Part I – My IVF Journey – The Beginning
Part II – My IVF Journey – Egg Retrieval

I was home bound for two weeks as you all know. It was boring to stay all day everyday at home. I thought to myself, “ Now I know how it is to be on house arrest.”

Some of the things you can do too if you are on house arrest, I mean on a bed rest :

1. You can do some interior design planning or if you are expecting a baby you can plan for his/her room already.

2. You can also busy yourself in organizing photo albums.

3. You might have bought books you still have not found time to read yet, so this is a great opportunity to catch up on your reading.

Just take it easy!

Part I – My IVF Journey – The Beginning
Part II – My IVF Journey – Egg Retrieval

[All this happened on July 4, I am just retelling my experience for the sake of the ones who will be going through IVF as well and of course so that you get to know what I went through I am already pregnant:)!]

Embryo transfer occurs normally after 3 or 5 days of the egg retrieval. In my case it was three days after. Now today is a really important day as well. As I told you on my Egg Retrieval post, I mentioned that I had 27 eggs. They were joined by my husband’s sperms and only 20 have fertilized – it is still a pretty good number. 2 of them were not of good quality, 2 embryos will be transferred in me.

We arrived in the hospital thinking it would only take half an hour or so. But that is not the case. This is one of the thing I didn’t like about my fertility clinic, they did not explain well that it would take the whole day.

When I arrived at the OR, my doctor showed me the pictures of my embryos and these are my two babies that they have put back inside me.

Oh by the way if you are doing this make sure that you have a full bladder. This is another thing they didn’t really explain well to me. Before they do the operation, they will be doing a scan to see the uterus and they can only see this if you have a full bladder. I peed before I went to the operation because I didn’t know – well they had to pump me with water via a catheter – not really a comfortable experience!

It had to be done. When they were already able to see the uterus, they went on putting the embryos to me. It didn’t really take long.

So after the transfer, I had to lay for four hours and there’s no going to the bathroom. If you have to pee, you would have to do it on the bedpan.

I was dischared after the 4 hours rest. From this day on I would need to be on bed rest for 2 weeks.

UPDATE: 5/9/11 My IVF journey was successful and I am now a proud momma of Sean Charles. He’s now 5 months old.

I couldn’t wait for the pregnancy result on Tuesday to start telling you my story, so here it goes …

Photo: Herdaily

After being married for more than 6 years, my husband and I decided we are now ready to have children. After trying for several months with no results, we decided to consult a doctor to do some tests. My husband had already children in the past so I wanted to know if there’s maybe something wrong with me. The result came and it showed that I am fertile.

A month ago I have started my IVF Treatment. Yes this is why I haven’t been very active lately on the blogosphere. I tried not to work or be online too much to avoid stressing myself.

Remember my post about the cost of IVF in Singapore and around the world on my other blog? After some thorough thinking, we have decided to finally do it. Doing IVF means having daily injections.

Week 1

6/08/09 – The official start of my IVF / ICSI Journey is on the 21st day of my last period. We went to the Fertility Clinic to pick up the meds and learn from the nurse on how to administer it on my own. I’ll tell you I was scared shitless at this time. I was thinking, how would I remember everything she’s telling me. Good thing that I brought my hubby along as he served as my extra ear.

The nurse asked if my hubby wanted to do it and he did it with the assistance of the nurse. As I child, I have always been afraid of needles. I was so nervous and thought I would pass out or something but it was NOT painful at all! Remember when they say it’s just like an ant bite, it true.

06/09/09- At home,we are on our own. I decided to do it myself as my hubby will be traveling on business trip in a few weeks so I wanted to make sure I can do it. To tell you the truth, I hardly breath while I was doing it which is not good because this might cause me to faint.

06/10/09 – I was getting used to giving myself injections and was also already learning how to breath while doing it. I am almost like a pro in injections.

The meds needs to be injected at the same time of the day, so if you inject it at 9 am then you should continue injecting yourself at 9 am at the coming days at the same time. I continue taking the same amount of meds till the day of my period.

On the day of my period, I need to take an additional med.

And then on the fifth day of my period we start checking if there are follicles already. This can be seen with a scan. Every couple of days I would go to the doctor to do this. The picture below is one from Day 8 of my period. The follicles are bigger now and you can see them better. In this scan I have follicles from 11- 14 mm in size.

To be continued…
Part II – My IVF Journey – Egg Retrieval
Part III – My IVF Journey – Embryo Transfer
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