I jumped in the car at 12 noon today to make the hour drive to the Clinic for my embryo transfer appointment.  I had to drink a litre of water and hold it in my bladder for an hour, so I started sculling water on the drive down there.  I drank about 900 ml by 12.15pm and arrived very early for my appointment (around 12.45pm).

 

I went to the office around 1.15pm and finalised my account, paying for the donor sperm and getting my receipts for all the other payments made to date.  I then went next door to wait…

 

And wait… and wait… and wait!

 

My fertility specialist was over 30 minutes late as she had been held up doing the treatments (egg retrievals) and I was the third one in!  I finally got in to see her around 2.10pm and my bladder was so full, it was very uncomfortable to walk.

 

I got to see my 3 little embryos on the screen again – this time I had one with 8 cells and two with 4 cells.  Good quality embryos are those with 4 to 8 cells, so I guess mine are pretty good so far.

 

And then the nasty painful bit happened.  I had forgotten how much it hurt to have that speculum inserted into my cervix.  Although, I’m not that sure it hurt that much the first time.  My doctor told me that my cervix was on an angle so she had to twist it twice.  Add that to a very, very full bladder, and it hurt like hell!

 

Then into the catheter and into my uterus they went… with a short wait while the embryologist checked that they had all left the tube.

 

Finally I got to empty my bladder, then went next door to get the blood test  request for 2 weeks time.   Oh, the dreaded 2WW (two week wait).

 

I had my first of four Pregnyl injections tonight.  This is to assist the embryos to implant into the lining of the uterus.  I’m hoping they do their job… but not quite perfectly.  They can do it 2/3’s but if 3 embryos implant, I still don’t know what I will do… other than cross that bridge if I come to it I guess.