We have to be there at 7AM for check-in, and then the procedure itself will last from about 7:30-8:30AM. I'll be under anesthesia, but not all the way under. They call it "twilight"....your guess on what that means is as good as mine.
I won't describe exactly what will be happening during the procedure, but if you want to read about it, you can here.
Just as soon as they have my eggs, they'll take them into the lab and fertilize them using Adam's little swimmers. On Thursday morning, we'll get a call to let us know how many eggs fertilized.
Please join us in praying God's protection over these newly formed lives--that they will make it through this initial stage and that God will give me the opportunity to have these babies grow inside of me.
Once we've gotten that call, we're just waiting until the baby embryos are ready to be transferred back to me. The lab technicians will look at them the day after the retrieval to see how many have fertilized, but then won't look at them again until the morning of the 3rd day (Saturday). When we leave tomorrow, we'll have an appointment for a Saturday morning transfer of babies, but when the doctors take a look at our babies Saturday morning, they may decide to push the transfer day back. So, our transfer could fall anywhere between Saturday and Tuesday.
And then, it's just a waiting game.
We are SO close....
"He will feed his flock like a shepherd. He will carry the lambs in his arms, holding them close to his heart. He will gently lead the mother sheep with their young."
Isaiah 40:11
I heard this verse on the radio today, and it just stuck in my head all day long. What a tender image of our God. He will carry the lambs in his arms, holding them close to his heart.
What a beautiful, beautiful message of love. I'm holding onto that as I deal with my own uncertainty about what is to come. I know my Savior is holding me close to His heart, carrying me in His arms.
What more could I possibly ask for?
2 comments:
I've haven't shared this with you yet . . . maybe I still shouldn't but I'm half way done writing a perfectly good sentence so . . . . Tobin, Jabe and Phoebe were all conceived on December 3rd. You are literally having this all done to the day (almost) as Matt and I did only 8 years later. Sleep well to night with visions of sugar babies dancing in your head.
Becca....I love that. Thank you for telling me :) What an awesome gift God has given us that we get to know you and share in the beautiful family He has blessed you with. And even more cool that He has drawn such incredible parallels between our two stories...we can only call that a God thing :) And I've definitely got the visions of babies dancing in my head....and I'm going to dream about them all day long because I know they're finally THERE and WAITING for us!!!!! Such joy :):)
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