Period

Game over..period here..

Well thats it for me - definitely no more treatment, I'm not going to the clinic for my after appointment - I see no point for them to tell me what I already know.

DPO13....

6.30pm.... brown spotting....

DPO11&12 : Negatives

I took an Early reponse test last night and this morning (Buy one (double pack) get one free)

Bother very obvious negatives, not even a slight glimmer of a positive...

Its meant to be 78% accuarate at this stage....

Really don't feel pregnant.

DPO11

Still hanging around - No symptoms.

Feeling really down and fed up - Work hard going and life just seems so boring.. at the moment I'm getting in from work, talking to myself and then going to bed - Finding it very difficult to motivate myself in any way at all.. oh well...and yet another 6 days to wait.. unless of couse AF arrives first like it probably will..

So I'm DPO11 today - just been checking my previous chart, IVF3 and I got spotting on DPO13 and AF arrived the next day.. so technically what would have been DPO14..

DPO14 is Friday....my test date Monday 17th.

Just hanging around

Well...nothing exciting happening here...

Feel ok - Been very lazy which I suppose I have an excuse for!! Finding remembering the cyclogest is difficult.. so I try to do when I get up and when I walk through the door at home time.

Feelnig bloated still, also slightly pain in stomach along bikini line...I'm assuming this is from the Egg collection last Friday and will go... its not that bad - more tender when I push it lol so msut stop pushing!!!

Right better do some work.

Embryo Grading

There was me feeling all confident and that the grading was good.. when actually.. grade.1. is bad!! The higher the grade the better..doh... and then I read even more conflicting information!!!How does the grading work? :( I am so totally confused...oh well nothing I can do!!

IVF4 : Embryo Transfer

Well today was the day.

Tubes were up the creak so it took me a while getting across to LWC, I nearly decided to walk but in the end gave in and took the Circle line to Great Portland Street. Drank the water as required.. and of course then started to want the loo!

Sat around the waiting room for a while, the good sign was that they got me to put on the gown...bad sign for me was that they kept me waiting and was desperate for wee! Even better sign was when I had to sign the declaration to say I was aware of the risks of multiple Birth with 3 embryos being put back.

So when I finally went down i had to go to the loo and count to 10... managed to keep enough in still!

Embryologist came out to see me, of the 5 that fertilised 2 had arrested so only 3 had carried on dividing - Good news thoguh as better quality than my previous attempt:
1 x 7 cell, grade.1.
2 x 6 cell, grade.2.

I never asked how many cells it should be at but from my previous postings I thought around 8 , however even 4 cell embryos on day.3. have ended up in pregnancies.

So here I am waiting around again....in the office... test date 17th November.

IVF4 : Tomorrow

So...

I had the Egg Collection about 9.45am Friday - 48 hours after (day.2.) they would expect a 4 cell embryo and 72 hours later (day.3.) a 8 cell embryo - so in theory by 9.45am ish tomorrow 8 cells - I'm assuming that as it takes a while to do the ICSI they give it a little bit extra time hence the appointment at 11am.

Day 3 (8-cell) Embryo

Well I'm hoping that this cycle my fertilized eggs divide quicker than last time - It not until you've been through it that you realise that you are always hoping for that next step...if it hasn't divided well tomorrow then that in itself makes you realise the chances are slim..

Day 2 (4-cell) Embryo

Human embryos are usually at the 4 cell stage at some point on day 2 - So hopefully this is what is happening with my embryos this time!

Day 1 (2-cell) Embryo

This is a normal 2-cell embryo - which I think should have been yesterday...

IVF4 : Egg Fertilisation

Not a good night sleep, stomach pains from the egg retrieval -probab;ly because there were more follicles.

Phone call at 9.30am

Out of the 8 mature eggs, 5 eggs fertilized.

My appointment for egg transfer is 11am on Monday.

I hope that this time round they divide quicker...

IVF4 : Donor Details

Donor Characteristics
Ethnic Group Caucasian – Hungarian
Blood Group O Positive
Eye Colour- Green
Hair Colour- Brown
Height 1.73m
Build - Slim
Skin colour - Fair/Medium
Religion- None
Occupation - Engineer and Land Surveyor
Education - Degree
Interests - Extreme sport, judo, open water diving, flying

This is actually the same donor as I had for IVF3, so I will just have to hope that he is ok!

IVF4 : Egg Collection

I seem to know exactly what I'm doing with this the days! well though I had 21 follicles they only collected 12 eggs - I was slightly disappointed though not surprised as a lot of them were smaller... I had a call in the afternoon to confirm that from the 12 8 were mature and that they would do ICSI on them.

Photo : About to inject the egg with a spermHolding pipette on left ICSI needle on right Sperm head visible in needle at far right, just below XPolar body of egg at 7 o'clock