It was a dark and stormy night ... tap, tap, tap ... is this thing on???? (He Said)

Well, here we we are!

Nancy and I thought it might be fun to blog our adventures with IVF. Well, maybe fun is the wrong word, how about interesting :). In any case, this will serve as our little electronic diary of the events leading up to and (hopefully) including the birth of our first child.

As far as the events leading up to now ...

On March 16th, our sweetheart of a donor (that's what all of the nurses call her) did us a serious solid, providing 44 eggs (41 mature) for our cycle!

31 of those eggs fertilized, and 15 were immediately frozen per the protocol we're using at Brigham and Women's.

On March 19th, two eggs were transferred. We were thinking it might be three, but the embryos were of really good quality (8:1 and 8:0, where the first number is the cell count and the second number is a fragmentation score; 0-4, where 0 is the best or no fragmentation).

AND ... as it turns out, they also were able to freeze 9 of the remaining Day 3 embryos! So, regardless of what happens, we have 24 embryos in stasis for another round.

And that brings us up to date!

That's what he said anyway ...