First Fertilization Report

I received a call from the nurse today. Yesterday 12 eggs were retrieved. Out of the 12 retrieved, 10 were mature. Each of those 10 were fertilized. As of today, we have 7 embryos growing in a dish in downtown Atlanta. :)

This being our rookie season, and hopefully only season playing infertility...I wasn't sure how to react to those numbers. According to the nurse, because of my age...12 is a really good number. For seven to fertilize out of 10...is fantastic...according to her. Apparently, when ICSI is done (sperm is injected via needle straight into the egg), it has a 50-60% fertilization rate. Ours is 70%. So that's good, right?

The next couple of days are going to be really important. We are going to lose embies as the days progress. Tomorrow the embryologist will peek in our embies in the morning and a decision will be made by him/her at that time whether they will transfer them to me on Wednesday or Friday. ***Disclaimer***when I say 'them' I do not mean all 7!

Whether they do the transfer on Wednesday or Friday, they will let any left-over embies grow until Saturday. If Saturday, we still have embies, they will freeze them. The chances of this happening are very low. (PS-They call these...'snow babies', cute, huh?)

Snow Babies are nice because they can be thawed and placed in the uterus without having to go through all the crazy stimming injections. Unbelievably, snow babies have a very high pregnancy rate. I taught a 'snow baby' last year. His sister is actually 2 years older...but they were retrieved on the very same day. He was just an embie that his parents froze. I work with his mom, otherwise obviously I would not know this information. It is not on the kid's permanent record :)!!

Right now I am taking an anti-biotic, pre-natal, metanx (high dosage of folic acid), something called Medrol (don't know what that is), and I am getting an intra-muscular injection of progesterone every night. I will start back on baby aspirin soon.

Keep on praying...I will update tomorrow!