My Baby Momma

If everything goes as planned, our donor will start stimulating tomorrow! Shwing! She should stimulate for about 12 days and her tentative retrieval date is set for April 30. It is at that time when we will get half of however many eggs are retrieved and they will be fertilized with Andy's sperm via ICSI. The other half will go to the couple we are splitting the cycle with. The embryos should divide and grow over the course of 3-5 days, then two of the best ones will be transferred to my uterus on either May 3 or May 5. If any embryos survive 5 days past fertilization they can be frozen for future use.

The donor will have to go to our clinic every 2-3 days during the stimulation phase so that they can check her follicle count, size, and hormone levels. They will adjust her medications as needed, and when the follicles reach a certain size she will give herself a HCG trigger injection and go in for the retrieval ~48 hours later. I am so glad that I don't have to do this again!!! The only thing that scares me is the loss of control over everything. Having to depend on her to do the medications correctly and at the right times is bringing out the OCD in me. I find myself wondering, is she taking care of herself? Did she forget to do her injection this morning? I am going to have to set all of these fears aside and put it all in God's hands!

She is supposed to have a baseline ultrasound tomorrow, and they will give her the go-ahead to begin stims if all is well. My nurse should call me with updates after each ultrasound to give me reports. This is REAL y'all! So excited!

In case anyone is interested, I found this cool video that explains all of the aspects of an IVF retrieval/transfer. It even shows how they do ICSI and assisted hatching. It's long, but pretty cool! So, if any of my lingo is confusing you...refer to this video! Again, thank you all for your support. I will be in touch:)