Embryo Transfer - IVF #2

Today was a stressful drive to Shady Grove. The beltway was in knots, for no real apparent reason other than the fact that it was the beltway and the beltway is ridiculous. We were going no more than 20 mph the entire way from 50 to 270 :( I tried not to stress it too much... but of course did! :)

We had a 9:45 show up time for our 10:15 transfer, but got there right at 10:05. We went right back & our nurse, Nicole, was super nice! As soon as we got back there we were shocked to be greeted by Dr. K!  I was so glad we were there on his day at Rockville (I wasn't sure who we would have).

Before we go into the rooms, they make the husbands cover up their shoes with little booties (I had to take mine off, obviously). The transfer rooms have really nice relaxing ambient lighting. Laidback 101! We went in, got situated, then the doctor came in and talked about the embryos. We decided on transferring two. One is an AB blast, the other is a little behind, but still good. We might still have 3 or 4 left to freeze :)

The transfer process involves a few things: a full bladder (so they can see the uterus), the ultrasound wand pushed heavily against your abdomen, and a catheter through which the embryos are transferred. After we decided on 2 the embryologist came in to verify my info, and my selection to transfer two, then went to get our babies :) Dr. K printed off a picture from the ultrasound of the catheter so we can have "early" baby pictures!!! The transfer itself is a piece of cake, I really hardly felt anything but could see it on the ultrasound-- so awesome to see. Matt was standing next to me watching. Just as Dr. K put the catheter in Matt kissed my head!

Okay so after the transfer they take the catheter back and make sure no embryos got stuck in there. And that's where it got wonky. They found something, and we could hear them talking. Then Dr. K peeks into the lab to see what's up, and then ends up going into the lab to see what's going on. So it turns out there was something in the catheter, they didn't "think" it was the embryo, but it looked like it. Just in case it was the embryo, they wanted to put it in a petri dish to let it grow to see what it was. But if it doesn't develop, then we will know it wasn't an embryo. If it does, they'll just freeze it with the others. I was really taken aback and didn't know what to do but I will not stress it, just hope for the best!

We stopped at Burger King on the way home. When I got home I climbed in bed and started reading "The White Queen" by Phillippa Gregory. Now I'm sitting on the recliner blogging!


Dirty Dancing is on. Hopefully these estrogen sob-fest movies will make these little babies stick!!! :)