Return to St. Louis

2/1/2010 10:50PM CST:

Photo of me (Mike) and our surrogate Jessie having fun on Friday night 1/22/2010 in the Castro at the Twin Peaks bar.

I made it back to St. Louis safely and already miss the California weather. It was a nice welcome to come back to an immaculately cleaned home, thanks to Robbie. As I was stepping off the plane, I received a voicemail from our embryologist, Deborah. The embryos had finished incubating. At this point, we have now transferred two to our GS, and we have 12 blastocysts frozen in reserve. But to quote our embryologist, "the goal is not to have a lot of frozen embryos - it is to have a successful pregnancy." It's nice to be home, unpacked, and back together after ten days apart, but I had a great time hanging out with our GS and her family. I will have to have her pick out her published name - it seems more fitting than saying "our GS" over and over. I added a short playlist for sticky-embryo-positive-thinking-extra-fertile thoughts.