Memorabilia

There's a photo of the "hospital" bracelet IM wore during the transfer. So, we made it! We ended up with a handful of 5-day blastocysts. That's a first for us! We've never gotten that far with embryos. Usually, they start to look not so hot as day-3 rolls around and we end up transferring some day-3 embies. 5-day blast is a good sign for sure. We couldn't have hoped for a better cycle...other than the fact that the donor slightly overstimmed although we think she is doing much better now. We decided to transfer only 1 blast and we were able to freeze 3 more....siblings perhaps :)


I took the blastocyst pic from here.

The reason for only transfering one is that the pregnancy rate from transferring 1 compared to 2 goes from about 60% to 70% but the rate of twins goes from 1.5% to 52%! Twins are certainly doable but not ideal. Hence, we played it very slightly conservatively but hopefully things will work out. Why not us, right? Why not? It can work for us! This donor cycle is a new game and we haven't failed at it yet...so we could be successful here! Is that optimism I smell? Not quite I suppose but it's about as close as we can get these days.

Anyway, the bracelet is memorabilia and will go in a baby-book IF there is a baby to warrant a book. We've ended up throwing these things away in the past. That's the thing about memorabilia. You only keep memorabilia if you want to remember something. We want to want to remember this!

By the way, we had Chinese take out at the best Chinese place in the world and around these parts that's saying something...Jasmine Garden. They, of course, give you a fortune cookie. Mine said something asinine, but IM's was off-the-hook in the weird department. It said "Cultures and customs of China attract you." Huh?