Transfer Day!!!

I never thought this day would come.  Granted, we are not out the woods yet- technically- but today one of our little embryos was transferred.  I am on "bed rest" i.e. "couch rest" for the next 24 hours and am enjoying getting waited on by M.  I swear he would chain me to the bed if he could; he doesn't want me moving an inch! I love that man!

The good news call came this morning that out of the first batch of 8 embryos, 2 came back chromosomally "normal" after PGD testing.  This means that there is an appropriate amount of genetic material in each cell.  Of the remaining 5 "abnormal" ones:
- 3 came back "unbalanced" on chromosome set 7, meaning that my inversion was rearing its ugly head and causing additional or deleted amounts of genetic material
- 2 came back abnormal on completely DIFFERENT sets of chromosomes; one had trisomy 13, and one had monosomy on chromosome sets 1 and 3. 

Those last two are pretty random- I don't know what to think about that.  Those are completely out of left field and have nothing to do with my issue, but maybe its just an inherent risk of stimulating a crapload of eggs that aren't ready to be used!

SO...we got the call at 8am and by 1:30pm I was sitting in the embryo transfer room talking to the doctor, nurse, and embryologist.  They were all recommending that we transfer both normal embryos, but M & I were pretty adamant that we just wanted to do 1.  So that is what we did, right or wrong.  I don't think the doc was very pleased with us, since the stats drop with single transfer vs. multiple transfer.  Our gut was telling us that we should only do 1, since getting pregnant is not my issue.  Only time will tell.

We are both so thrilled right now!!! I hope this little guy sticks because even though the second one is on ice for later, there's no guarantee that they'll survive the thaw!  We are also hopeful that maybe one will come back normal from the second batch of 8 that are going to be sent out to PGD tomorrow, but we are pretty sure that we don't want to push our luck since statistically we've already beaten the odds.  It can only get better from here, right?!  Here's to sticky vibes!!!