Thursday, September 2, 2010

nestle in, please!

That's my request to our embabies. We got the call at 8:30 this morning that our embryos were ready for transfer. I took a shower, drank the necessary amount of water, and grabbed all of our necessary gear (pillows, eye mask, i.pod, etc...). We got there and they immediately did an ultrasound to see if my bladder was full enough. The first nurse didn't think it was, but she said another person would come in to check. 10 minutes passed and they came to get us for the embryo transfer. It reminded me a lot of an IUI because all I did was take my pants off and hop onto the table. The doctor handed us a picture of our embryos and I knew right away that they were not the best quality. He explained that we had a 6 cell and a 5 cell. There was some fragmentation in the 6 cell and quite a bit in the 5 cell. He also said that we had two other embabies, a 4 cell and a 3 cell. The four cell looked okay, but the 3 cell was way too pokey. He gave us the option to transfer all three of the decent looking ones and that's what we did. The 3 cell will not make it to freeze (he said it is inviable at this point). We were impressed that he gave us the option to transfer 3 considering my age, but we were thankful that he left it up to us. We named our embabies Nellie, Mellie, and Wellie. We're hoping they snuggle in for the long haul.

I must admit that I was bummed by the quality of our embryos. We didn't get much of a chance to ask the doctor all of our questions, but we did bombard the nurse with our most pertinent ones later. We asked her what the fragmentation meant and she said they don't know. There are lots of hypotheses about what embryo fragmentation means, but none are concrete. She also said that sometimes embryos look bad on day 3 and turn into beautiful morulas/blastocysts 24 hours later. Last cycle we put in one perfect looking 4 cell and one only slightly fragmented 3 cell on day 2 and (obviously) nothing happened. She said that this happens all the time. She said they often put in "perfect" 5 day blastocysts and nothing will happen. She also said they often see poor quality embryos make perfect babies. She said we have no reason to doubt that our embabies won't turn into a beautiful live baby. All that being said, because our embryos were not ideal looking, MBL and I are even more glad that we did shared risk because if this cycle fails (which it won't), we still have 2 more fresh cycles already paid for! I'm still praying for a positive this time.

Feel free to tell me your positive 3 day transfer stories, especially if you had poor quality embryos. I'm surprisingly not stressed about our embabies quality because I believe they'll come through in the end!! Snuggle in Mellie, Wellie, and Nellie (please)!!!

Oh, and I cannot believe I almost forgot to share my embarassing IVF transfer story. So, my poor bladder was so full after the transfer that I was laying on the bed all awkwardly, clenching everything. The nurse told me I could either have a catheter put in or wait ten minutes and use a bed pan. I waited ten minutes and then opted for the bed pan. Best. decision. ever. She left the room while I "did my business" and then came in to take care of the pee. She asked if I felt wet on my clothes and I told her no. MBL then felt the back of my shirt and told me that I did indeed pee on myself. HA! I was wearing two tank tops and a cardigan. I did not get any pee on the cardigan, so MBL took off my tank tops and I just buttoned up the cardigan. Good times. So, you see, I have to get pregnant from this IVF because I peed myself and it was funny. The end.

8 comments:

  1. LOL. Your story is very funny and I agree you HAVE to get pregnant. I am wishing you tons and tons of luck and hope these 3 stick around (well really I wish one of the three sticks around, but you know what I mean). Thinking of you.

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  2. I hope one of your beautiful embies sticks!!! Congrats on transfer...I am so laughing about you peeing on yourself. LOL. Bedpans are so difficult!

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  3. funny ending!! hilarious!!

    to answer your question, i too had not so beautiful embryos transferred on day 3. they were 8 cell but grade 2 and grade 3. the remaining 9 weren't viable for freezing which totally depressed me. 9???? not even one could survive freeze/thaw??? i was assured they would never discard embryos that could produce a baby but it still felt like a huge blow. we'll know on tuesday if my embryos are still snuggling in my belly.

    i'll pray for both of us :)

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  4. Very funny story! Hope your embabies are snuggling in all nice and warm for the long haul! I had fragmentation issues with my embies last cycle too, I had 14 on Day 3 and only 1 that made it to day 5 (the rest were too fragmented and missing vital bits) It sucks! GOOD LUCK!!!

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  5. Haha! I love that story. I hope your embabies are snuggling in tight for the next nine months. Wishing you the best. My fingers are firmly crossed for a positive beta at the end of this wait.

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  6. Woohoo!! Do I need to sing the "go embies" song?? haha

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  7. I will be praying for you and your embabies. I will pray that your embies settle and find a home in you for the next 9 months. Take each day one at a time. Keep positive...it seems you already are. Praying for you! (hugs)

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