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Hallelujah December 3, 2004

Before I get to the full report, I just want to thank everyone for their kind comments and good thoughts on my behalf. You guys are the best.

Now, for the nitty gritty. My FET went much better than I expected. Let’s start at the very beginning, a very good place to start. (I digress. I guess I’m just in a good mood.) Anyway, no one ever called to tell me that our embryos had arrested, so off my husband and I went to my RE’s office this morning. Once we got there and paid the extra $500 for the anesthesiologist, we were taken back. The first thing I said to the nurse was, “I’m assuming that since you’re giving me this nice getup to change into that at least one of our embryos survived the thaw.” She replied that she didn’t know the details but assured me that we had something to transfer.

After I got into my lovely gown, hat, and booties I got to go into the prep room. Apparently the blood pressure machine thought I was dead, because it kept getting extremely low readings. I then asked my IVF coordinator if she had good news for me, and she went to check with the embryologist. She came back and reported that all three of our blasts had survived the thaw and that none of them had decreased in terms of grading. All three were still grade 5 (the highest). Music to my ears, I tell ya.

The anesthesiologist finally showed up and proceeded to torture me. Apparently he picked the same vein as the previous anesthesiologist had for my ER back in September. The wall of the vein was very thick, and he tremendous trouble getting that darn IV in. Talk about being ouch worthy. I think I managed to only cuss a couple of times, though. That was finally finished, and we were all ready to head into the transfer room. At the very last minute we were told that my husband was not going to be allowed in even though I had previously been told that he would. Of course being the hormonally ramped up girl that I am, I started crying. I really wanted him to be able to see the embryos go in even if I couldn’t. I think mostly I was upset because they hit us with it at the last moment.

I gave my hubby a hug and a kiss and headed into the transfer room. I had the nurse check my lining really quickly before the anesthesiologist started his thing, and it looked good. Then I was out. I don’t remember a thing about the ET, but that’s probably a good thing. I got the full report after I had come to a little bit. My RE tried several different catheters, but my cervix was being a major pain just like last time, so she dilated my cervix. She also had to fill up my bladder since I wasn’t allowed to eat or drink past midnight. The oh so fun tenaculum was involved in there somewhere, and once I was dilated she was able to get the hard catheter in and slip the soft catheter containing the embryos right on in there with no problem. So, I had three beautiful blasts transferred.

I can’t even begin to describe how relieved I feel right now. I am so glad that all of our blasts survived the thaw and so glad that my transfer was not nearly as traumatic as last time. I’m thrilled that the catheter containing our embryos was only inserted once this time. The fact that it was inserted and removed multiple times during our last transfer still haunts me. So, I guess I could not have asked for a better day. My beta is scheduled for 12/15. Only 12 more days to obsess about this cycle. I know that the result may be no different from last time, but I feel so much better about how things went this time around. That’s gotta count for something.

• Posted in : IVF Part 2: FET #1
• Author : amanda

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