Doubling up

The final results came in today and it's official: we've doubled our embryo count! (With another boy, of course.)

We can breathe a sigh of relief: cycle #2, albeit awfully disappointing, wasn't for nothing.

This second embryo has better odds than our first: given his grade at time of cryopreservation, he has a 65% chance of successful implantation and a 50% chance of live birth. With our two banked embryos combined, the odds of one successful live birth have now climbed up to 72%—not enough yet for me to breathe easy, but a more comforting number with which to roll into my third retrieval next week.

Time to start mentally preparing myself for a future as a #boymom. *knocks on wood*