They're in!

Today was the day. The day of our frozen embryo transfer!

On the way to the clinic I started feeling really nauseous. I was really nervous, for a variety of reasons: I was worried the embies wouldn't come out of the deep freeze, I was worried my lining wasn't thick enough, I was worried my bladder wasn't full enough!

When I got into the room to start my pre-transfer acupuncture there was a card addressed to us from the embryologist and her team. It was so sweet, I started to tear up. They also gave us a pic of our two little embies!

Our embies right before the transfer. Aren't they adorable?

DH and I have been discussing the wonders of modern science a lot lately, and how we've never actually made it this far before. It's exciting to think we have actually mixed our genes and created life. And for all intents and purposes, starting today, I'm going to consider myself pregnant. For the first time in my life, I have embryos inside of me. Yeah, yeah, they haven't attached yet, so technically, I'm not pregnant, but I want to have the best positive outlook. I want to believe I'm pregnant because I want my embryos to feel my positive energy. I don't believe that I can just will something to happen, but I do believe in sending positive vibes. Besides, if I start thinking now about the effect my actions will have on my babies maybe I'll finally have a good reason to improve my diet and overall fitness.

We were at the clinic for about two hours this morning. I had 30 minutes of acupuncture before the transfer and 30 minutes after. Soooo relaxing! I could not recommend it more. After the first round of acupuncture, the doctor, nurse and an embryologist all piled in the room and they wheeled the ultrasound over so we could watch the action. I had taken Valium before the acupuncture so I was feeling nice and relaxed and I didn't feel a thing when the catheter went in. But I saw it on the ultrasound screen. Then, the head embryologist came in with our embies and we all watched as they were jettisoned into my uterus. Weeeee!

Makes me think of the scene from Finding Nemo where the little turtle dude Squirt is giving directions before the big "jump." Remember my little embies, rip it, roll it and punch it!

The little white dots on the ultrasound screen made me smile. They were in!

I spent another 30 minutes relaxing, did some more acupuncture, we got our lab paperwork and instructions for the next nine days and we were off.

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Last night, over what may be my last sushi dinner for awhile, we decided to name the embies Thing1 and Thing2 after the characters from the Dr Seuss book The Cat and The Hat.

I'm still nervous, but I'm also excited and hopeful. My nurse warned me against POAS (peeing on a stick) before our Beta test. But Sept 2 is soooooooo far away, and Amazon has a great price on pregnancy test strips...So, we'll see.