Amy, Amy or Elizabeth?

Wednesday morning we get a call from the doctor to come to in for the transfer in three hours!!! The procedure was originally scheduled for Friday, but three of the embryos were ready NOW!

We dropped everything and rushed to the hospital. Once there, we checked in and after a quick blood test was escorted to the room where we waited for the transfer.

We were a little bit nervous when the nurse asked "which Amy are you ?"............apparently there were two Amy's having transfers done at the same time.......even more concerning when we got to the room and saw Elizabeth was the name on the door! The nurse assured us that everything is triple checked to make sure we did not wind up with someone elses kids.. :)

Once in the room, the nurse went through the instructions for post procedure (bed rest, continue on medications, no exercises/anything that might cause over heating, etc), then gave Amy a pill to relax..... :)

Then the doctor came in and talked about what had happened......the 12 embryos were thawed and they were watching them carefully. It was apparent that 3 of them stood out as the best of the bunch and that the others were not doing so good. Rather than wait, they decided to move forward quickly with the three best ones.

The embryologist wheeled in a cart with that doubles for one of those premature baby carts used in the hospital (covered, controled temperature, etc)....only with a glass dish in the center. She clicked on the display screen above the cart and there they were.....three groups of cells (8, 7 and 6). Pretty amazing.........

The doctor took the position, the nurse and we were watching the ultrasound picture of the uterus and the embryologist carefully placed the embryos into a syringe with a long tube at the end. The doctor placed the embryos into Amy's uterus as we watched....and then they were there...a small white spec on the screen. The total procedure took about 10 minutes.

Amy reclined with feet higher than her head....and she rested/slept for an hour before we were released to go home.

Once home, it was strict bed rest. We did watch one of her favourite shows, Mama Mia...which was probably a mistake....all I could do to keep her from dancing....must stay calm......

She can start getting back to normal activity on Friday.

We go to the doctor's office on August 24th for a pregnancy test.