#egg collection

Baby egg, also known as Kenneth Halliwell - Prick Up Your Ears

Angry egg, also known as Mark Rothko - Red

Sassy egg, also know as Arthur Cartwright - Children's Theater Critic

Daddy egg, also known as Harding Hooten - Monday Mornings

So we had an anxious wait until today, when we were back in the clinic to see if they had continued to develop, and they had!

Two of the embryos scored the best quality they could on the 3 categories they assess them on. And the other one wasn’t quite as good, but was still good enough that they were happy to use it in future. That means we had one to transfer, and two to freeze, which is so amazing given PCOS eggs are often worse quality!

We went ahead with embryo transfer this afternoon as planned, so now we just have to wait 9 days until we can test! Trying to not get our hopes up, and to remain as stress free as possible for the next week or so.

Here’s our little blastocyst before transfer. We’re calling it our ‘maybe baby’ :)

Birds Egg Collections by Laura Brownhill.

Drawers handmade by CINEN.

So after the scan on Monday, I had another one on Wednesday, which didn't show very much growth. My left ovary has larger follicles than my right, which just seems to be dragging its' heels.

I wish that they did a trial cycle for my medications, like they did for my wife's. As you can get to this point, and pay all the money, to then find out that you don't respond to the medication for whatever reason. There is some growth, so hopefully that's not going to be the case for us. But I can imagine that's a very frustrating position to be in.

Went back on Friday, and one follicle (which we have christened Big Fat Follicle- BFF) is at 13.5mm, and they want them to be 14mm. So yay for BFF!

I've now started my second injection, which is to prevent me ovulating while the follicles continue to mature. And I am back there on Monday for another scan, so fingers crossed some other follicles have caught up. Basically, it's a game of odds, so the more follicles they can get, the better chance of having good quality ones to fertilise!

Meanwhile, my wife's womb is ready to go ha! So she's just waiting for me to play catch up basically.