Day 18 in Turkey – Holy Cow!!!, I mean chicken!!!

Staci must have been a chicken in another life!  (boy can she lay the eggs! )   LOL.  I was soooo proud of her egg making abilities!   Staci had 23 eggs retrieved today.  All of the follicles had eggs in them.  She’s in a lot of pain still, but doing well.  They put Staci under “twilight sedation” during the procedure.  They went in through the vaginal wall to aspirate the eggs from both ovaries.  She did not anticipate the pain level, the volume of eggs probably was the cause for most of the pain.  To get down to the eggs, the doctor had to apply a lot of pressure on her lower abdomen and sides to reach them.

This afternoon they were going to fertilize the eggs and by tomorrow we should know how many embryos / tiny little babies we have growing.  They are going to call us tomorrow (Sunday) with the results.  They told us not to expect all 23 to fertilize, for one of two reasons.  Either some of the eggs are not mature enough or as in nature, not all eggs fertilize.

They anticipate that our embryo transfer will be on Wednesday, which Dr. Arici will be here to do!   Yippee!

We started the day at the hospital at 8:30 AM today.  Staci waited patiently until 10:05 when she was taken to do the egg retrieval.  At 1:30 PM we left the hospital to get her first progesterone shot and then we spent the remainder of the day resting at the hotel (doctor’s orders).

We hope you are all doing well.  Thank you again for all your prayers.  Staci is very sore, but recovering nicely.