Frozen Update

I'm doing lots of sitting around, but that doesn't stop me from wanting to get dressed and put a little makeup on.  It helps me feel better.  I will resume normal activities Thursday, but will probably wait to do Spin until my blood work next Tuesday.

This evening I got a phone call updating me on our remaining embryos.  We have 3 additional expanded blastocysts (embryos) they were able to freeze for us.  That means we have 4 more chances for kids.

Two of the newest blastocysts are of the highest rating 4AA.  The other is 4AB while the one left from our very first cycle is a 4BC.  The number is the expansion of the embryo.  4 means they are expanded blastocysts.  The first letter after the number represents a letter on a scale from A to C (A is the highest) that rates the quality of the inner cell mass which becomes the body of the baby after implantation.  The second letter is rated on the same scale and rates the quality of the trophectoderm or outer cells that will become the placenta.  Just because they aren't all AA doesn't mean they won't form healthy babies, it just tells us the stage of growth that they are currently frozen at.

I am learning so much science stuff.  I would know none of this information or understand it unless I was going through fertility treatment.  It is absolutely incredible that people were able to figure this all out, come up with correct medicine dosages, and actually help people have children that otherwise would not be able to.  I mean how did they know doing 150 amps of Follistim for a certain number of days would make a woman's body create more follicles?  It is mind blowing when you think about all the very minute details that go into fertility treatment.