Well I must confess that I stole this scripture from church this morning, but I just found it so fitting for today! As you all know, we have been getting daily updates on our precious little embryos each day. So far it has been nothing short of exceptional news!!! We are so thankful for the way that God has blessed us in this process and stand in amazement at the work of His hand!
This morning Jaime, the embryologist, called at 8:30 am while we were getting ready for church. We were expecting that call, even though she was about 30 minutes early. The news was almost as perfect as it could be! All 9 embies are doing great and growing and look healthy! On day 3 they should be at about the 8 cell stage (see picture below). Here's the lowdown on where our little ones are:
2 - 5 cells1 - 6 cells
2 - 7 cells
3 - 8 cells
1 - 9 cells
How much more exciting and thankful could we be!!! Because all of them are growing well, our transfer will be Tuesday at 11:30 am. This will be on day 5 of their development and they should be at the blastocyst stage (see picture below). This is the stage where the cells start differentiating between what cells will make up the baby and what cells will make up the placenta. This is also right around the time when the embryo "hatches" and attaches to the uterus. So it's perfect timing for the transfer!
Tomorrow will be the hardest day since retrieval I think. They do not take the embies out of the incubator tomorrow, so we will not get a report until transfer day. It's all good though! We know that the Lord is growing and protecting them and can't wait to see actual pictures of them on Tuesday!
Anxiously awaiting Tuesday!
3 comments:
This is such exciting news! How many are you thinking of transferring? Congrats on those sweet little embryos!! We are celebrating with you.
em and colin
We are planning on transferring 2 embryos. Triplets wouldn't bode well for me so, we're just avoiding the risk as much as possible. We are just sooooooo excited!
We're praying for you guys!!!
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