WE GOT 1 MORE NORMAL!!!!!!! - Couldn't wait until the end of the blog to share :) Here are the details.
Waiting by the phone never gets any easier. These calls never get easier. The sleepless nights never go away. I waited all day yesterday for the call from the embryologist to call with the final report on our last 2 blasts. I got a call around 3:30pm saying the results weren't in yet. Hopefully they would come in the next day but Monday at the latest.
I finally fell asleep around 3am and woke up around 5am. I woke up with a racing heart as if I drank 10 shots of espresso. The results of today's call is just so huge. Anymore normals and we significantly increase our chance of becoming parents at least once. If the final 2 are abnormal, then we have officially closed a chapter in our books and our potential child will never have the chance of a sibling.
The phone rang and I swear she was talking in slow motion. She finally revealed that we have 1 more normal to add to the one already waiting on ice for us. I asked that she not reveal the sex because I wanted my husband and I to be together when we find out. We have a follow up on June 1st to discuss next steps and at that appointment we will get the official report which will reveal the sex of both embryos.
Here are our results of all our embryos:
1 - IVF bank cycle #1, biopsy date 3/16 - CHROMOSOMALLY NORMAL
2 - IVF bank cycle #1, biopsy date 3/17 - ANEUPLOIDY (discarded)
3 - IVF bank cycle #2, biopsy date 5/11 - ANEUPLOIDY (discarded)
4 - IVF bank cycle #2, biopsy date 5/12 - ANEUPLOIDY (discarded)
5 - IVF bank cycle #2, biopsy date 5/12 - CHROMOSOMALLY NORMAL
After she revealed that we had 1 normal, she discussed that we had another aneuploidy and that she needed my permission to discard it. I told her she was breaking my heart but that I understood. Between having another discussion about having to discard another unusable embryo that I had worked so hard to create, and the ecstatic news of hearing that we had two normals, as soon as I hung up the phone, I burst into tears. I called Ryan to tell him the good news, but I couldn't talk at first. Infertility is just such an emotional rollercoaster. I finally got the good news out and I could hear his excitement on the other end of the phone.
Part of the reason why this news is so emotional is because NONE of the doctors that we have meet with thought we would get here. After our first 3 failed IVFs, we were told to move on to either donor or adoption. Ryan and I were not ready to move on from the idea of have genetically related children. So we decided to press on. The doctor we are working with now gave us less than 7% chance on having a child. And he was one of the more generous ones. Basically, once you have 3 failed IVFs you become a lost cause in the infertility world of statistics. He suggested that we do 3 banking cycle to get between 5 - 8 Day 5 blasts. Statistically if we had at least 6 embryos, our PGS would come back with only 1 normal. So now looking at having 2 normals with only 5 chances, you can see why this was such great news.
The next steps are preparing for the FET. I have a regroup with my doctor on June 1. Then we will come up with a strategy. So far I know I am going to do the uterine scratching and intralipids. I'll talk about those in a later post.
Nothing is guaranteed and just because we have a normal embryo transfer, does not mean it will implant even, let alone grow into a child. However we just significantly increased the odds of that happening. I am over the moon. This is really the first good news we have heard in a very long time.
Thanks for reading,
HEATHER
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