Friday was my retrieval. The procedure itself went fine, but woke up in so much pain. I didn't have any pain after the last one... so this was new. I figured they must of had tons eggs retrieved for this amount of pain... but no. Only six. Six eggs. I was devestated. No one could offer any explanation of why I could have so many good follicles- but hardly any eggs... with our crappy sperm and success last time- I was doubtful for good fertilization reports.
The next day (yesterday) the nurse called with our fertilization reports. I was prepared for none- but we got three. Two two-cell and one a little farther behind. I was so upset. I was talking to the nurse trying to figure out what went wrong. I was like I am 27- and as far as you all could diagnose- nothing is wrong with me. There is no reason that I should only have six eggs. I was also upset- because I felt like when we suggested canceling the cycle with my drop in estrogen - the MDs just kind of blew me off and said everything would be fine. The nurse asked if I wanted the doc to call me- I said it wouldn't change anything so she didn't have to.
The doc called me back a little later. She was nice enough. Said things I already knew. I told her that since we only had three embryos I wanted to do a three day transfer and put all three back. She said that we could do a three day transfer if we wanted, but she wouldn't suggest putting three back since triplets do carry their own risks. I asked to just play it by ear with how they progressed and she agreed.
Today the doctor called me (suprised) and said good news! One of the embryos that they didn't think fertilized - had and had caught up to a four-cell (where it is suppose to be). We had two five-cells and one three-cell. She said that now that we had four- all good quality embryos- she said we could go back to a five day transfer if we wanted - or we could still do three days. Based on the quality - she wouldn't transfer three embryos though.
So here we are. Planning for transfer tomorrow. May still insist that we transfer three since I don't think any others will make it to freeze. We'll see what the doctors say and look at the quality tomorrow. Please continue prayers for us and I hope everyone has a wonderful Fourth of July! I will be pupo and on bedrest- but I wouldn't change it. Happy that with all the bumps we've had this week that we've made it this far!
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Praying for you! Hope the transfer goes well.
We had similar results with our retrieval - only 6 eggs and 3 fertilized - all were great quality and we transferred all 3 on day 3. I am pregnant with 1 baby. I hope and pray that you get similar results!
Ugh...so sorry to hear you were so sick after retrieval! No fun! But, it sounds like you have some really good embies growing there, and THAT is definitely something to get excited about! You know I am "all for" transferring 3 because that's what finally brought me my BFP! So, do what you feel is right...if you want to transfer all 3, then tell your RE that's what you want!!! This all about YOU!!!!! Let us know what you decide!!! I'm hoping this is it for you!!!!
I'm so sorry. :(
I would do a 3dt for sure. I would also ask about how fragmented the embryos are on that day before making your final decision.
I'm older than you (31), but they think nothing is wrong with me. We had 4 embryos on Day 3, and I transferred 3. Everyone always goes on and on about eggs, but guess what? Sperm have DNA too. And when you're dealing with severe MFI, like we are, it seems ridiculous (IMO) to assume that, even though everything else in the sperm-making process is messed up, the right number of chromosomes are in each sperm.
There's a reason you see more anembryoinic pregnancies with MFI.
Anyway, that's why we transferred 3. They were of average quality. Our 4th made it to blast but wasn't good enough to freeze.
Multiples are a risk, but...I think it's up to you to see how big you precieve that risk and how much you're willing to chance it.
Thanks for stopping by today.. I needed that :)
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