Egg Retrieval

So the past few days have been a whirlwind of ups and downs. I ended up having my egg retrieval Friday morning and honestly it wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be. They put me to sleep and it ended up being about a 10-15 minute procedure. I had minimal pain/discomfort that day – which I was really shocked about considering they go in and use a needle to aspirate each follicle in my ovaries! They told us that day that they retrieved 7 eggs total. Not the best number but not the worst either. I went home and rested the entire day and the next morning received the update call around 10am. I found out that out of the 7 only 4 were mature eggs and out of that 3 of them fertilized. Needless to say I was UPSET we only ended up with 3 out of the 7. I cried most of the day because I thought we would be in a better position at this point. My parents came over and that helped ease my pain. It really does help to be surrounded by such wonderful people and most of my friends contacted me throughout the day to see how I was doing. I was dreading the update call on Sunday…I woke up and actually started baking to take my mind off of it. I finally got the call around 12pm that all 3 embryos are growing as they should be!!! I am beyond relieved they are progressing and growing cells. So now we wait until Wednesday when the next update call comes – this will be day 5 and they should be considered blastocysts at this point. At that point we should have a good idea if we can PGS test/freeze all the embryos or not.