At my appointment yesterday, Sunday 4/17 I found out that a few of my eggs had grown 3mm overnight!! This is pretty incredible growth. Usually they hope for 1mm a day. So they told me I could have my retrieval a day early, on Wednesday.

Because of the outcome I had last retrieval (9 eggs retrieved, 8 fertilized, 5 made it to blastocyst, biopsy, and frozen, then only 1 was a normal, healthy embryo) I was hoping for high numbers this time. As of today, 4/18, I have 14 eggs, 6 are mature currently, and 4 could potentially be mature by Thursday. I really want double digits this time to help increase the chances of a higher amount of healthy embryos. So I was a little disappointed my eggs wouldn’t have another day of growth to potentially get more.

Well today, I spoke to my nurse and she was able to convince my doctor to wait until Thursday in the hopes the smaller eggs would grow to over 16mm by Thursday. So here’s to hoping and growing eggs!

Again, I’m still not as uncomfortable as I was the first go around. I’m just having a lot more headaches and stomach problems. Everything from diarrhea to indigestion and nausea. Today I don’t have an appetite. I ate a turkey sandwich at lunch and have felt nauseous since. These are all completely new reactions as I had none of this the first stimulation. HGH is new this stim so maybe those side effects are contributed to this? Although all of the meds have some of the side effects so my body could just be responding differently.  Whatever the case, I don’t like it, but it could always be worse, right?