We’re not quite ready yet. We went to the doctor for our scheduled ultrasound and my lining isn’t at the thickness they’d like it to be. It’s almost there, just not where it needs to be. So our transfer is pushed back one week. Dr. Huang said this is normal and nothing to worry about!

So now instead of 2 estrogen pills a day I’m taking 4 – 2 in the morning and 2 at night.

I’ll also take the same one shot/day until I go back to the doctor. It’s so crazy how I’ve never had any issues with my lining before but once you turn off my hormones (that’s what the Lupron shot does) the estrogen doesn’t metabolize as fast. The human body is just so amazing. But one more week should be all we need to get to where my lining needs to be to hold onto those embies!

 

 

Ooh- and this is pretty cool!

We got a “report card” of our embryos! Once the embryos are fertilized the embryologist grades them when they become blastocysts. The first picture is the two embryos that were transferred after IVF, the second picture is the frozen embryos. The numbers are graded 1-5, (5 being the best) and the letters are A-F (A being the best). The numbers show where the embryo is in its stage of life. The first letter is the quality of the part of the embryo that becomes the fetus. The second letter is the quality of the part of the embryo that becomes the placenta.

So our embryos look good! Since we didn’t do the genetic testing we don’t know what the chromosomes makeup looks like but we’re praying they look good! Dr. Huang did a good job explaining that just because the 2 embryos didn’t work last time that has nothing to do with these 2. Just like you and me everyone has different makeup to make them them. So these frozen embies are completely different from each other and the other embryos. It’s just all so fascinating!