surrro weekly Jan 18

So yesterday was the big day.... Transfer day. It went really well and I was surprised at how painless it was, I guess the natural way was is pretty painless too ;-) G & J came into town for the proceedure and they took our family out to dinner, We had a great time; the girls behaved very well, Gabrielle fell asleep as soon as she finished eating though! It was nice to spend a little time with them, they are such sweet people it made me even more confident of my decision to become a surrogate.

It went down like this... My hubby and I got there about 5 min later than I wanted, but that is pretty usual for me. I started drinking my Chai Latte so that I would have a partially full bladder but not be uncomfortable during the waiting time after implantation. They gave me a Valium to relax me and my uterus, I didn't feel any different but my uterus was doing what they needed it to so it all worked out. The room was insanely warm so there was no chance of any one getting cold feet or anything else for that matter! I did wear my lucky rainbow socks :-) After the implantation they had me lay down and took a blood sample. We all hung out and visited for about 20 min and then they sent me on my way with a list of instructions for the next week and a half. I had originally been told that I might have to lay there for 1-2 hrs so I uploaded the game of life onto our itouch I thought it would be fun to see how many kids they got... but everything went so fast that there was no time for it.

So now I am here on bed-rest trying not to move around too much and stay relaxed.... A couple days I can do but I have no idea how women can do it for weeks or months... I would officially go nuts!

In 8 days we will know if they took and by 10 we should have a confirmed pregnancy test. I am sure the time is going to fly by. Still thinking sticky thoughts!