Transfer

I LOVE DR. CLINICDIRECTOR

Honestly, love is the right word, not like not even heart. The transfer yesterday was exceptionally smooth......Incredibly easy.

Yes, I used easy and transfer in the same sentence.

Let me back up, I got to the clinic yesterday 30 minutes before my scheduled transfer time. My bladder was already full. I make it uncomfortably full for transfers because it straightens out the cervix a little and is the only control I have over not being sent home without embryo's inside me.

Dr. ClinicDirector was not there yet. This was not surprising, it was his day at the hospital today, he had agreed to come in on his lunch break to do my transfer. He was very accommodating throughout. They showed me into the recovery room to change and meet with the embryologist. We learned that out of our 12 embryo's, 9 had made it to day 5. 4 were blastocysts and 5 were morula's. The embryologist explained that all 5 morula's had compacted and the only thing separating them from the blastocysts were that they had not expanded yet. I was elated with the results but surprised by the way they got there. You see, Lisa, my little 10 cell over-achiever, had arrested at 10 cells. An 8 cell, graded 1 had arrested at early morula stage and a 6 cell also graded 1 had arrested at 6 cells. The 5 cell had become a compacted morula and the 6 cell that was graded 4 had become a full out blast.

By this time Dr. ClinicDirector had arrived, right on time and came to see me. "I know you have had bad transfers Krista, he said, but I want you to know this is not going to be one of them, so I need you to really relax when you get in there". Ok I said. Of course in my head I was thinking, sure buddy, you are pretty confident for a man who doesn't know the revenge my cervix takes on cocky doctors.

So we do the speculum, we do the cervix cleaning, and we do the catheter. And honest to God I did not know the catheter was in. I was still waiting for him to try the catheter when he called for the embryologist to bring the two beautiful blasts we had chosen. What!!! Are you in I say?

Yes.

Well as I sat there absolutely fucking stunned, cause like Dude, he hadn't told me he was putting the catheter in and I really had no fucking idea.

Hmmm... Unfortunately the good doc ran into some problems and I see the needle looking thingy that carries the embryo's being brought back to the lab by the embryologist. What's going on I ask, I ran into something he says. Usually once we get to the opening of the cervix like that it is easy from there but I am running into something and this catheter is too soft to get through.

OHHH..... I don't like the sounds of that.

Embryologist, he yells, bring me an instrument (I wish I could tell you the name of the instrument but despite googling I cannot find it, it sounded like occlemeter). I have flashbacks of very bad day 3 transfer from IVF # 1, of being sent home without any embryo's and with mild contractions. I start to panic. Is that a metal rod I ask.

No Krista it is not a metal rod. It is a stiffening device. It will make it easier for me to get in but I don't want you to panic, this is NOT going to hurt, I want you to be relaxed again. Do you need to take a minute?

God no, I really need to pee. He responds with "please wait until I am out of the way"

Then he proceeds to start with the stiffening device. I am waiting, waiting waiting to feel a pinch, a cramp, a pain..... or worse

he seems to be taking his own sweet time putting in this new device and I am beginning to get concerned that I won't be able to hold my bladder much longer when suddenly I hear

Are we well past the opening?
Ultrasound tech: yes and turns the screen for us both to see

OMG there is the catheter a 1/4 way into the uterus and honest to god I did not feel a frigging thing, again.

So in come the blasts, we wait to hear the embryologist say that the now empty tube is "all clear" and everything is out and the whole thing is over. Took perhaps 20 minutes.

Good doc then looks at me and says now missy, I am going to show you on the screen exactly what happened. He shows me the corkscrews in my cervix that were a lot easier to navigate because of the weight of the bladder and he shows me that the opening to the uterus is slightly lower than the cervix up to that point, like all of a sudden it bends downhill. And then he shows me where the blasts had landed.

Rick later tells me that while I was waiting, thinking the good doc had not started with the "stiffening device" he actually put it in, ran into something, withdrew it and bent the end a little in the shape he thought it was needed and then slid it back in there.

Dr. ClinicDirector has been renamed to Good Doc. And I love him.

And there are currently two blasts inside my uterus who have to decide if they want to lie down and take a nap on the nice cushy pillows. But... they cannot complain that the road was too rocky and they are beat up and tired. They cannot say that the uterus is trying to kick them out (because I didn't have even a cramp). At this point it is all up to them.


Update:

Embryologist just called, 3 of the morula's made it to blast. 5 blasts have been frozen.