First of all thank you all for my birthday wishes, it certainly was a different way to celebrate turning 33!! Mark of course bought me some beautiful roses for my b'day, he's a good boy.
So egg retrieval went well, we got the hospital at 6.30am, it was a sleepless night for me contemplating what will be, but of course for Mark nothing keeps him from his sleep, so I was shown to my room and all the usual question and pre-op stuff done, blood pressure, heart rate all of which were perfect, then came to the gown, it was red checks!! I have included a before and after photo for you all. One thing I found odd is they don't put a hospital name band on you, weird I know.
At around 7am, I was taken to the IVF lab (which is in the basement) then we waited for the anaesthetist and Dr Shivani to get there then i was taken into the OR, connected to the monitors and IV put in, which bloody hurt!! It was a very strange experience with no-one speaking english. Dr Shivani came in and explained the procedure and then I was put into la la land, next thing I knew they were asking me to move onto another gurney.
It took about whole thing 45mins from going to sleep to waking up, in that time Mark was called for his part and by the time I was back in the room they embryologist had begin the task of fertilising my eggs.
So, how many eggs did they retrieve, well even though I had 7 follicles only 3 of them contained eggs. It was very disappointing but not much we could do only hope and pray that they all fertilised. Dr Shivani re-iterated to us again that it is not quantity but quality that counts.
So that was yesterday, now for today's update, woke feeling ok, very sore and the pain killers they gave me I can't take cause they make me sick, they did give some anti-inflammatories which have a muscle relaxant in them and that has been doing the job.
So we waited most of day, checking my emails for news of if the eggs fertilized and did they progress into good quality embryos, well finally around 2pm we received word that 2 out of 3 fertilised and that Dr Shivani would talk to us when we went into the SCI office to sign contracts and meet our surrogate, more waiting!!
Well we have just come back from contract signing and meeting "G" and her husband, they are both very sweet and shy but don't speak a word of english, we had a translator but it was still a short introduction. We then spoke with Dr S and she told us that our 2 embryos were great quality but the other one wasn't mature enough and failed to fertilise and that she had not long transferred them into "G". The embryologist said that they were dividing well and ready to go so why wait. Dr S also said the "G" had asked her a lot of questions about what she should and shouldn't do and is also very excited to be hopefully carrying our baby/ies.
So now we wait, again with the waiting, in the fertility world this period is aptly named the 2 week wait or 2WW for short, so in 2 weeks we will received conformation via a blood test to see if the embryos have implanted and then 4 weeks after that if the blood test is positive "G" will have an u/s to see if both implanted or just one.
We have enjoyed our stay in Delhi and hope the next time we come back it will be to pick up our baby/ies, we leave on Saturday night and get back into Perth on Sunday arvo, we are definitely ready to come home, not looking forward to the heat though.
So egg retrieval went well, we got the hospital at 6.30am, it was a sleepless night for me contemplating what will be, but of course for Mark nothing keeps him from his sleep, so I was shown to my room and all the usual question and pre-op stuff done, blood pressure, heart rate all of which were perfect, then came to the gown, it was red checks!! I have included a before and after photo for you all. One thing I found odd is they don't put a hospital name band on you, weird I know.
At around 7am, I was taken to the IVF lab (which is in the basement) then we waited for the anaesthetist and Dr Shivani to get there then i was taken into the OR, connected to the monitors and IV put in, which bloody hurt!! It was a very strange experience with no-one speaking english. Dr Shivani came in and explained the procedure and then I was put into la la land, next thing I knew they were asking me to move onto another gurney.
It took about whole thing 45mins from going to sleep to waking up, in that time Mark was called for his part and by the time I was back in the room they embryologist had begin the task of fertilising my eggs.
So, how many eggs did they retrieve, well even though I had 7 follicles only 3 of them contained eggs. It was very disappointing but not much we could do only hope and pray that they all fertilised. Dr Shivani re-iterated to us again that it is not quantity but quality that counts.
So that was yesterday, now for today's update, woke feeling ok, very sore and the pain killers they gave me I can't take cause they make me sick, they did give some anti-inflammatories which have a muscle relaxant in them and that has been doing the job.
So we waited most of day, checking my emails for news of if the eggs fertilized and did they progress into good quality embryos, well finally around 2pm we received word that 2 out of 3 fertilised and that Dr Shivani would talk to us when we went into the SCI office to sign contracts and meet our surrogate, more waiting!!
Well we have just come back from contract signing and meeting "G" and her husband, they are both very sweet and shy but don't speak a word of english, we had a translator but it was still a short introduction. We then spoke with Dr S and she told us that our 2 embryos were great quality but the other one wasn't mature enough and failed to fertilise and that she had not long transferred them into "G". The embryologist said that they were dividing well and ready to go so why wait. Dr S also said the "G" had asked her a lot of questions about what she should and shouldn't do and is also very excited to be hopefully carrying our baby/ies.
So now we wait, again with the waiting, in the fertility world this period is aptly named the 2 week wait or 2WW for short, so in 2 weeks we will received conformation via a blood test to see if the embryos have implanted and then 4 weeks after that if the blood test is positive "G" will have an u/s to see if both implanted or just one.
We have enjoyed our stay in Delhi and hope the next time we come back it will be to pick up our baby/ies, we leave on Saturday night and get back into Perth on Sunday arvo, we are definitely ready to come home, not looking forward to the heat though.
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| My birthday flowers |
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| Before surgery |
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| After surgery |
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