Bed rest

I just really don't get why all the bed rest is needed. I even asked the nurses if it was okay to do a #2 because they were so hyped up on the bedrest. Either progesterone or the HCG shot made me so backed up (sorry tmi) so I was concerned. But the nurse laughed and said that they won't fall out during a BM. Have there been studies done about bed rest being effective? Haven't googled that yet - maybe that will be what I distract myself with tomorrow. Maybe that was our problem all along with trying to conceive naturally! I just never took enough bedrest when the embryos were ready to hatch!

The 2ww is literally making me nuts! Every little twinge makes me wonder "What was that??" I am so in tuned to my body right now it's ridiculous. Breaking out the meditation apps tomorrow and going to my acupuncturist for some much needed stress release!

Giving google a rest today

I'm doing better today. I took another day off of work to take it easy some more. I didn't do as much obsessive googling so that was good. My hubby was home so he was keeping an eye on me. I did read though that embies are typically classified as morulas once they reach 16 cells and are compacting. The embryologist said yesterday that our ricecakes were compacting 20 cell embies - so I'm just thinking of them as morulas. I do read good things about 5-day morulas turning into healthy babies so keeping my fingers crossed that's what the case is with me too!

Good chances for our embies

Got a call from the embryologist. She said our embies were indeed slow and were not quite morulas yet but they have seen plenty of embies like mine make it to blast by day 6 and there was no reason to think that they haven't reached the blast stage right now:). So hopefully she is right! She did say that I'm about a day behind with implantation though. There's nothing wrong with that but if they are blasts now, they would hatch and implant tomorrow. So I donno. I might take another day of bed rest. I applied for FMLA before all this started so I'm just using that for ER and for ET instead of vacation time.

Too much googling!

Ugh! Can't get my eyes away from my laptop. I'm on day 2 of bedrest but cannot stop researching/looking for info on compacting embies on day 5. I should have asked for more info yesterday at the transfer but they had me take the valium right away so of course I was worthless after that! I asked the RE doing my transfer (not my regular RE) if my embies were morulas but she flatly said 'no' and that was all. No further info like: 'they are almost morulas', or 'they don't have much of a chance', etc. Didn't have an opportunity to talk to the embryologist yesterday either. I will be calling them later today though to hopefully get my questions answered. For now at least they are inside me though which is probably the best place for them to be. And I've read through all my ridiculous researching today that slow embies may mean that they are girls. I really don't care either way, but I think I am subconsiously hoping for a girl. Well - off to find a good movie to watch to get my mind off this stuff!

Transfer update

We just got back from our transfer. It went well. But only 2 of 6 made it to day 5 so I'm sort of disappointed. I guess they say to expect that 1/3 will make it to day 5 but I was just hoping we would defy the statistics. We transfered 2 and have none to freeze. Also the 2 we transfered are not quite blasts yet which I am not thrilled about. The embrologist said that they are progressing nicely and are compacted which means that they will probably divide again soon and become blasts - but still, I'm just a bit unsettled. Trying to stay positive though! Our beta is scheduled for the day before Thanksgiving and I just tested my trigger to make sure the HCG was out of my system in case I can't stand it anymore and have to test. Sure enough, BFN, so that's good! I could see myself testing next Sunday or Monday. I'm just so glad that we had something to transfer and that the viable embies are inside me now!! Here's the pic that we got of our 2 bitty ricecakes:



24 hours to go

Less than 24 hours to go until we know the fate of our embies. Hopefully this time tomorrow I'll be PUPO (pregnant until proven otherwise)!! Just going to keep myself busy today with anything that PUPO ladies shouldn't do in the 2ww like yard work since it's such a nice day. If the transfer goes as planned, it'll be a good 2 days of bed rest awaiting me. Will post an update tomorrow!

Nanny-cams

Not much is going on today. Just trying to think about other things! We have embryo transfer scheduled for Sunday at 10:30am and we can call at 8:30am to see if our embryos are still viable. UGH! I should have asked them a couple months ago how often the embryologists communicate with the patients while in the 5 day wait to see how their embryos progress. I just didn't really think of it before I guess. I told my hubby today that they should install nanny-cams in the incubators so we can check up on them. Not like I'd be able to tell the difference between a high and low quality embryo, but it would ease my mind nonetheless!