Team Purple!

Tuesday (April 23) morning we arrived at the Fertility Center and got checked in. I think the ladies at the front desk were just as excited for the day as we were! You could see it in their smiles that reached all the way up to their eyes. C was already there waiting. While we were sitting in the waiting room waiting to be called back one of the nurses called my cell and asked me if I planned to make it in for transfer?! I think we were both really confused when I told her that we were sitting in the waiting room.
It wasn't long until we were called back and ushered into at tiny glass room. Inside was a large exam chair covered in a blanket with a gown and paper "blanket" setting on top. Another smaller chair set beside the wall. On it set surgical coverups with a hairnet and booties.
I quickly changed into the hospital gown with my slipper socks and hairnet. E slipped her lovely attire over her clothes and we sat and waited. The nurse came in and talked to us a couple of times before Dr. S came in and went over the embryos and procedure with us.

They used a different grading system than the one OU Fertility used so I wasn't sure at the time what it all I meant. I later looked it up and found out.
They defrosted two embryos from a purple petri dish. One of them graded 9 and .075. The other graded 8 and .075. What does that mean? I think it means that one was 9 cells, the other was 8 cells and both had .025% fragmentation. I could be wrong? What I do know is that it was great news!

The nurses walked us down the hallway to the procedure room. Things happened so quickly that I didn't have a lot of time to look around and take in my surroundings. What I do remember is the exam table and the chair setting next to it. E sat down in the chair while I climbed on the table and untied my gown. I assumed the position, you know... scoot all the way down and place your legs in the stirrups.
The monitor was to my left at stomach level. There was a microphone that dropped down from the ceiling and a TV screen to the right. Dr. S began by cleaning my uterus. It did not feel quite as strange as it did the first time and I don't think it took nearly as long as before. The other doctor (I forget his name) held the wand over my abdomen to help Dr. S guide the catheter into my uterus. I had to talk to the invincible lady in the microphone and state my name and what I was there for. She than showed the embryos on the large TV screen on the right side of the room.
Once Dr. S had the catheter in place he called out to the lady in the microphone that we were ready. With the tilt of the bed I wasn't able to see how everything happened so I just watched the monitor. I could see the two tiny white bubbles again. They shot up and floated until the rested beside my uterus wall. Amazing! Dr. S checked to make sure the catheter was empty, it was, and we were done. 

I walked back to the glass room and got dressed.
Back in the waiting room we greeted C and told him we were all done! E went and got one of the front desk ladies to come and take a picture of the three of us. I couldn't tell but I think the lady had tears in her eyes. I love that about this Fertility Clinic, they seem like family to one another.
I left with instructions to continue my estrogen patches and progesterone shots. I also had orders to have my blood drawn to check HCG levels on May 7th and again on May 9th.
I was told NOT to take a HPT but that seems like pure torture!! Because there are only 12 days between the transfer date and first blood draw I can't really take a HPT until the same day as the blood draw any way. So I guess we will just wait.

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