What Chad and I have realized is that it really doesn't matter how perfect the embryo is-it's still just all up to chance as to whether it will implant and whether I can carry to term. With that in mind I feel like I am much more calm this time around. I also feel pretty good, minus the progesterone side effects of course. I have to wait until April 14 to do a pregnancy test OMG that is such a long wait. If I can hold out till next Monday before buying a ton of pregnancy tests I will feel accomplished.
As for the rest of my little babies-I started with 12 eggs, 9 fertilized, one was abnormal (3 nuclei), 2 arrested early, and that left 5. Two turned into blasts and were transferred today. The three remaining are still at the morula stage. The embryologists are going to give them a few more days to grow in culture and if any expand to healthy looking blasts they will freeze. I'm hoping at least one, preferably two, can make it to freeze. In the end, however, at least I got the two in today.
Now it's out of my hands-I just need to stay healthy and positive and not over-exert myself at all.
Differences from previous two transfers:
1. On the day of my first, I was starting to get seriously sick. I ended up with flu-like symptoms and a horrible cold lasting over a week, if not longer. I had fevers constantly and was like the walking dead. I should have stayed home from work. I seriously feel like I fried my embryos-whether that is accurate scientifically or not.
2. On the day of the frozen cycle transfer I had been experiencing mega debilitating migraines and was taking a lot of meds to compensate (including trips to urgent care for IV meds). I'm sure my body wasn't in a good place physically.
...so I'm just gonna relax as much as possible for the next few days and try to keep the anxiety to a minimum.
Wish me luck!!
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