Well! Today's the big day! We're heading to the REACH office shortly for a Day-5 transfer.
8:30: We arrive at the REACH office and are pretty quickly taken back to the same faux-room that we were in on Saturday. Same routine, put my "scrubs" on and around 9:15, Dr. Teaff arrives to introduce herself to my mother and again to Jim. She will be doing the transfer and she informs us that we have 2 very high quality embryos that we will be transferring. She also comments that these are "beautiful" embryos.
Around 9:40am, a nurse arrives to take me back to the same OR as the retrieval. Dr. Teaff and some other nurses greet me on my arrival and explain a little about how the process will be done. On the left side, there is a flat-screen monitor that is filming the extraction of the embryos from a TINY drop of fluid in the lab. On the right side, there is another flat screen where they begin performing an ultrasound to help guide Dr. Teaff to the correct place for the embryo "drop off".
For this procedure, I am awake and luckily, only takes about 20 minutes. At this point, I am a little uncomfortable with the long tube being directed WAY up inside but overall, it wasn't too bad. I am able to see the embryos transferred into my uterus via ultrasound and am told "ok, we're done!". Next was very interesting....we had to wait for exactly one minute and then a nurse went back into the lab to confirm that the embryos were successfully transferred and were not still present in the tube. On the left flat screen, you can see the liquid that contained the embryos begin sifted through under the microscope and shortly thereafter, the nurse yells, "All clear!". Everything had gone as planned and was successfuly thus far.
Before long, Jim and I would enter into the longest 11 days of our lives....until the official first pregnancy test.
8:30: We arrive at the REACH office and are pretty quickly taken back to the same faux-room that we were in on Saturday. Same routine, put my "scrubs" on and around 9:15, Dr. Teaff arrives to introduce herself to my mother and again to Jim. She will be doing the transfer and she informs us that we have 2 very high quality embryos that we will be transferring. She also comments that these are "beautiful" embryos.
Around 9:40am, a nurse arrives to take me back to the same OR as the retrieval. Dr. Teaff and some other nurses greet me on my arrival and explain a little about how the process will be done. On the left side, there is a flat-screen monitor that is filming the extraction of the embryos from a TINY drop of fluid in the lab. On the right side, there is another flat screen where they begin performing an ultrasound to help guide Dr. Teaff to the correct place for the embryo "drop off".
For this procedure, I am awake and luckily, only takes about 20 minutes. At this point, I am a little uncomfortable with the long tube being directed WAY up inside but overall, it wasn't too bad. I am able to see the embryos transferred into my uterus via ultrasound and am told "ok, we're done!". Next was very interesting....we had to wait for exactly one minute and then a nurse went back into the lab to confirm that the embryos were successfully transferred and were not still present in the tube. On the left flat screen, you can see the liquid that contained the embryos begin sifted through under the microscope and shortly thereafter, the nurse yells, "All clear!". Everything had gone as planned and was successfuly thus far.
Before long, Jim and I would enter into the longest 11 days of our lives....until the official first pregnancy test.
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