Day 3 Embryos

I'm a little late on this update and there will be another to come sooner rather than later.  Sorry for the delay.  We got a call from Dr. Uzelac on Thursday, as we were anxiously awaiting the news of how our embryos were growing.  He said that out of the 10 fertilized eggs, we had 7 that were right where they needed to be.  The others where a little behind but there was a chance they could catch up so they would continue to grow them and see what happens. We are still thrilled with this news.  I'm fairly certain that we have no intention of having 7 more kids, so even if we go from lucky #13 to lucky #7… we still feel incredibly blessed.

 I did have a question for Dr. Uzelac while on the phone with him however… I've read about embryos being graded (Grade A, AB, B, C, etc or 1, 2, 2.5, 3, etc. or in other ways) so I asked about that.  Do ours have "grades" or the equivalent.  He said, "Yes, that's exactly what we're talking about here.   You have 7 that are exactly where we should see them at this point with 9 cells, so they are considered the best of the best." (I assumed this means we have 7 Grade A embryos?!)  He seemed very pleased with these numbers and we think this is pretty excellent news as well.  Here's a picture of the development that has happened up until this point...

A typical 3 day old embryo will contain 6-10 cells.

9 is sounding like a pretty good number. 

www.arcfertility.com has some good information on this if you're interested.

From here…

The question has come up several times… what happens at this point?  That's a VERY good question. I don't completely know to be honest.  I know that we were supposed to be getting a call either today (Saturday) of tomorrow from the Doctor or embryologist updating us on the embryos.  I've yet to hear anything today which means we'll be hearing tomorrow.  The next step was to wait for my period to start and from that point we start some different meds to thicken up the uterus lining and some other things.  (I don't really know that either.) We were told my period would start about 10 days after the egg retrieval.  Well… it started today.  Not that you really care, but for us, that's exciting! That means that we are that much closer to having our dream become a reality.  So… I've put a call in to the office since I was supposed to let them know when I started.  But since it's the weekend, I'm not sure there's much I can do expect to wait until Monday.  From that point, I've learned that they do the transfer on as many days past ovulation as your embryo is old. So if we transfer a 6 day old embryo, then they will transfer it 6 days past ovulation.  We're looking at a little less than 3 weeks from now.  SWEET!!!! So exciting!

Anyways, I'll post a little sum'n sum'n tomorrow once I hear about our babies in the making!  Thanks for your continues prayers!!

xxxooo