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Transfer today was very different from previous transfers. As Den said as we drove in, “After this many times, it seems very anti-climactic.” And then we got into an argument about twins vs. singleton, Den on one camp, me on the other, going back and forth about our different fears that drive our hopes and dreams. I, getting upset, finally said, “This isn’t really a good time for this!”<\/p>\n

I got dressed in the gown, tucked into bed, and listened to my meditation music on the mp3 until I got wheeled in. It was that point in the OR that I realized… my underwear is still on. Of all the things to forget about when undressing for a vaginal procedure, underwear is a pretty big one. So I shuffled out of them and stuffed them behind my back. Whatever.<\/p>\n

The embryologist came in to say that we’re transferring 2 8-celled embryos today. I asked her how the other two look, and I think she said one is an 8-cell and one is a 7-cell, both with some fragmentation. They give you a cute little patient report card after the cycle is over (and embryos are frozen or nto), but really want to get ahold of their full<\/i> info sheet that she was checking on her clipboard. Screw the overview, give me the nitty gritty.<\/p>\n

We used to watch the ultrasound screen as the embryos were transferred, tears welling up in our eyes, knowing that we were now well on our way. Now we’re very guarded. We watched quietly, Den silently fretting about the exact wording the RE used (was it “fairly good embryos” or “very good embryos”?), me with a very full bladder and aching ovaries, hoping they can get that catheter in nice and quick so I can go lay down and then later pee. Not saying that it wasn’t something special – every transfer we file away the memory in our head as something we may pull out later as a pivotal moment. But we may just drop it in the recycle bin. Right now we just don’t know, so we watch and we wait.<\/p>\n

I asked Den if we have any names for these little embryos. He said, “Well until we actually know something’s sticking around, right now they’re just Tweedledee and Tweedledum.” Well I’m not too sure about that. Of course if one actually sticks around and gets me pregnant then there will be an official naming. But that’s a large if.<\/p>\n

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Transfer today was very different from previous transfers. As Den said as we drove in, “After this many times, it seems very anti-climactic.” And then we got into an argument about twins vs. singleton, Den on one camp, me on the other, going back and forth about our different fears that drive our hopes and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2243"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2245,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2243\/revisions\/2245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}