Fertilization Report

My IVF retrieval was yesterday. I was told that 14 mature eggs were retrieved. The retrieval took about 20 minutes. I did experience some cramping and a sore bottom.

This morning I received a call from the embryologist who told me that 11 eggs fertilized. I'm so over-emotional that I cried tears of joy. My husband couldn't understand why I was crying when I called him with the news, and he was afraid that the embryologist had said something that upset me. I had a difficult time convincing him that things were in fact fine.

The embryologist will call me with another update in the morning. I suppose I will hear how the embryos are graded then. The poor things! They are so tiny and they are already being submitted to their first test.