T minus 12 days to FET

Well it looks like we are on track for our transfer on the 27th.  I am so excited!  My lining check this morning was great, it was 10.4 which is really good especially since we still have so much time left to go.  The wonderful ladies at AF (who are also really excited) went out of their way to look up and tell me our two embryos were frozen at 4AB and 3AB.  For the in depth description, from AF's site, on what all this grading means, click here. 

The Gardner blastocyst grading system assigns 3 separate quality scores to each blastocyst embryo:
1.Blastocyst development stage - expansion and hatching status
2.Inner cell mass (ICM) score, or quality
3.Trophectoderm (TE) score, or quality

Expansion grade Blastocyst development and stage status
1 Blastocoel cavity less than half the volume of the embryo
2 Blastocoel cavity more than half the volume of the embryo
3 Full blastocyst, cavity completely filling the embryo
4 Expanded blastocyst, cavity larger than the embryo, with thinning of the shell
5 Hatching out of the shell
6 Hatched out of the shell

ICM grade Inner cell mass quality:
A Many cells, tightly packed
B Several cells, loosely grouped
C Very few cells

TE grade Trophectoderm quality:
A Many cells, forming a cohesive layer
B Few cells, forming a loose epithelium
C Very few large cells

Example of a 4AB blastocyst...

Those eggs/embryos are just about ready to hatch, almost in time for Easter. ;)

I have to stay on the Lupron through Wednesday and continue with the patches, tapering them down to two beginning next week.  I will switch out the Lupron for my PIO shots and hCG trigger next Thursday.  I have acu next Thursday again and am working on my pre and post ET acu scheduling.