This week Wednesday we visited ACA for the first time since the beginning of my second trimester. I had seen a lot of the ACA staff during our last IVF cycle, especially since I hyper-stimulated (I was hospitalized for six days and had a belly like I was 7 months pregnant--my ovaries were the size of grapefruits and I had fluid in my "third spaces"). They played such a significant role in our early pregnancy--it seemed to strange that they did not see me at all after I hit fourteen weeks and they had not yet met the twins. I felt more connected to ACA than I did to the OBs and staff at Arrivals who monitored my pregnancy and delivered the twins.
It was great to show off the twins to the people who made them possible. I told the twins that they hadn't been in the ACA office since they were only eight cells (Dr Clare Boothroyd has a separate office from the main ACA office where she performs the embryo transfers) and Clare hadn't seen them since they were 10-week fetuses!
Visiting Clare in her office--she's such a good one! (I have Addie, Clare has Elsa...Tim has Max)
Margie holding Elsa and Claire (the other one) holding Addie in the ACA office. Margie is one of the IVF nurses and Claire is the ACA office manager. Margie has 18-year-old twin boys by IVF.
Steven Fleming (the embryologist who loaded 8-cell Addie and Elsa into the syringe for the embryo transfer) holding Addie and Claire holding Elsa
ACA has their 3 year anniversary celebration in July so we'll get to see them again at that time!
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