My IVF Journey – Embryo Transfer

Part I – My IVF Journey – The Beginning
Part II – My IVF Journey – Egg Retrieval

[All this happened on July 4, I am just retelling my experience for the sake of the ones who will be going through IVF as well and of course so that you get to know what I went through I am already pregnant:)!]

Embryo transfer occurs normally after 3 or 5 days of the egg retrieval. In my case it was three days after. Now today is a really important day as well. As I told you on my Egg Retrieval post, I mentioned that I had 27 eggs. They were joined by my husband’s sperms and only 20 have fertilized – it is still a pretty good number. 2 of them were not of good quality, 2 embryos will be transferred in me.

We arrived in the hospital thinking it would only take half an hour or so. But that is not the case. This is one of the thing I didn’t like about my fertility clinic, they did not explain well that it would take the whole day.

When I arrived at the OR, my doctor showed me the pictures of my embryos and these are my two babies that they have put back inside me.

Oh by the way if you are doing this make sure that you have a full bladder. This is another thing they didn’t really explain well to me. Before they do the operation, they will be doing a scan to see the uterus and they can only see this if you have a full bladder. I peed before I went to the operation because I didn’t know – well they had to pump me with water via a catheter – not really a comfortable experience!

It had to be done. When they were already able to see the uterus, they went on putting the embryos to me. It didn’t really take long.

So after the transfer, I had to lay for four hours and there’s no going to the bathroom. If you have to pee, you would have to do it on the bedpan.

I was dischared after the 4 hours rest. From this day on I would need to be on bed rest for 2 weeks.