Basically as soon as the first round failed, I knew I wanted to try again as soon as possible. I found out on April 9th that I wasn't pregnant, and within a month I was preparing myself for the frozen transfer. I started my estrogen shots on May 9th 2014. I started giving myself shots in my derriere (which I had to be much more brave about then the shots I gave myself in my stomach... you have to have a long arse, super thick needle to shove into your butt muscle) every Tuesday and Friday night, then I started with daily progesterone shots (also an intramuscular shot in the behind) on Monday May 30th. Starting on the 9th, I went in for weekly blood draws to check my hormone levels and had multiple ultrasounds to check how thick the lining of my uterus was. They wanted it to be perfect for implanting my little embryos. We decided to be very quiet about this attempt because it was just so hard when the first round didn't work, I didn't want to have to go through that all again. I told my friends that I serve with in the YW and two other friends up here about it, but honestly I knew they would know the second I was pregnant anyway because I get sick so fast, and it was nice to know some people that were praying for us...... but I told NO one in my family..... not even my mom..... So all of this preparing that started on 5/9/14 was for the actual transfer day which was scheduled for Wednesday June 4th. Since I live in Coeur d'Alene and my frozen embroys were/are in Utah, I did all my blood draws and ultrasounds up here and I flew to Utah for the transfer. We decided that Paul and Parson would stay up here and I would fly down solo. They like you to basically be on bed rest for 2 days after the transfer, which I hadn't really abided by on the first go around, and I knew if Pars was with me, I would be picking him up and chasing him around.... and by golly this time was going to work so I needed to do exactly what they said! Also, paying for three of us to go to Utah for 4 days and see no family seemed pretty stupid..... so I went to get pregnant alone :) haha that still seems so funny to me. I needed someone to help me though, because they give you a valium before the transfer just to calm your nerves and make sure your uterus doesn't contract..... and clearly I shouldn't drive myself back to my hotel after just taking a valium..... so I let my amazing friend Cris in on my secret. She was soo soo great and let me stay at her house with her and she took me to my appt. I flew into SLC late Tuesday June 3rd. I rented a car and met up with Cris at City Creek. We did some shopping then went and ate at Cafe Rio. I was relatively calm about everything that evening and we just had a really fun relaxing night catching up. The next morning I was still pretty calm, but got more and more anxious the closer we got to the time of my appt. I went and picked up Cris from work about 11, and we headed for Pleasant Grove. My check in time was 11:45. I started getting nervous that of my four frozen embryos, none would thaw correctly and I wouldn't be able to do the transfer. They pull them out of the freezer about an hour before implanting them. I chose to transfer two embryos, but what if neither one of the ones they thawed looked good, so they had to pull out my last two and those didn't look good either? That is what I was most nervous about. Well have no fear they took the two that were closest to the top of the freezer and they both thawed perfectly! We were good to go. They make you fill your bladder as full as you can possibly get it, until you feel like you might explode... It makes it easier to see where they want to place the embryos in the uterus. So, besides that, the transfer is painless. They thread a catheter through the cervix and they first bath your uterus with the same fluid that the embryos have been stored in, then they get the actual embryos and push them through the catheter into the uterus and hope and pray and pray and pray some more that at least one attaches.
One of these little nuggets will turn in to my baby! I am so incredibly grateful for technology!
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