Meet Our Embryo!

Here's our em-baby!! The transfer went well. Felt a lot like the IUIs. Some discomfort, but nothing terrible. Having to have a full bladder was not fun, but that's part of the process!

I was a bit concerned that the clinic wouldn't like our choice of just transferring one. And they didn't. The Dr tried to convince us to do 2 telling us that since our embryos weren't ready for a Day 5 transfer last time that they were slow. Calling them slow pissed me off since we had never been told that before and we also had been told that there was no rhyme or reason for the blastocyst stage delay. During that time they told us that it was just a 50/50 chance and wasn't a sign of any issues. Another kicker was that he told us that with one embryo we would only have a 30% chance of a live birth. This is much lower than I recalled hearing about before. I just stuck to my guns though... I may regret it if this doesn't work, but right now I'm just trying to stay positive and have faith in my body and my intuition.

Farmie got frustrated with the discussion with the DR and started to waiver on our decision and mind you this was all 2 minutes before we were supposed to actually do the transfer. Stubborn is as stubborn does though...after even more stats and suggestions I told the Dr again that we only wanted 1. Again, I may regret this, but this is what felt right to me and I have to trust that.

My hypnotherapist called me last night to give me some encouraging reminders and visualizations to use during the transfer. It was a surprise to me that she called, but so thoughtful of her. AND she's on vacation right now. She genuinely cares about her clients.

I heard that pineapple might help with implantation so I ate that and nuts (omega 3) before the transfer. Any little bit that might help right?

We go in for labs Monday and the 26th is still the date that we will find out if the little one is snuggled in there. I'm staying home today and tomorrow to take it easy and relax. We're just hoping for the best.