{Meet Monica & Ross}

A little earlier than expected, but today (Thursday, December 3rd) turned out to be our transfer day!

Because one of my friends who is also doing IVF this month named her embryos, I mentioned it to Ben and we decided to as well....for FUN (just to clarify-these are not real names we've chosen, nor do we even know their gender).

Meet....Monica and Ross. Totally my idea. Ben doesn't get any credit because he wants to keep thinking of superhero sibling names. I write the blog, which means that I win! (My only-child syndrome seriously just came out while typing that)

All 7  of our fertilized eggs made it to today (Day 3 post retrieval).

The grading scale on the Super 7  is as follows: 3 were good+ quality; 1 was good; 1 was fair-; 2 were poor

We decided since our numbers were small to go ahead and transfer our 2 best today.

Watching the transfer process was actually really cool. I wasn't sure what to expect but I was surprised to find myself getting emotional seeing it happen. I am so glad Ben was able to be with me last minute (I only gave him an hour notice). Someday I hope he writes down his feelings about everything too. He's going to make such a good daddy.

As my friend Erin McBride would say, "Yay SCIENCE!" 

• What happens if this works? Well, we get a baby or babies! 

• What happens if this doesn't work? We will hopefully be able to use one of the other 5 embryos if they made it to Day 5 and we were able to freeze them. The reality is that possibly none of Super 7 make it. That is just nature's natural selection process and there is nothing we can do about it. We know this and we want you to know that we know this. If it happens, we will tell you, I promise. Then we will try again. 

Why are we being so open about all of this? Because we always have been. Since the miscarriage last year we found a lot of support by talking about it. It was helpful to know that we weren't alone and that there are options. It may happen again and when I get pregnant I'll probably worry  about it. I have nothing fancy to say about that.

Today though, there are nothing but happy thoughts floating around :)

And now we wait.