IVF #2 Transfer

Alright..... Today was a bit stressful.

For starters the embryologist's don't look at the embryos until the day of the transfer, so that meant that we showed up today with no further update than we had six fertilized eggs.  Being the pessimist I am, I was positive we wouldn't have any eggs left so I was so nervous until we saw a picture of two blastocysts on the paper.  Relief only lasted a few more seconds

We then found out we had one more egg (total of three) that was in the day 4 stages/day of growth.  Fabulous! She then went on to explain that they would continue to grow it until tomorrow then freeze.

Here's the report ended up retrieving 8 eggs/6 mature/6 fertilized/2-3 blastocysts at day 5/ transferred 2 day 5

Mr. E. and I had already decided that if we were in this situation we would prefer to transfer all three, however the head embryologist and our doctor said they both highly discouraged us to do this.  I'll get back to the head embryologist in a different post, but we were both so very torn with what to do.

On one hand we knew triplet would be a huge commitment, but we could do twins.  The twins rate when transferring two is one in five transfers and when you transfer three the twins rate goes up to four in five transfers, but the last couple of transfers they did with three ended up in triplets.

So....... We only transferred two.  I am still torn with this decision.

If we would have had four it would have been a clear - use two, freeze two, but that's not the hand we were dealt.

We are going to wait until day 6 to see if the last egg continues to grow and turn into a blastocyst then they will call us and we will freeze it.

My reasoning behind transferring all three was
1.) The last one is already behind, who knows if it will make it so why not just transfer it and see what happens.
2.) We have already lost so much why not try all three and maybe one will stick
3.) Freezing is so expensive is it worth only freezing one?  Would we even want to transfer only one?  What if we do freeze and it doesn't thaw did we just waste a baby?

When I came out from the transfer the first thing Mr. E. Said was "was that the right decision!"  I hope we made the right decision

For now PUPO.......