We used our last embryo in December. We did get pregnant, but it ended in a miscarriage/blighted ovum. So that cycle was considered a frozen embryo transfer vs a fresh cycle which we are doing now. This is our 5th round of IVF, which includes the frozen and fresh. Our very first fresh cycle was in early 2012 which was cancelled because I had no follicles develop. So we did everything up until the retrieval. Our second attempt was a couple months later. This was our first retrieval. We got 13 eggs and 7 fertilized initially, but only 5 making it. We transferred 2 embryos in the early spring of 2012 which ended in a negative pregnancy test. Long story short, I needed another surgery that summer. We then moved on to a frozen embryo cycle in the fall of 2012 and transferred 2 or the 3 we had left. YAY!!! That cycle gave me Hew and Harry who were born in August of 2013. This past November/December we transferred our last embryo that ended in miscarriage.
SO.....that brings me to now. If you are someone who is struggling with infertility, I have written in depth information in earlier posts. The dates are wrong because I had to transfer from another blog, but the are posted in order. I wrote about everything I was going through from the emotional, mental, physical, medical, and spiritual. I tried to give as much medical information and data that I could because it really helped me when I was going through it for the first time!!!
This cycle has been rather quick. Shortly after my menstrual cycle began I started birth control pills. I was put on the Ganirelix protocol. My age played a factor because this protocol allows your own body to help accelerate things and of course as you know the older you get your body does a lot less of this. Everything went as planned. We had good follicles, etc.
So we had our retrieval last week and it all went well. We retrieved 13 eggs. Same number as last time. This made me feel very hopeful and almost assume that we would have several fertilize like last time. I definitely had a lost more abdominal pain that I remembered and it has lasted for days. But I guess this is to be expected when your ovaries are huge.
We retrieved 13 eggs last week during our retrieval. This is the same number as last time. Man oh man....I don't remember this kind of stomach pain or for this long, but it is funny how we forget things. Not going to lie....I have been under a little cloud and a definitely more emotional but go figure.....darn hormones!! We had 7 eggs fertilize on day 1 last fresh cycle, and this time we had 4. When I heard that number I was devastated.
