Sean

We got a call this morning (about an hour earlier than the earliest we expected to hear) from the lab to let us know the fertilization report. Of the 11 eggs they retrieved yesterday, 7 were mature. Of the 7 mature eggs, ALL 7 FERTILIZED!!! 🙂 We were ecstatic to hear the news! We know […]

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To quote one of my favorite musicals Les Miserables, we have “one day more” until our aspiration/egg retrieval (ER)! The trigger shot went well last night. It took me a little while to get the needle in, as it didn’t slide in effortlessly as the Follistim pen ones had and hurt a bit when I […]

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These are highlights from notes I have kept or posts I have made in some of my online “buddy groups” since we began this 1st IVF cycle. From here on out I will make separate posts as I have updates to share: Monday, February 26 at 9:24 p.m. We had our follow-up w/ our RE […]

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Though I am sure most of you already know this… I just wanted to give a little background to our trying to conceive (TTC) story. Bob and I met in college at the University of Illinois through mutual friends on September 2, 1996. We started dating a month later and got engaged on March 15, […]

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