Our baby

Thought some may want to see what the embryo looked like. Here in Dallas they grade a little harder than in Wichita. The baby part got a B grade and the rest (cells) got a C. This started out as an A in Wichita and sometimes they down grade after the thaw or it could be that it would have been a B here. He still thought it looked very good. All of our others were already hatching this one looks like it's getting close. Stick baby...Stick.

We had to check in this morning at 8am and our transfer didn't take place until a little after 9am. The embryologist came in with a pic of our embryo and said it still looked great after the thaw. This whole experience was night and day from the Wichita office. As you can see we both had to gown up and I was taken into an OR room. We were able to see on a large screen the embryo in the dish and watched the embryologist remove it. Within just a few seconds he was in the room giving it to the Dr. Everything went smooth and now we are back at the hotel. Now the dreaded TWW!! (two week wait) Thank you to everyone who has been praying and thinking of us.

Arrived in dallas

We arrived in Dallas last night, go checked in and ran to get Chili's for dinner. Did a little bit of shopping since I will be on 48hrs bed rest. It's kinda upsetting that we are taying in such a nice area with tons of shopping so close.

Fung Shui

So yesterday my mom told me about an article she read in "Red Book" magazine about Fung Shui for fertility. She said the first thing was to get anything out from underneath the bed. Which for some reason that's were I keep a few things: flashlight, calendar, Sophie's toys, IVF info and some dumbbells for all those times I want to pump a little iron before bed..yah right. The other things were to put 2 wooden elephants, picture of a child or a stuffed animal in the corner and do NOT sweep around your bed. I also looked this up online and it says to put a painting or something that has a pomegranate in the west part of the room. We happen to have this drawing that a old friend of ours did and gave to Jason. So we did all those things except the wooden elephants not sure where I can get those?? We celebrated Jason's birthday tonight with an amazing sandwich from City Bites and I whipped him up a small "Duke" cake. Yummy! First nursing exam tomorrow morning....wish me luck!!

Start Progesterone tonight!

Tonight we start our progesterone injections...Yay!! I had to stop by my family physician yesterday to finish up some paper work the school needs before we start clinicals and I new there was something else I needed to ask them....draw targets on my rear for Jason...darn it. Thank goodness for the Internet or else he would be guessing. I will have him draw a circle on each side before the first one tonight. We will continue these for the next several months because we will be pregnant!!!

I'm getting excited.......I had my sonogram done yesterday and there was a little problem with the office here in Wichita getting the results faxed to Dallas but they finally received them this morning. The RE looked everything over and we are on the books for a transfer on Thursday!! We will head down to Dallas Wednesday night and we are staying at a really cool hotel called Aloft, very close to the office. We would have loved to stay with Robbie but this Dr. is pretty strict on how far we can travel after the transfer. We only have that one left so we are going to everything we can in our power to help it stick!! This hotel does accept fur-babies but George and Norma are being so kind to take care of Sophie for us. We will miss her waking us up in the morning with her sloppy kisses but we will enjoy our time together on this mini vacation. Keep us in your thoughts & prayers and I hope we can update with a BFP!!

quick update

I went in early this morning here in Wichita for my sonogram and my uterine lining is only measuring at 7. I called the Dallas office and he would like me to continue my Estrace for one more week to see if it increases enough. I have another sonogram scheduled for Wednesday at 1:00pm so we will know for sure then. If it does increase we will be ready to transfer on January 28th. **If lining doesn't increase enough we will have to cancel this cycle and try again next month.