Egg Retrieval

Yesterday was my egg retrieval!  I was very ready to have some relief from getting these eggs taken out.  They were able to get 16 eggs.  That's 2 more than how many we retrieved during my girls' cycle.  I think they threw those in their for themselves, one extra for Zo and one extra for Pip!  Just another way of them showing us they are with us.  I actually felt a lot better this time than I did last egg retrieval.  They gave me different pain medicine and gave me some Zofran for nausea, so I woke up a little sore but not bad at all.  Today I was even able to go to an all day training for work and felt fine.  The embryologist called and said they were able to ICSI (insert sperm into egg) on 12 eggs, and 7 have fertilized.  That is 2 less than the girls, once again a sign from them!  I feel like those 2 less embryos are their way of reminding me of my favorite 2 embryos in heaven.  My mom thinks Zoey and Piper got rid of the boy embryos, haha!

I'm going to be honest and say I am a little disappointed with only 7 fertilized eggs.  I just feel like it is kind of a low number and it is freaking me out.  But, even the paper they gave us says on average only half of the eggs retrieved are usable, and of those, only half fertilize.  Based on that, we are slightly above average, but I still wish we had more.  We had 9 fertilized eggs with the girls, and by the 5 day transfer only 3 were good enough quality to implant/freeze, so maybe that is what has my nerves messed up.  I don't know.  I guess in my perfect world, I would have 14 or 15 fertilized eggs!  It is both a curse and a blessing to have a successful cycle to compare to this one.  It's great because the similarities between the 2 cycles are so reassuring, but then if something is different it freaks me out.  All we can do is wait for the voicemail tomorrow about how our embryos are growing, and then see what we have to work with on transfer day Sunday.  I am praying my 7 little embies grow big and strong and we have at least 3 or 4 to work with!