Embryo Transfer September 12, 2017

The day for our transfer was finally here!! We were so excited and so nervous! My appointment was scheduled for 1:30 and it seemed like it would be forever until it was time to go. After 2 weeks of constant appointments all early in the morning this would be how you felt too.

 I got everything packed since I was no longer going to be staying with Randy's Grandma and into my car and then traveled to my aunt's house who lived only a few miles from where the transfer was going to take place. My mom met me there as she was who was going to be accompanying me to my transfer appointment since Randy was unable to make it due to work obligations.

About an hour before my appointment I took a Valium per my doctors orders (prescription she'd given for just the 1 pill). This is to help relax you and keep your uterus calm during the transfer so they can get the best placement.

It was finally time for my appointment and we got all checked in. They took us back to another room and had me get undressed from the waist down. My doctor came in and talked to me and told me the Day 5 Fertilization Report. We had 14 surviving embryos! With 5 more possibly if they met the criteria the next day. (They did not and were not frozen.) So she wanted to know how many we were wanting to transfer. Randy and I had discussed this and had decided that we wanted to transfer 2. My doctor tried to talk me down to just 1 since I was young but with my mom's help I held firm. We just had a feeling we needed to transfer 2. So the embryologist got the 2 embryos ready for transfer.

The top 2 were the ones transferred!

An embryo transfer is fairly similar to how an IUI is done. Though they use an ultrasound at the same time while doing the transfer. They use a really long syringe type thing and stick it up into the uterus and place it in a predetermined area (based off of your water ultrasound). So we got to see the exact moment the 2 embryos were released. That was pretty cool and super exciting! The embryologist checked the syringe to make sure that neither embryo got stuck to it and didn't make it in. Luckily they both had successfully been placed. They then tipped the table so my hips were elevated and I had to stay like that for 20-30 minutes. Once the time was up I was able to get dressed and we were able to leave.

A picture of the ultrasound. You can kinda see the "flash"

 of the embryos being deposited.

I was now PUPO (pregnant until proven otherwise) and the waiting game began. I was instructed to begin my progesterone suppositories starting that night and then to use them morning noon and night until instructed otherwise. I was put on strict bed rest for 2 days after the transfer. I spent those 2 days at my aunts house watching The Office with her and crime shows and chick flicks when she was gone. Then I was finally allowed to drive the 7 hours home.

We had 10 days from the transfer day before my blood pregnancy test. By the time I was able to get home we had about a week before we would have to drive back down for the test. This time seemed to drag on forever!! After having a very strict schedule now I had nothing to do but sit and wait and pray.

Til next time!
Becca