Day 5 was yesterday. My nurse told me that I would be notified what they biopsied today. I have been getting more and more nervous all weekend long. Yesterday I called her and asked her if she could call me in the afternoon since I was supposed to be in meetings all morning today. She said that would be fine and said she'd call around 2. Throughout the course of this morning though, I got more requests for meetings that would make me unavailable all afternoon. Ugh! I accepted them all, but after lunch I just threw in the towel and went home "sick". I was really unfit - all shaky and unable to concentrate... so I was totally unproductive.
Anyway, I got the call as I was driving home. Out of the 5 we had fertilized, only 1 made it to blast. Honestly, I'm relieved we have 1. Of course it makes me very nervous for the testing results since that is our one and only blast but my nurse told me that this blast was graded an excellent 6BB! We've never had better than a 3CC (that was Kellen), so I'm really pretty shocked at that. Hopefully it's a good sign that it is normal. Statistically 45-50% of the eggs in women my age are abnormal - abnormal meaning they carry the genes for Downs Syndrome, Trisomies, etc. I'm crossing my fingers and toes that the abnormal eggs were weeded out in the early development stage since we had over 50% drop off. Sometimes this is the case, but other times good looking blasts can actually be abnormal.
So now we just have to sit tight for 2 more weeks. In the meantime I will call my nurse when I get my period and she'll get me started on a brief course of birth control pills to "hold" me until our results come back. If the blast comes back normal, we will roll right into an FET cycle.
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