FET #4: Meet the Newest Shacks!

Dan always brings his sense of humor to every occasion!

 On August 13th we made the trip to Dr. K's office to meet our new babies.  Rather than stay at a hotel the night before like we did with our other three transfers we decided to stay with my parents who live closer to Dr. K than we do.  They watched Lena while we were away for the day and they are helping watch her while I stay down on bed rest for the next three days.  We feel really great about how the transfer went and have great peace about everything which is so different from our transfer last November.  We showed up at 10:45 as directed for our 11:30 transfer.  The office was very busy that day so our transfer was delayed for 45 minutes or so.  Finally we were called back to the transfer room and after awhile the embryologist came in to discuss how our embryos did in the thaw.  We had decided to thaw two 2PN embryos from Lena's match.  They were thawed on Friday, August 9th and only one of them had survived.  The second embryo looked great but the embryologist said it was growing very slowly.  It was only 10 cells when it should be 100 cells..but it looked good and it was still growing.

Our first embryo that was transferred - 2PN 10 cells

Proud Papa with embryo #1

The embryologist then asked us what we wanted to do and we were given two choices: thaw more embryos (we had three blasts left from Lena's match and two blasts from our first adopted match) or just transfer our one surviving embryo.  We decided to thaw one blast from Lena's match and the embryologist left to do her work.  We waited for another hour or so...

Dan getting a little reading done while we wait.

Me showing off my funking pink transfer socks.

...and then the embryologist came back in.  She told us that they had to thaw two more blasts because they were frozen together.  One was looking good and the other not so good.  They brought us a picture of our first embryo and the good blast that they had thawed.  I don't know why they didn't take a picture of the blast that didn't look so good.  My thoughts were that they were going to transfer only two and refreeze the other blast if it survived.

Our "good" blast.

Proud Mama with the picture of two of the three embryos.  

 I took my Dizapam and began to feel very relaxed as we waited for Dr. K to come in.  I was really surprised when Dr. K walked in and asked us, "How do you feel about putting all three in?  I am okay with that."  We both quickly stated yes!  Dr. K had always been very strong about only putting two embryos in.  The discussion I had with him a few weeks ago about not thawing more embryos than we put in must have impacted him a little.  I am glad I spoke up even though it was hard to do so.  So we actually transferred three embryos this FET!  The transfer went really smoothly.  It was slightly uncomfortable having the ultrasound wand pushed on my bladder when it was so full!

During the actual transfer.

The black blob in the top right is my bladder.  The small bright white blob in the center is the embryos after they were put in my uterus.

Relaxing after the transfer.  I was so comfy for the most part and glad I didn't overfill my bladder this time.

We are so thankful that everything went as well as it did.  We both feel very at peace with how the transfer went.  My first BETA (pregnancy test) is scheduled for August 23rd but as always I will do a home test several days before then.  

Here is to hoping the Lord blesses us with Shack baby #2... or #3.... or #4....