CCS results

CCS results are in. Our 1 embryo is normal!!  PHHHHEEEW!!!  We weren't expecting results for another week but I was going back and forth via email with my nurse today regarding bloodwork results and when to start birth control pills since I got my period on Saturday and in her last email she said "your results came in just now and it's normal!"  So glad she didn't wait to tell me. I was doing ok but the googling had started its evil downward spiral a couple days ago so I was well on my way to crazy town. Can't imagine what another week woulda been like!  

Now that our embryo is normal, we will definitely be moving forward with our frozen transfer. I started birth control tonight and continue that for a week. Then I start the FET cycle. I don't know exactly how it will work out but I know I'll be on estrace and will start lining and bloodwork checks in maybe 2 weeks. Once my lining is thick enough, they'll schedule my transfer, I'll start progesterone shots and we'll gear up to head out to NJ again. My nurse said that typically transfer happens about 6 weeks after ER. This will be a much shorter trip. I won't need to be there ahead of time and I can leave shortly after the transfer. We will probably fly and leave Kellen either in Chicago or Bloomington with family since it will be such a short trip. It's all up in the air still of course and hubby might not actually go if he has a job. Even if he doesn't have a job, he might stay home to save on travel costs. So who knows. The only thing that really matters at this point though is that a transfer WILL happen!

My clinic has about a 65% success rate of ongoing pregnancy with CCS normal embryos. I don't know if my specific chances are higher or lower given that our embryo was fully hatched.  I've been reading that hatched blasts have an easier time implanting so keeping my fingers crossed that that's true!  There is a 1% chance that our embryo will not thaw well but my RE said that that almost never happens at their facility. One other thing...with CCS, gender is typically information that they find out with their testing. I don't dare ask that question though!  If this doesn't work out, knowing gender will make it so much harder to accept the loss. So this will maybe be something we ask about if we get a bfp. 

But for now, we relax, try to stay in the present moment, keep praying of course, and get ready for the cycle!