embaby

n. an (implanted) embryo. Subjects: English, Biology, Colloquial

Editorial Note: This term appears to be most common among families that have undergone fertility treatment. Etymological Note: embryo + baby

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Citations: 2004 [beardiemom] Conceptions By The Way (Sept. 7) “Death Becomes Her”: I sit here alone thinking to myself I will never be able to bear a child of my own.…I am constantly reminded of others who are fertile.…I know she didn’t mean to constantly talk about her baby but I really didn’t need to hear the details of how she can feel the movement and how she wasn’t feeling good because of the baby and yada..yada..yada. Geez…could she rub some more salt into the wound. I mean for crying out loud, I just lost two embabies here! 2006 [Jenn Corso, Jeff Corso] Corso Family Blog (Apr. 23) “ Our Little Embabies”: Our Little Embabies…Here they are…the newest members of the Corso family at 3 days old! 2007 [Will] Will they have his eyes? (Aug. 27) “Waiting by the phone…”: I went for another beta today and I’m waiting for the results. I also had an u/s and I could see one little embryo!! It was amazing to see. My RE said there could be another one or two that pops up since we’re still so early. I would love to have twins/triplets so we wouldn’t have to go through this IVF thing again, even though we have frozen snow-babies. We would just end up donating them to a couple who was unable to produce their own “embabies.” I 2007 [finallyamommy (Lynn Kimotsuki)] SheKnows Message Boards (Sept. 10) “Fertility Report”: Out of the 18 eggs retrieved, 15 were M2, 3 were M1 (can someone explain M2 vs M1? I know it has to due with the maturity level). And eve though they fertilized all 18, only 8 fertilized normally. Right now, they will let them grow and make a determination Wed morning whether or not they will do the PGD. Please pray…for our little embabies, will ya?

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