Celebration Day

I apologize for not posting yesterday, but I really underestimated the difficulty of using my laptop from a horizontal position. I'm allowed to sit up to 45 degrees today, so it's a little bit easier. But maybe today is the right day to post anyway because there's so much to celebrate. Today is mine and Dane's 7 year wedding anniversary! It's also father's day!

So yesterday went well. I arrived early in the morning and got settled in this warm and comfortable room (imagine a massage room) where they started my acupuncture. I honestly didn't know that the pressure point for your uterus is about half way up your ear :) I was pretty relaxed after that, and then they brought in a valium for me to take. That is one feel-good drug. I was pretty out of it for most of the day thanks to that. So then the doctor came in to talk about the embryos.

Short aside...after much discussion, Dane and I decided to go ahead and transfer two embryos. But it probably didn't matter because when the doctor came in she didn't even ask how many we want to transfer. She just said "I have two beautiful embryos to transfer". I guess two of them were clearly better than all the rest, so they transferred those two rather than risk one of the best ones getting damaged by freezing/thawing.

Next the embryologist came in with an incubator that had a microscope attached and a big screen on the top. We were able to see the embryos!! Dane took some pictures with his phone, and I'll try to load those up on the website, but that may take a while. In any case, they just looked like two blobs of cells. But the doctor assured us that they were "beautiful".

Then for the transfer. This went pretty quick. A long thin tube inserted into my uterus was the guide catheter for the tiny tube that they sucked the embryos into. After pushing the embryos out of the tube and into my uterus, they were done. It was that fast. The embryologist checked the tube to ensure both embryos were out, and then they all packed up and left. I was left to lay there for about another hour, with some more acupuncture to help me relax. After that we came home and I've been laying around ever since.

So far I keep having little cramps, sometimes on the right in the back, and sometimes on the left in the front. I hope those are the little embryos burrowing in :) But really I have no idea. I imagine that implantation is one of those things you can't actually feel. So maybe the cramps are just from the invasive procedure yesterday. Either way, I'll be thinking happy thoughts and hoping until Monday the 27th when I get to take a pregnancy test.