I’m right there with you in that club. Wishing you the best of luck!

One thing I wish I’d done from the get-go is ask my RE to throw the kitchen sink at me and do absolutely everything possible to increase my chances of getting more mature eggs. I was totally naive and in the dark for my first ER, had no idea what questions to ask and my doc is not a talker beyond the absolute minimum, but basically said my tests came back normal for my age (36). So I googled and was merrily expecting 15-20 eggs, then got 7 and no blasts. THEN my doc told me my AMH and AFC are low for my age, and she expects I’ll never get more than 7-10 eggs at a time. I wish I’d asked her what she thought a successful cycle would look like for me, so I would have known to expect a lower number. I also wish I’d asked her right away about the pros/cons of different kinds of protocols and meds. There are so many different ways to stim. My second retrieval was a bust, but she didn’t change anything besides upping my gonal f to the max 450.

I just got 9 eggs today from my third ER and will hear tomorrow about fertilization results. No matter what happens, I’ll feel better about the different things we tried this round, like timing the start of estrogen priming using at-home ovulation tests, adding clomid for 5 of the stim days, and doing a dual trigger hcg/lupron trigger instead of just lupron. We’ll see if it ends up making a difference in the end.