I had a quick blood draw to check progesterone and estrogen levels and then my hubs and I were taken into the procedure room. They had me undress, pop my valium, checked my bladder to make sure it was full (and it basically took up the entire screen, so yeah...it was full)! We triple checked with the dr. and embryologist that it was OUR embryo and not the other patient's being transferred. Everything checked out ok, I gave my name and DOB about 10 times, so on we went. My stripe was a 20 (our doc wants to see anything over 7, so yay! I have a nice cushy luxury mansion for this embryo to snuggle into). The embryologist popped in our sweet AB mostly hatched embryo and we got to watch as in it went! The entire thing took just minutes. They let me lay in the recovery area for 20 minutes or so and then we were on our way to pick up our little on from daycare. All in all we were at the clinic for maybe 45 minutes.
We decided to knot chose or find out the sex before transfer. We have one male and one female embryo left so we have a 0/50 chance. We want to wait until birth to find out what we're having so hopefully we find out in about 38 weeks.
I'm sticking to a lower carb, no added sugar, warm foods, brazil nut, pineapple core diet until our beta test. Dinner was a home made chicken pot pie from our freezer.
I popped my 2nd valium at 9:00pm and happily went to sleep.
1dp5dt:
I took the day after transfer off to have some me time and actually relax. I slept in until 8:45 am and it was AMAZING. I haven't slept that long in a year. I watched a lot of tv, took a 20 minute, .6 mile walk around the block, and generally lazed around. I had scrambled eggs and cheese for breakfast and Orange Soup with chicken for lunch (butternut squash, sweet potato, carrots).
I was exhausted and took an hour and a half nap in the afternoon. Getting to catch up on sleep is amazing. I can't say it enough.
2dp5dt:
I'm back at work today, though I'm leaving during my lunch and going home because I have literally zero things on my calendar. The meetings I thought I had were canceled. Cool.
My clinic called with my levels from transfer day:
Progesteron: 29, they want above 10.
Estrogen: 650, they want above 150.
This 2nd transfer has been totally different with already having one baby because I don't get the sit down, relax time I got the first time around. Now there is a 11.5 month old baby crawling all over the place. I did my best to sit but sometimes you just have to stop a baby from trying to drink laundry soap or climb up the stairs.
Luckily, I have less time to overthink every little thing. My mind is whirling on "is the baby fed? does he need a diaper change? Yes that is a BLUE cup and a GREEN ring. Those are your toes. Don't eat the electrical cord. No we don't go down the stairs headfirst. And on this farm he had a cow eieio" etc. etc. etc.
I really want a giant chocolate chocolate chip muffin and an inced coffee.
Symptom Spotting: Nothing yet.
