Egg retrieval outcome

So before I forget, I'm just going to blog about what the outcome is after my egg retrieval yesterday.

The doctor just called me a few minutes ago and wow, there's so much information I don't know where to begin. First of all, yesterday, they retrieved 20 eggs, of the 20 eggs 3 were mature. They were hoping for more but at least we got 3. They said more should mature overnight and we will find out tomorrow what the total count was.

There is a number I'm supposed to call after 3:00 this afternoon, however the Dr. called me just a short while ago. I panicked at first but she said everything is OK not to panic. She then proceeded to tell me that of the 20 eggs that they retrieved, 8 were mature. She said they would have liked a few more but that's OK. They fertilized these eggs by ICSI, this is where they inject the sperm right into the egg instead of having them fertilize on there own. Of the 8 they fertilized, 7 are normal and 1 was abnormal, so they had to discard that one. The other eggs that were not quite mature enough, they still tried to fertilize them and they got 2 normal embryos so that takes me to a total of 9 fertilized eggs, now called embryos! They are at one cell right now and they are hoping they keep growing into a healthy Blastocyst. This will decided how many they will transfer into me. They are still thinking only 1 but it's all up in the air right now.

I know it's all confusing huh? For me too. The Dr. said my transfer day will be on day 5, which works out great. Day 5 will be Sunday and she's thinking around 10:30 to 11:00 this will happen but I have to call on Friday to get a definite time for transfer.

Oh and she said the percentage of pregnancy is about 65% with 1 embryo transferred. That's not a bad percentage but they will know more on Sunday, that's when they determine how many they transfer.