Day 2 Embryos

The embryologist called today to update us on our future Baby Schunkes!

We have two 2-cell embryos and one 4-cell embryo. Both 2 and 4 cell embryos are common for day 2. They look for three things to judge the quality of the embryos...number of cells, consistent shape of the cells, and degree of frangmentation. One of the 2-cell embryos and the 4-cell embryo are both doing well. He said they look average to above average! The remaining 2-cell embryo does not look very good. It has more than 50% fragmentation and the cells are not consistent with each other, one is a little larger than the other. They wil continue to grow it along with the others. I have read alot of the internet about judging quality and we really don't have a solid reliable system for this. Sometimes a poor quality embryo wil still develop into a normal healthy child. We will just see how it does over the next several days. A lot of times they are not developing due to chromosomal mutations and would not survive anyway.

We are still praying and believing that one of more of these will soon be our new additions! The fact that we are this far in the process is a miracle. God is good!