Entries from March 2008

March 25, 2008

Confirmed

posted by Mel
Chemical pregnancy. The beta this morning was just barely positive– not high enough to sustain. 5.7 at 14dp5dt. I knew it was coming, but does it ever suck to be right. Follow-up appointment with our RE next Friday.

March 23, 2008

The Line is Gone

posted by Mel
You’d really have to squint to see anything there. We were pregnant for 4 days. Now we’re not. I think it’s a chemical pregnancy or an early miscarriage, depending on who you ask. I am shattered, but Vanessa is helping me slowly begin to pick the pieces back up.
Most couples would never even have [...]

March 21, 2008

Making Progress

Posted by v
We’ve passed the first milestone of getting a positive at-home pregnancy test. Correction:  a dozen at-home pregnancy tests, because the first six might be a fluke.
Stay tuned: Blood test on Monday.

March 11, 2008

We did it

posted by Mel
I have two little Vanessa embryos on-board– one early blastocyst and one morula. The embryologist said they were both still too compacted to grade, but both good quality and appropriate for this stage of development. She said she felt we had an excellent chance of success. It was actually kind of fun. The RE was [...]

March 10, 2008

More info

posted by Mel 
They haven’t looked at the embryos again today, but I was able to get more information on what they were going by yesterday. So here’s the tally. Where grade 4 is the best and grade 1 is the worst, we have:
1 6-cell grade 3
1 5-cell grade 3
1 5-cell grade 2
2 4-cell grade 3
2 2-cell– [...]