It's Go Time

Had my baseline ultrasound on Thursday and I have 15 follicles already growing and he thinks we will have at least 20+ eggs by retrieval. He told me he absolutely loves my young ovaries and how well my body seems to respond to all of this. I just like that everything has gone rather smoothly so far and we are still moving forward.

We had a nice discussion at my appointment this week about pain relief and embryos. He's advising me to take Tylenol every day to keep from being in pain. He thinks the stress from the pain would be worse for my body than the actual medication. He said I will be very uncomfortable by retrieval and he doesn't see any need for me to just suffer through it. I can take 2 Tylenol every 6 hours as needed. If I'm still in any pain (not just discomfort from bloating) I have to call them immediately. Apparently, my left ovary is slightly attached to my uterus (endometriosis throughout the years) so he's worried about having too much pressure on that ovary and it pushing into my uterus. I'll be doing even more ultrasounds than normal because of this. Yay. I also talked to him a lot about how many embryos I feel comfortable with putting in. We agreed that if we have 1 excellent quality embryo then we will only put back 1 excellent. I would put back an excellent and then a lower grade embryo if we chose to put back 2. He was telling me about a patient that recently put back 2 excellent and 1 split so she is expecting triplets. I told him I do not want to end up in that situation if at all possible. I would rather have a singleton pregnancy just simply because I have to think about the children I already have. Being on bed rest for several weeks, being in the hospital longer, having NICU babies, bringing 2 babies home and needing help, and just taking care of 2 babies would affect my children's lives a lot. Having 1 baby that I could carry to term, bring home from the hospital, and take care of by myself would be much easier. Not to mention the financial part of having twins. The hospital bills, buying 2 of everything, 2 in diapers, supplementing with formula because breastfeeding twins is difficult… It just seems like a lot. If we put back 2 and they both took then we would be thrilled and make it work, but I told him I don't want to put back more than 2 for any reason. Even if they weren't good quality. If we put in 2 and one split then it's because someone bigger than me had that in His plans. I just don't want to be the one to put myself in that position. We have a plan for what grade and quality embryos we will freeze or put back and he will make recommendations based on that. He and the embryologist know where I stand on it and they will take all of that into account and do whatever they can to avoid a high multiples pregnancy. I told him I would rather it just not work than to lose 3 babies late into the pregnancy because I couldn't carry them to term. I also don't want to put that burden on the 2 children I already have. That's just too much for them to have to deal with. We won't know for sure until transfer, but I feel like we have a good plan.