2DT5DT: Yes, I'm POAS!

It's only 2 days since transfer but I peed on a couple sticks today to see if my trigger is all gone.

First Response can't see a thing (25mIU) and my new ones from WondFo (20mIU) have a very very very light line, might be a evaporation line - who knows. So the trigger is pretty much gone. At least I'll know if anything turns up in the days to come and I won't have to ask the question, "Gosh, I wonder if that's still my trigger?" I like having a "baseline" pee stick to base other pee sticks on. Must be the scientist in me.

So the other embryo didn't make it.

Dr. Italian wrote and said the following:

The second embryo was cleaved (i.e. never made it to blast) on day 5 and never changed therefore it was discarded.
The blastocyst that you had transferred had no deeper grading; it was grade 3.

OK. This is a bit of a contradiction to me.

The nurse wrote to me on Monday and said:

"You have one non-expanded and one compacted, both grade 3. There will be one last update right before transfer.

Grade 3, in reference to an embryo that is "non-expanded" or "compacted" means that they are "blasts".

Cleaved means an embryo that is not yet a blast.

So which was it? Was it a grade 3 blast? Or was it a cleaved embryo?

It can't be both. It is so frustrating when people aren't clear. Maybe I just don't understand something about embryo or blast grading, but I wish they would educate me on this. I emailed Dr. Italian asking for further clarification and haven't heard back from him.

I hate being "that patient", that irritating "has to ask every question" patient...but I think that's me ... despite my trying so hard to not be irritating.