I had a qi gong session with Chris Fernie right before my procedure, so I was already feeling relaxed. He worked a lot on moving my lymphatic system and channeling my binqi out. It was so cold, but that's for another post. I guess I was so relaxed from the qi gong session, I didn't realize the valium had hit me until I was wandering around the tiny hospital bathroom like a goldfish.
Once we were in the transfer room, Dr. Huddleston gave us the fertilization report. I think it was:
#1: grade 2, 10 cells
#2: grade 3, 8 cells
#3: grade 2, 6 cells
#4: grade 3, 6 cells
#5: grade 2 (?), 4 cells
Grade goes from 1-5 scale, with 1 being the best. 2 is most common at 60% of embryos.
The first three were selected for transfer. Here are the three in this picture! The last two could not be frozen because of the quality. They think #5 didn't make it, since the embryo should have greater than 4 cells by day 3.
The experience was so clinical. One person confirmed my name on the syringe. After Dr. Huddleston shot the embryos in, they rechecked the syringe under a microscope to make sure that all of them transferred. Then we were up, out of there and back home. No waiting for 20 minutes with a pillow under me, as I had to do with the IUI.
Having finally convinced my mom that I didn't have to take bed rest, sleeping ended up being all I could do. There is a lot of debate on bed rest after transfer. UCSF and other sources say that bed rest is not required, and in fact there are a number of studies showing that bed rest does not improve implantation. My mom's stance had been "why take a chance?", but she's a scientist so she had to accept the study results. In the end, I frankly wasn't in much of a state to do anything else but sleep. I vaguely remember Anna coming over to needle me (thank you!) and leave me with OK! magazine and a couple DVDs.
And then it was Thursday...
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