The embryologist said that she got a total of 24 eggs that were mature enough to inject with sperm (how this is possible I don't know, but it sounds as though all of the 10 "intermediate" eggs ripened up in the incubator, plus the 13 mature, plus one other?).
Of those, 21 fertilized, which they can visualize by (as I understand it) the fusion of the two pronuclei. 2 look abnormal, leaving us with nineteen extremely small Hydes! We are obviously happy about this. Statistically ~40% will not make it to blastocyst stage, but if we do even that well, there should be two blastocysts to transfer and around 8 to freeze.
This is good because I am quite confident I don't want to go through this process a second time. It hasn't been awful; in fact it's been easier than I expected, although also more time off work. However, as it has progressed I have grown more reconciled to the idea of adoption. Perhaps all the injected hormones are piping up to chorus "Any baby, any baby..."?
And of course, it is easy to say this from the smug position of knowing we should (hope, hope, hope) have enough blastocysts to grow our own baseball team. I might feel paradoxically more attached to IVF if this were going badly. As we all know, it's easier to take the long view when you're feeling good.
It's nice to feel optimism, for a change. The process of diagnosing, trying to treat, and coming to terms with IVF has been wearing--pessimism is the natural result from bad news at every turn. So I'm grateful for both our progress thus far and for my newfound (however temporary) sense of calm about the alternatives.
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I am sending your eggs good karma - may they all become blastocysts! :)
I find myself getting a bit of anxiety when I click on your page - I have that deep "please let everything be ok" feeling and almost like 1 eye open reading about your whole ordeal.
These kids are gonna be the luckiest kids on the planet to have parents that fought so damn hard to make them happen.
My fallopian tubes (along with most of my nerve endings) are crossed for you.
Dude. NINETEEN. What kind of super eggs did you lay?!
Most importantly, though: what Phizzle said. Happy, healthy babies all.
What amazing news! Congratulations, I really hope this is the start of a new trend... when do they plan the implantation?
Good going, Dr.J! And we wish you continued good luck.
wow, that is good news!
Have an excellent weekend and hope that the ratio of developing blastocysts continuing to amaze!!
C'mon, mitosis!!! And all the other magic that has to happen here.
That's awesome! If you do hatch your own baseball team, their mascot should totally be "the Blastocysts".
GOOOOOOO BLASTOCYSTS!!!
Yay, that is so wonderful.
All of our successes were with blastocysts, and as science progresses, between our first and second it was shown that waiting till blastocyst improved the odd of success.
Nineteen...wow!
Sending you lots of luck!
Got here via your post on Dr. Isis and I wanted to say good luck, 'cause I've been in your shoes. And those, BTW, are *excellent* numbers, that bode very well for success.
(I know, because I had similar numbers and the first product of those numbers is currently off having lunch with her daddy.)
Good luck with the transfer and don't kill any of the people who say "Now just relax and wait for the pregnancy test!" ::snerk::
Sending you all the best wishes in the world, but ... are you reading alittlepregnant or So Close? Just saying, you may not be able to stop here ...
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