2dp3dt: Huh, never written that before

I've been having cramping ever since transfer. I'm hopeful. My RE actually said he likes cramping because it "spreads the embryos out", so they're not competing for the same spot.

I should hear about my embryo tomorrow. I was told that if it wasn't a high-quality blast by Day 6, they'd toss it. I assume they don't want to disturb it before then. I don't have much hope for it, so I really won't be crushed. I think, even if it did make it, we'd try one more fresh with my husband's sperm, and any frozens we get, tossing the one in later.

I'll probably start testing on 8DPO. I need to dig out my last fresh chart--I think my trigger was gone at 6 DPO? Don't want to catch that by mistake.

My clinic wants me in at 17DPO for a beta, but because the nurses were so busy, they didn't schedule it after my transfer. I have thoughts about sneaking in earlier, but I'm not sure. 15DPO is a Monday, which really sucks for me, schedule-wise. They don't like to do betas on Sunday, so i might actually be doing it Tuesday afternoon (16DPO). I guess I'm not as stressed about it as I've been in the past--I know when it's neg (and feel no guilt at stopping meds at 15DPO...), and when i had my positive, I learned that betas don't really mean much--it's all about the ultrasound anyway, good or bad.

On a side note, I've learned about a few different ways of selecting sperm, like PICSI and IMSI. I think, if we don't go donor, we'll be traveling to a strange new clinic, probably out of state. (I wonder if any of them take egg donors over 30? Because seriously, stellar genes right here, yours for the cost of an IVF!) It might be time to slow down and explore our options a bit.

Of course, I might be the warning-story of the woman who got pregnant with sextuplets because all three of her ugly embryos identical twinned and implanted. Apparently, you never know with IVF...