This IVF cycle has been a bit different than the first cycle. The first cycle was picture perfect until the end when the embryos did not survive. This cycle was kind of a hot mess from the beginning. My insurance was, thankfully, a lot better during this cycle. But the medicine and my hormones were not cooperating with what the doctor wanted. It actually came down to the possibility of us not continuing through this cycle. Dr. Engmann had decided that depending on my ovaries they would do one of three things: cancel the cycle because I had OHSS, do the retrieval but postpone the transfer until the following cycle, or continue as planned. Thank goodness, we were able to continue as planned because I started drinking gatorade for the electrolytes and I took it as easy as I possibly could.
So on August 17th the doctors were able to retrieve multiple eggs and they fertilized them with ICSI (which they didn't do in the first cycle). But by day three, only three embryos had survived. So the doctor decided that they were going to push them to day five and hope that some of them made it. Unfortunately, only one of the embryos survived until day five. But we were so happy to see our little one make it to day five. We continued with the transfer and were able to put our one little embryo in and hope for the best.
Waiting the 10 days was torture...
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