Update! Part 2

I called in this morning. Our lovely donor has 10 follies on each side. Some of course will be too small or too big to be of use. But that is a good number which will probably result in about 12 mature (that's my own math). Out of that we will probably get a pretty good fertility rate. I'm hoping for 8. Out of that 8 we might get 5 fighting embies and from there 2 may go in and one or 2 to freeze, perhaps. That's just the crazy mental ramblings of a woman on the edge of her first DE IVF!!!! So crazy: So happy!


Now, when I am not reworking these numbers based on something I hear, or read, then I am thinking about all the things that could go wrong between now and ET. But I try to stay positive. I don't let myself think past ET if I can help it. That would be a very bad thing for me. "In the moment" for me has become just two weeks at a time, in this case just one week left. Whew! Deep breath.

So my not so tentative transfer date will be Monday, the 17th of September at roughly 11:30 am, Pacific Time. I will not be able to stay down for three days as my clinic would like. I will have to go to work. It's a new job and they are very particular about not being there in the first 3 months. Thankfully, I don't do much running around and standing. I sit at my desk, I sit in meetings, I sit in other people's offices, I get up to use the restroom or get a drink. That's it. Since it is a new job there isn't a great deal of stress yet. It's still the honeymoon for another week or so. After my day sitting I will come home and WW will take care of everything, she's not very affectionate but she is a GREAT pamperer...if that's a word.


I should also say that I appreciated hearing different perspectives about the affection connection that couples have, or don't have. I think the power behind my emotions was related to the hormones. But it was good for us to talk about it. Being affectionate is not a natural thing for her, so she doesn't realize when it has diminished. What she asked is that I just let her know and she will "reset herself" like sort of an auto-pilot adjustment she said.