No turning back now!!!

 

 

It is done the transfer is complete!!!!!!! We met with the doctor this morning before the procedure to go over how well our embryos are doing. We did not get great new but good news. One of our embryos has stopped dividing, it is still at 7 cell, so that one is out of the running. The other one is still dividing but it is at 12 cells. They said that they are going to keep it in the petri dish till tomorrow (day 6). If it improves in quality they may freeze it, but chances are it will not survive. So we are down to 2 embryos left. One of them is the Valedictorian of the class, it is a blastocyst, stage 1!!!!!! This might not sound awesome to you but in the fertility world this is the best. A blastocyst is an embryo that has developed through all the stages. It does not rely on the egg for nutrition but is making its own nutrition and it has cellular divided to the point of tissue rather than individual cells. The tissue is dividing, half for the placenta and half to the fetus. When the blastocysts is at this stage it is hours from hatching and looking for a nice cozy spot to implant into the uterus. Now the grade 1 is important also. To be a grade 1 blastocyst it has to be the correct number of cells, equal sized cells and minimum to no fragmentations. ( fragmentation is cells that have not joined the tissue formations, and are randomly floating in the cells= no good) As they say we have one perfect one, ( that one takes after me, hehe). Now for the last one. That one is a little slower but not out of the race yet, he is a close second. This little one is just hours, and I mean like 12 hours away from becoming a blastocyst also. This embryo is a Compacted Morula (CM). In this stage of CM, it is still dividing itself into the tissue formations which is needed for the placenta and fetus. Now this one has decreased to a grade 2, which means it has more fragmentation than the other one.
After the doctors recommendations and Nathan's and my decision we decided to put the 2 best embryos in. We feel very confident that the Valedictorian is going to burrow, implant and stay for the long haul. We are hopping that the CM continues to divide into the blastocyst after the transfer. The only way of knowing is if we get a positive pregnancy test and an ultrasound a few weeks after the positive test. That is when we will know if one or both of them stuck around.
Our IVF vacation is coming to a close soon. We have done everything that we intended to do in the Czech and hopefully the best part, coming home Pregnant, as Nathan says, " The Ultimate Souvenir" !!!!!