Success!!

We have sperm!

The surgery went really well. Like old pros, M and I went into the clinic and they took us back to the surgical rooms. I got to walk down a long hallway with multiple rooms labeled for different things. I saw the embryo transfer rooms! A bit more homey and technical than the other 'prop your feet up and lemme see your uterus' rooms but exciting all the while.

M was a champ. The doctor said the procedure went "beautifully" and that he was able to get a lot of sperm from his first poke. They didn't even need to tap the other one, they got "TONS" the nurse said. Never have I been so happy to hear about TONS of sperm!

So, the first half is complete. M's little swimmers are on ice now, waiting for my half of the equation. Which is about 20 days away today. 20 days until conception!!!!

Freaky. Love it. It's weird, we're making a baby.

Love you baby for going through all of that today.

Check his hat. The anesthesiologist said he looked French. And that he heard French men are good lovers so maybe he would have good sperm. Funny guy. But apparently M DOES have French sperm!!

Day 12 on BCP and Sperm Surgery

In five hours, Jonah's babysitter arrives and we head off to the hospital.

Once there, they will put Mark under, and take a needle to his balls. What a husband! Thanks dear.

Last time he had the surgery done, they said his right teste had plenty but that his left one was hard to work with due to a previous injury as a child. Let's just hope they find what they need after tapping the first one.

(I say tapping like its a Sperm Draft Beer or something.)

All stats say there is a high likelihood of us being able to retrieve fine no problem, but boy have we been the victim of stats! (vasectomy reversal, Colic, Frozen Embryo Transfer etc) We will be fine, all will be well and today our child will be plucked from the loins of his/her father.

Here's to half of the journey completed today. After this and our suppression check next Wed, it's Egg Plumpin time.

More when we get back.