With two rounds of IVF with my own eggs under my belt, proceeding with Donor Eggs & Donor Sperm was a completely different experience.
I was on Progynova 2mg tablets, and Cyclogest. So the clinic and I decided that tablets rather than patches was the way forward as a wedding photographer they were worried that I may dislodge the patches.
When CD1 arrived it was 1 x Progynova 3 times a day, until we were ready to go and check my womb lining on scan day which was triple layered and measured 7.1mm – so we were good to go and get those donor eggies defrosted!
So on 07.09.21 My batch of donor eggs were defrosted. My batch contained 8 eggs, 5 survived the defrost and were suitable for the ICSI process. Manchester Fertility use ICSI with frozen sperm – its just how they work.
So that night I went to bed knowing I had 5 little embabies on their way to grow…
The next day on 08.09.2021 I had a call to confirm that 3 of the embryo’s had fertilised properly and had started to fully grow and do what they needed to do. The clinic do a 3-day update which not a lot of people do but at least I would know where I was going for from there. I had never had a day 3 update before as my previous clinic never did this with my own-egg rounds.
Day 3 came around on 10.09.2021 and I had two little embryo’s doing well. I had an 8-cell and a 6-cell embryo and by day 3 they want to see a minimum of 6-cells so they were happy and now it was just a case of waiting for that day 5 update and the trip to clinic on Embryo transfer day…
And then there was one. I had been here so many times before. One little embryo. The leader of the pack.
When they called from the clinic it was a 3BB, but by the time I got to the clinic it was a 4BB – the best I had ever transferred!
The other embryo seemed to be stalling but they were going to leave it until day 6 to see if it made anymore effort (it didn’t).
And now it meant….we were off to Manchester for Embryo Transfer officially on 12.09.2021 – I’ll update on the next step later!
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