Good news!

After what seemed like literally 50 phone calls checking the patient information line, we finally got our fertilization report this afternoon. We were hoping for a day 5 transfer and we got our wish!! I don't want to get too scientific but a day 5 transfer means they believe some of our eggs will reach the blastocyst phase which is stronger and more advanced than they would be at day 3 so your odds are better. We ended up with nine fertilized eggs, two which were frozen at what is called the pronuclear stage. The other seven are being cultured in hopes that they reach the blastocyst phase. Then they will implant one or two - one if we have a blastocyst and two if we do not have a blastocyst. Of the remaning five or six that have been cultured, they will freeze the rest that have made it to day five (blastocyst). I know, it's so hard to understand all of this. Trust me, we have asked a lot of questions and done lots of reading!!! So, now the transfer is our next hurdle to get over which should be pretty painless. Then our next and biggest hurdle so far is the pregnancy test on September 26th. Thank God that's a Saturday because there is no way I could be at work that day waiting for the results. There are such big things happening every day now so it's so exciting!!

I'm looking forward to enjoying the weekend with my family and friends. Lindsay is staying at my house for the weekend because other relatives are in town for cousin-to-be Beth's bridal shower who will be staying at my parents. I'm looking forward to having her! We are of course doing the cupcakes for the bridal shower so we'll be up late tomorrow night working on them. I'll be sure to post pics!! Later on Saturday Dave and I will be heading to my friend Aimee's wedding! So excited and it sounds like the weather should be nice. Cross your fingers!! So, we have lots to keep us busy before our next big day on Monday! Oh but get this...I totally could have had two tickets to the Britney Spears Circus concert in Des Moines Friday night for $100! What a deal. Seriously, Britney is definitely on my top 5 concerts to see and quite possibly number one on the list because I really can't think of another concert I'd rather go to. I wouldn't think about going to that concert with anyone other than Lindsay though and she won't be getting into town til about 9:00 tomorrow night so there's just no way it would have worked. Darn, I so wanted to get in the zone.