Three Birthdays and a Transfer

Well, I'm officially Pregnant Until Proven Completely Stupid For Ever Thinking This Would Work (PUPCSFETTWW)!

Hmm.  Now I see why people go with PUPO.  That's easier.  We'll go with that.

I woke up nervous this morning.  I took the full day off work even though my transfer wasn't scheduled until noon, so that I could do some final cleaning before my mom arrives tonight as well as squeeze in my last workout for the next two weeks.  M headed to work as usual and was going to meet me at the clinic.

Unfortunately, that didn't quite work out as planned.  About half an hour before the transfer, I texted him to say that I had arrived early and would be in the clinic waiting room.  He responded that he was just leaving work.  I immediately knew that he wouldn't make it in time, but in the interest of maintaining a calm and stress-free uterine environment I decided not to make a big deal out of it.  As it turned out, the clinic was running behind and my transfer was about a half hour late, so I actually thought he might make it.  And as it turned out, he did.  He told the reception staff that I was already back there and they told him they'd tell the nurses.  But something apparently got lost in communication and he ended up sitting in the waiting area while the transfer took place.  It's kind of ridiculous that they couldn't get their shit together enough to bring him back there, especially when all I was doing was waiting around anyway, but it's kind of par for the course for this cycle.  And also his fault for not leaving work in time to meet me as planned.  But again, all of this is stuff I don't want to get worked up over for the sake of our little embyro.

Which is inside me!  Right now!  The transfer itself went well.  My RE said that our blastocyst survived the thaw with 100% of its cells intact.  I didn't question her, but those with more scientific knowledge can possibly answer this because I didn't even think that was physically possible.  I thought that any frozen blast would lose some percentage of its cells during the thawing process?  Perhaps she just meant that it had replenished itself to 100% of what it was before freeze?  Either way, I guess it's a good sign.  She also said that it had started re-growing and was "moving around in the dish" before the transfer.  Antsy to latch on to some fluffy endometrium, perhaps?  A bit weird to picture, but I'll take it!

In the interim, I have my mom's visit to distract me for a bit.  She gets here tonight and stays until Wednesday.  We'll do a little sitting around, a little shopping and we'll also be heading out of town to visit with M's family, who live a bit less than 2 hours away.  We're going to see them this weekend for our annual combo-birthday dinner.  M and his dad oddly share the same birthday, which was earlier this week, and mine is on Sunday, so for the past three years we've all gotten together to celebrate.  Our little embryo will be getting a ton of love and good family vibes from being surrounded by three of its four future grandparents.  If that doesn't convince it to stick around, then I don't know what will!

Now we just have to wait and hope that our blast decides to take up residence in my ute for the next 9 months.  My beta is scheduled for April 5th.  I'm pretty sure I'll be peeing on something before then, but we'll see.  I'm not a huge pee-er on sticks.  I'm too cheap for that.  In the meantime, nothing to do but: