That's what my friend, Miss L (Can I refer to you as Miss L, hon?) said when she called me back this morning after getting my text about the embryo report. Nurse M&M called about an hour ago and said, "I have good news." Good news? What's that? She said that out of the 17 eggs retrieved yesterday 15 of them were mature enough for fertilization and of those 12 of them fertilized normally!! I HAVE TWELVE EMBRYOS!!! My body showed me! I have to go back and check but I'm very sure I didn't even have 12 eggs retrieved when doing the IVF cycle that Aislinn was conceived. TWELVE EMBRYOS!!! Nurse M&M explained that this makes me a good candidate for a day 5 blastocyst transfer, which we wanted, but they wouldn't be able to come in on Tuesday yet. They might call tomorrow but if not then they'd call me back first thing on Sunday morning. Holy cow! 12 EMBRYOS!!! Ok, enough celebrating. I can't let it get to my head. This is good news but it doesn't mean that everything else will turn out the way that we hope, so I'm going to just take it one day at a time.
As for me physically, I was sooooooo unbelievably uncomfortable last night. I felt so bloated and it felt like my belly was distended. The good thing was that I could still pee because I guess when you can't be then you have severe OHSS, but as uncomfortable as it was it was only a sign of mild OHSS. I think it was just gas. I was up all night peeing because I kept drinking Gatorade to make sure that I could still pee. By the time the sun came up I was feeling much better. Now I'm only mildly uncomfortable which actually feels great after what I experienced last night.
Because it was suggested that I sleep on an incline while feeling so horribly bloated I slept on the couch and Aislinn slept with me since she was sick and felt like she was on fire. She woke up at 5 am crying so Howie, who slept in the chair next to us (poor Howie), and I got up and changed her diaper together because she was freaking out about having her soaking wet diaper changed and I didn't want to get kicked in my bloated belly. She then asked for applesauce and water and a popsicle. LOL. After that she snuggled back up with Howie and we all went back to sleep on the couch. She woke up in a good mood, still a bit warm, but happily eating crackers and apple juice. I think she'll be fine tonight and hopefully will sleep in her own room.
