No, I’m not talking about the weather. I’m talking about the 3 frozen embryos that are currently being held by our fertility clinic. After much debate back and forth, the hubs and I decided to freeze our embryos on Friday for the following reasons:
1. The clinic only froze the very best embryos and allowed our petri-dish embryos to continue to grow for 7 days. A the time of implantation we had 9 embryos still growing, 1 implanted in me and 3 survived 2 days longer with cells continuing to divide by function.
2. If this round of IVF does not work, we’ll be able to proceed forward with round #2 with minimal hormone therapy. This makes both the hubs and I very happy!
3. When it came down to the final call, we had trouble discarding really good embryos on the off chance that I would not produce these again.
The chance of success with a frozen embryo closely mimics the chance of success with a fresh embryo so we’re hopeful that if not this round then we’ll find success with our embryos on ice during round #2.
Our insurance does not cover the cryopreservation or thawing, but we’ve been fortunate to date with full insurance coverage over all other procedures. Thank you State benefits! My heart goes out to those that pocket the nearly $20,000/ round of IVF when trying to conceive unconventionally.
On that note, the matters going on in California with prop #8 make me sick! Prayers go out to the wonderful people in my life (same sex marriage and heterosexual marriage) trying to conceive, I personally believe that every loving couple in God’s eyes has the right to have a family and get married it is not our government’s job nor our job as humans to dictate this. Woohoo California for making the right decision, finally! And my hormone-induced rant is done for the day, thanks for sticking with me!
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