July 28

Today is the day of egg retrieval and I must admit I am a bit nervous! We had to be at the doctor at 7:30. When we got to the doctor I had to get in a gown and get an IV started. I never have problems with the IV, but it took her 3 times to get it started! Once I was all hooked up, they walked me to the operating room. By this time I am ready to have those eggs out of my body! My belly is so full and sore because my ovaries are the size of oranges! Boy, are they tender. Finally I was given the good drugs. I was under what is called conscious sedation. It is very nice and I hardly remember anything. While I am under they pass a thin needle through my vaginal wall to collect all the eggs from my ovaries. Since I do not have functioning tubes, this is the only way to get to my eggs. They were able to get out 17 eggs!! I was thrilled! Now, it is time for my eggs to be fertilized!! After the surgery, I go home and sleep and wait for the call saying how many of my eggs were fertilized. We finally received the call the next day. It turns out 15 of our eggs were mature and 14 fertilized. That is amazing. In 5 days the eggs will be put back in, so hopefully we have a bunch that make it ! In the meantime, I feel like I am full of water. I can hardly eat because I feel I am going to bust. Apparently, your ovaries and abdomen fill up with fluid and it makes you miserable! Hopefully, this goes away soon! I love my roxy dog!! She is my only baby now. It is so cute that through this whole process she just wants to lay and cuddle with me!!!

July 12

I went in today to make sure that my ovaries have shut down and I could start my new meds that were going to produce eggs. Everything was good to go and I was so excited!! Today I will begin another injection, along with the one I already take, and this will help me make eggs. This is where is starts to get exciting!! I have been so nervous wondering if my body was going to respond well to the meds. Fast forward to July 18th...I go in for my first ultrasound today to see if I am making eggs. It turns out I have many potential eggs that could be big enough to be mature!! YEA!! Now, July 20th....eggs look great! I have many that are measuring over 10 mm. Finally July 23 and 25...eggs look great! We are almost ready for egg retrieval and I will take my trigger shot on Friday! This will ripen all the eggs so they can be taken out. Here we go!

June 29th

Today was the beginning of our in-vitro journey. It seems like it has taken us so long to get here. I have sure struggled back and forth wondering if this is something I really wanted to do. I start my first shots tonight to suppress my ovaries. I was terrified to think that needle was going to have to go in my stomach every single night! Turns out, it was not that bad. I am very excited about the outcome and I can't wait to get further along in my cycle!