At 9:13am this morning my phone rang, indicating a call from SRM. My stomach did a flip-flop, my heart skipped a beat and my breath ceased. I knew what this call was; my nurse was calling with a status report on our little eggs. This moment has been weighing heavily on my mind since the minute I woke up from the retrieval yesterday. Statistics show, and even the RE confirmed it yesterday, that we should expect 40-50% to pass the first step. With only getting 6 eggs at retrieval, this would immediately cut it down to only 3. And then it's expected that not all will make it to Day 5. And even further than that, PGS illuminates the bad or unheatlhy embryos. With all this in mind, we are praying to have at least one embryo to transfer in the coming months.
I answered my phone and sure enough, it was my nurse on the other end. She did a quick check on how I was doing and if I needed anything from Dr. Kennedy. Then she started in with our daily update.
Of the SIX eggs collected....all SIX were healthy, mature eggs.
YAY!!
All SIX of the mature eggs received ICSI....and ALL SIX FERTILIZED!!!!
Oh! My! Goodness!
I immediately began crying tears of joy. I just couldn't believe it. I had to write it down, otherwise I would have thought I was dreaming. I immediately called J. Upon hearing me hysterical on the phone, he was certain I was about to tell him horrible news. After I told him about our little miracle, we were both left speechless. And honestly, we still are speechless many hours later.
I truly believe we experienced a miracle thanks to so many people praying, thinking happy thought and keeping their fingers crossed for us. Even the nurse said this kind of thing doesn't usually happen and was amazed. While this was a major milestone, we still have many ahead of us in the next week. We need continued thoughts and prayers to keep our little ones healthy and strong. Day 5 (Monday) seems so far away and I hope and pray with all my might that we will beat the odds.
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