I am currently going through the egg retrieval portion of IVF. This means that the fertility doctors and staff members get to see my vagina and take an ultrasound measurement of my eggs multiple times throughout the week. On Friday afternoon, while performing a vaginal ultrasound on me, the doctor yawned. I asked her if my vagina was boring her. She indicated that she too has kids, and that I should be able to relate to her fatigue. In some ways, yes, that is true. But I actually take that as a sign that my vagina is getting super old and is no longer exciting to ANYONE...even those that see multiple vaginas throughout their workday. That was a sad day for me. I guess we'll find out this week if my eggs are old, shriveled up shells of their young selves that have gone to a better place. Either that, or after the egg retrieval they will be in the Petri dish solution and when the embryologist looks through the microscope to grade them she will find them all yelling, "No!! Do not let us reproduce!! Run!!!!!!"
Oh! And before I forget...did you know that embryologists and fertility docs are the actual people who came up with the smiley face emojis? Yep. It wasn't some 4 year old in Silicon Valley. It was the docs and embryologists who pulled the idea from their daily routine looking at a bunch of eggs on the ultrasound machine. Let me show you. Here is a pic of my eggs from the ultrasound this past week...
I wonder which of these eggs will make a good embryo, and therefore a baby as incredible as Sawyer.
See what I mean?