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Amazing news Sandy, Turkey and Sekky! WOOHOO!
Turkey, they usually look at fragmentation as the fertilized eggs split and grow, and that is how clearly you can see each cell, the more fragmented they are the less clear the different cells are. At this stage they look like a flower with a center area and cells for each of the petals (the kind we used to draw when kids). You should be able to look up what an 8-cell embryo should look like online, I've seen pictures of them before!!
AFM.. Well I tried the advanced CBE OPK to see if I was ovulating, and when. I wanted to know if my body still had it! Well it does!! I started getting flashing smileys on Sunday, and they continued until yesterday, well this morning I got the solid smiley. For those of you not familiar with this OPK, it not only tests your LH but your estrogen, so it starts to blink when your estrogen is rising so you know that your LH surge will come soon. Then once you get the surge it turns solid to say you are surging. So YAY! I'm ovulating, and I should get AF right when I thought I would, which is Sept 19th. Then we'll get day 3 bloods, and start BCP. Can't wait to get started, Oct 7th is a long way away, and that is when I start Lupron.
Turkey, they usually look at fragmentation as the fertilized eggs split and grow, and that is how clearly you can see each cell, the more fragmented they are the less clear the different cells are. At this stage they look like a flower with a center area and cells for each of the petals (the kind we used to draw when kids). You should be able to look up what an 8-cell embryo should look like online, I've seen pictures of them before!!
AFM.. Well I tried the advanced CBE OPK to see if I was ovulating, and when. I wanted to know if my body still had it! Well it does!! I started getting flashing smileys on Sunday, and they continued until yesterday, well this morning I got the solid smiley. For those of you not familiar with this OPK, it not only tests your LH but your estrogen, so it starts to blink when your estrogen is rising so you know that your LH surge will come soon. Then once you get the surge it turns solid to say you are surging. So YAY! I'm ovulating, and I should get AF right when I thought I would, which is Sept 19th. Then we'll get day 3 bloods, and start BCP. Can't wait to get started, Oct 7th is a long way away, and that is when I start Lupron.
xx
It went from 3.6 to 8.2, different labs though. I'm having them retest my AMH with the original lab as I can't believe that my AMH is going up! I do have mild PCOS and maybe that has caused it to rise? My FS put me on metformin so hopefully that will combat the PCOS. We did an antral follicle count back in July before I went to Canada and he said I'm not even going to count, you have plenty, I could see all the little black dots too! So I'm not in need of the lupron flare, that is usually used for women that have DOR. The long lupron protocol is used for women like me who have PCOS, it also helps to get the follicles growing at the same rate. That was the issue with my first IVF, we did the stims with ganirelix and my follicles were all over the place in size and we probably didn't get as many mature eggs as we should have due to that. So by down regging with the BCP and lupron, it helps to get more even growth out of the follicles. 
Also just had another acupuncture before monday and really enjoying it and feeling totally relaxed and positive about this cycle 
that's so much follie Sandy. Goodluck for this cycle.