Good morning from Atlanta! We arrived home yesterday afternoon at around 2:50pm, after another long couple of flights from Mumbai and Amsterdam. Once again, Alan slept for the majority of both flights, and I was thrilled to the gills that I managed about three hours of sleep on flight #1. I'm sorry that we couldn't spend a day or two in Amsterdam on the way home, but since Delta wanted to charge us each $700+ to change our tickets, that most definitely wasn't happening!
We got some very good news from the clinic once we arrived home - all three of our viable embryos have been continuing to experience good cell division (as of last night, two of them had 8 cells and one of them had 6 cells, which is exactly where they should be on 'Day 3' of the process). The doctor determined that all three are of good quality - again, a very positive sign - and she completed the transfer of all three embryos into the surrogate late last night Atlanta time. Here is an image of the three embryos pre-transfer - you can definitely identify the two embryos with 8 cells and the one with 6 cells:
Now we begin the dreaded "two week wait" before we can get confirmation about if any of the embryos have taken. I'm sure that those of you who have kids remember this waiting period well...we're only 12 hours in, and we can already tell it's going to take everything in our power not to fixate on this for the next 14 days!
I'm not sure if we will be getting any additional reports from the clinic for the next couple of weeks, so the blog may go on a bit of a short-term hiatus. However, we promise to update all of you as soon as we have something to share. Alan has just posted some additional photos of our trip on Facebook, so feel free to take a look. As always, we are so grateful for all of your positive thoughts and best wishes. We had an incredible few days in Mumbai and are very happy with how our trip went - one we'll remember forever!
We got some very good news from the clinic once we arrived home - all three of our viable embryos have been continuing to experience good cell division (as of last night, two of them had 8 cells and one of them had 6 cells, which is exactly where they should be on 'Day 3' of the process). The doctor determined that all three are of good quality - again, a very positive sign - and she completed the transfer of all three embryos into the surrogate late last night Atlanta time. Here is an image of the three embryos pre-transfer - you can definitely identify the two embryos with 8 cells and the one with 6 cells:
Now we begin the dreaded "two week wait" before we can get confirmation about if any of the embryos have taken. I'm sure that those of you who have kids remember this waiting period well...we're only 12 hours in, and we can already tell it's going to take everything in our power not to fixate on this for the next 14 days!
I'm not sure if we will be getting any additional reports from the clinic for the next couple of weeks, so the blog may go on a bit of a short-term hiatus. However, we promise to update all of you as soon as we have something to share. Alan has just posted some additional photos of our trip on Facebook, so feel free to take a look. As always, we are so grateful for all of your positive thoughts and best wishes. We had an incredible few days in Mumbai and are very happy with how our trip went - one we'll remember forever!
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