Implant Completed

Hi Everyone! Hope you are having a great Labor Day. I tell you this is one Labor Day I don't think we will ever forget. So it started at 6:30 this morning. After a good nights sleep (yeah right we all know we couldn't sleep last night) we got up at 6 and left the house by 6:30. We stopped at Whataburger for a quick breakfast and to continue filling my bladder. Yes I had to arrive for the procedure with a full bladder. We got to the IVF Lab around 7:40 and they took us in right away. It was the same nurse we had for the harvest so that made it nice. Then we got some great news. As she was leaving the room she said Dr. Dunn will be here in about 5 min and he has one before you then its your turn but we will get you all setup in a few minutes so we can check that your bladder is full. I said, Dr. Dunn is here? It was suppose to be Dr. Schenk who I am sure is a wonderful Dr but she's not MY Dr! Gina smiled real big and said of the 4 transfers today, 3 of them were Dr. Dunn's patients so even though it was his day off, he told Dr. Schenk to take the day off and he would do it. This was music to my ears. I would actually have Dr. Dunn for the whole process. When your harvest or implant fall on a weekend or holiday you have no guarentee that you will have your Dr since the 3 Dr's do a weekend rotation. I was immediately at ease which was great. I changed and Chris put on his over his clothes. We signed some paperwork and Gina came back and took us to the procedure room which I call the green room because the lights in there are green. She checked my bladder with the ultrasound machine and said its not totally full yet but it is filling and it will be fine by the time its your turn. So she covered me up and I layed there while Chris sat next to me holding my hand. Before she left the room, she said I just wanted to let you know Dr. Dunn said you have some awesome looking embryos. So we were smiling from ear to ear to say the least. We both looked at eachother and said well we know we have at least enough for the transfer that survived. We waited a little bit and in walked Dr. Dunn with a huge smile on his face. He said, so are you ready for this and I laughed and said Dr. Dunn I was ready when we got started on this 3 months ago so yes lets ge this show on the road. He laughed and Chris said she's not real good with patience when it comes to this and Dr. Dunn said then Chris you have a long 10 days ahead of you. We all laughed and with that he pulled up pictures on a big TV screen of 2 perfect embryos. With that he said here are the two embryos we will be using and they are top quality embryos. And then he said, so take at look at what will hopefully be the first pictures of your baby or babies! With that I can't lie I had tears in my eyes. Emotional today is an understatement. With that he went on to say we have 2 additional embryos that he expects to be ready by this afternoon and an additional one that could be ready by tomorrow. So he expects that we will be able to freeze 2 if not 3 in addition to the 2 they are implanting. Again we were all smiles. We not only have 2 to implant but we have some to freeze. Granted it wasn't as many as we had hoped to freeze but something is much better than nothing and I have put it all in God's hands. So with that we got started and in a short time we were watching the catheter on the ultrasound machine and then we saw two bright white dots (our embryos) on the screen. And as quick as that we were all done. When I got up off the table Dr. Dunn smiled and said, you have done everything possible that you can and you have top grade embryos so now its up to the embryos to do there thing and for God to work his magic. We all smiled and I said can I please go pee now! He laughed and said go right ahead. While I was in the bathroom he reinterated to Chris how great the quality of the 2 implanted embryos were and he told him to relax. So we went back to our room and they had me lay down for about 20 min. With that the nurse came in and said, you are all done. Remeber stay calm, no strenous activity or heavy lifting but life as normal until the 15th. Yes the 15th is the day of the official blood test. So I put my clothes back on and had to go potty again and when I came out Dr. Dunn and Chris were talking. He gave me a big hug and said now go grow a baby or two and I will see you on the 15th. As we were going down in the elevator, Chris said that while I was in the bathroom Dr. Dunn said again to him you had 2 excellent embryos and I see no reason why this won't work for you both. This shocked me because Dr. Dunn is very positive about things but he is also very realistic and never fills you full of false hope. So for him to say that really put me at ease. The truth is its all in God's hands now and I am praying for a positive blood test on the 15th. So as we get to the car Chris said to me do you need help with your seat belt? I look at him and bust out laughing and say I might be pregnant but I am not an invalid for God's sake! So to say I think he is going to drive me crazy over the next 10 days is an understatement but to be honest after everything we have been through on this journey I can understand why he is being so over protective. So you are all up to date on everything and the next 10 days will be a very long ten days to say the least. So thanks again for all of your prayers and if you have time, please continue to pray for us. Until next time, Blessings to each and everyone of you!