YAY NO MORE STIM SHOTS! Based on the results from the ultrasounds over the last several days, today we only take the hcg shot, which means that exactly 36 hours after the shot is the egg retrieval. We are told to take the shot at 11 pm and tomorrow will be a shot free day!
I have to admit until I got knee deep in all of this infertility stuff I was very ignorant of the process and what all it involved. So just in case some of you are less familiar with it, I thought maybe I should give a quick explanation of the process. Basically the female takes birth control pills in the beginning to shut her body down so that the doctors can control what your body does with the stimulation shots. Then she takes stim shots for a certain pre-determined time frame (I took them for 8 days). The stim shots make your body produce eggs so that you will have a better chance of getting several eggs from the retrieval. They also have several not so fun side effects. Once the eggs (follicles) grow to the desired size as monitored daily on ultrasounds, then she takes an hcg shot to make her body release the eggs exactly 36 hours later. The egg retrieval takes place by surgical means. The eggs that are determined to be mature are then fertilized in the lab. They are now embryos, and they are allowed to grow for 5 days before being transferred back into the female. Then several days later they do a blood pregnancy test to determine if any of the embryos that were transferred implanted into the uterus, which would result in being pregnant.
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