made a decision and PIO shots are a go!

I'm going to slack and c&p from the Nest again.

Thanks for asking! After getting some good advice from a two under two mom and having a little "think aloud" last night (thanks to Taffy for being my sounding board!) we decided to go with the plan that Dr. V suggested, but slightly modified to make me feel better about it. We will start out by thawing one. If it doesn't survive then we will go ahead and thaw both of the others and transfer whoever survives. The jump from one to two would be because if one doesn't survive there would be questions about the quality of the other two. The other piece that I added in to make me feel better is that if the one they thaw first looks sub-par as far as quality (according to the embryologist that would be under 70% of the embryo surviving the thaw) then they will go ahead and thaw a second and we will transfer two. If the first one thawed looks great then we will only transfer that one. My IVF nurse talked to the embryologist today and they agreed to the plan. My big turning point came when I realized that those three embryos have the same chance of taking whether we transfer them now together or individually over the course of the next several months. So I'm not lessening my chance of getting pg by doing one at a time, just my chance of having multiples. I may be prolonging the agony if it doesn't work the first time...or the second...but I am not lessening my chance of getting pregnant. I just may have to be patient through a longer process, but I think it is the right decision for all of us in the long run.

I really appreciate everyone's support. I had my progesterone level checked this morning and it looked good, so I am starting my daily PIO shots tonight. They are IM shots (in the muscle) so I can't give them to myself. Last time Monte did a great job - I never even felt one shot he gave me. So just send me lots of "painless shot dust." :) Hopefully he will do just as good a job this time. At this point there is nothing else that will delay the cycle. By upping my progesterone levels my body is tricked into thinking I O'd today so my embies will go back in six days from now! We won't know what time my transfer will be on Tuesday until sometime Monday, but it will definitely be next Tuesday. And I had my first (of three) acupuncture appointment today and I am feeling SO much less stressed now! I forgot how much I loved acupuncture.