Babies in the REs office.

I was a patient at my RE's office, every cycle, for, let's see, 17 months straight? In my time, I got to know the staff (of course) and I had my favorites. I called my favorite nurse, K, the other day to see if I could bring in Karl for her to see. I asked when a good time would be, as I don't want to go in with patients in the waiting room, and she told me late afternoons were great since there weren't any patients really at that time.

Dumbass me just felt like 330p was "late afternoon" and stopped in. Before I opened the door though, I checked to make sure no one was in the waiting room. It was empty. Sweet.

K came up and held Karl. The andrology lab girl came up and so did one of the other nurses (with some waves from 3 other girls too). They were fawning over karl big time, asking questions and all that. The RE even came up and got a big hug and the nurses took pictures (don't they get this all the time?). We all talked some more and the RE had me come back to his office to see pictures of his new grandchild. Back I went.

When I walked back in the waiting room, I swung open the door back to the exam rooms and I saw it happen. Three patients were now in the waiting room and they all looked up at the door expectantly (you know you always do this when waiting for an appointment) and instead of a nurse calling a name, they saw me. And Karl.

Ugh.

I saw their faces and "the look" when a ttc-er sees a baby when they were not expecting it. At all. I felt so bad and tried to get out of there as soon as I could. But the nurse was still talking to me and I started babbling, wanting to turn and apologize to all those women. I raised Karl's hand and waved it and said "well, thanks for making me!". I then turned to the embryologist nurse and then asked her if she'll take a picture of the freezer for me so I could put it in the baby book to show Karl where he hung out frozen for a few months. I just kept talking as somehow me being a past patient would make it okay I was there. I then saw my exit and got out of there pronto.

I feel terrible.