Over 1/2 Way There

I'm just a little over half way through the two week wait.

Every single day I struggle to stay positive and not obsess!

I was feeling really discouraged when we didn't get any fertilized eggs to the blastocyst stage and thereby get frozen.

I felt somewhat comforted when searching online and finding out that typically only half of a women's eggs are viable, not all eggs will fertilize,  and typically less than half of those eggs make it to a blastocyst.

To be honest I don't know how accurate these stats are, but they did make me feel better.

In the past week I have experienced:

bloating, nausea, breast tenderness, lower back pain, and twinges in my uterus

Of course all of these symptoms can be for pregnancy or PMS... AND they all can be side effects of the estrogen and progesterone that they have me on.

So I won't really know anything until I have the blood work done and get the phone call from the Regional Fertility Clinic confirming either way.

In the meantime I am continuing to be hopeful and pray that we will finally get pregnant.

Still Developing

This morning I received another update from the Regional Fertility Clinic. 

The technician told me that our 5 fertilized eggs were developing and growing. She explained that they are hoping to have the transfer on Monday, however, it will depend on how our eggs are doing.

If they are not developing as they would like they will do the transfer tomorrow.

After doing some research online I found out that there is some evidence that a 5 day egg transfer is more successful than a 3 day transfer.

By day 5, the healthy fertilized eggs should form a blastocyst. However, if they are not developing as much as they like by day 3 they will still try transferring them as there is some evidence that some eggs will not fully develop outside of the womb.

They will call me tomorrow morning to let me know how they are looking and when the transfer will occur.