Long Term Assisted Conception - May 2008

**butterfly_warrior** · May 16th, 2008, 05:47 PM

Chez, make sure you ask the scientist when they call tomorrow. They usually call around 10ish... and my theory that the worse the news is, the later the call is usually holds. Calls at 12 have revealed thaw disasters, while the call after 11 revealed absolutely CRAP fertilisation rates. When they called me on the Sunday (day 2), they demanded a decision on blastocyst or day three then and there, which I really wasn't prepared for. Was the $600 blastocyst culture fee included in your cycle fee? Either way, ask the scientist what they suggest on Saturday - but they will probably give you the spiel about if it doesn't make it to blast in the lab it was never going to get you pregnant anyay... but I'm not sure I believe that now.

Sonya, good luck with the blast culture. With five embryos all progressing you're in a pretty good place for it.

BW

**Hollybolly** · May 16th, 2008, 11:21 PM

Chez -

OMG!!!! That is just BRILLIANT, BRILLIANT news!!!!!!!!

- A big step up from your last cycle hun, that is just absolutely amazing!!!
You guys must be so thrilled!!!!
Can't wait to hear fertilisation results... take it easy and embrace it all hun - you guys deserve it sooooo much!!!

Sonya -

WOOHOO!!! Your embies sound nice & strong to make it to blast - are you putting back one or two???
Hope the weekend goes quickly for you & you can have transfer done before you even know it xxx

**Chez67** · May 17th, 2008, 03:27 PM

Hi everyone

We got the phone call from the scientist a little after 10:30 this morning. Of the 4 collected, one was empty and one was immature. So they fertilised 2 yesterday afternoon. Overnight, one of them didn't fertilise properly - something about the way the sperm and the egg bonded meant an incorrect number of chromosomes, which left one which was looking good. So we are booked in for a transfer with David on Monday morning. We are not sure yet but thinking about driving up early on Monday morning so we don't have the added expense of the hotel bill and meals away, but we will re-assess tomorrow when we get our follow up call from the scientist.

BW - I am not sure if the blastie fee was included in our cycle or not. To be honest I haven't even thought about it because we have never been in that situation before.

Anyway, spent the morning out and we came home with a new front load washer and dryer (we badly needed a new dryer and our washing machine was sooooo tiny - we are hoping the new one will be washing nappies in about 9 months time!). It's about 8deg here and raining on and off so winter has definitely arrived. I am consequently quite tired now so will need to put my feet up for a bit.

Thanks everybody for your thoughts and good wishes. Take care all and talk to you soon.
xx

**sonya1** · May 17th, 2008, 05:32 PM

Great news on your embie Chez! you and i will be having transfers on the same day.

rest up hun and take care of yourself!

my clinic rang me today which frightened the life out of me as its normal for me to ring them, not vice-versa. but embryologist explained that they had some spare time and were making the calls themselves

my embies are doing so well, its sounds silly but i am already so proud of them...
they have progressed really well and are now at
2 @ 8 cells
2 @ 7 cells
1 @ 5 cells.

on day 3 they like anything from 6-10 cell. so we are right on track.....

**sonya1** · May 17th, 2008, 05:34 PM

oh and in reply to an earlier question, im having 1 put back at a time. i personally do not want any more than that for various reasons.

**butterfly_warrior** · May 17th, 2008, 06:16 PM

Chez, I'm sorry to hear things have gone badly... it's starting to mimic my cycle so exactly! Good luck for Monday, and I'll be praying like mad that your little lone ranger pushes on through tomorrow and makes it safely to Monday. I just realised what a shame it is that your transfer is this week, not next week. I'm in there next Monday to see David, and could have arranged to take the day off work and meet you for lunch or something.

Sonya, sounds like you've got a bunch of good ones there! Hoping they continue to grow well.

BW