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12/22

 Things have felt so busy and crazy it's been hard to update. But I have some time now being on winter break. On 11/29, I got a call from the lab about my egg retrieval results. Ultimately, we got 10 eggs, 7 mature, and 3 fertilized. Only one made it to an embryo, but as a 4CC it was too poor of quality to freeze and biopsy. So, we ended up with zero usable embryos. At these results, I felt devastated. I felt like it's exactly what I was expecting - a failure. This is why I didn't want to share my IVF journey with too many people - you get to this exciting point, and then it's a failure and you have to start all over again. It doesn't feel fair that we've tried so many things and it's still not working. I'm also angry that we couldn't do more and it feels like we're still just wasting time.  Following the results, I had a consultation with my RE. It was hard but she took her time reviewing my information with me. I have a low egg reserve, and the...