Snow!

Come on daddy - I want to play!

Operation pin cushion: day 16

All embryos were successfully biopsied - there are still lots of top quality ones. Will get the dna results on Monday - we have be down in London for 1pm ready for the results and to get the best 2/3 transferred back into me. No eggy updates tomorrow - they get left alone to grow.

I'm feeling less sick and sore today but very tired. I think the norprolac is working because I don't feel too bloated - shame it's making me feel so tired though.

Today's drugs:
Crinone x2
Progynova x2
Norprolac
Baby aspirin
Clexane

Operation pin cushion: day 15

Had to wait until 10am for today's news - I guess the snow caused some disruption. One of the slow embryos has caught up so we have 15 on the go. Of those 11 are top quality, 3 are good, and the last one is average. I'm very happy. Biopsy is tomorrow but we won't hear any news until midday at the earliest.

Today's drugs:
Crinone x2
Progynova x2
Norprolac
Baby aspirin
Clexane

Operation pin cushion: day 14

I didn't sleep so well last night - very nervous waiting for news on how fertilisation got on. I got the call at 9am - great news - 17 of the eggs were usable and out of those 14 have fertilised, with another 2 that might catch up. Very happy with that!

Will get another call tomorrow morning to let me know how they got on today - they should be at 4 cells tomorrow.

Today's drugs list is the biggest one so far, and it included an intermuscular injection that Andy did in my bum - ouch, it's still very sore. I'm feeling very tender today - not that surprising when you consider what my poor ovaries went through yesterday.

Today's drugs:
Doxycycline (last one)
Crinone x2
Progynova x2
Norprolac
Baby aspirin
Clexane
Lentogest - an injectable progesterone, thankfully I only need this twice a week.

Operation pin cushion: day 13

Egg collection today - they got 21! I'm still in shock - I was expecting 9 or 10.

We went up the night before and were at the hospital at 8am. I went in for my operation about 9:30 and was awake and talking by 10:30. Because they got so many eggs they have to be careful of something called ovarian hyper stimulation syndrome (OHSS) which can make you feel very rough. I have some extra drugs to help stop that.

Wee Man had a great time at his sleepover and didn't wake up until 9am

Today's drugs are the beginning of a new regime - the aim is to make a nice snuggly womb to put the embryos back into:
Dexamethazone
Doxycycline
Crinone - a progesterone supplement
Norprolac - this is to stop the ovaries leeking so much fluid in order to try and stave off OHSS. !

Operation pin cushion: day 12

No injections today! Just a few tablets. We came down in London ready for my operation on the morning. Wee Man is on his first sleepover at Grandma and Grandad's - I hope it was a "sleepover" not an "awakeover".

I'm getting nervous now. And a bit hormonal I think - stupid drugs.

Talking of drugs - today's were:
Dexamethazone
Doxycycline

Operation pin cushion: day 11

Had a scan today which showed great egg growth - lots of the small ones had grown too so we might get a bigger harvest than expected. The doctor said I might need to take the injection to mature the eggs tonight instead of tomorrow but would wait for the results of my blood test.

We decided to drive home and if I needed to go back in tomorrow for a final scan then I would leave Wee Man with his grandparents and get the train in.

Got the call from the hospital at 4:30 to say that they wanted me to stop taking the growth drugs and take the drug to mature the eggs tonight at 8:30, then report back to them at 8am on Wednesday morning got egg collection - yikes!

Final injection done and a night in my own bed to look forward to.

Today's drugs were:
1000ui Gonasi
Dexamethazone
Doxycycline