Day 30--transfer complete!

This is Brian writing on Jordan's behalf. She's on bedrest yesterday and today after the transfer, but we wanted to get the word out about what happened.

We arrived at the doctor's office at 9:30am yesterday. They took blood and began prepping Jordan for the transfer. The doctor came in and told us that two of the three embryos had survived the thaw. We could tell just looking at each other that our feelings about that were very mixed. On the one hand, it was wonderful news for the two that survived, but on the other hand, it saddened us that one of our babies was already gone.

Only about two minutes later, however, the lab tech came in and the doctor asked, "Two survived, right?" The tech replied, "No, all three." It turns out the doctor had us confused with another couple who was there for a transfer--all three of our embryos had survived the thaw and were ready to be implanted! What a feeling of joy we had knowing that God's hand was already with us and that all three of our babies would have the opportunity to live! The typical nationwide rate of survival for frozen embryos is about 50%, meaning the probability of three embryos surviving a thaw is 12.5%. Our doctor said her group has a survival rate of up to 75%, which would mean the probability of three embryos successfully thawing is just over 42%. So although the odds were against us, God was gracious. As we've said all along, our God doesn't care about the odds.

So they transferred all three embryos (we could actually see them briefly on the sonogram!), had Jordan rest for a half hour, reviewed her medicine schedule with her (she's still on most everything she was before the transfer), and sent her home. We'll go back next Thursday for a blood pregnancy test. If the test is positive, they'll do several blood tests at two-day intervals after that to make sure everything is going well, and at some point not too far away we'll actually be able to tell via sonogram how many babies we'll be having. It's hard to wait--we'd really like to know if this was successful.

We feel very blessed that Rita stayed away long enough for the transfer. She was a threatening tropical storm and has now become a hurricane. Much of South Florida is closed down today because of her, so we're just happy that she didn't come to visit yesterday. God has been so gracious to us.

We are so very grateful for everyone's prayers. We both noted after the transfer was over that the prayers of the saints were almost tangible while we were at the doctor's office. Thank you so much for the love and care (and flowers!) you have given us. Please keep praying--the doctor repeatedly emphasized how they have never had twins from frozen embryos, so again the odds are against all three surviving. But as I wrote before, our God cares nothing about the odds. And I felt like telling the doctor, "You've also never had a couple in here before who were as prayed for as we are!" We're going to continue to pray for triplets--it'll be fun to see what the doctor thinks about that!

I'll stop now since, after all, it's Jordan's blog. We love you all very much.

~BSD