One day after OTD

I couldn't keep sleeping yesterday so did the pregnancy test at 6:30am. I stopped myself from looking at it for the whole 3 minutes, still hoping. One of the hard parts of this whole process is that you don't know whether you are noticing early pregnancy symptoms like night sweating, hot flushes, feeling nauseous, frequent peeing etc., or if those are just signs that your period is coming.

The test was negative. We had a whole day of hope though as I haven't started bleeding straight away like last two times. I did start bleeding last night so now we are 100% sure that it hasn't worked again and there is no need to retest on day 18.

I called the clinic and booked us for follow up appointment for Monday 5th June.

6dp5dt

Our embryo transfer was on Monday. We got to the clinic just on time, went straight through to the outpatients. A nurse saw us straight away as well and told us it would be around 20 minutes wait. Good good. After about 15 minutes my bladder started bursting, it was full, which is required for the transfer.
They called us in as I was thinking I couldn't take any more. Had a little chat with a doctor and an embryologist, he gave us a quick summary of our embryos' development and kind of just told us that we will be transferring two. He didn't ask us even though we would have gone for two anyway which means they are not great quality, like our first cycle. He said they were early blastocysts but didn't give us any other explanations or grades.
The transfer itself was quick but very uncomfortable with the speculum and ultrasound pressing everywhere I didn't want them pressing because of my bladder.
Since then I think I've done pretty good job in not thinking about it too much but treating myself like if I was pregnant. Today is Easter Sunday and we now have only until Thursday till we find out. Fingers crossed.

Day 3

I was just getting ready for shower, handing my phone to Rick in case clinic called when the phone started ringing. We will be going to the clinic on Monday for 1:45pm. I asked the nurse if she had any news and she told me all of our five embryos are viable and out of them three are developing as they should be. Two are a bit behind but they still might catch up. Good news!

Call from embryologist

I got the call at 9:39am. All our nine eggs were good for IMSI, five fertilised and were going strong. Great news! We were aiming for blastocyst transfer which would be on Monday. I asked them if that stays the same even if we wanted two embryos transferred and she said yes. If anything happened with the embryos (stopped developing) and they thought we would benefit from earlier transfer, they would call us and we would go there either Friday or Saturday. Let's hope and pray they stay strong and that we have a choice of the best blastocysts on Monday.

Egg collection

Because my trigger was at half past midnight on Monday night, we didn't have to be at the clinic before 11am on Wednesday. We got there 15 minutes earlier, as usual. I was solo hungry. Got my armchair/bed almost straight away. I changed into the theatre gown and then we waited. At 12 we were told it would be another 45 minutes but apparently they were aware of my timing and out of a sudden 35 to 36 hours between the trigger and the collection itself changed into anywhere between 36 and 38 hours. They gave me my drugs which was one pill to make me sleepy and a painkiller suppository.
Went to theatre around 1pm. There were about four or five nurses and a doctor. It was the same doctor who we talked in September at our follow up appointment so I was very happy. I really like her. They cannulated me in my left elbow and that hurts so much less than in hand. They put some antibiotics in which hurt, most probably because my veins are very very fine. Then the actual sedatives which hurt too but I could feel the effect almost instantly. I could feel the doctor disinfecting me down there and getting ready. She started with my left ovary. It wasn't exactly painful but I was aware of everything that was happening. Towards the end of the procedure they gave me gas to breathe in. Oh, I loved that. It was amazing, I felt really high. But I still felt the pain. At least I enjoyed it this time, haha.
Went back to the ward, wasn't feeling sleepy and was so hungry. I stole a few crisps off Rick which we bought for him as he hasn't eaten out of solidarity. And I don't even like salt and vinegar.
Nine eggs were collected which was good. We left the clinic around 3pm. I was feeling ok but my belly started hurting over the evening and night. Fortunately it wasn't before my 20 minute walk after using Crinone gel (progesterone). I slept again in our guest room (third night in a row) as Rick has really bad hay fever or allergy and his nose is blocked, causing him to snore. Hopefully he feels better soon so we can snuggle up at night again.

S13? = 1 day after trigger

Yesterday was my last monitoring scan and also intralipid infusion. Scan went well, nurse Rachel was really nice. There is one follicle just over 21mm in my left ovary and about 4 or 5 above 18mm and a few around 16mm. Two or three around 12mm which still might grow a tiny bit. All in all Rachel said there might be 10 follicles with an egg in.

I was ready for my trigger, this time I got prescribed Pregnyl instead of Ovitrelle like last two treatment cycles. It's actually much cheaper and the main difference is that Pregnyl has higher level of hCG so might help more of my eggs to mature.

Intralipids went well too, apart from actually finding a vein in my arms. One nurse was looking on my right arm and then hand, looked for a vein but the needle just wouldn't find one. That quite hurt. She gave me a hot chocolate and told me to rub my hands as they were quite cold. Another nurse came and looked everywhere and finally got me the cannula in. Took a blood sample and then connected the IV. It took about an hour to empty the bag.

Got a phone call about my trigger and egg collection timing yesterday evening. Trigger was half past midnight and we're supposed to be at the clinic tomorrow for 11am.

Right side of my lower belly hurts today but I guess it's just because of the size of the follicles. Although my right side is the "weaker" one, less follicles and smaller in size.

Tried a pregnancy test as I had one left over from the last cycle and it did pick up the trigger hCG levels nicely, showing quite strong two lines. Let's hope and pray for a another two lines in 16 days.