Transfer Day!

We had our transfer day on Monday 8/22/16, 2 days later than anticipated which turns out to be good news.  We met Bridget in Seattle on Sunday morning and stayed in a super comfortable VRBO for the duration of our stay.  We arrived a few hours before Bridget and since we had left our house at 4:45 am after going to bed at 2:00 am (we couldn't sleep!) to say the least, we were very tired.  We drove to the nearest Target and bought 2 pillows and a blanket, Cody then drove us down to the beach and we slept for awhile before going back to the airport to get B.  :) 

The beach where we slept

We did some grocery shopping and had a fun dinner at the most bizarrely decorated restaurant called Bizzaros.  We didn't have reservations and the restaurant was pretty full when we arrived because Sunday nights were their famous meat balls special.  We were immediately sat at "The Best Seat in the House" which consisted of hundreds of love notes, poetry, declarations and drawings left by everyone who had sat at this table.  It was great Italian food, wine and conversation on the eve of our transfer.  Bridget even left a note from our dinner.  We laughed a lot!  This seat is the "Best Seat in Seattle" now as far as I'm concerned!

Sitting across from the 2 BEST people who want me to put their baby in my belly.  I can't wait!  Bridget.  <3

On Monday morning we woke up and took our time getting ready and made breakfast prior to our 11:30 am appointment.  We grabbed a coffee on our way to the clinic and checked in around 11:00.  The SRM staff was wonderfully comforting, knowledgeable and kind.  Bridget had her labs drawn and we were taken back to Transfer Room 1.  While Bridget was inside changing Cody and I stepped out into the hallway and a wave of emotions overwhelmed me.  We were on the cusp of our transfer and we have worked so incredibly hard to align ourselves for this moment.  All I could do was cry in his arms.  A sweet man walked past us and stopped and asked if everything was alright.  We politely said it was and he proceeded through some office doors.  A couple of minutes later we were back inside our transfer room where we met with our embryologist and she gave us a picture of our best little Sigler embryo that we were transferring.  When we were ready to start the transfer the sweet man from the hallway walked into our room and introduced himself as Dr. Letterie.  I was immediately calmed by his presence and was ready to go.  I held Bridget's hand , Cody recorded the process and the actual transfer took less than 3 minutes.  It went very smoothly, Bridget sailing through the whole process and we were out of the clinic by 12:30.  We weren't quite ready to go home after we left the clinic so we walked through Pikes Place Market and drove out to Lake Washington and had a nice lunch by the water.  After lunch we drove home and spent the afternoon and evening relaxing, putting our feet up and talking.  It was such a great day.  We had our transfer and relaxed with Bridget who has such a special place in my heart.  AND, she even let me give her her Progesterone in oil injection on the night of the transfer! 

Where the magic happened!

We did it!

Bridget is READY!

5 Day Sigler Blastocyst

Morning of transfer

The tiny white dot is our Sigler embryo in it's HOME AWAY FROM HOME!

Life is Good...The perfect ending to a whirlwind 48 hours.  Celebrating what we hope is new life.

We have all returned home and dove right back into our busy lives of parenting and every day life.  Cody is preparing to head back to work on the 29th and Bridget's children returned to school yesterday.  Life seems to be flying by while standing incredibly still.  Bridget has her blood drawn for a quantitative HCG (pregnancy hormone) test on August 31st and I swear the minutes to that are not moving.  However each day is passing with all of our sports, practices and errands preparing for back to school ourselves. Every moment is spent hoping and praying that our embryo sticks and we have POSITIVE news on the 31st.  There was so much buildup to the 3 minutes that was our actual transfer and now it seems we have nothing but time on our hands while we wait....and wait...and oh ya...WAIT.  As they say, anything worth waiting for is worth the wait...or something like that. ;)