Waiting for the Call - Updated

Ahhh, waiting again...will the waiting seriously ever end!?! I'm so close I can taste it, which only makes me all the more nervous to see what all this waiting will end with. But here I am waiting for the call to tell me my embabies are still going strong, and what time my transfer will be tomorrow. And I apologize for the suspense, but they did call on Wednesday the day after this post to tell me all 5 embabies were still doing their thing, and I had been pushed back to a 5 day transfer. Cue tears of joy, you would have thought she just told me I was preggo or something! And thank you as always for all the kind comments, with so many people hoping and praying for my embabies I just feel beyond blessed!!

So I literally didn't want to let this woman off the phone, I wanted her to tell me a million more times that my embabies were okay, and made her assure me over and over they would continue to check and call me if anything changes (duh). Still, I needed her to say it. So also told me now I just had to wait until Friday for the call with my transfer time tomorrow. So now I'm waiting again, I'm dying to know how my embabies are doing.

Its funny because if someone would have told me when we were getting started that the hardest week of IVF would be the week between ER and tranfer, I would have laughed and said why? You're not doing shots (except PIO which really aren't as bad as I was expecting), you aren't all hyped out on drugs, you aren't pumping your ovaries full of follies, you get a bunch of eggs and just bide your time until the transfer. So wrong. So very wrong.

I mean this waiting for embaby updates has been just torturous, truly. And the post retrieval side effects really caught me off guard. Sure they told me to drink Gato.rade which I did at first, but by day 2 I felt fine. Then comes day 3 when it literally feels like I ate 7 thanksgiving dinners and can not make that feeling go away. That night my throbbing ovaries literally woke me up twice. It wasn't super painful, more just freaking the crap out of me...hubby got me some tyl.enol and a heating pad which seemed to help. I was convinced my ovary was twisting (something I read while researching OHSS that day at work when I was having the stomach issues) which can result in actually losing your ovary. This is supposed to be extremely painful and very rare, but hey at 2am I was probably not thinking rationally!! In any case I was convinced I was having OHSS and my transfer would be cancelled.

I went to my clinic yesterday morning for a scan, to which I checked out totally normal. No fluid buildup anywhere (a sign of OHSS), and my ovaries are just super swollen. They're normally 2 cm (is cm right), well the u/s lady said they're normally 2 and right now mine are 8 each. So its kinda like having 3 uteruses in my body, which is putting pressure on my bowels, intestines, stomach...pushing everything up. And gravity is pushing everything down onto my hugely swollen ovaries, which apparently takes a week or two before they shrink back down. So while my internal organs battle for space in my body, I just have to grin and bear it. Really looking forward to the days when I don't have to feel my ovaries on a daily basis, ugh!!

Wow, so this post just got really long...in summary today I'm feeling much better. Ovaries are still a rockin, but stomach pressure is better. And my emotional state will hopefully be better once I get this frickin call! C'mon my little embabies, make mommy proud!!!

***Just got the call from the nurse, transfer is scheduled tomorrow for 10:20am!!! I'm so excited we made it. She didn't have an details on my embabies, just that the lab noted they were still being cultured. Really wanted more info, but one more day will hardly kill me. She did say that typical protocol for a 5 day transfer was to have at least 4 good quality embryos. And she said they definitely would have called if something drastic has changed!! And my Dr. is the one on call tomorrow, so he'll be knocking me up...so to speak! I was wondering if he was going to get through this whole thing without seeing my whooha at least once, hah!!!