Thursday, November 1, 2007

Today is the day!!!

I woke up at 4:45am and was unable to get back to sleep although I did lie in bed until 5:30. It figures on a day I could sleep in I awaken bright and early whereas yesterday the alarm woke me from a DEEP sleep at 6:15am (I teach at 8am on MWF). I feel like today is such a critical day. First, the thawing and culturing process, the actual transfer, and then for the embryo to be able to hatch and implant. Wow. Big day in the life of little "number seven" as Heather calls "him." I admit I am still nervous about the whole not doing the assisted hatching. I wanted to do the AH in August and Dr. A said not needed since you're younger than 39. We almost insisted this time around with the FET bc there is a nagging doubt in our mind that not doing AH could have been the reason we lost the triplets. He said - only if this FET doesn't work, then we'll do AH next time. I don't want there to need to be a next time! I know it's $250 extra, but I'd gladly pay it if it means never needing to do IVF again. But God can help this embryo hatch through the zona pellucida without medical assistance. I am earnestly praying to that end. Thanks for all your prayers. I'll post again this afternoon hopefully with happy news that our embryo had very little damage from the thawing process.

2 comments:

Kathy and Matt said...

You're in my prayers today.

Drayton Benner said...

We are definitely praying! I know you won't read this until you get back home after the appointment, but we are praying for you and your little #7.
~Wendy (& Drayton)