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<\/p>\nWe were worried that of the six embryos we wouldn’t have many making it to blast stage… we were both really sweating it this morning, wondering if we were going to get a phone call saying that nothing made it. The phone call never came, so we drove in.<\/p>\n
Happily about halfway through the drive my valium started kicking in and I could feel my anxiety creep down several notches. When we got there the nurse got me situated in my bed, but she hadn’t heard any news from the lab so she had no idea.<\/p>\n
People started trickling in… the ultrasound tech (whom I LOVE), one of the nurses, the doctor. They all looked excited. They all said, “I’m so excited to see you here today!!”<\/p>\n
Someone said, “I spoke to the lab, and they sound very happy!” But no numbers yet. I got wheeled into the OR, warm towels wrapped around me (oohhhh I love the warm towels), and one of the embryologists from the lab came out with sheets of paper. She checked my bracelet, verified my name and date of birth, then pulled out the report card. 25 retrieved, 8 ICSI’d, 6 fertilized, 6 cultured to day 5…. 1 transferred on day 5, and 5 to be cultured to day 6 for possible freezing. Did you catch that? I did. “So there’s still six??” Yes. There are still SIX embryos – now blastocysts. She said some are a little behind, but that that’s pretty normal (especially since my eggs weren’t all ICSI’d right away), but that tomorrow they’ll see what meets freeze criteria.<\/p>\n
And the one they’re transferring, they said, is “beautiful.” Ultrasound tech was beaming, everyone was just so thrilled for us that we were there today, on day 5, transferring a perfect looking blastocyst.<\/p>\n
The ultrasound tech took a quick scan, measuring things that I couldn’t even see (seriously – she was drawing a little map of things that I couldn’t even tell were there!). There was a resident there observing, and asked if this was our first time. Ha, no. He asked if we’d ever gotten pregnant. I explained we had, but had a third trimester loss. So while I talked with the ultrasound tech Den answered some questions about Devin. (The Resident was very nice and didn’t give us some stupid speech, yay.)<\/p>\n
And then the embryologist brought in the catheter with our little blastocyst in it. The catheter was carefully placed – I could see on the screen the little shiny tip showing exactly where it was. And poof<\/i>, there it went. But instead of just a little blip on the screen like our previous transfers, this one streaked a little bit through my uterus. “A little shooting star,” the ultrasound tech said. “Sometimes they do that, sometimes they don’t.”<\/p>\n
After being wheeled to recovery and updating twitter, Den and I thought, you know, that’s the random thing we’ve been waiting for to spark a name in our heads. It’s our little Shooting Star.<\/p>\n
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I layed in bed for 20 minutes, as is their procedure, and in that time people kept poking their head around the corner to congratulate us. They kept saying how fantastic this embryo looked. And the tech and nurse told us that the entire clinic – the lab, the nurses, the doctors – were all so absolutely thrilled with the news of my egg maturity and fertilization. You could tell, they were just beaming<\/i>.<\/p>\n
We were warned that their criteria for freezing embryos is very strict, so not to be surprized if very few or none actually get frozen – but the lab still thinks several of them are good contenders. I asked if they could call me tomorrow with the news… waiting for the mailed out sheet just sucks. So hopefully tomorrow we will have some more good news.<\/p>\n
But, as they said, the most important thing was this, transferring one perfect, beautiful little blastocyst.<\/p>\n
I go in on March 5 for my beta.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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