Pregnancy test result

One picture over a thousand words. We are considering changing the clinic.

10dp3dt

Alright, I couldn't wait until Tuesday. It's my birthday today and I wanted the best birthday present ever - a positive pregnancy test. And it's not happening again. It was as negative as it could be. I seriously doubt that it will be positive in two days. I guess IVF #5 in February 2018 awaits!

7dp3dt

There are 5 days left till the Official Testing Day. I must admit this IVF cycle has been very calm. Apart from sleeping really bad there is no symptoms that could suggest something has or should be happening. My belly hurt mostly until Monday. Nipples are still sensitive but much less than straight after the trigger. We are hoping for the best.

Embryo transfer #4

We got to the clinic for 3pm, after a very short wait we were taken to that teeny tiny room for a quick chat with a nurse, handed two pregnancy test and paperwork as usual. I joked that I hope they are not going to tell me there is 20-minute wait or something because my bladder was getting seriously full. The nurse laughed and said it shouldn't be that bad but went and checked. Came back and said no longer than 30 minutes. 😒
One couple just went to the theatre and there was another before us. I was almost crying. That's what pisses me off a bit, they don't take any delays into account and then we are bursting with pain. Every woman went straight to the toilet after the transfer. (I checked 😅)
Before the transfer we had a quick chat with lovely embryologist Olivia. She told us the one good embryo is 8-cell and was given a top grade. Yay! She also asked us if we wanted to transfer just that embryo or another one as well. We were quite surprised by that question because we thought the other three were a 'lost cause'. She said there is one that is kind of progressing and is a 3-cell right now insteas 6-8 cells as it would be expected on Day 3. The other 2 embryos were still only 2-cell and haven't really developed further since yesterday. We went for 2 then because we wanted to anyway. The only thing I didn't like was that we were actually being questioned by the gynecologist if we were aware of multiple pregnancy risks. He almost barked at me "Name one!" after I said Yes we are. I told him premature labour. He seemed alright with that answer and said a few more but shut up after that. 🤐
The transfer went ok itself apart from my cervix being dipped or something so the doctor had to insert a bigger catheter first and then insert the other one with the embryos through that one. Finally I could go to the loo. It was such a relief! 😅 Now Rick and I are chilling in bed watching telly. 👍

Day 3

I really wanted to call embryology yesterday to ask how our embryos were doing but at the end I didn't. I told myself I would call today then. That didn't happen either. At 8.50am I got a phone call from them saying three out of our four embryos are not developing as they should ve so the one good embryo is going to be transferred today at 3pm. We are just on our way to the clinic, ETA 25 minutes. The lovely woman on the phone also said that the one we are transferring is 8-cell as they would expect today and it's a good grade as well. 🤗