I ended up having to go in to the fertility clinic at 7 am to have a final ultrasound before the transfer to make sure everything was good to go. Thankfully, it was! I stopped and got some breakfast for us on the way home and then tried to relax before it was time to go. Right before lunch, we packed everyone up and headed to drop the kids off with our angel of a friend, Andrea. On the way to the clinic I was instructed to take a valium- hated that! I felt dizzy and weird and not at all how I was hoping to feel, ha. Once we got there, we caught up with Zack and Kelly and got checked in. We all scrubbed up (I got to wear a hospital gown and robe- yikes, I did not miss those) and then headed into the room where all the magic happens. If you've ever had a pelvic exam, you already know what the next part is like. There was a weird little window in the room where the embryologists passed Zack and Kelly's sweet embryo through (it felt like a fast food window), and from there, the doctor sent that embryo through a catheter and straight into my well-prepared uterus. The whole thing took less than 10 minutes and we got to watch on the ultrasound screen as it happened. It was surreal! They took the beginning of a human (that doesn't even belong to me!), shot it through a glorified straw, and now....
I'm so freakin excited to be able to post that! We got our second round of betas back today (the quantification of the hormone hCG in my blood) and everything is perfect so far! It was an agonizing wait from transfer to the first beta day (this past Monday) because Zack and Kelly didn't want to know what the results were if I took a pregnancy test beforehand (of course I did). Of course, I am still way early in the pregnancy, but with this genetically perfect embryo and our whole team rallying behind us- I know it's going to be fine! Next step is an ultrasound to peek at that little baby later this month. Is this real life?! What a freakin adventure!
