6 Little Belknaps

I got a call from the embryologist yesterday. Six of the eggs they retrieved were immature and could not be fertilized, which we expected based on my sonograms. Out of the six mature eggs, all six fertilized. 100% success in my opinion!

We are so excited. I cannot even describe how amazing this process is. It's so fascinating. I can say that it's unlikely I would ever do the first part of the cycle again. Brutal! But this part is crazy exciting. They are going to do the transfer first thing tomorrow morning. We will go in, discuss the eggs' progress and decide on the two best for transfer.

I will let everyone know how the transfer goes tomorrow.

The Retrieval

After a week of sonograms and blood work, I finally had the retrieval today. It was a bit of a roller coaster over the past week: my ovaries were a little sluggish and didn't want to cooperate. At my last sonogram, we had 5, maybe 6, follicles that were responding. Better than the 3 from my second sono! Well, they told Mike when I got out of surgery that they were able to get 12 eggs! Amazing! 

We will get a call from the embryologist tomorrow to let us know how many were fertilized and when we can expect the transfer date. They initially thought, since they weren't expecting many eggs, that the transfer date would be Sunday. But since there were considerably more than that, it may be Tuesday so that they can evaluate all the embryos and choose the best two.

Thanks to everyone for their thoughts and prayers. My nurse even told me she was praying for us specifically! Please continue praying for those little Belknaps, and for us too. :)