All done!  We had the transfer this morning, it was amazing.

 Got to the office and had some bloodwork done for the study I was in.  Then I went over to the acupuncturist and had an awesome acupuncture session.  I took my valium, and then headed over to the waiting area for the transfer.  I was very relaxed, even without the valium.  Last night Jason gave me a massage, and then after the acupuncture I was feeling no pain.  Toss in the valium, and I was on top of the world, baby!  We got to the transfer waiting area and the doctor came in and showed us this picture of the blastocysts they were going to implant…

Aren’t they adorable?  I think they have my eyes. 

The doctor said they scored an 8, which I guess is good.  They’re 8 cells big.  Hooray for 8!  There were also 2 that were good enough to freeze for use to use down the line, and 2 more that weren’t quite good enough to freeze yet but they said they’d keep an eye on them to see how they progress.  Knowing there are some that can be frozen helps take some of the pressure off of this too.  I so want it to work, but if it doesn’t I know we can at least try with the frozen ones before we have to decide if we want to go through this whole thing again.

Of course once I get the picture I get all misty, and the tears pretty much continued through the whole transfer.  They took us into the room, and it was nice and dark with soothing music playing.  The doctor was there along with the biologist who was taking the little guys out of the incubator and loading them in the cathether.  They did a test run with threading the catheter into my uterus to make sure it went where they wanted it to, and then they loaded the tykes into the catheter, threaded the catheter into my uterus, and deposited them in their new home!  It was very cool, you could see everything happening on the ultrasound, and when they put the cells in they were little white dots because they had some air around them.  Jason was there holding my hand the whole time.  It was perfect.

So now we wait…I think it will be a long two weeks.  Today I’m laying on the couch, taking it easy.  I’ll probably try to take it easy tomorrow too.  Work is going to be busy over the next couple of weeks, so that will help the time go by fast.  I’m telling myself I’m NOT going to get a urine pregnancy test to take at home before the bloodtest – that’s just asking to be freaked out.  Whether or not I’ll stick to that I don’t know.

The next stage for these little fellas is to grow enough to break out of their shell and make themselves nice and cozy in my uterus.  I go for the bloodtest on the 16th and the 18th, and if that is positive I’ll go for an ultrasound 2 weeks later to see how many we have in there.  It’s all so amazing, I can’t believe we actually got here.

I’m feeling very positive, I hope it lasts.  I’m sure the emotions will be running high at times while we’re waiting to see how this all plays out, but I’m going to try to at least keep my body from getting involved in the various bits of chaos my brain plays out.  I want these kids to say ‘Dude, this place is awesome.  Let’s stick around, get comfy.  Maybe order a pizza’…