Monday, December 22, 2008

Embryo's all alone?

This morning I had to get my blood drawn pretty early- I had to go to Quest, not my doctors office, which is fine. But the hospital that I went to is right next to my fertility specialist's office. When I drove by it this morning, it was all dark (they weren't open yet) no cars in the parking lot, it was really weird- its usually really busy.

I started to think about when IVF is done, the embryos are kept warm in an incubator waiting to be ready to put back into the uterus. The embryologist watches over the embryos and takes good care of them. She always tells me she never had her own kids, so she treats the embryos like her children, which is really sweet.

But anyways when I saw the office all dark, I started thinking about all the lonely embryos in the office alone. It made me really sad to think about that. I guess the up side is that hopefully there is more the one embryo so they have their brothers and sisters to keep them company while they are growing and developing, hopefully getting ready to be sticky babies and snuggle in for a nine month stay.

I know this is so silly, that I would feel bad for the lonely embryos, John thinks I am officially crazy! But I think about they embryos as em babies, they are someones future children.
Sometimes I wonder where I come up with this stuff and why things go through my mind.

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