The waiting game has ended!
I have done a lot of resting
and recouping this week. I knew I’d hurt, but I didn’t know I would hurt this
much and for this long. Not going to lie – I have been going stir crazy stuck
in the house, but every time I try to go somewhere my body reminds me that I
hurt and I don’t have the energy, so I need to chill out. Thankfully, every day
I feel better and I will be 100% soon.
The doctors called on Monday
night to let us know that out of the 31 eggs retrieved 27 of them were able to
get fertilized. AWESOME!! We were very excited about that news.
Day 3 (Wednesday) after the
egg retrieval the doctors check the embryos to see how they are growing and
give them a score of poor, fair, good, or excellent. All 27 of the embryos
survived and got ratings between fair and good.
On day 5 (Friday) the embryos
are checked again. If they have grown into blastocysts, meaning that the embryo
has matured and the cells are getting too big and they being to hatch out of
its outer shell, then they can be frozen or transferred (aka- implanted back
into the women’s uterus). If an embryo isn’t matured enough on day 5 to freeze,
the embryologist will grow them to day 6. If the embryo grows well enough it
will be frozen, if not, it will be discarded.
In our case we will be
freezing all of them that we can. When we are able to, according to my body, we
will thaw some embryos out and transfer them back into me. The earliest we
would be able to do this is near the end of July. All the other frozen embryos
will stay frozen until we decide to try again. So most likely I will never have
to do the egg retrieval part of IVF again! Yay! That is happy news to us
because we feel like the retrieval is the roughest part.
Our nurse called us Friday
afternoon and told us that 12 embryos were able to be frozen! That is good news
to hear! She also told us that they will keep growing the rest of the embryos
and see if any more can get frozen on day 6.
Saturday morning we got a
call saying that they were able to freeze 4 more embryos. 16 total frozen
embryos! That is great news (okay, okay I do wish that we were able to freeze
all 27 of the embryos, but we can be happy with this). Also, all but one of
them were Grade A or B. Last year the two embryos that we put in me were only
Grade C. So this time we’ve got good, strong embryos.
Daniel and I want to do a
frozen transfer as soon as we can. We will start doing ultrasounds and blood
work around the 4th of July. I am already on meds, but will be
adding a few more as the month progresses. Then we will plan on a transfer for
late July.
We will still occasionally do
updates, but there really won’t be too much to tell until we are ready to
transfer. Thank you again for your love! We are amazed at the money you raised
for us; what a huge blessing! Thank you!
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