So, the transfer has come and gone. Obviously. We decided to transfer the two healthiest embryos, and we were given a picture of them in a nice black paper frame. This picture is currently in our living room, so hopefully we don’t get any unexpected nosy visitors, but I do like looking at it from time to time. I joked with Jacob that the one on the top looked like me. The doctor gave me some Valium before the transfer to make me relaxed. When they brought out the embryos, I was surprised that they were floating in an orangeish pink liquid – not the color I was expecting. They put the bottle under magnification and projected it on a screen so we could watch the process. We saw our two little embryos floating there, and then they were sucked up by the catheter and transferred back to my body!

Shortly after that, I started to get very sleepy. I was told I needed to stay in the room laying down for 30 minutes, and I’m pretty sure I fell asleep during that time. Luckily, Jacob was entertained with the iPad while I was unconscious.

I was escorted to the car in a wheelchair again, and once we got home I settled in for my two days of “bed” rest. Really, I was laying on the couch the whole time except for when I was sleeping. It ended up not being so bad. I had my computer, the TV, and books to keep myself occupied. I was allowed to get up to use the bathroom and take a shower, but that was pretty much it. Jacob was a peach and took care of my meals. We did get Olive Garden to go the day of the transfer, and it ended up being enough food for two meals. Bonus!

The day of the transfer I took a pregnancy test, just to see if the hCG trigger was out of my system yet or not. Two lines showed up (though one was very very faint), so it was a false positive – no way my body would be producing hCG yet! A few days later, I tested again. This time, it was negative.

Now, for the last three or four days, I’ve been getting some pretty bad cramps. Tuesday I woke up in the middle of the night twice because of the cramps, so Wednesday we bought some Tylenol while we were grocery shopping because that’s all I’m allowed to take, as far as medication goes. Last night I did end up taking some Tylenol because I woke up with cramps again.

Well, this morning I couldn’t bear the wait any more, and I took another pregnancy test. (The doctor is making me wait until August 5^th! Seventeen days after the egg retrieval! That’s so far away!) And . . . two lines showed up! The test line was still pretty faint, but I didn’t need to squint or hold it up to the light to see it, so I’m counting it as positive. I’d thought about waiting to tell Jacob and announcing it in some clever way, but that was not happening. I showed it to him and he said, “Is that a good sign?” He was concerned because the second line was light. But we’re cautiously optimistic that we’ll be expecting a baby (or two!) around April 11! We probably won’t announce anything for a while, but I did cave and tell Heather when I met up with her today.

Technically we took this photo before the embryos were even inside me, but I'm still counting it.