Thursday, March 13, 2008

Home from ET

I made it today after a rough morning. I woke up a few times last night with stomach cramps and watery diarreah(sorry, tmi). I learned it's my body's way of getting rid of all the fluid in my peritoneal cavity. I felt lousy this morning and thought of cancelling the RE appt. and the ET but I pushed on. I had to rest after taking a shower and had barely any stamina to blow dry the hair and dress. Once I got into the car with Chris and into the office I felt better.
My u/s showed that I still have lots of fluid pockets in my belly and one surrounding my liver which is their biggest concern. The nurse and the u/s tech were preparing us for a no go transfer today and a freeze but then the RE came in and asked us what we wanted to do. I opted to go forward with the transfer. If those embies didn't survive a thaw, I would be heartbroken and would have suffered through all this for nothing. My RE wants me out of work until at least Tuesday in which I will go back for another scan and see her. My biggest problem now is I have no stamina. I am short of breath with short walks and can't do much activity without requiring a rest. I bought some Iron tablets as suggested and started them today.
We went home breifly then headed to the hospital. My favorite IVF nurse and u/s tech were there today. We found out our 6 embies are still alive. They transferred the 3 best. Two were 9-cells and one was an 8-cell. They will watch the rest and freeze them if they make it to blastocyst stage (100-cells). A normal 3 day embie should have 8 cells. Hopefully these little ones will stick in there this time! I have an u/s pic of the embies in my uterus. I'd post the pic but there's not much to see but this white dot.
So now I am home in bed. I am going to meditate and take a nap. Keep us in your thoughts and prayers and send us some sticky vibes! I think my blood test will be 3/24. I will of course be POAS's the weekend prior. Maybe a little easter surprise will be in the works for us!

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