Pregnant until proven otherwise!

I am pleased to announce that I now have 2 beautiful embryos cooking away in my uterus! We sadly did not make it to a 5 day transfer. I received the call yesterday morning that 6 of our 8 embies were considered poor quality for various reasons, but I did have one absolutely perfect 8 celled embryo that was considered excellent quality and one 8 celled good quality embie to transfer. Basically what this all means is that I have an egg quality problem which wouldn't have been discovered if we hadn't done IVF. I'm just hoping and praying that I have some good eggs and these two are great ones! They gave us pictures of our little embies and it was so cool! I hope that I'll be able to show our future children their very first portraits! I'll scan them in and post them as soon as we get our scanner hooked back up. The staff at the clinic yesterday all were very optimistic and said that pregnancies happen all the time in these situations, so we're very hopeful. The embryologist explained that because we already knew which ones were the best, there was no reason to wait until day 5 to narrow it down and that I'm a much better incubator than the lab.

As soon as I got the call yesterday morning at 8:30, I raced off to acupuncture and she gave me an extra long treatment which really helped to relax me for the transfer. Even the nurse commented that my blood pressure was low so I must not be too nervous! Oh, the nurse was pregnant, and I of course was thinking oh great, I get stuck with the pregnant nurse at a fertility clinic, but it turns out that she had to do IVF and is now expecting twin boys! That made it me feel much better. When she was telling me about what will happen with the progesterone shots and stuff, I knew that she really knew what she was talking about. The transfer itself was a peice of cake. I had to get in the surgical gown again and had to wear my hair net, and Brad had to put on a bunny suit thing that the Dr wore with the hair net and shoe covers and they wheeled me in to the procedure room. The room is attached to the lab, so my Dr inserted the catheder first and then when it was in and ready, he called out the embryologist that he was ready so they rushed the embryos that were in a little syringe in to the room and Dr. D inserted them into my uterus. The embryologist then had to the take the syringe to the microscope to make sure that both embies came out. The whole thing took about 5-10 min! My mom who was waiting in our room couldn't believe that we were already back! I then had to lay flat with my feet elevated for an hour to allow the liquid medium that the embies were in to absorb into my body so they could stick to my lining. Apparently my lining is very sticky and they will hopefully stay just where Dr. D put them. They will not begin to actually implant for at least 3 more days. Now I'm on bed rest for 24 hours - I'm almost done, thank goodness!

Thank you to everyone who reads this blog and for all the thoughts and prayers that you have sent our way! We appreciate it more than you know!