Friday, November 7, 2014

Transfer complete!

We traveled to Connecticut yesterday for the embryo transfer today.

We left our home around 7am, dropped off the kids at grandpa's, and headed to Lambert Airport.

Our flight was supposed to leave at 10:35am and about 30 minutes prior they announced a 1 hour delay. So I quickly called our shuttle service that was supposed to pick us up at LaGuardia to postpone the pickup. The flight was pretty seamless, just a bit of turbulence going into LaGuardia for landing as we had to hook around and fly into LGA from the southeast instead of straight in.

Amazingly the shuttle was ready for us when we arrived (this is amazing because every time we've flown into LGA we've had to wait at least 45 minutes to an hour for the shuttle to arrive. Then the trip to the hotel which was twice as long due to traffic. We finally arrived at the hotel about 5:30pm.

It was a very exciting night as we were meeting D & I in person for the first time!!
Once they arrived at the hotel we got to meet and went out for dinner. It was really great chatting about everything from our previous surrogacies to Black Friday craziness. Lmao!

Then we headed to bed as we had to be at the clinic at 9am this morning for transfer.

We didn't wait very long and were called back. The Doctor chatted with D & I a bit while I finished getting ready for transfer. Getting ready for transfer meant I had to drink TONS of water this morning and keep my bladder full for the transfer. Then it's just clothes off waist down and put a gown and drape on. The Doctor and nurse do the rest. It was a nice, small and quiet room. A TV was playing a nice, calming color swirling show. Once the Doctor was ready a speculum was inserted and D & I got to come in to watch the embryos being transferred to my uterus on the ultrasound screen. It is actually a pretty cool thing to watch.

After the transfer I had to lay there about 10 minutes and then we were free to go.

D & I had to make it a quick trip so they could get back to work so we said our goodbyes and forgot a group photo. Darn it! My husband and I were even talking about not forgetting to do that right before transfer. I guess it was just a little too exciting and our minds all got sidetracked.

 I was able to take a nice little nap and relax in the hotel room. We ordered some delicious local pizza and watched some movies. Tomorrow morning will be a quick breakfast, checkout and shuttle back to LaGuardia for our trip home.

Monday I will go to the lab and get blood drawn to check my progesterone level to make sure it is optimal for implantation and then the official blood test for pregnancy (beta) will be on November 17th (even though we will probably not get those results until the 18th).

I do plan on testing at home and since the 2 embryos we transferred were already 6 days old I may be able to get a positive home pregnancy test as early as Tuesday. So we are keeping our fingers crossed and praying this transfer is positive!

Here are the two embryos we transferred which are A and A- quality.
If you look closely at the sonogram photo you can see two little white dots at the arrow. Those are the embryos after being transferred to my uterus :)  Super awesome!


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