M was in theatre for nearly 40 minutes and when she came back she was hilarious! And smiling thankfully. It was so funny, like she was completely drunk, she was just talking nonsense, I’m not even sure it was English and repeating herself over and over again, asking the nurses if they collected what they needed and how many eggs and kept saying “I did it”, “I did it!”. She was completely knocked out for the procedure and didn’t feel a thing. I guess the nervousness before was all about the unknown (we didn’t understand what the sedation was) and I’m so glad that it went well for her 🙂
After a cup of tea and a biscuit the consultant came it with the news: 18 eggs collected! 🙂 They said that that was really good, but we were initially slightly disappointed after having read so many stories about 40/50+ eggs being collected. At the end of the day, it’s the quality that counts and after 18, hopefully M won’t be in too much pain. So far, so good, we’re back home and tucked in bed and she feels okay, just a little uncomfortable. Oh and the bird’s foot is recovering 😉
After the egg collection I also had a scan to check if my lining is ready yet, on Wednesday it was 6.5mm and needed to be 8, now after increased doses and patches it’s 8.3mm, so that’s another piece of good news! Now I have to start on Cyclogest twice a day (pessaries up my bum). The horrors we have to go through! Gross!
We’ll hear from the embryologist on Monday morning about how the eggs and sperm got on 🙂 And hopefully they’ll make it to 5 days! If they need to do ICSI (if the sperm didn’t thaw well), they’ll let us know today, but so far we haven’t heard anything so it sounds like some good sperm 🙂
Today really made me grateful and glad that we are doing this together and creating our baby together. M’s done her most important part now and is passing the baton on to me. It feels so special ❤
Happy days so far! Wish us luck!
We Love You Chicklets 
🙂 All you need is one really good egg! I’m glad to hear all the good news.
Absolutely! Thank you!
Yay for good news! I hope you keep getting more good news. 🙂
Thank you!
This sounds so exciting!!!!
18 is a pretty good number. We had only 9 and only half of them made it but in the end it worked out great! Good luck 🙂
Good luck!
Thank you!!
SO excited for you! My wish for you is that someday very soon, you’re going to be looking around at your wrecked house, exhausted but madly in love with your children, and you can’t even remember a time before they were with you.
Thank you so much, that day will be amazing, we can’t wait!