Reverence
What a weekend. On Friday we transfered 2 positively gorgeous hatching blastocysts! The embryologist said the “couldn’t look any more perfect.” She also thinks that one of them had two cell masses (more on that in a minute). On Saturday I turned 35. I’m praying my birthday present was implantation! So, here are my beauties with some explanation. First, most people I’ve shown this to says “It looks like it is dividing!” No, it is actually 100s of cells at this point and if you could see it in 3D it is a fluid-filled sphere. The reason...
Read MoreAnd Then There Were Five…
I called the embryology lab today (repeatedly – more on this in a minute) and we had one “really good” blast that was frozen yesterday in addition to our 2 8-cells that were frozen on day 3. I’m so excited that we had another one survive but I’m so torn up about the ones we lost. We had 17 fertilize and of those 5 are still living (if the two inside me are). That’s such a huge loss. Here’s the other thing – I had to call the lab and nag relentlessly to get a status on my embryos because I would “get a letter in two weeks.” I...
Read MoreMeet Our ICSI Pixies
We had two beautiful 8-celled, Grade 3 (4 being perfect) embryos come home today. Above is ICIS Pixie alpha on the left and ICIS Pixie beta on the right. Aren’t they beautiful? The ET was actually an amazing experience. DH was in scrubs with a hair net and mask – he looked adorable! We went in and had ultrasound (abdominal not dildocam) so they could see the uterus (and my crazy-full bladder). Then on another screen they showed us live-feed of our embryos as they put them in the catheter. On the ultrasound we saw the catheter leave the embryos in just the right place in my...
Read MoreComing Home
ET day; 7:33AM – Today my little ones come home. To the place they belong where it is safe and warm. I’m going to have embryos growing inside me! I hope they’ve done well since yesterday and that I will have some snowflake babies for later.
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