We've missed an update or two lately, because life can be hard. News After a frozen embryo transfer, you wait. We did that, but it was obvious to us that Rachael was pregnant. Her body made that clear. But the indications eased up and the pregnancy test came back negative. And again a few days later. At least one of the babies stuck for a short while, but all three have … [Read more...] about Embryo Adoption: When Life is Hard
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Embryo Adoption – when timing doesn’t work
It's amazing any of us are ever born. Just consider the timing of things. And then the risk factors and loss rates seem to be against us. But somehow, by the grace of God, new persons are born every day. After doing the monitoring today, the doc called to say we missed the optimal time for transfer. It's frustrating, but such is life. Monitoring will resume on May … [Read more...] about Embryo Adoption – when timing doesn’t work
Embryo Adoption – The nitty-gritty, Part 1
Embryo Adoption, Part 1: Monitoring As we introduced in this post, we adopted a set of 5 embryos. Mr Wigglesworth was born from the 1st transfer. Now that he is 14 months old, we are getting ready to do the 2nd transfer. Here is a description of what we are doing to get ready for this 2nd transfer. Warning: I use some technical language in this post. I aim to … [Read more...] about Embryo Adoption – The nitty-gritty, Part 1
