Haha Just Kidding!
What an amazing Fertility Report we got this morning! Out of the 21 good retrieved eggs, they were able to fertilize 18! We now have 18 embryos to work with! :) :) :) They decided to immediately freeze 9 and keep 9 out. We're hoping atleast 2 of those 9 will make it to the 5 day blastocyst stage. This would mean Embryo transfer would be on Friday and I'm guessing they will freeze whatever's left. The odds are in our favor big time! There's still a lot of room for error but it is comforting to know we have so many chances to get it right.
I'm still feeling crummy. I think today is worse than yesterday. I went to work and although my co-workers were great about covering my programs and helping me out, I probably could have used the day to veg out at home. It's hard to describe the pain. It's more of a discomfort. I feel like a giant water balloon. So full that my lungs hurt when I take a deep breath and that my stomach has no room for me to put food in it. Although I did manage to eat a Chicken Quesadilla at the Mexican place today for lunch! Nothing will stand between me and some chips & salsa!
Where do we go from here? I'm continuing on the 2 different antibiotics as well as the progesterone twice a day. We're waiting for a call from my doctor on Wed. morning. The lab will look at our embryos and let us know if ET will be Wed. or Fri.
What's the difference between a 3 day transfer and a 5 day transfer? When a woman gets pregnant naturally it takes a few days for the embryo to travel through the fallopian tubes to the uterus. At the 3 day mark the embryo is still in the fallopian tube and is not developmentally ready to attach to the uterine wall lining. The progesterone I'm on right now is helping to increase that wall lining. So, at the 5 day mark the embryo has naturally made its way into the uterus and has gone through enough cell divisions that it is ready to attach to the lining. The thought being that a transfered 5 day embryo has a better chance of attaching.
Till Wednesday!
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