Doc Appointment and IVF Orientation

Well, I had another doctor's appointment today. He did a sonogram, and measured my uteris/mock transfer today (the 2nd part, he didn't tell me beforehand that he was doing it, but they measure your uteris, so the day of transfer, it is much easier, apparently). It was very painless, and everything checked out just fine.

After the sono, I chatted with my IVF nurse. She is really cool. I talked with her for an hour, and she explained everything. My whole schedule was given to me (when to take what meds when), when to come back in for the doc appointment, and labs, etc. I had to keep stopping the nurse, and asking her to explain in "people terms", as she was going really fast and using a lot of fertility jargon that I'd never heard before. But she was really nice, and showed me how to give a shot, and we even got to waste a whole pen of the superovulation drugs (which costs about 1k per pen) - It was fun!!!

A little later after that, I picked up DH, and we went to IVF Orientation. I took a lot of notes. Most things I already knew from reading, and I learned some new things. The biggest take home items from this Orientation are as follows:

• 10-12 eggs during retrieval is average
• In those 10-12, it is average to have 1-2 children from that
• For under 35 age range, the success rate (live baby) is 70% (Holy crap, that went up 10% from 2005).
• For under 35 age range, they typically transfer 1-2, and if they think 1 will stick, they give the couple an option to do only 1, and freeze the rest. We are still talking about how many we want to do.