The much awaited BFP! (and the surprise that came with it!)

We went to the hospital early to do the beta HCG blood work. After that we went to Starbucks and lingered there for a couple hours before we went back to the clinic. When it was our turn, we went in to check the results of the blood test. I looked at the screen and it was a beta of 237!

I wasn't particularly overjoyed but I did feel a little happy that my beta was positive. I looked at the associate doctor who was in the clinic instead of Dr. Hwu, who is in the ultrasound room. The associate doctor (I will just refer to him as doctor) didn't congratulate me and he was frowning instead, appearing concerned. When he did speak up, he said I had a positive beta but he thinks it's a big too low for D4+14 dPT. He then showed me an excel spreadsheet with the stats and said that usually the beta numbers should be well over 800+. He wanted to me do another blood test after 48 hours to see if it doubles or is 1.66 times the original beta. Well, seriously? I had always thought a positive is positive! How naïve I was!

So we left the clinic with a slip for the second beta hcg test 2 days later.... fingers crossed? I wasn't too sure what to think....

Embryo Transfer

Just a quick update:

Of the 15 eggs retrieved, 10 were fertilized and we were asked to go to the hospital for ET on D4 post-retrieval (Morula transfer).

Three morulas were transferred back to my uterus. They were graded M1, M2 and M3. The embryologist said that she was afraid there will be nothing left to transfer if we were to wait for Day 5 blastocyst transfer. She said the rest of the embryos weren't developing too well.

Anyway, we called the lab on day 6 and were told there were 3 additional blasts which were frozen, grade: 4BB x 2 and 3BB x 1. I was happy to hear there were frozen embies to use in case this cycle was also a BFN.

The dreaded two week wait began.....