June 2016 - IVF #3, Day 6 Report - Embryo 1 Success!

WE DID IT! With the help of many nurses, lab staff, and a fantastic RE, we doubled our frozen embryo inventory today (now 2), putting us one step closer to our embryo goal!

I got the call while touring our rubber plant and had to wait until we were finished and back in the office to check the voicemail. Safety first!

The 6-cell embryo from Day 3 was biopsied and frozen this morning. The 3-cell is still growing, but not yet to blastocyst stage, so they will give it another day. It's progress is not promising, but stranger things ave happened. They will call me again tomorrow at the usual time. 

It will take ~2 weeks for the genetic testing to come back and assure us that this embryo is normal. More waiting, but of course!

Lots of emotions and thoughts today. Mainly relief and joy for some long-overdue good news! More to come on this front later.