Transfer complete!

Yesterday was more stressful than I thought it would be. I was so happy that for ONCE I was going to see my RE and I didn't have to take off my pants or get poked with a needle. All the decisions were made, we knew we had 4 blastocysts and we were ready to go. I decided to be rebellious and not even shave my legs--a rare thing for me even in winter. Aaron and I drove down with his dad. His mom and sister were in a separate car that followed us. The office is about an hour away, close to Los Angeles. When we arrived my surrogate, J, her husband and one of her daughters were already there as well as my parents. Quite a waiting room full of family! I felt bad for the one couple that had to sit there with them all. As soon as we got there one of the nurses called me into the back. I thought I had to sign some paperwork or something. She took me to the back and started getting ready to draw my blood. What the heck!? My part is DONE. My eggs have been out for 6 days and I am finally beginning to heal from all the shots, bloodtests, and the IV. I was so pissed. She said they needed 5 vials for STD's. Heeellllooooo, isn't it a bit late for that? The results won't be back until several days after the embryos are already in her! Whatever. I sat there and told her I was so excited that I didn't have to take off my pants and have an ultrasound that I didn't even shave my legs that morning. She just stared at me. Next thing I knew I was being ushered into a room to have an STD culture. GRRRRR. Off went the pants. Evidently this was all supposed to be done last week but it was overlooked.

After all of that I was in a bit of a frenzy. The RE called us into his office to talk about the embryos. We had 3 that were excellent and ready to go and one that was a little slow so they wanted to keep an eye on it for another day. Fine. Just put two in like we all agreed on months ago and freeze the third. The RE then proceeded to give us reason after reason why we should just put in all 3. I absolutely freaked out. Everyone seemed ok with it--even though everyone had been totally against more than 2 being transferred up until then. We have concluded that the problem is my uterus. I absolutely would not be ok with selective reduction if she got pregnant with triplets, or the complications that often accompany triplet pregnancies/births. After much debate...we transferred two.

The transfer went smoothly. It was amazing to be in the room to see what happened. We got some great pictures. Aaron got to be in there too. So, now we wait. Again. The bloodtest isn't until May 8th. Two full weeks. Usually it is 12 days with my RE but that would fall on a Sat. so we wouldn't get the results until Monday anyway. I am sure I will find stuff to post about in the meantime. :)