Our long awaited transfer day has come and gone. We are now on our 2 weeks wait. Only one word describes this 2ww correctly – stressful! The week leading to retrieval and transfer day has been quite tensed. I could hardly think rationally, sometimes I get emotional, sometimes I can’t concentrate on what DH was saying, and sometimes I just stared blankly at the PC; my mind was drifting off to somewhere far away, to the land where the stock lives, I think. Dh is doing much, much better. He’s calm and even if he’s stressed out, he’s not showing it. He is a strong man. I love my guy like that. =)
We had the earliest appointment on Sat morning, at 8.00am. We arrived at 7.30am and our surro, K arrived at 7.15am as lab coordinator D was opening up the clinic. K is as eager and as excited as us. Sometimes she is even more excited than me. I love to hear her say, “Are you ready for this!!” There’s always so much delightfulness in her voice, it’s contagious.
Our surro, K is a lovely and young lady. She has 3 beautiful children and a wonderful husband. Her children are very well-behaved. I think that is the reward of being a stay-at-home mom. K is a no-surprise person and she doesn’t beat around the bush. She speaks her mind. I like people like that because I am not good at guessing what someone else is feeling or thinking, I’m No mind-reader. I am quite firm in certain things, I tell her my opinions and I think K respects that. So K and I get along quite well.
DH and I want K to be as comfortable as possible during these 2 weeks, and hopefully for the next 9 months. We will be forever grateful to her when she gives birth to our baby or babies. K even asked if we wanted more babies and we said, ‘Yes!’ We also said that we wanted her to be our surro again and she laughed heartily. I know… saying these is like putting the cart before the horse but we can’t help being optimistic. We feel positive vibes around us.
We waited almost an hour for Dr. D and K had to go pee three times while waiting! We had nurse A on that day too. She was really helpful and nice. We transferred 2 Grade 1, 8 cell embies. 3 good embies were frozen and 2 are being watched. Technically, 7 out of 9 of our embies made it to Day 3. Now we are hoping our 2 transferred embies will find a nice comfy place inside K’s thick and cushy endometrial lining and set up shop there for 40 more weeks.
On Day 5 (which is today), I called the clinic and ask nurse K about our 2 embies and she said they are still being watched. I asked if they are alive and she said they are. I’m not sure what ‘watching’ means. I think they meant ‘monitoring’ its growth. Dh and I hope our embies will make it and we pray that our 2 beautiful transferred embies will be happy to be with K for 9 more months.
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