God is so good!

I'm in a state of shock...I had my embryo transfer this morning all I can say is God is so good. All the glory goes to Him! I honestly don't know what was so different from this IVF from the last (other than the immense stress of moving across the country at approx the same time and it happening on accident) but this time my embryos are little fighters!


As Dh and I (Dh took ANOTHER day off and drove me to Tucson and back) walked back to a small room with my RE, the RE didn't say much. His face made me start to panic and a million questions popped in my head. ("What's wrong?" Did all of the embryos die?" "Did they not fertilize?" "If they did live, what is the quality like?") He sat us down and began to explain what happened over the last three days. Of the 23 eggs he got from me, several were immature and couldn't be fertilized. However, 15 DID fertilize and ALL had survived!!! Every one of those embryos made it to 8 cells. (At my last fresh transfer all I got was two 6 celled embryos and one 7 celled out of the 12 fertilized eggs.) My RE specifically said that my egg quality was just fine and the embryos are exactly where they need to be. We then went into a discussion of whether we wanted to put back two or three embryos. I was all for three, but both the RE and Dh weren't. The RE made several very valid points one of which was that the risk of triplets was just too high in his opinion. We went with two. That means that we now have 13 embryos on ice!!!!! My RE was confident that if this fresh cycle didn't work, he would have no problem putting in 3-4 embryos for the next FET cycle. I'm still in shock!!! He then showed us a LIVE picture of our babies! It was the coolest thing I've ever seen.



After the sit down discussion, it was time for the real procedure. It wasn't very painful, only slightly uncomfortable (and I must say, I no longer care that my RE is male. I never thought I'd get to that point!). I watched the u/s screen and saw two babies being put into my uterus. All I can say is WOW. God allowed all 15 babies to live...He protected them and kept them strong. Again, to God all the glory!



Now we wait. I go in for a progesterone blood test on Monday and then have a pregnancy blood test in two weeks to see if the babies settled in. Two weeks...

Here are two of the three babies we transferred today. #3 is now frozen with his brothers and/or sisters for later use:





I went back and looked at the FET picture of our two embryos and man, I can see a HUGE difference in the quality. I'm just so amazed...