IVF Update

Well, this is our IVF update. We got 21 eggs last Friday to split with the recipient couple; I got 10 (they would have received 9 or 10), so either one or two eggs weren't mature enough. Of our 10, 6 fertilized, but one abnormally, so we had 5 good ones.

The cool thing is, all 5 were top-notch embryos, all Grade 1, which our doc said was very rare. Yay, go embryos!!! We only put 2 back in, because, let's face it, as cute as triplets are, I only have two arms, and besides that, it really can be dangerous for the babies to have more than two (well, it can be dicey with more than one! or even with only one, I guess...) squished in there.

If all the embryos hadn't been such good quality, say...if there had been a Grade 2 or "worse", we planned on transferring two good ones and the not-too-good one, since the not-too-good one probably wouldn't freeze well, or at all. Then, if all three took, whichever triplet was acting up in the years to come, we could say, gritting our teeth, "You must have been the bad one!!!" (j/k, we'll try to refrain from labelling)

We had high hopes for successfully freezing the other 3, but Gail, my nurse, called today to let us know they hadn't survived being frozen. I don't really know how to feel about that. I mean, we're disappointed, and I had taken to thinking of them as "our kids," but really I knew the chances of all five becoming squirmy little babies were slim. And honestly, most of my hope right now is being invested in the two little fellas (or girls) floating around inside me. Or not floating, perhaps by now they've found a nice little cushiony spot to call home for the next nine months...Twins, twins, twins!!! Say it with me!!!!