Embryo transfer complete!

On July 31, 2 embryos were transferred into my uterus! :) One was an "excellent" and one was an "average" grade.

We got to the office at 11AM and the transfer was scheduled for 11:45. I already had to pee when I got there and kept drinking.

Dr. Patel came in and explained that because there was only one "excellent" embryo, we may want to consider transferring 3. We talked about it for a few minutes and stuck with the original plan of transferring 2.

They took me in the procedure room and did an U/S. He said my bladder wasn't full enough and gave me another bottle of water which I downed in about a minute. At 12:20, we started up again and by this time, I needed to pee so bad, it was excruciating! And of course the speculum and the doc's cleaning of my cervix wasn't too fun either. (He said I had the most cervical mucus he'd seen all day - dunno if I should be proud or disgusted!).

The transfer wasn't easy - I am a little "fluffy" so he was having a hard time seeing what he wanted to see with the tummy U/S. He had to use the vaginal U/S - some special wand. It took a lot of playing around with the catheter before he got it aimed where he wanted. DH says the embryologist looked like she was praying behind him. They were very careful and precise, which was great to know, but not easy to wait through when you have to pee that bad.

Once it was over, I was supposed to lie on my back for 20 minutes. I only made it for 10 and was having such severe bladder cramps that I couldn't even sit up or lift my knees. The doctor said it was better to go ahead and get up to pee than to sit there cramping for 10 more minutes.

DH and the nurse had to support me as I made my way to the restroom because I was cramping so bad I couldn't walk.

I was paranoid as I went that I'd push the embies out. They promised me that it couldn't happen though.

Now I just wait until August 12. I have one HPT left from the clomid days, and I'll probably POAS the morning of the beta - if it is + I can be happy, and if it is -, at least I can steel myself for the possibility of a negative beta instead of having the wind knocked out of me at work.

I have to say that I feel very relaxed and at peace. I really have a strong feeling that this will work. I hope the feeling of peace continues as I go through the 2WW. I am still a little sore from the transfer, and it is very difficult to sit still - I did cave and cleaned up a little because DH just leaves glasses, pizza boxes, wrappers, etc. laying around and it causes me more stress to look at them than just to clean it up.  But he is helping me with feeding pets, caring for the fish tank, and the stuff that has to be done each day.

Oh, and there are 9 frozen embies. They froze 5 of the 11 that fertilized right away, on day 1. They say they have much higher implantation rates from FETs when the embies were frozen right away. Of the other 6, 2 were implanted, there is one more "average" quality one, and 3 that he still felt were worth freezing but he gives them a lower chance of being viable. So we have 9 frozen embies waiting for us.

Crystal