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I realized tonight that I forgot to come back after last month's cancelled cycle! I started my cycle a week ago (7/18) and my baseline was the next day. The hemorrhagic cyst that was on my left ovary is still there but about half the size as it was last month. The nurse was optimistic that they would ignore it and let me continue with this cycle and thankfully they have!

Today was day 6 of stimming and I had an US this morning to see what's happening, I have 23 < 10mm (15 on my L and 8 on my R) and 6 10-13mm (3 on each) so things are coming along nicely so far!

Thankfully my cycle started when it did because otherwise hubs would be in a different state when I have my retrieval (if this cycle is like my last, my ER will probably be on Wed) because he's going out of town for a business trip the entire first week of August!

@yellowbeach: good luck today!!

@yellowbeach: awesome!! Are you doing icsi?

@yellowbeach: Wished you good luck earlier this morning (on the POAS board) but I figured that you'd look here 1st, sooooo, once again: Good Luck!

@yellowbeach: Ooops, I missed seeing that. 🤦‍♀️ Anyway: Yaaaay! That is fan-tab-u-lous news! Keeping my fingers and toes crossed for an excellent fert report! 🤞

@yellowbeach: are they concerned with the progress so far? Or is that just a general plan that they make with patients?

@yellowbeach: I will do! Had and US yesterday and bloodwork today (kinda annoying to drive 1.5 hours total for a blood draw but that’s beside the point). I have another US in the morning and unless something changes, I’ll be triggering tomorrow night and do the retrieval on Wednesday!

@yellowbeach: lurking on this thread and wanted to chime in about 3 day transfers. With DS1 we did a 3 day transfer which was, obviously, successful. I recall we had 9 retrieved, 5 fertilized and ended up with 2 great quality embryos, one average. We transferred 2 and ended up with DS1. I believe in our case it was because we only really had 3 that were doing well (2 had arrested) so they make that call to do the transfer just in case. Maybe if we had higher numbers they would have chanced it another day or so. Our stimulation protocols with both our IVF’s were very conservative so we didn’t have high numbers retrieved. It’s also standard protocol to offer both at our clinic so it was explained throughly to us before treatment that it was a possibility.

Weirdly enough, with our second successful cycle with DS2 we had almost identical numbers but we did a day 5 transfer and had one transferred and one frozen. The leftover one from DS1 was not frozen as it also arrested.

I remember with DS1 I was stressssssed when we got the call to do a 3 day and it felt like a race to get them transferred in case they stopped developing and we ended up with nothing. I remember sitting in the office in our scrubs almost having a panic attack waiting for the RE to give us the report before we did the transfer, but it ended up being good news. I think it’s great that they can do a 3 or a 5 and then those embies can get back to where they need to be and grow grow grow! All the luck to you

@Sams Mom: funny, I’ve read the opposite that frozen 5 days are more likely to split lol.

@yellowbeach: wow, that’s great! I have no idea what the report means, but seems good!