Friday, March 8, 2013
A Beauty Contest
We had our follow up with our RE yesterday to discuss doing a FET since our IVF cycle failed. We only have one frozen embryo so I am a little worried about that. I did find out some interesting facts though. Like my frozen embryo has a 90% chance of surviving the thaw process and then a 50% chance of resulting in a pregnancy. Not really sure how I feel about this. A 50% chance doesn't feel so great to me. Something else he told me that I found interesting was how they grade the embryos. It is basically a beauty contest. They only go by how the embryo looks which means that a perfect looking embryo could have chromosomal problems and not implant and an embryo that looks horrible could be discarded and in actuality it could have been a perfect embryo. This kind of upsets me because most of my embryos get discarded because of their "quality". At this point all I can do is what for AF to arrive so we can start this next cycle and hope that this little embryo is healthy and strong.
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With our FET, we thawed and transferred 2 frozen embryos. One thawed to 100 & expansion, and the other to 80% expansion. We are now pregnant with a little girl, Elliana. I know that the odds don't always sound that great with frozen transfers, but my husband and I beat those odds and had a great experience.
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