u/CeleryKale

Expected a day 6 email around 5pm. Instead, I got a day 6 call at 11:30 in the morning. As soon as I saw the incoming call, I knew it was going to be bad news.

My clinic doesn't do day 3 or 5 updates, so I have been anxious but hopeful all week. The woman from the lab told me the eggs (6 fertilized) made it to days 3 and 4 and then started to stall out.

I will be talking to my ER about these results this week (he wasn't in office today), and my husband and I are starting supplements to support egg and sperm health. We are planning on pushing out our next stim/retrieval cycle until August in order to give the supplements time to work.

I'm sad but trying to remain hopeful and optimistic. Our insurance covers 2 more egg retrievals. I really want to make sure we are doing everything we can to promote blastocyst development.

I know this isn't super uncommon, I was just really hoping for at least 1 embryo.

In the meantime, I'm just gonna try not to cry every time I see my pregnant coworker and stick to my regime and go to my therapy appointments.

I wish I were feeling 100% after my egg retrieval so I could go for a nice long run to get some of my feelings out, but I can't do that.

Hi guys,

I don't know if this sort of post is allowed but I was curious on if there is a bot that exists/someone can program a reddit bot that replies to threads with a breakdown of what the abbreviations in the thread stand for in the context of ivf.

I know as we go along our journey we use abbreviations more and it can be very confusing for people just starting their journey or who have even been on the ivf ride for awhile and just have never heard of a particular test or procedure.

I don't mean like Dr. or ivf but things like tsh, hsg, fet, er, etc...

If this kind of post is not allowed, my apologies.

I was not sure what flair to use...