Snowbabies!

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Our embryologist called to let us know he was able to freeze five of our embabies today! They were all Grade A beautiful blasts! This is SO reassuring to us. We have never made it to a 5 day transfer, nor have any left over to freeze.

What this means is that we can use those, two at a time, to do frozen cycles should this one not work out. This is a much easier process because I would not have to wait for a donor to stim...they would just regulate my cycle, thaw them, and do a transfer. There is a risk that they would not survive the thawing process, but this doesn't happen very often. Through our Shared Risk program, we have unlimited FET cycles already paid for. Once all of the cryopreserved eggs are gone, we can move onto another fresh cycle. Overall, we are contracted to three fresh cycles and unlimited frozen cycles.

If this cycle did work, then we have the snowbabies to use in the future should we ever want more children...yay! It would be much cheaper to do a FET cycle in a few years than it would be to shell out money for another fresh cycle. I'm pretty sure that we have reached beyond our limit financially for another fresh cycle.

I am a little disappointed because I found out today that we can't get any pictures of our embabies transferred yesterday! After questioning the embryologist directly, he told me that he believed the system was struck by lightening over the weekend and that he wasn't even able to take the picture:(

Bummer.

Sooo, we have decided to go ahead and name our embabies. Technically, they are our children so we have always done this. It just so happens that they are always conceived around a holiday. Last time we named them Giblet, Shweet T, Gobble, Hambone, Greenbean, Cornbread, and Cranberry because we had a Thanksgiving transfer.

The two in my belly will be called Boom Boom and Pow in honor of an Independance Day transfer. We have named the snowbabies Sparkler, Bottle Rocket, Jumpin' Jack, Snake, and Snap Pop.

Lol.

Right now I am still on bed rest and taking full advantage of Andy being my biotch. He's been so good to me by bringing me medicines, making healthy meals, and concocting yummy smoothies! I'm down to 1 PIO injection every a.m., but I had to add the progesterone va jay-jay suppository at night. I'm also still popping estrogen pills 3x/day.

I'm also going with the wives tale of eating pineapple with core every day for 5 days, starting with the day of transfer. It worked last time, so I'm trying it again! Apparently the core contains an enzyme called bromelain that aids in implantation. By Friday I will have eaten an entire pineapple. Yummy! Even Griswold thinks so...