Transfer

Wow, where to start?  Absolutely nothing went right when it came to the flights, to or from Philly.  The pilot just didn't show up for our first flight, delayed.  Then, by the time the plane came in, that pilot wasn't able to fly us, because he needed his required sleep before a flight the next morning, delayed again.  Then, come to find out, our layover would only be 15 minutes...not cool and absolutely not possible to make our connection!   We had to re-schedule our entire itinerary.  We didn't even leave our airport until the time we should have been landing in Philly - 4.5 hours late.  We got to Philly at 1:00 am. 

On our way home, the security checkpoint was HORRIBLY busy.  We even asked an employee to let us through, because we had heard our boarding call when it would have taken us at least another half hour to get through the massive line.  They let us through.  We took our shoes and belts off, yada yada, all that jazz.  Now, I'm not supposed to run or do anything too exerting.  We were walking quickly and I just told Brad to run.  I just knew we weren't going to make it.  We didn't.  By the time I got there, he was already with another employee re-scheduling our itinerary.  Ugh.  We ended up leaving almost 3 hours later and having a 4 hour layover in Newark, NJ.  We did finally make it home around 5:45, when we were originally to be home by about noon.  But, we did make it!

Now, the transfer went well.  We were going to put back 2 embryos.  Only one survived the thaw.  So we are asking for extra prayers and such for this one little guy/gal to stick!!  They tell you the "worst" part of the transfer is having to have a full bladder.  Oh, my!  Most definitely, that is a completely true statement!  I had to actually concentrate on NOT peeing on the doctor.  They are pushing directly on your bladder with the ultrasound wand to be able to guide the little embryo to it's new home for the next 9 months.   I'm pretty sure I told the doctor a few times that I was REALLLLLY trying not to go to the bathroom.  I didn't, thank God!   :)

Bedrest was nice.  We took a nice nap, read a little, chatted by the pool and outside at the hotel's weekly BBQ provided to it's guests.  The hotel was very nice and the weather was great.  I would have loved to have jumped into that pool!  All in all, the travel part sucked, but everything else went amazingly well.  Now, just crossing our fingers for the beta test on 7/23/12!