Quickie update: Transfer tomorrow

We're set for transfer tomorrow at 10 am Pacific.

As of this afternoon, all 3 embies are still growing. I have no info beyond that WHATSOEVER, and I did my level best to get it!

From the nurse's wording ("We've determined which embryos are best for transfer"), it certainly sounded to me like 2 out of the 3 are looking better and may be the only ones available to put back. But when I asked for a number, she wouldn't say, and when I quoted her words back to her to support my reasoning that we'll have fewer than 3, she wouldn't repeat what she'd said or confirm my suspicions. She simply said all 3 were still growing. No doubt she just LOVES trying to communicate with us end-of-cycle/end-of-rope IVF chicks.

I mentioned that I'd gotten much more information during our last cycle (allowing for the possibility that it was different because my RE was the one calling me then), and she said, "Yeah, we've really backed away from that approach. We want you to hear it straight from the embryologist."

So we won't know anything until we check out the photos and sign the final report 15 minutes before the procedure.

I am a bit of a wreck today. Things aren't TOO bad. No crying or shouting or screaming. Just moments of feeling super low and others of feeling startlingly scattered. DH has done his best to logicalize me out of the down moments, and that does work on me.

I'll spend the rest of the day watching movies, cooking/eating a big pot of chili, harassing the dog for snuggles, and spending some time with my meditation CDs. Maybe I'll hit up DH for a back massage, too.

This is kinda fun: When I logged on just now, I noticed yesterday's post that I titled "3, 3, 3" (for 3 mature eggs, 3 embies, 3-day transfer) was posted at 3:33. I did not know that!

3, 3, 3

As predicted, 3 of my little eggies were mature. The lab ICSI'd them, and — hallelujah! — all 3 fertilized.

Our good fert success in both possible cycles makes me even more certain that IVF was right for us. If nothing else we know that DH's sperm and my eggs are amenable to hooking up and trying to make a go of it. They just need the help of an expensive matchmaker. I always knew it!

In our April/May cycle 6 fertilized and so the RE felt confident enough at this point in the game to schedule our transfer. No such luck today. But the clinic was nice enough to narrow tomorrow's possible phone-call window to 2.5 hours for me.

Please pray with me, people: Divide and stay healthy, divide and stay healthy, divide and stay healthy!

If we get a healthy bub from all this hubbub, I am totally buying this print.

Transfer set for Monday at noon Pacific

Quick facts:

• 7 of the 9 eggs were mature
• 6 of the 7 fertilized with ICSI (I am VERY pleased with that number)
• I've started PIO, Doxycycline, and Medrol (the latter helps with assisted hatching)
  

We're not getting a fertilization report today — just waiting till we go in tomorrow for a 3-day transfer. Dr. K feels that all 6 will survive and we will select the best-quality embryos from the group. She wants to put back 4 if possible. Again, no telling how many really will survive or what quality we'll be dealing with. But we have every expectation that we will at least get a 2ww out of this.

So, tomorrow I do my regular meds first thing, take Prometrium at 10:00, work on filling up my bladder as directed, have an acupuncture session at 11:15, meet DH and Dr. K at 11:45 for decision-time, have the transfer at 12:00, do another acu session right afterward (hoping there is a potty break involved), and then head home to hang out for the rest of the day.

Thanks for all the sweet good vibes — I have felt them!