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well where to begin.......... IVF I still dont know what to think as I write IVF, I thought it was the answer to our prayers, I thought it would work for sure.  After 3 weeks of needles full of hormones(up to 6 shots a day), daily ultrasounds and blood work we completed our stimulation part of IVF.  On August 12th I went in for my egg retrieval, oh boy what a procedure that was.  Let me back up, the day before I was told that I could not eat yes thats right no eating for almost 24hrs and "flush" myself out with nasty magnesium citrate which equaled lots of time spent on the toilet. So back to the egg retrieval...... upstairs in the surgery room I was told to undress from the waist down and put one of the super cute hospital gowns on, the anesthesia lady came in to look at my throat to ensure it was open enough incase I needed to be intibated(thankfully I didnt), next it was into the super sterile room with huge lights on the ceiling and a fun looking bed/table right in the middle.  In the room thankfully was one of the nurses Dana whom I love she put my nerves at ease as I was hooked up to oxygen and heart rate monitors, next was the dreaded IV(have I told you how much I hate needles) I honestly only felt a little prick in my hand and it was over!!!!!  The nice anesthesia lady told be to take deep breaths and relax, ya sure lady, I remember Dana strapping my legs into the stirrups and then boom nothing.........I woke up in the recovery room with my wonderful nurse Julie right next to me telling me how well I did, YAY!  20 eggs, yes thats right 20 eggs holy moly no wonder why I was so uncomfortable and couldnt hardly move sheesh.  Next it was get dressed and meet Dr. K downstairs in the office, hmm im not sure I liked the sound of that, well it turns out that I had a wonderful ER but I was overstimulated, YIKES.  Turns out that it was good/bad news, bad news because my poor abdomen looked like I was 8 months pregnant and I was in a lot of pain.  Over the next couple days I took it easy which was much needed after the ER.  Every day the wonderful Vince(embryologist extraordinaire) called us to let us know how the embies where growing......... 18 out of 20 eggs fertilized and all 14 of those made it to 5 day blastocyts which is the best quality!!  YAY!  We chose to transfer 2 of those snowbabies... I will write about that part in a couple days