Our Path to Parenthood: TransferrING

We did the embryo transfer! I don't think you can really prepare for this experience but in the grand scheme of things maybe it is good not to really know what to expect. I definately have no modisty at this point (after having complete stangers seeing you naked and peeing in a bed pan infront of my mother)!

Paul had to work the day of the appointment so my mom took me to the IVF clinic. I am sad that he was not there for the experience but I am grateful that my mom was there for the whole process. I felt pretty good going in that morning and took a Valium about an hour before the procedure as well as making sure I had a full bladder. The doctor came in and talked to us and told us everything to expect and gave us a picture of the two blastocysts that he was going to implant. The doctor implants them with a catheter guided by an ultrasound, so we got to see everything! They brought in the blastocysts in an incubator and my mom got to see them through a microscope. They do one test with the catheter before they actually insert them. Once they put the catheter into the uterus you can see the blastocysts come out of the catheter. It is amazing. Now we have pictures of the actual beginning, way before most couples (we have to look to the bright side since everything else is easier for those not havign to go through IF...not to be bitter or anything). So now we are just waiting. I will go in for a blood test to see if they have taken and survived. It will be the longest ten days of my life!

I think we are transferring our thoughts from this being a dream to thinking this could actually be real. We don't want to give our hopes up, but it is hard not to have names running through our heads and think about how we want to decorate the nursery. Not that I haven't thought of all of that before, but it seems like that reality is closer than ever. I hope that this is the key step to transferring our dreams to reality!