Egg Update

I got the call from the RE's nurse today and found out that 6 of the 8 eggs fertilized. So are they now called embryos? I'll have to google that sometime.

So of course I've gone online and read various blogs and posts about IVF and how some of these women have 20 eggs retrieved and I think gosh 8 is low (well now 6). But I'm trying not to freak myself out to much about it. And keep repeating the mantra "we only need 2". The hubby and I had decided pretty early on that we wanted to implant 2 embryos, no more no less. If we get additional ones to freeze that would be a bonus.

The plan is to do a day 5 transfer which brings us to next wednesday. I recently looked it up and it was interesting that they used to only do day 3 transfers and that they would implant alot more eggs because of the risk of failure. And that these days waiting until the blastocyst (day 5) stage is more like when the egg actually moves into the uterus. Per the internet: "A blastocyst is a highly developed embryo that has divided many times to a point where it is nearly ready to implant on the walls of the uterus."

At this point it is totally out of my hands and up to nature and God. So the waiting begins...