Frozen
My eyes are welling up with tears as I sit here at my desk at work and I want to jump up and down because
WE HAVE A FROZEN EMBRYO!
The nurse just called to tell me. One of the two remaining embryos was high enough quality! I am stunned, I really am – I think my mouth dropped open when she told me and I squealed, “Really?!”
My numbers this month have totally blown me away. 12 eggs total really upset me, I have to say, because with the same percentages as last stims it wouldn’t have left us with much.
Here was last cycle’s stats:
25 eggs retrieved
8/25 mature – 32%
6/8 fertilized – 75%
3/6 top-grade embryos – 50%
1/3 implanted – 33%
This cycle’s stats:
12 eggs total
6/12 mature – 50%
4/6 fertilized – 66%
3/4 top-grade embryos – 75%
The 50% maturity rate and 75% top-grade is absolutely amazing!
Now last stims cycle yielded 1 implantation out of 3 embryos transferred. I now have 3 embryos to transfer again. There should be a pregnancy out of this somewhere!
Yay yay yay yay yay yay yay!!!!
Maybe that acupuncture really did something ;)
What wonderful news!!
Raychel – I’ve been wondering that!! I mean, who really knows, but with these numbers I’m pleased as punch and willing to think it gave this cycle a little extra!
Nat, I am sooooo happy for you! I think that maturity rate in general and the fact that you only had 12 eggs is actually AWESOME!!! I think with IVF, often when the #s are too high in terms of eggs, it can be detrimental (too much E2 leading to damage or somthing along those lines). So although I understood that you had a low yield in terms of mature/fert and therefore kind of need high egg numbers, I was secretly hoping that the lower # of eggs in general would increase the quality. In any event, whether it’s that or the accupuncture or both or who knows what, things are definitely feeling good and I’m just so thrilled for you! I am hoping and praying that they stay this way- for the next 9 months and beyond!
omg that is just sooo awesome… i am so happy for you…i find the more your cycles go the more positive and promising it sounds.. or so i hope.. :) maybe the massages and acupuncture are helping you relax more and your body is doing wonders…regardless what it is.. it is awesome and that’s all you need to focus on….now im just waiting as you are to find out about this cycle.. how are you feeling???
Glad to hear it is going so well this time around. I’m keeping my fingers crossed that the pregnancy happens this transfer rather than that latter one. Good Luck hun!
That is wonderful news! I am so happy for you. Wishing you more good news to come!
Whoohooo! What fantastic news! Here’s hoping you don’t need to use it for a while to come. :D
congratulations natalie! Hopefully less stimming and eggs means the quality produced is even high. I really hope this is your cycle!!
Yeah! Congrats! So happy for you. :)
yes there should be! yay!
Awesome!!! High quality eggs going on, huh?! I’m so excited Natalie, I’m crossing everything for you for this cycle.
Woot!!
That’s great news…keeping my fingers (and everything else) crossed for you & Den!
WAHOO MOUNTAIN DEW!!!!!!!!!!! That is just killer news. *happydancing*
So very happy for you!!!!! Congrats.
That’s awesome Nat, I hope this is it for you (and cause you only want one, I hope this is a singleton for you) and then I hope when you FET that other one you get another healthy baby!
This is great news. Hoping this is it and this cycle brings it all together for you! You really deserve it!
YAY!
hopehopehopehopehopehope
Congrats on that – wonderful news. Hoping and fingers crossed for, as you say, a pregnancy in there somewhere!
Excellent stats! I’m so excited for ya’ll!