Glass Sperm

250,000 of them!!! That was just the rough estimate. There may be more. The lab tech did a quick off the top sample before it had completely liquified. She wanted to give Mr. Scuba an idea of what we were getting before we left. They have been amazingly understanding of how emotional this process is for us. My RE's office has been gaining a lot of points during this process!

So now we have glass sperm. Rather than use the classic cryopreservation, our lab is using a state of the art method called vitrification. Using this process gives us better survival rates after thaw. They take the whole sample and drop it into liquid nitrogen and freeze it very quickly. This actually puts the sperm into a glass state!!! So cool!

I am just so relieved that we now have some back-up. This might actually happen!