Waiting for Step 2

This has been a very busy, exciting couple of weeks!  A quick update:

As mentioned in the last post, the egg retrieval was a success, and the doctor was able to get 8 eggs from me.  Doug's numbers were much, much, higher ;)  Haha.  So that was on Thursday.  Friday morning, we called to find out how many eggs were able to be fertilized...FIVE!    Don't worry; it's very typical that not all of the eggs were able to be fertilized.  Five is a good number to us; way better than zero, especially considering that all of them came from my right ovary.  We are so happy!  So now we're joking that I'm eating for five and that I'm long-distance pregnant.  Har har.

The doctor was thinking I'd have to do a 3-day embryo transfer (which is usually done in cases where the eggs aren't very healthy or there aren't very many eggs), but we are actually able to do a 5-day transfer.  So Tuesday's the big day!

As always, we appreciate your prayers.  Please pray that the babies would continue to grow healthy and strong, and that my body would also be healthy and ready to receive them.  We know God can work miracles; He's already done (at least) 5 just this week!