Pregnancy testing is done typically two weeks after egg retrieval.

I know from my experience - as a prospective biological mother, not a donor - that egg retrieval is time-consuming and effort-intensive.

For her second go around she would be on a shorter timetable: only a week of injections, followed by egg retrieval.

Over all, there were 158 live births out of 655 egg retrievals - a success rate of 24.1 percent.

Next, you get daily ovary-stimulating hormone injections and are closely monitored for 2 weeks before egg retrieval.

You didn't tell me until Saturday about this egg retrieval today.

Today's egg retrieval was to be her fourth.

What was the use of undergoing the egg retrieval yet again if the failure was so certain?

Now that the egg retrieval was about to begin, her attitude about the procedure had changed from fifteen minutes earlier.

Despite her condition, the couple were still motivated to have a baby, so they continued with the egg retrieval and found a surrogate.