PUPO!

I'm officially knocked up until proven otherwise.

We arrived at our appointed time for acupuncture, but it turns out that the acupuncture place (not where I normally go, but they work with our clinic all the time) booked the wrong day. My fabulous nurse Sarah 2 called the acupuncturist and got her to hurry over, and they pushed our ET back an hour. Luckily, we were the only ET today, so Dr. Opie had time for us later.

The acu was relaxing, especially after stressing about possibly not being able to do acu. Dr. Opie then came in and handed me a picture of our two perfect embryos. Our clinic does a 5-point rating scale with 5 being the best and our two were both 4s. We have yet to come up with names, but I'll post their picture and names later. He suggested we transfer 2 as I am now technically moved from the "good" prognosis category to the next lower category due to my previous cancellations and poor ovarian response. This means the statistics for the clinic drop a bit in that category. We are hoping to beat the 41% rate he showed us. We still have our other 5 embryos growing too. 3 of them aren't doing that great and they don't expect them to make it to freeze on Friday. The other 2 have every chance at this point of making it to freeze.

I then guzzled some more water and DH, and I suited up for the transfer. We got into the transfer room and got positioned. The embryologist brought up a picture of our embryos on the screen and had us verify all of our info. Dr. Opie came in and did his pre-ET stuff, and we were good to go. The catheter went in easily and the embryos went in easily too. I then moved over to the rolling bed and was sent back to the recuperation room. The acupuncturist came back for the post ET session. By this point I really had to pee! But I stayed relaxed and after she was done, we were discharged and I hit the bathroom.

DH drove me home and I'm now resting on the couch as he runs errands and grabs us some food. It still surreal to me that I have babies inside me right now. I'm praying that this all goes well and thanking the Lord that I live in a time where I have access to IVF at all.