I got The Call today. Good news! All 3 embryos are still alive and kicking.
They said:
· 2 embryos split into 4 cells appropriately, have only 5% cell fragmentation and are rated “Good”
· 1 embryo split into 3 cells, has 20% fragmentation and is rated “Fair”
Man, thank you universe.
So, what now?
We wait to see tomorrow at around 930 or so. The clinic will call us in the morning to give us a “Final Recommendation” on our three embryos from the Embryology Lab. This recommendation will be based on 3 days of growth and an 8 cell expectation for each of them. She asked me if I was “open minded enough to consider transferring two” – I felt like saying lady, that’s not open minded, that’s asking for twins. The final recommendation will give me advice on whether or not to transfer one or two, and whether or not to do it tomorrow (omgright) or two days later on Sunday.
Ultimately, it’s our decision.
If we risk growing the embryos to five days to ensure we can put back a nice strong one, then we need to accept the risk that NO embryos may make it to day 5 and we’d do this whole thing for nothing.
If we want to risk putting one 8 day cell embryo back tomorrow, we risk it NOT being the strongest of the three and not producing a pregnancy, and even worse, potentially producing a pregnancy that will not be successful. (chemical, miscarriage etc)
If we risk putting back two embryos at any point in the game, we increase our pregnancy chances, and indeed increase our twins chances to almost that of our pregnancy chances. And twins is utterly life impacting and not something we’re looking for.
They tentatively scheduled me a 3 day transfer tomorrow at 1130 to transfer an 8 cell embryo, but I’m REALLY rooting for Sunday, a 5 day transfer instead. Again, our call, not theirs. Because of the crappy timing and fast decisions being made in a quick timeframe, the acupuncturist now said she can’t do my transfer if its tomorrow, but can if its Sunday. Ahhhh!
So, this has been a nailbiting week, and tomorrow is no different. M will be staying home in the morning in order to be on the call and help ‘make the call’ tomorrow morning. It’s a big day, tomorrow.
So that’s it for now. I am endlessly THRILLED that our little three babies made it. Fierce, strong and DETERMINED babies!
