“I think I can. I think I can.” Growing up, ‘The Little Engine that Could’ was one of my favorite books. Now, so many years later, this book has gone back up into my top 10. Why you ask? Because we have a ‘Little Embryo that Could!’

Remember the embryo that was always a day behind the others? When the 5 were at 8 cells, it was at 4. When they were at the morula stage, it was still just 8 cells. Well – it proved TODAY that it wanted to be part of the fam! This afternoon we got a call from Dr. Ahmed telling us that he froze one more blastocyst today, and it was the our little runt of the group! We were so excited to have another one frozen, making 2 blastocysts ready for us the next time we want to try and get pregnant. And I just love that it was the little engine that could, proving that you should NEVER give up (even if you’re a little micro cell smaller than the size of a piece of glitter lost in carpet). 😉

I was happy knowing that we had ‘the pair’ already transferred and ‘the spare’ ready for next time. But, now we have ‘a pair’ and ‘a pair’! Makes me feel a little more at ease about the whole process. And that means we got 4 blastocysts out of 7 mature eggs, or 57%! In the example Dr. Huang gave us, the average number that get that far is 35%. So I’m so thrilled with our numbers!

Another day passes in the 2ww…hope the rest keep ‘choo chooing’ along like today did! 🙂