I am officially the owner of some pretty precious cargo! Take a look:
Those are our blastocysts which will (God willing) become our babies!! Isn’t that amazing! This picture is 4,000 times the actual size of the embryos! Say what?!!!! You can see in the one on the right that they already are separating into the two different types of cells. The clump of cells on the left will become the fetus, the watery cells on the right will become the placenta! Words can’t describe how amazing this truly is! And isn’t it hard to believe this is how EVERY single person is created?
I had to have a full bladder for the procedure. 3 water bottles later I was good! They use the bladder as a landmark to see the uterus on the ultrasound. That way they know that they’re putting the eggs in the right place!
We got our scrubs on and then went into the same room where they took the eggs out. The lab is right there too. It’s pressurized and a certain temperature that is conducive for the eggs to growth and thrive! The embryologist Dr. Ahmad said out of the 6 embryos the ones in the picture at the top were the most developed. He said he hopes the 4 others become blastocysts by tomorrow and then he’ll freeze whichever ones get to that stage. We hope there’s at least 1 or 2, but even if not we know we have 2 healthy growing embryos inside me right now!!! So crazy!!!
They put the ultrasound on my belly and then put a catheter into the uterus. Once it was in place, Dr. Huang told Dr. Ahmed they were ready. He placed the embryos in a different catheter and a little air bubble pushed them into place! And we could see it happening on the ultrasound — it’s hard to describe the feeling we felt at that moment. Then that was it! Easy peasy! I laid there for a 15 minutes or so and then we were off!
I need to lay low for a couple of days then I should be able to get back to my normal routine. Dr. Ahmad says after transfer they’ll hang out for a while and then make their way to the lining and hopefully implant! And they’ll implant within 24 and 48 hours! So technically I could be prego pretty damn soon!
I have to take progesterone shots until the pregnancy test which will be in two weeks. So sore butt cheeks for a little longer but as long as it keeps the little bubbles in there, I’m ok with that!
It’s weird. I thought I was going to have all these emotions today. I was kind of nervous and anxious to see them, but I feel really calm. Both Laryen and I do. We know that we’ve done everything we can to get to this point. It’s now in God’s hands. He has blessed us so far through this whole process and before. We know that if the timing isn’t right now, the timing will be right sometime. And we have the strength to get through this again if we need to. It’s because of God, our faith, loving support from family and friends and our continual support for each other that we KNOW will soon add a few more letters to our names! That is — unless we decided to name them ‘L’ names, too. 😉
The Infertility Game of Life 