We met with the embryologist and we are definitely doing the PGD. My big question was if the embryo's were not doing well on Day 3 that they would be transfered back in without doing the PGD and that is the case. If the embryo's are not 6 cells at Day 3 they will not do the PGD on them. So in other words, if we have a 3 day transfer, there will be no PGD. We will just have to hope for the best.

Today is day 7 of lupron, so far so good, I had a hot flash yesterday, which according to Stephanie I work with, is a good sign. It means I am not producing estrogen and I am probably suppressed.

On Wed. I go for supression check and we will see for sure. I will have an ultrasound and blood work on that day, as well as a trial embryo transfer. They require a full bladder for the trial embryo transfer, can you even imagine!! Everyone who knows me knows that I go to the bathroom about every 5 minutes and cannot hold anything! Should be real interesting with me trying to hold a full bladder. I am just going to tell them in advance that they might get urinated on in advance! How embarassing would that be to pee on the doctor? Anyway, the trial transfer is just so they can use the catheter that they will use the day of the real transfer to make sure they will not have any problems with the catheter. Apparently you have the US probe and the catheter and they thread it right into the uterus to make sure they go right to the middle of the uterus so they can deposit the embroy's right in the spot they need to be. I read an article today, about how important the embryo transfer itself is and that the RE that does it has to be very trained. Thank goodness all of the RE's at NFC are very good, I will not neccessarily get my doc for the retrevial or the transfer, it will be whatever RE is on call on each day as to who I get. Glad they have all done this thousands of times!!

I will keep everyone posted as to how the supression check/trial transfer goes on Wed.

Please keep praying for us, we are very nervous!!

Julie