22 Beautiful Little Eggs

Today was the biggest and most important day so far in my journey of IVF. Today was my egg retrieval day. I got up this morning to a very rainy and nasty day. Lynn texted me and said that since rain is lucky on wedding days then it must be lucky on egg retrieval day :) We got there right at 7:15. While sitting in the waiting room my Mom, Stephen, and I were guessing how many eggs I would have. Stephen guessed 30, my Mom guessed 24, and I guessed 22. After waiting in the waiting room they took me right back. My Mom had to wait in the waiting room and Stephen got to back with me. Once I got back there they had me put on my lovely hospital gown, booties, and cap. Next, the nurse put my IV in. Then the anesthesiologist came in to introduced himself, I liked him a lot he was a really nice guy. There is a picture of us below. Next Dr.F came in to see if I had any questions, which I didn't since I had read so much online. Shortly after that the nurse came to take me back to the operating room. I was teary eyed just because I hate being put to sleep but all the nurses were so sweet. They made me feel completely comfortable. After that I went right to sleep. The whole retrieval took a totally of 10-15 mins. The next thing I knew I woke up in the recovery room. I was crampy but they gave me a heated bottle that made me feel a lot better. I also had a really bad taste in my mouth, which didn't go away till way later. Dr. F came in to let me know that she was able to get 22 eggs. Dr. F and I were both really happy with that number :) Once I started feeling like myself again they let me go home. Once I got home I was still a little crampy, so I layed in bed happily surrounded by my dogs with a heating pad.

About an hour after we got home my phone rang. It was one of the nurses that works in the lab. I thought she was just calling with an update but she was calling to let me know that Stephen had to come back in because his sperm count was really low. This was scary and shocking news. Stephen left right away to go back to the doctors office. While we know that his count is not normally that great it was never a concern that there would not be enough. Once Stephen got home and we talked about it the only thing we could think of is that they have had him on a steroid inhaler because he has been so sick. The horrible part is that I called back around 3:30 today to see how the second sample was and they told me that the doctor was already gone and we had to wait until tomorrow. So here we sit worrying about if they were able to fertilize the eggs or not. We figured that if the news was bad they would have called us or that is what I am going to keep telling myself. It is going to be a very long night! But thankfully I am feeling pretty good, I am a tiny bit sore but that is all. So until tomorrow Love and Baby Dust.

At home after my surgery with my sweet nurses.