This is a delayed blog post from May 2019….and I’ve stolen some of the wording from Matt in a post he did. That’s what teams/friends are for right??
🌟Embryo Transfer Day🌟
Saturday May 18, 2019.
So, it’s done! Now we all cross our fingers and hope for the best 🤞🏻
13 months ago we were complete strangers and today we all sat side by side in the Repromed clinic (some of us half naked!) to transfer the ‘BrenJen’ embryo into me.
Such a surreal experience, to watch that tiny little embryo move into its new home (its third in just 3 months!) 😮
I know I’ve been planning to have an embryo transfer for this team for over a year, and I’ve been planning it as a concept since I first started investigating surrogacy in August 2016, so 2.5 years ago. But it really hit home today as I drove to Repromed and my heart rate went through the roof.
I was about to have life implanted into me.
A tiny little embryo was going to be entrusted to me to grow it.
I was about to share my body so my two friends could be Dads.
Today was the day that I truly became a surrogate.
Amazing how we can be planning for something for so long, but we’re still floored from time to time with the enormity of it all. 
I rocked up with a ‘Sticky Bouquet’ for the boys and also for our Fertility Specialist, Hilary. The bouquet was filled with all things sticky – tape, glue, post it notes, and even sticky date pudding and lint rollers!! Oh and of course a bundle of sticks. ALL credit must go to Marian for this idea.
Quick bloods were complete to check my progesterone levels, then I had to pee and chug back 500ml of water and we were good to go!
The embryologist told us that our embryo had thawed out nicely (8 minutes on high in the microwave – not really, that’s a joke people) and had been behaving itself, continuing to grow from the place it had last stopped growing 3 months ago, when it was frozen 👍🏻
I’m getting quite used to taking my pants off in front of everyone now, so it was off with the jeans, up in to the stirrups and within a matter of minutes we were all watching the embryo be transferred into my uterus.
It’s amazing that for all of the time and processes and steps we’ve taken as a team to get here, this moment was over in the blink of an eye!
During today’s appointment I was given the news of my progesterone levels being on target, which means I may be able to experience a completely natural transfer with no hormone support (yay!!) Some bloods early next week will confirm this – but it was some fantastic news that none of us were really anticipating to hear today.
We also managed to get a quick selfie with Hilary on our way out the door 📸 and here’s hoping that the next time we see her will be for a pregnancy scan! 🤰
It’s an 11 day wait for us now. So we will be busy gardening, cleaning, cooking, kid wrangling, working, eating, sleeping….doing anything really that will keep us distracted while we wait for confirmation at the end of the month! 😂
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