Friday, October 18, 2013

July 2, 2013



My implant was on Saturday.  Out of our five embryos, three were rated as fair, and the other two were excellent!  Yep, you heard me right, excellent quality! They are apparently 8 clusters (that’s good I guess), and the embryologist said they were the most beautiful embryos he had seen in a really long time! Dr. Hatasaka talked with me about them and said that we probably had a 50 – 60% chance of them working, and then told us about a new procedure they are doing which includes giving an infusion of HCG to hopefully help the embryos take.  He said it improved pregnancy chances by 10%.  Crazy right?!  So, we signed more paperwork and they gave me Valium and off we went.

During this part, Travis gets to come into the OR with me. I wore a hospital gown (so glamorous), booties, and a hair cap – and Travis wore a surgical gown, booties, hair cap, and a face mask.  He sat next to me and held my hand the whole time. Parts were really uncomfortable, but the doctor was SO nice and so willing to tell me EVERYTHING that was going on as it happened.

The embryologist came in and talked about my embryos, gave us a picture of them, and said he would watch the other 3 embryos to see how they do, and to determine if we can freeze them, and then the procedure started.  It was really a quick procedure once everything got set up and prepped.

Then the waiting game started… 17 days to be exact, after the implant before we find out if we are pregnant or not… It’s such a long time to wait!

The embryologist called me again this morning about the other 3, and they stopped growing so we won’t freeze them either.  I really hope we are pregnant! I don’t know if I can do this again.

Here is a little pic of the 2 we implanted... Obviously I can't figure out how to rotate it...

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