April 15, 2006
bean & sorenson
bean is worried that yesterday’s post was a little too negative, so we thought we would make a list of all the good and bad omens (if only we were superstitious):
bad
little pip was kept out of the oven for a minute longer than they would normally keep them out (as per post below)
good
it’s easter with related fertility symbolism
we gave dr david home grown fertility inducing eggs
the nice scientist only had to thaw one pip
pip was thawed to the light of the full moon (francesca naish would be proud)
all four of pip’s cells survived the thaw and went on to divide to make an eight cell embryo - this is a Very Good Sign
luckily for us, one of dr david’s other very exciting patients needed him on saturday which meant that he was available to transfer pip himself !
the nice scientist and david both told us many times what a great embryo pip is
completely painless, smooth transfer with no spotting or bleeding
if pip decides to stick around, he/she will be a capricorn like us! and it is well documented that we love capricorns
so we’re feeling optimistic, but of course we must insert standard disclaimer about frozen embryo transfers only working about 20 per cent of the time…
[IVFesty]
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Ah, how the world needs another capricorn! Let’s hope eh?
Once pip sticks, will he/she become Phillip or Phillipa? I like the name Phillipa/Pippa/Pip but boys called Phillip can be a bit troublesome. (I guess if every teachers listed bad names there wouldn’t be any left…).
Comment by e — April 16, 2006 @ 11:51 am
Pippa is a nice name.
i do think we will have to pass the eventual names past you for the old schoolteacher test! i’d hate to choose a name only to find out that it is renowned for being associated with bad behaviour. but to be fair, we’ll have to find some other teachers to give their opinions too. our donor’s wife is a teacher - maybe she will help out too. g, any really bad ones to watch out for?
Comment by sorenson — April 20, 2006 @ 5:01 am
We’ll call it Hardy because it’s been to Antarctica and survived.
That’s tough.
Comment by bean — April 20, 2006 @ 6:10 am