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After an 8 year battle with infertility and countless struggles, our family is finally complete. This blog chronicles the journey it took for us to start and build the family we always wanted. Background on the blog (started in 2012, just days before I found out the embryo transfer for our son worked).... I decided to start a blog after realizing I have only been able to make it through my TWW's (two week waits) with the help of Google and with the openness of other women suffering from infertility sharing their own stories and giving others hope. I have time and time again found my exact symptoms on other women's blogs and felt an overwhelming sense of calmness they provided me. I thought it was time to pay it forward and hopefully provide this same thing to other women on their own journeys.

Tuesday, February 11, 2014

3dp3dt - Lost embies

So I started estrogen patches today. I don't know if it was that or the news that only 2 of my remaining 7 embryos made it to freeze - and they were frozen as a day-3 9-cell and a day-3 12-cell as opposed to robust day 5 blasts...... but I just had a good silent cry at my desk. I just feel so hopeless. I know I should stay positive.... and I still am for the 2 in me but it's hard not to cry knowing 5 of my embabies died. :(

So our Final Fert Report for this cycle is:
14 eggs
11 mature (7, then 4 the next day)
9 fertilized (6, then 3 the next day)
5 arrested along the way
2 transferred on day 3 (a 7 cell and a 9 cell)
2 frozen on day 3 (a 9 cell and a 12 cell)

Anyways...today is the yellow row...

Days Past
Transfer (DPT)
Embryo Development
OneThe embryo continues to grow and develop, turning from a 6-8 cell embryo into a morula
TwoThe cells of the morula continue to divide, developing into a blastocyst
ThreeThe blastocyst begins to hatch out of its shell
FourThe blastocyst continues to hatch out of its shell and begins to attach itself to the uterus
FiveThe blastocyst attaches deeper into the uterine lining, beginning implantation
SixImplantation continues
SevenImplantation is complete, cells that will eventually become the placenta and fetus have begun to develop
EightHuman chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) starts to enter the blood stream
NineFetal development continues and hCG continues to be secreted
TenFetal development continues and hCG continues to be secreted
ElevenLevels of hCG are now high enough to detect a pregnancy

Trigger update:  The trigger is still registering in my system 8 days post trigger (bottom stick).  Maybe another 2 or 3 days until it's GONE gone?

Symptoms: None so far.






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