Now the Wait Begins

Today went very well.  I wasn't near as nervous of course, because the transfer procedure is a much simpler procedure.  Everything almost went smoothly - our doctor's car overheated on the way to Metarie.  We were going to wait, but when it was too long, they asked if we would mind another doctor doing the procedure, and we were ok with that.  I'm reposting the picture so I can describe it a little more.  FINO did a day 5 blastocyst transfer for us.  This isn't always recommended, but it is recommended for younger patients with a high number of healthy embryos.  Less may make it to day 5, but they are stronger and healthier when they do.  So clinics can implant 2 blastocysts versus 3-4 day 3 embryos and still have high or higher pregnancy rates while eliminating the risk of triplets or higher.  At day 5, you can tell the health of an embryo because at this point, it is now using it's own genes to create energy for division instead of the parents.  I'm such an engineer, but I found this fascinating.  Here is a link with a lot of blastocyst information.  Our embryos were very high grade - this is seen due to the 2 distinct masses.  You can see the outer edge of cells that become a placenta and the inner mass (surrounded by a fluid cavity) that will become the baby.  If you look close to the one of the left, you can see the white circumference - this is the shell it should hatch out of today before it implants.  There were 4 perfect embryos, and should be more that completely develop.  So we'll have some frozen embryos.  The neatest part of this is that if it works, this is our first baby photos! :)  How often do you get to have a photo of your child 5 days after conception?  Great thing to pull out one day to the future boyfriends/girlfriends!