Fertilization Report & Transfer

Dr. Hopeful's embryology lab called today.  Out of the 7 eggs retrieved, only 3 were mature.

It sounds like they did a "delayed ICSI" which I am not 100% sure what it means.  I think one fertilized naturally, and they did the delayed ICSI, I think the next day.
(**Updated: I found out during transfer that delayed ICSI meant the mature eggs were ICSI'd right away, and then they let the immature ones mature one more day before they were ICSI'd the next day.)

So now we have 2 fertilized eggs.

As of this morning (retrieval day +2) one was at 2-cell, and the other was a day behind at 1-cell.

So, we are doing a day-3 transfer instead of day-5.  

Our transfer is scheduled for 11 am tomorrow morning.

For being 2 days after retrieval, 2-cell and 1-cell seems like the embryos are growing really slow.  I just looked back at my fertilization report from my last cycle, and this is very similar to the last.  Only one egg fertilized, but then another fertilized the next day.  In this case, the second one had some help with ICSI.  The difference is we had more mature eggs last time - we had 6 - and this time, we only have 3. 

Also, last time we were going to do the transfer at day-5.  But since the embryos stopped growing before day-5, we had to cancel it.  This time, we are doing a day-3 transfer.  I guess we won't know if the embryos will continue to grow once we put them back in my uterus.

I have to confess that I am somewhat discouraged at how things are turning out.  I had hoped for a better outcome.  But I also know I need to think and stay positive.  It is not over yet.

I will find out more details about how the embryos are doing tomorrow.  I am not sure which doctor is doing the transfer.

Please continue to pray for my embies to grow strong and healthy, and that we will have a good transfer tomorrow.   Today, we had a few people pray for us after our church service and one of the guys said "This is your time!"

Yes, we are claiming that this IS our time!

God is in control, no matter what we will be OK.  We are just praying that it is in his will for us to have a successful IVF this time.