Transfer day

Well, I'm very happy to report that we made it to transfer! The first one of our two frozen blastocysts was thawed sucessfully, meaning we still have one blastocyst leftover in the freezer.

It has been quite a nerve-racking day though, transfer was initially scheduled for 12:45pm. I phoned at 10am to check on the embryos but they had not yet been thawed, checked again at 11am and was told that transfer would now be taking place at 1:15pm, but all the receptionist knew was that there was something to transfer. Another phone call at 12:45pm (which sent me into a bit of a panic) advised that the specialist was stuck in theatre and my transfer would now be taking place at 5:30pm! So the rest of the afternoon was spent worrying about how our embryo was coping since it had already been thawed. Just to add to my nervousness, the clinic phoned me at 5:15pm to see if I could come in straight away as they had managed to catch up some time - just seeing their number on my phone made me think something was wrong!

I met the scientist, who showed me a picture of our embryo and advised me that he had only needed to thaw one of the two blasts. He explained what I was seeing really well and told me that he was happy with how the embryo had survived the thaw process. Transfer took place smoothly and my blood test date and review date was set. My pregnancy blood test is set for Friday 4th September (ironically the same date my pregnancy blood test was for Jake 2 years ago :o), with the review being booked in for the following Monday.

So, the next step for me is to continue with the 8 hourly tablets and 12 hourly pessaries...and just wait. I'm feeling pretty good at the moment, hopefully I have my head space in the right place for the next couple of weeks. I will also be trying to minimise too much heavy lifting, generally taking it easy, making time to relax each day but also continuing to walk every day. Other than that it will pretty much be business as usual here.

As a side note: I did get to take home a copy of the embryo picture - I will scan it in and include in another post.