Daily Updates

David and I get daily phone calls from the doctor to let us know how things are going in the lab.  Basically they are letting us know how our petrie dish babies are growing.  It's weird, but we get really excited for that phone call in the mornings.

When they call, I have to have my weight ready to tell and my waist size.  They need to make sure I am not in danger.  Since they took out the eggs, my ovaries are now filled with fluid.  They have to monitor how much I grow.  The doctor says gaining 1 lbs a day is okay, but if I gain more than 3 lbs per day it is dangerous and I have to go to the ER.  As of now, I have gained 9lbs.  Blah.  I feel and look like a house.  It feels like someone put a hose in my belly button, and filled up my whole uterus.

Yesterday when the doctor called, I was devastated.  If you look at my earlier post, things looked grim.  This morning's phone call went much better.  Here is the latest:

When I came out of surgery, I had 5 eggs that were fully mature.  They took these 5 eggs and put a sperm in them.  Of these 5, only 3 fertilized.  This was yesterday.  When they called today they let us know that of the 3 that fertilized, only 2 had reached cell division.  The other one stopped growing.  So, from that batch, we have 2 embryos that are multi cellular and that are where they should be.

Now...back to Friday.  They took the rest of my eggs (the ones that were not fully mature), and they did a scientific procedure to mature the eggs.  Out of the 22 they tried to mature, they were able to mature 13 of them.  Then, yesterday they added sperm to those eggs, and of the 13, 11 were fertilized.  We are now waiting to see which of those will have cell division.  I think we will find out tmr.

Our embryologist told us that they had issues with he sperm sample from Friday, and that it was low quality.  She told us that luckily they had a sample from 2 months ago that they had frozen.  When they thawed that one they had a better batch to work with.

So that's where we are.  Of course we are hoping we get as many embryos as possible.  I think our final phone call comes tmr. and then they will freeze what they have.

 I will keep you updated.