Now We Wait...

There are babies inside of me!

We arrived on Saturday morning and went straight to our "recovery room" to change. I got the traditional hospital gown and Gus got the marshmallow suit shown above. He was a good sport about it. It was made out of some sort of plastic, and because the OR had to be a certain temperature, which was pretty warm, he said he almost melted in it. Poor guy! Once we were changed the nurse took us to our Pre-Op room. I was then called back to an exam room where the doctor preformed one last scan to make sure there wasn't any fluid in my uterus. The picture wasn't very good, and there was definitely something there, but he thought it might just be an adhesion from one of my surgeries and decided he would just go for lower placement of the embryo and that we were okay to move on. He then told me that he was really only comfortable placing one embryo in as he was pretty sure the problem was isolated to my tubes and since this was our first cycle, he wanted to error on the side of caution. I then went back to the Pre-Op room and filled Gus in on the news.

The Doctor soon came back in and said after looking at the embryos, he had changed his mind. The embryo quality wasn't to the standards he would use to make the decision to only put one in. Our embryos were average quality, which wasn't bad and didn't mean that we wouldn't get pregnant, but that our chances with one was only around 40%. With everything that I have been through, he was willing to press our luck and put two in, which would push our chances to 50-60% success rate. Gus asked how putting two in would affect his concerns about getting through the first trimester, and the doctor was more hopeful with putting two in. He said once we got past the first trimester he didn't anticipate any problems. So we agreed to put two in.

I was then wheeled into the OR and was situated. Gus was able to come in and was able to watch from the head of the bed. I was then asked to verify that it was my name and birth date on the dish and we got to see our two little embryos! The doctor said they both looked really good and pointed out the growing baby to us. The doctor did a mock transfer and then did the real one. After waiting a full minute, and then once the lab tech verified that the embryos were not stuck in the tubing, he then removed all of the instruments from me and to my pleasant surprise, used a catheter to drain my bladder.

The doctor then told us the restrictions: don't do anything the rest of Saturday and all day on Sunday, resume "normal" activity on Monday, but no intercourse until the pregnancy test and no lifting over 20 pounds, lots of rest and take it easy. The doctor then leaned down to me with tears in his eyes, grabbed my hand and said, "You did great with everything you had to go through, now lots of praying and rest." He then gave Gus a hug and told him to take good care of me. My bed was then reclined so my head was much lower than my rear (the picture above doesn't do the best job showing this) and I was wheeled back to our recovery room. The doctor sure was right about lots of praying, I have said countless prayers over the last few days!

I then had to lay still for an hour and a half. Which wasn't too bad. We were both crying after the doctor talked to us at the end, so we spent some time using Kleenex and talking. One of the nurses then brought us the first picture of the twins! The picture above is a picture of the picture, so again, not the best. I feel like Rachel in the episode of Friends where she can't see the baby in the ultrasound and Ross has to keep pointing it out to her. I can't see them, but I trust they are there! We went home and I spent the rest of the weekend on the couch.

Gus has been awesome about doing everything around the house! I knew he would be though, he always takes good care of me after surgeries.

I'm back at work today. I know it has only been 2 days, but I don't think the waiting is going to be as hard as I thought it would be. I would rather live in this state PUPO (pregnant until proven otherwise), than to find out I'm not. I think it will be a very nerve-racking day when it finally comes. I did go on-line and find a due date calculator. According to it, I would be due on February 20th.

I've had pregnancy symptoms for about a week now with the progesterone that I'm on. I pee A LOT, my boobs hurt, I'm tired, and I have moments of nausea, but I'm not complaining, I just hope it is all for a good reason!