Gender Results

We had 3 CCS normal embryos created 5 years ago. We transferred two 5 years ago and had our twins who are now 4yrs old….a boy and a girl. CCRM would not reveal the genders of the embryos at anytime during the pregnancy. We had to find out the usual way most people do at the anatomy ultrasound.

5 years later CCRM's policy has changed and they will reveal the gender of your embryo(s) after the first u/s if all looks good. So I asked my nurse yesterday since she finally got my u/s results. She gave me the number to the genetics line. I called the line many times, but no answer. Ughh. Called and called. No voicemail either. Found my CCRM info folder and found the genetics office email, and emailed. Called again, called again… just rang.
Called one last time on my way to work yesterday and someone picked up!!!  A very nice woman looked at my chart in the computer syste and made sure I had my first u/s and all was good. Then she revealed the gender of our last embryo…. embryo #7!!!!! It's a……………………………..
…………………………GIRL!!!!!!  I was hoping for a girl…. we have two boys and a girl now. I would love this little baby either way, but to even things out I was hoping for a girl…. seemed to good to be true that it would be!! We are very excited! CCRM did say that the testing is 95% correct, so there's a 5% chance of error.

We aren't going to tell our family yet. We are thinking of revealing it in a fun way maybe at Thanksgiving since everyone will be together. We'll see if I can hold it in that long!!

As far as symptoms go… symptoms come and go. Sometimes feel blegh nausea feeling which is reassuring. Definitely more tired this last week. But otherwise it's really hard to believe it's real. The u/s was reassuring, but it's easy to wonder if all is ok after a couple days. I might want that second u/s… so nice get reassurance!!

Ultrasound Results!

My ultrasound was yesterday, at 7wks 3days. I had my ultrasound late since we were out of town. CCRM says you can have your u/s as soon as 6.5wks. All looked good on the ultrasound. Baby is measuring on track at 7wks 3days. Heart rate was 170 bpm. :) Next u/s is the NT scan around 12wks and a general OB check up in 4 more weeks.

CCRM wants another u/s in 2wks from the first to monitor the growth but my OB doesn't think it's necessary. I'm ok not having another u/s… CCS and seeing all looks good at 7wks3days… I feel content. But we will see if CCRM will allow me to skip it. 5 years ago they did not ask for a second u/s, just one. I ended up having a second around 8wks because I had a gush of bright red bleeding.

I will talk to CCRM tomorrow (they still didn't have my results from my OB) hopefully they will have my u/s results!!