So, I've been sick with the flu since Tues night - nice. The fever hit both Brad and I at the same time. We were quite a pathetic sight huddled under the covers Tuesday night in our sweats shivering away from the fever. Brad is totally fine now, lucky him!!
The main reason for this posting is that we had our IVF orientation class yesterday! Yippee! Yes, we went flu and all. There must have been 15 couples there. It's amazing how many people suffer from infertility. They basically explained the whole process, complete with photos of various embies, grading charts, etc. They offer an interesting program to only a select few to encourage the transfer of only one embryo at a time. Apparently, very few 5 day blasts are rated "excellent", as most are rated "good" or "average", but if we are overacheivers and lucky enough to have 2 excellent blasts, then they will encourage us to only transfer one with a chance of pregnancy of 75% and they will freeze the second one for free and if pregnancy fails with the first one, they will transfer the second one for free. Hmmm, some food for thought. For some reason, I'm starting to get excited about the idea of twins and kind of envision our future with twins. My clinic's stats are about 47% of all pregnancies are twin - that's a lot! I just don't know how I'd feel about reducing the chance of pregnancy by only putting one back (granted, it wouldn't be much of a reduction - per the embryologist 75% with one "perfect" blast vs. 80% with two "perfect" blasts and extremely high twin rate). I am certainly not intentionally trying to get pregnant with twins, just want to maximize our chances of one healthy baby, but it sure would be nice to get two for the price of one - literally!! I guess I shouldn't worry about this until I'm in that situation and I'm not going to hold my breath that we'll even be candidates.
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