Meet my embies!

My transfer went really well today (except that I had to hold pee for a very long time for the procedure - a full bladder helps it. It was uncomfortable!). I had three surviving embryos when I arrived at the doctor's office. The other three stopped growing (sorry embies), and they weren't the candidates for transfer. The surviving three were "fully expanded early blastocysts" which were "quite good" according to Dr. T. We transferred two of them and we hope to freeze the remaining one. The remaining embryo has to grow to a "full blastocyst" before we can freeze it. I hope he/she will mature into a full blastocyst without a problem. We didn't consider transferring all three because Dr. T thought the risk of having triplets were too high with these three good embryos. Now I have to wait for the pregnancy test on the 4th. Dr. T gave a 65% chance of success though! That's very good in the IVF world (really!).

My favorite nurse, Franny, was there to assist the procedure. She told me to be a "couch potato" today so I'm spending a quality time with my cat on a couch. I can go back to my sort of normal activities tomorrow. I said "sort of" because I still can't lift anything heavier than 10lb until the pregnancy test, and it will be a challenge to do my job without any lifting. I guess my patients have to lift themselves for the next few weeks.