Yep…I went with my husbands creepy moniker for the egg retrival..Cue the creepy children of the corn music….

Anyway!  Retrieval was this morning!  All went well.  We arrived about 9 am, were quickly wisked back, and before I knew it I was in looney tune land.  Man, I wish the pre-knockout euphoria phase before being completely knocked out would last just a LITTLE longer.  For me…30 seconds and I am in la la land.  As for the retrieval….drum roll please……8 potentially fertilizable eggs.  I was hoping for at least ten, but all it takes is one!  Since there are 8, they want to maximize the potential of fertilization.  Instead of letting the eggs sit in the dish with the sperm and fertilize, they will actually do a process called ICSI, Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection.  This means they will actually select out the best sperm and inject one into each egg.   Ahhhh science….

I am definitely in more pain than I was expecting.  The cramping was so severe that I started seeing stars and had to be taken to the clinic.  They performed another ultrasound to make sure it wasn’t that dreaded hyperstimulation syndrome, but all looked well.  The doctor stated he had to do the procedure a little differently, and had to go to through the bladder to get to the eggs in the left ovary.  So my bladder got poked with a big ol’ needle, which is most likely why I am experiencing so much cramping. After a few hours of lying perfectly still,  I am starting to feel better.

Now we wait for our fertilization report either tomorrow afternoon or Thursday morning.  They will let us know how things are progressing and if they recommend transferring them back into me @ 3 days or 5 days post retrieval (Friday or Sunday).  Keep your fingers and toes crossed that these little guys keep chugging right along!