Day 3 embryo update

I live by the idea that 8 is my lucky number.  Everything good happens with 8’s.  So by default today’s update should be a good one right?  

  Lucky for me, the nurse from HRC called first thing this morning, around 8:30.  Yay!  Early morning updates are the best because then you don't have to wait around all day wondering :)  She started by telling me that all they had thawed the 6 embryos that were from my last IVF cycle and that all 6 survived the thaw, wahoo!!!  Amazing news!  Then followed by saying I had a total of 9 embryos still growing and that I would get my next update on Monday.   

Wait… what? Nine?   

I made her repeat everything to make sure I heard that right and sure enough, she said nine.  

 So I said, you’re telling me that six of my nine fresh embryos just stopped growing???!  I don’t understand.  I felt immediately devastated and like I had just wasted a TON of money and put my body through hell for nothing.  

 If 6 had already stopped growing, the 3 that were left were for sure goners.  Between days 3 and 5 is where the numbers are supposed to drop a little.  Not between 1 and 3!  What had gone wrong?!  I kept questioning her and she told me that she was just telling me what the report said and that she could double check with the embryologist if I would like.  Um, yes I would like.   

We hung up, I had a melt down and about 5 minutes later she called back apologizing that she had misread the report.  All 6 frozen embryos survived and all 9 fresh embryos are still growing beautifully for a total of 15 embryos growing right now.  Now that’s what I’m talking about!  Much better news!  Between the phone call and waiting for a call back, that was definitely a crazy 10 minutes.  My emotions were all over the place.  Hopefully she hasn't made that mistake with too many other patients... but at least it was a mistake that had better results in the end than what she first came at me with!

Anyway, I’ll find out on Monday how many are still growing, I’m hoping between 8-10, and I should get the results from the biopsy back later that week.  We’re looking at doing the transfer sometime in April.  Beginning of April if my body cooperates, middle to end of April if it doesn’t.  So there’s a slim chance I could still have a baby this year.  Yay!

Now I just need to keep my fingers crossed that my body cooperates from here forward...