Well, our embryo transfer was 3/31 and our Beta test to check the levels of hormones in my blood, i.e. pregnancy test are scheduled for 4/11 & 4/13. They check the levels two days apart to ensure the hormones are rising appropriately. The tests are so early, that in the 'normal' cycle a woman may not have even been late yet so it is will stillbe a very early pregnancy.
This time in between the transfer and the tests is referred to as the two week wait (2ww) and is torture: waiting, wondering, hoping, and praying.
I have come up with a short term 'game plan' to either relieve stress or celebrate!
Right now I am drivng myself crazy trying not to overanalyze each twinge, and sensation that I get, we will see.
We got our report from the laboratory regarding our embryos, stats are as follows:
23 eggs retrieved(plus 2 cysts)
19 were mature (that is great, normally there are alot of immature when so many are grown)
Of the 19, 14 fertilized and started dividing
best 2 were transferred back
11 embryos were frozen so we have 11 'totsicles' or 'snow babies'
5=4cells (grade B & B+) 3=3 cells (grade B) 1=5 cells (grade C) 2=3 cells( grade C) Grades A & B have the same success rate for implantation with the grades C being slightly reduced and they didn't freeze one so it must have been of poor quality.
11 frozen is alot more than I was hoping for, now if these first two take we are going to have 11 on ice to figure out what to do with. Better than none, no complaints here.
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