, 2013	End Embryo Stage January 16, 2013
Fetal Development
U/S Heartbeat Detected January 09, 2013	Brainwaves Begin January 22, 2013	Essential Structures Complete January 30, 2013
Movement Begins February 27, 2013	Fetus May Suck Thumb April 24, 2013	Maternal Sounds Recognized May 08, 2013

Found this great calculator at http://www.ivf.ca/duedate.php

I know I shouldn't be obsessed, but I can't help it.  This kind of relaxes me as I know that implantation hasn't even started, which helps keep me chilled in the whole notion of when to test or not to test.  Of course, seeing all this info, based on my egg retrieval lets me know that it may not have even be done implanting until the end of the week.  Obviously, it is way to early to know if this worked, so here's to the best.

Transfer Day

We had our transfer today. We had two 8 celled embryos, 1 7 celled embryo, 1 6celled embryo, 3 5 celled embryo and 1 four celled embryo.  They transferred the two 8 celled, and now we wait to see if the others make it to freezing.  I'm really praying that this works for us.  I think I'm going to have to give up facebook for a while.  Everyone is freaking pregnant, and I'm happy for them, but it makes me sad about own situation.

Fertilization Report

They retrieved 17 eggs.  Out of the eggs, 12 were healthy.  With the help of ICSI, 11 have been fertilized.  Kind of excited!

Egg Retrieval Day

Had to be at the doctors by 8:15AM, without drinking anything.  I'm half fish, because I love drinking water.  I was a lot lessed stressed than I imagined.  They called me back.  When I had to change into my gowns, there was a wall that said, "I am one with my ovaries and at peace with my uterus."  I kind of felt that way.  I know we are doing everything we can.

They were able to retrieve 17 eggs, and it looks like 14 were good quality.  So now I wait until tomorrow to get the fertilization report.

During this time, B had his fun in a cup.  He's been taking vitamins for the past 3 months that are suppose to improve sperm quality, county, and motility.  His motility had improved, but his quality drastically shot down.  Usually, he has 12% normal morphology which is in the borderline abnormal stage.  Today, it was only 1%.  That really sucks, because part of me was hoping that as time moved on and his balls had longer time to heal from the variocele removal the better his sperm would be, and perhaps we might be able to actually find out what it's like to have an accident.  The results kind of reaffirmed the fact that that specific hope needs to float away.

I think part of it is having family members who don't understand the numbers game with play with our sperm analysis.  We get to hear things like sure you'll have ivf now, but I can see in a couple years you having accidents.  Yeah right!  Part of me feels like I let my family down because I can't conceive the natural way.

Don't worry, I post tomorrow after I get the fertilization report.

Drug Related Meltdown

I'm suppose to do the trigger shot tonight at exactly 11 PM.  I cleaned the countertops, and was getting all my ducks in a row.  Grabbed my bag I took to the doctors so they could draw up my hcg trigger, and low and behold my syringes are gone.  I begin to bawl (I'm pretty sure it's the hormones) because I screwed this up.  The only thing I can think of is when I gave them the hcg if it accidently fell out at that point.  Luckily, MIL is a nurse and SIL is a vet, so I'm able to get a syringe, but seriously?! 

Egg Retrieval Date Set

Today we went into the doctors.  Looks like I have 8-10 follicles per ovary.  They are perfect sized, so I'll take my trigger shot tonight and we'll have the egg retrieval on Wednesday.