Retrieval
It was an early day. Had to be there at 7 so we left here at 6. We were literally the only ones there on a Sunday. Pre-op was pretty quick, they put an IV in me (tried to go in my hand and blew that vein so they went in my left arm which is the good vein anyway). We wore our shirts and I wore my socks. Wore my Peachy mask for good measure.
Back in the OR it was a little awkward to splay my legs in the stirrups for all to see lol. Good thing they put me to sleep pretty quickly.
Disappointingly, we only got 13 follicles. I know that’s an average number, but I expected more. Especially for how high my amh is. Everyone else I talked to with high amh got way more. I know it’s about quality over quantity but I’m just worried the drop off will leave us with nothing.
So out of that 13 only 11 were mature and only 9 fertilized. So now we have to see how many actually make it to blastocyst stage and then how many of those come back normal after pgt. I just think we’d be lucky to get even a couple embryos for transfer. Which makes me nervous because if we only get one or two and those transfers fail we have to do another retrieval. Plus, and I know this is not the most important thing by far, but I’ve kind of got my heart set on a girl and what if we only get boy embryos? I mean I will obviously be thrilled to get any baby but I was hoping we’d get enough embryos for a good mix of both and then when we want to have a second baby in a few years we could skip all this ttc bullshit and go straight to doing another transfer.
Anyway. I think we’ll find out Friday how many made it to blast. I’m hoping almost all of the 9 will. Maybe if we get 7 or 8 and then 4 or 5 are pgt normal I’d relax.
My mom was here for 10 days during all this and I don’t know how I would’ve survived without her. Even though I like living here for the most part I can’t wait to move back to Florida. I also don’t know how I’m going to function with this new job when she’s not here. She was making dinner for us and I don’t know how I’m going to do that when I work til 7. She decorated the house for fall and bought us all kinds of cute decorations. She always organizes and cleans when she’s here. She just takes care of me. I hate it when she has to leave. Especially because I don’t think I’ll see her again until October when we do the transfer. But at least she’ll be back up for that.
Please just let us get some good blasts and normal embryos.
