Next week we official start the preparation for the Frozen
Embryo Transfer (FET). We’ve made it past all of the Egg Retrieval steps, now
it’s time to prepare my body so our little embryo will want to stick and make
me its home! We picked up all of the medicine from the pharmacy ($106) and luckily insurance covered some of the medications since they are all hormone based medicines. Since they can be used for things outside of IVF they covered a portion. Normally they would have been around $300-$500. The medications will start next week after my first ultrasound and blood work appointment.
This past week we received the results for the last test
that they run on the embryos. Genesis Genetics the company that does the PGS
(pre-implantation genetic screening) also runs a mitochondrial DNA report on
the embryos. The purpose of performing mitochondrial quantification using
MitoGrade is to evaluate the chances of an embryo implanting depending on the
amount of mitochondria in the embryo. Mitochondria are small organelles inside
cells that provide energy to the cells. A sign that the embryo is stressed is
when it produces too many mitochondria to compensate for a deficit of energy.
Embryos with too many mitochondria have a lower implantation rate or do not
implant.
Our results showed that all of our genetically normal
embryos also have a normal about of mitochondrial DNA!
We also received our videos back from Embryoscope this week. When we paid for Embryoscope ($650), we paid to reserve a space. Each
space on contains so many spots. Since I had so many eggs retrieved, not all of
my embryos were able to be monitored using Embryoscope. I believe 12 were
monitored in the Embryoscope while the rest were monitored daily by the
embryologists in the lab. Sadly, this means I only have videos for 3 of my
embryos, but I was still excited to watch them grow! The other 3 are perfectly
fine still, I just don’t have a video of them growing to Day 5.
Out of the 3 in the Embryoscope, 2 were my boys and 1 girl. Here are them growing from fertilization to Day 5. Baby’s first video…lol
Out of the 3 in the Embryoscope, 2 were my boys and 1 girl. Here are them growing from fertilization to Day 5. Baby’s first video…lol
Video #1 is Boy #1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRXk0BqP3_s
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