Transfer Number 1

I have officially had my transfer! I left Tuesday the 22nd for my embryo transfer, my sister and I flew in to LAX and drove immediately to Universal Studios, Hollywood because we only had that day and early the next morning to explore LA.  we accomplished quite a bit in 24 hours though, Universal, beeches, and Hollywood walk of fame! Oh, and food trucks, food trucks are so fun and delicious! Kogi, being the best one.  If you go to LA get some Kogi, it's unique and delicious and has a pretty large menu for a food truck.  I'm not being paid to say that, wish I was! I'd be OK if they just gave me free food for saying it.
OK, so lets back up a little and get back on task.  So I've been taking estrogen 0.2ml IM every 3 days for a couple of weeks prior to transfer and started taking Progesterone 1ml IM everyday since the egg donor had her retrieval which was 6 days prior to my transfer.  That makes for one very sore bottom! So the egg retrieval was on a Thursday and my transfer was the Wednesday after that.
Here we go, I woke up Wednesday morning got dressed and headed to my transfer.  I waited in the room they placed 2 6 day old fresh embryos in my uterus then I laid there for an hour.  It was quick and painless.  The shots in my bum hurt more than the transfer.  After that we headed to the hotel for some bed rest.  Yay, bed rest in LA! (insert eye roll)  It's pretty difficult to get food while on bed rest and you're the only one allowed to drive the rental car.  so we ordered in Thai food.  No Thai food next time, I really just wanted mango sticky rice, which was good but too sweet, and I couldn't eat my dinner because it was way to spicy!  Sorry, pardon the food talk, but when you're on bed rest there's not much else to do. In the morning we ordered room service and I paid way too much for oatmeal, fruit and disgusting coffee. very disappointing.
Anyways, enough food talk, today I am 5 days post fresh embryo transfer and I don't really feel much of anything different.  Just tired but I've been fatigued since I started the progesterone.  Some might say I'm having cravings already, but I just think I like pickles  lol. According to this fancy link I found I should be just now, or tomorrow, starting to produce HCG into my blood stream. We will know for sure soon my pregnancy test is scheduled for Friday.  I remember my last Surrogacy the first transfer was unsuccessful and I had all the symptoms like I was pregnant, but I wasn't.  The second transfer, which was successful, I had no symptoms and I swore I wasn't pregnant, but I was! So, moral of the story, don't worry be happy mon!
If it happens, it happens. If it doesn't we shall try again.  I really want it to work first try though so I can stop taking all these shots! Update Friday, hopefully----->

Yep, my butt hurts

Well, it has begun! I started my IM injections of estrogen 10 days ago and I'm scheduled for a transfer on September 22nd, 23rd or 24th.  That's if everything goes perfectly with the egg donor and my uterus.  So may things have to fall perfectly into place for this to work.  It's amazing that we have figured out a way to bring 2 totally different women together to make a baby.  I guess we should mention there is a man involved the intended father has a little something to do with this making of a baby, physically his part is easy, emotionally though I'm sure he's at least a little stressed out for it all to go well and to have a healthy baby/babies!
The IM injections aren't too bad to give myself.  In fact i barely feel them, the next day though my butt definitely hurts.  They also give me headaches and yes I'm super emotional.  Way more than when I was on the oral Estrogen. My life has been super hectic lately, lots of bad news (nothing related to surrogacy), trying to sell my house, just a lot all at once.  My brain is in overload, and the hormones on top of that aren't helping any!
Once I hear the OK I'll start progesterone IM then shortly after it'll be transfer time!! I can't wait to be pregnant and off the meds.  I'm still usually a little hormonal when I'm pregnant but not as bad as this!  Hopefully, my next post will be from my hotel room in LA while I'm on bedrest from my transfer!!!