We'll I didn't sleep last night. I was so nervous and anxious for the phone call. The embryologist called at 8:45 this morning. He asked "How are you?" I said "nervous" he said no need to be nervous. Out of the 12 fertilized embryos, 8 of them are 6-8 cells (where they should be today), the other 4 embryos are 5 cells and can still can catch up and be viable blastocysts at day 5. So they are confident with doing a five day transfer given the 8 embryos that are 6-8 cells today. He said it is unlikely that all 12 will make it to blastocyst stage and he is guessing half will make it to be good enough to be transferred and/or frozen. So.... It sounds like I will have some embryos to freeze if these fresh ones don't stick. He said at the blastocyst stage the embryos have 100 cells and at this point it is like a "weeding out" process. The good viable embryos will keep growing and ones that are not so good will stop growing.
He told me to be in Akron at 9:15 on Sunday. They will show us pictures of the embryos and transfer will be at 9:30. He also said to drink 16oz of fluid at 8:30 (a full bladder helps them see where they are transferring) and take my Valium (so I can relax, yeah relax, what's that?).
Holy Moly!!! This it it, it's almost over..... I'm really trying to stay positive. I actually do feel pretty positive because I think after all of this how can I not get pregnant???
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