Denver egg retrieval

We are retrieved! We are so relieved!

And the process wasn't bad at all. It was such a more humane experience than our NYC clinic - Will kept remarking that the stress of it all is so much less here, and I agree. Maybe that is part of Denver's secret to awesome stats. Everything from the facility itself to the people to the procedures was just orderly, calm, friendly. Didn't have to fight for pain control. Didn't feel like just a number. Seriously. So nice to do IVF this way. We haven't known what we've been missing.

And most importantly, we are very happy with the yield:

Nineteen. Ooh yeah, baby!!!!! Can you believe it? Hard for me to, honestly.

Probably not all mature, but an incredible number to start with. Not too shabby for 38 year old post-chemotherapy ovaries, if I say so myself!

The head embryologist came out and talked to us (!) and let us know he will be in touch with us as the process continues. We have six embryos at the New York City clinic, frozen at the 2pn stage that we are going to have join the cohort out here. They will be ICSI'ing this latest bunch o' oocytes and then culturing to blast and doing FISH as well as microarray to look for polyploidy and aneuploidy. I'll write more about this later. For now back to bed. To dream some very relieved dreams.

Here's hoping we get a good fert report tomorrow.

Thanks for all of the support and well wishes!

Mo