Today is 3dp5dt (3 days past 5 day [blastocyst] transfer). Well actually it’s the 4th day since my transfer, but it seems that the first day is counted as day 0, or at least that’s what the consensus seems to be on all the sites I’ve looked at. What does this really mean? Not too much yet. I still have 4 days until my first beta, but I really have a good feeling about this. Quite literally – I’m already feeling stuff! The first 2 days, I just felt really tired. The first day was probably from lying around all day after my transfer, but then we drove out to Temecula on Saturday for our friends’ wedding and even though I did absolutely nothing except sit in the car, and then sit at the wedding (I didn’t even dance), I felt exhausted all day. The wedding was so beautiful. It took place at the Wilson Creek Winery and it was absolutely magical. However, it was hard for me to fully enjoy it because I was so tired, and it’s always weird being the only sober person in a room. So I left the festivities at 10:30 when the wedding was winding down, and opted out of the after party happening in the lounge of our hotel. I crashed hard until my hubby came into our room drunk as a skunk and woke me up. I had a really hard time falling back to sleep after that. I lay awake for hours thinking about everything, so I was awake when I had what I think was my first “symptom”. At around 4am, I started feeling small twinges in my uterus. I eventually fell back to sleep, but the feeling continued periodically throughout the next day.

On Sunday, we took the scenic back road from Temecula to Palm Springs to visit a good friend of mine from Canada who was vacationing there. The drive was incredible. There’s something so peaceful and beautiful about the desert with all it’s barren hills and mountains. Having grown up just a few hours away from the spectacular Canadian Rockies, I never thought I would find desert mountains beautiful, but they really are. The picture below does not do them enough justice.

About halfway there, we past this painted boulder. The image isn’t great because I took it from the car as we drove by, but I had to share it because it was such a powerful sign for me. I felt like it was my little embie girl telling us she is still there and telling us to not let go of our hope. It said the following:

“I’m Right Here Don’t Let Me Go”

If this sign wasn’t enough to keep the my faith going, I was rewarded with more twinges throughout the day. I felt them on and off throughout the hour and a half drive to Palm Springs, while we were visiting with my friend and her husband, then again on the drive home. By the time we got home it was 5:30 pm. I had dinner, watched TV for an hour and then went to bed and slept right through until 7 am this morning. I was just so exhausted. Even today, I’ve been struggling to get through the day. I also woke up today with sore and sensitive breasts, and now the twinges have changed into a slight crampy, pressure in my uterus. I’m afraid to read too much into these “symptoms” yet since it seems like it should be too soon to feel anything, but they are definitely noteworthy. I really hope it’s our little rose nestling in and getting comfy! Also, worth mentioning, some of these “symptoms” could be the progesterone I’m taking, but I was taking it for a week before my transfer and didn’t have any of these feelings, so who knows. All I know for sure is Friday can’t come soon enough! I’m really going to try hard to not test before then.

TWW Wait Days 7, 8 and 9 Presents:

#7 – a laser pointer with different tip designs for kitty fun distraction

#8 – A Kit Kat bar. How did my friend know I would be craving sweets and chocolate like crazy right now?!

#9 – A Gorgeous family themed picture frame. Oh I hope we will have baby pictures to put in there in 9 months time!

Package # 7 Quote:

“Fall seven times, get up eight”
  ~Japanese Proverb

Package # 8 Quote:

“When you are at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on.”
  ~Theodore Roosevelt

Package # 9 Quote:

“Perhaps strength doesn’t reside in having never been broken but in the courage required to grow strong in the broken places.”
~Anonymous