Round 5

During my forced month off I started thinking "How many rounds should I do? How many rounds are typical? How many rounds before my Dr sits me down and says this is a losing battle?" I read online the average is 6. Six rounds for one healthy baby. For all we know our fremby is "one healthy baby" and hey it only took 3 rounds! So keeping fingers crossed we are due for another soon!

This morning at my baseline appointment I have a cyst. 100% of women get cysts, Nurse says. My blood work will determine whether I can began stimming tonight. If the cyst is producing estrogen I will not begin and they will see me again tomorrow to recheck things. (Estrogen has to be below 100 to begin the stimultation medicine). If my level still hasn't gone down I will have to wait until my period next month. And then if it *still* hasn't gone down they will put me on birth control to suppress it, "but with your AMH level being so low we really don't want to have to do that."

So crossing fingers "and toes," she said. The clinic will call me this afternoon to let me know which path.

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Yay! bloodwork was all clear!

Medicine

2 Menopur morning and night

150 900 Follistim morning and night

20 microdose Lupron morning and night

--> The only thing "different" I've done this round is drink protein shakes. I know despite my efforts I am not likely getting the requisite amounts of protein.

Final Follow-Up Appointment Stats

Lining: 9.0

Right: 16, 12

Left: 20, 12, 17, 13, 20, 15

Retrieval

Dr. retrieves 7 eggs! We haven't had this many since round 1!

Day 1 Update

5 have fertilized! We have never had this many fertilize! My mom has been saying since before I even started stimming "I feel good about this round." And me, the eternal optimist, feels good about every round but maybe she is on to something! Hoping our embies are safe and warm and dividing as they should be the next day or so!! Very exciting!

Day 3 Update

The embryologist called. We are so so excited: 4 of our embryos are in good shape! 3 are 8-cell, 1 is 6-cell, and the one lagging behind is 3-cell. things can go either way. We don't have cell counts for each round but for the ones we do we have seen 8-cells make it to day 5 (and beyond! our one in the bank is an 8) and not make it to day 5. For today though we are happy and thankful and excited! Trying to be patient until our day 5 update but I can't help but think ahead to next steps of PGS testing and possible frozen transfer <3

Day 5/6 Update

!!! Two of our embryos make it to Day 5! This gives us a total of 3 Day 5 embryos for testing.

---> Even though for months we had nothing to test we talked about this scenario often.

We are going to go for it!!!!