SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

not that i want to brag, but hey i might be a mama in the making so dang it i’m going to brag on my embryos. we had two perfect grade A (the highest grade) embryos transfered on friday. the definition of a grade A embryo is “regular, equal size cells, clear blastocyst and no fragmentation”. all i can say is that andreas and i make some stellar embryos. we also have five grade B embryos frozen for future use.

we are back to waiting – the dreaded two week wait. in actuality it is ten days but it might as well be ten years. i will try my best not to fret, worry, or analyze every twinge in my body. also, good bye coffee and diet coke. diet coke, i am not so sad to see you go…but coffee…my latte…sigh.

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

we did it!

five stinking, wonderful, hard, adventurous, life changing, exciting

years!

(and gracie because who can resist that face?)

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

my retrieval was this weekend and today we found out that twelve eggs were fertilized by andreas’ best swimmer! twelve. still two hands and two toes. we are still in shock with our numbers – things are going so differently with this cycle, it’s mind boggling. before our concern was that we wouldn’t have enough embryos and this time we are beginning to wonder if we will have too many. oh the perils of modern medicine.

so now we wait. we wait for them to grow and divide and become a blastocyst.

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

we have seventeen follicles!! s-e-v-e-n-teen. this is shocking, amazing and wonderful. the last cycle we had five. i am trying not to boggle my mind with how on earth our results can vary so much but just take in this number and rejoice!