Freeze report!!

This one might be a little long and maybe kind of confusing but I think the best way to do it is to post the emails of updates from L. 

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Valentine's Day 11:55am

Hi Melanie,

 

HAPPY VALENTINES! 

 

So just had another update from Gail...

 

Hello, I just wanted to let  you know the lab has not frozen any of the embryo's yet.

The 5 embryo's are :

1. still 5 cell fragment 30 %

2 , 3, 4, 5 are early stages of blasts.

So, good news is we still have 4 growing, and great that they've got to early blast stage. No news on the quality of these. I've asked Gail to send over more info on the number of cells and level of frag. But she's said in her email that she doesn't check emails over the weekend, so we may have to wait for more news tomorrow.

Keeping everything crossed still!

L

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February 15, 2015 10:12 am

Morning!

 

So here's the latest update from Gail below. We're not quite sure what this means, so we're hoping to speak to a doctor tomorrow.

It sounds as if 4 are still growing....

 

Today’s  evaluation is:

# 1 5 cell fragment 30 %

# 2  EABL= expanding blast  ( this usually means 8 cell or greater)

# 3 CAV= cavitating= which means the embryo is growing to the next stage.

# 4 EXBLICMLCT     = expanding blast with inter cellular mass. This usually means it is close to blast.

# 5 CAV-VACS=  Sorry I do not know what the VACS

L

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February 15, 2015  12:31pm

HI Melanie,

 

So we've just had a call from Dr L, with some more news. Good news is that they have now frozen two embryo's and sent the cells off for testing. We should hear back in about a week. The other three have stopped growing, but I'm pleased that we made it to two blasts. Yay!

 

L

 

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February 16, 2015  1:21pm

hi there,

 

Just another update from today. Both embryos are expanded blasts, quality AB. So that's good i think.

 

Cheers,

L

 

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SO there it is ... our embryo update.  We have two embryos of decent quality.  I have taken screenshots from a clinic other than our own because they have wonderful images of what the grades mean of our embryos before freeze.   Check out what it means to be a grade AB and also look at what a expanding AB blast looks like!  

 

This is from http://www.advancedfertility.com/blastocystimages.htm

 

Now we wait for about a week.  The Nurse Coordinator Gail called me.  She said we should have the biopsy report in about a week and then we will schedule our Frozen Embryo Transfer from then but to continue on active birth control pills so we can go right into using the injectible hormones.  But saying that we would be scheduling the frozen transfer sounds very positive to me!  It means that she has hope for these beautiful little embryos!!    So cheers snowbabies! I can't wait to see your genetic reports!!!