PUPO again

This morning was my transfer.  The little embryo will now be referred to 2AB just for clarity!

As I was getting myself and SR ready this morning, my phone rang.  It was the clinic.  I did panic a little bit thinking maybe they were cancelling the appointment.  It was the embryologist calling to discuss my embryos.  I had to clarify that I only wanted to transfer one.  She seemed surprised, but I transferred one the last time and it stuck.  As a Choice Mom with a toddler, I am not prepared to have twins, unless of course the embryo splits on its own.  Also, with my small frame I'm not sure how I would manage - even though I've been desperately trying to put on weight these last few weeks - success, I gained 2 1/2 pounds...lol....no one could tell, but it's hard to put on weight when having three hour fasts 4 times in a day.

The embryos were in a straw of three - this brings me to my point from my last transfer that maybe it didn't make it because it had been frozen and thawed and frozen and rethawed.  The embryologist claims that there are many successful pregnancies from refrozen/rethawed embryos.  In this straw of three, one was a 2AB (hence the name of my embryo) which I am quite pleased with.  All of my embryos were on the small side and SR turned out just fine.  But the other two in this straw, and the two remaining in the other straw are preblastocysts.  They don't have ratings yet.  I think my blastocycsts were all slow to develop as the others were on the small side as well.  This was after a day-5 freezing.  The embryologist said that if the 2AB survived the thaw it would be used and she would leave the other two to culture for a day before refreezing them to see if they develop.  She went over this information again with me in the transfer room.

I have enjoyed seeing Shannon post pictures of her lucky socks.  I don't have lucky socks.  But I did enjoy the before pictures.  So here is a picture of my feet as I lounge in the Laz-y Boy recliner on a full bladder and reading Fifty Shades on my phone.

Here's one of me in my cute hair net after taking the photo of my feet.

My bladder does not handle being full well - does anyone's?  I drink about 2/3 of a water bottle and I'm good to go for hours and hours of peeing.  I guess I peed too much out while waiting my turn for my transfer b/c when I finally got in the u/s tech said that although I was full, it would not meet the doctor's standards.  And there I was left alone in the big cold room for my bladder to get more full than it already was.

Finally, they said I was full enough and the doctor was called in.  He told me to go for my first beta in SEVEN days.  Isn't that too soon?  Couldn't that give me a false negative?  Last transfer (only a few months ago), he had me test after EIGHT days.  He says that TEN days is the official first test but I can go on Monday.  I think I'll wait to see what kind of symptoms I get this week.  Welcome to the Mind F--- .  My favourite is when I try to convince myself it's the progesterone giving me the symptoms, when I've been on the progesterone for 5 days leading up to the transfer with no symptoms at all.  And is it possible my nipples are already tingling just hours after the transfer?  LOL....of course not - that didn't start until 3 days post last transfer.  There should be Mind F--- olympics....take a group of women in their 2ww or 1ww as I am now in and have them sit around discussing all their crazy symptoms.

So, like Shannon has her lucky socks, I have a tradition too.  After each of my transfers, on the long drive home, I have listened to the same song over and over again, belting along with it.  It worked with my SR transfer back in April of 2010 and it worked in June 2012 so why shouldn't it work again.  Lady Antebellum's "When You've Got a Good Thing."  Hopefully this is the last time I will go through that tradition.  Oh, is it possible my nipples are tingling already?

Now to sit around and do some marking or planning and just take it easy.  SR is at "school" and my parents will pick her up today.  I will go and meet them for dinner at their place and I think they will drive SR home to my place tonight - the less I pick her up today the better I'll feel about things.  Tomorrow is back to anything goes.