Our embryos are at the day 4 stage today. That means they have about 25-30 cells. 5 out of 6 are doing really well. Or at least they were as of this morning. Tomorrow (thursday) morning they will update me again. They want 2 of them to stand out as the best of the best. If they have that we will go in at 130 to put them where they belong - in their mom. If they are still having trouble deciding which are the best (and therefore have the best potential of continuing to survive) they will give them one more day to develop and see if any start to slow down or anything. Then the transfer would be friday. So - that's where we are tonight. Now I'm going to bed. Tomorrow might be a big day :)
Stay in your lane. Don't look at other people's papers. Those couple of lines jumped out at me as I read Maria Goff's book " Love Lives Here" It reminded me that we can't all live the same life. Comparisons hold us back and discourage us like nothing else. We have fears of being different when we are SUPPOSED to be different. I grew up trying to fit in and not doing a very good job at it. When I was in my teens I thought I'd try a new approach so I started trying to be the opposite of what I was because I thought that is what everyone else wanted me to be. I am chatty and energetic and I tried to be dainty and quiet. I didn't do a very good job of that either. Yikes. Trying to be someone we're not is exhausting and it doesn't work. We seldom fool anyone or achieve the goal we thought we wanted. What we all really want I think, is to connect with one another and to matter. As an adult I have had goals and held them up against other p...
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