Pick Up

8 eggs.

5 mature, 2 hoping to catch up and 1 immature.

We’re delighted.

Now we’re waiting on the fertilisation report. We’ll be doing a transfer on Wednesday.

Star was amazing.

I was initially upset, because Star and I had thought that I'd be able to go into the theatre with her, but she was having a general anaesthetic (and had apparently signed a consent form), so Mr. S. and I were told to come back in a couple of hours.

When we were called in to see her post-collection she looked great. She'd had a little nausea but had been given something that fixed it straight away. She said she didn't know what they gave her in her anaesthesia, but woke up feeling so happy and thinking about her baby and partner.

Also, apparently when she met the anaesthetist he'd said 'hmmm you're young for IVF', and so she'd been able to say 'I'm a donor!' Everyone was apparently lovely to her, so I'm relieved about that.

We spent the rest of the day together. She had a snooze at our place then we got some lunch. After that she seemed to have her energy back and we went Christmas shopping. Last night we went out and had a Thai dinner. Mr. S. dropped her at the airport this morning.



Goodness, just as I was about to press 'publish' the scientist rang with our results:

Report: 1 caught up (wow) - 6 for fertilisation - all 6 fertilised!!

Transfer tomorrow at 7.30am.

Oh my goodness, the highs and lows of this journey - I'm so excited. I caught Star at the airport as she was boarding - she's ecstatic too.