It Worked!

Can you believe it!! It really worked!!! We are pregnant!! After all the hard work, shots, money spent, emotions, fiber & gas to the U of U; it worked!!! I know it sucks that we aren't that far along and telling everyone, but how can we not!! With all the love and support that you surrounded us with, how can we not say Thank you! We are 4 weeks and due November 4th!! We are so excited!!

Today was a long day! We left for the U this morning at 7:30, it was a pretty quiet ride down. We were both really nervous not knowing what to expect. We got there around 8:30. They told us they were going to take my blood and let us know in a couple of hours. WHAT! A couple hours! Your killing me smalls!! They told us to go get breakfast and hang out. Well - we ate breakfast on the way down there so - we went to the zoo!! They opened at 9 and we walked around for about an hour until they called us. The zoo was so much fun! There wasn't hardly anyone there and all the animals were out moving and eating. It was amazing!! The doc called us about 10:30 with the good news. "You are pregnant!" We were by the apes and we both started crying! Thank goodness no one was around, lol!! We wanted to run out of there so we could tell everyone, but they had just let the new baby elephant, Zuri out and we wanted to see her. So cute!

Baby Zuri!
Our babies 1st trip to the zoo!!

We headed back to the doc, got our meds and directions and headed home to tell the family. We have to go in 2 weeks for an ultra sound to make sure there are no problems and then it's on to my regular doctor. They said we would be able to hear the heartbeat in 2 weeks! WOW!! It was a long day, but so exciting to tell our whole family face to face. Sorry we left everyone on pins & needles until we were done!!

I will continue to post on this blog about my pregnancy - I am sure I will have some interesting stories!! So far I haven't been really sick or anything, no cravings, no loss of hair, no tenderness. I know I just jinxed myself. I have been extremely tired and my mind is gone. I am forgetting everything. It's crazy!!

Thanks for all the love, support & prayers!! We couldn't have done it with all of you!! So, Thank you!

Only a couple days left!

Here we are - a few days away from Sunday and I can't take it!! I have never wanted a week to go by so fast! Did it work or didn't work! I just want to know. Things are going good. I am really really tired and I haven't been feeling very well. I can't seem to get the fiber amount I need right. I think I have been over doing it. I have been getting some pains in my lower abdomen, which they said would happen. My ovaries are still trying to get back to normal and I am sure my colon is screaming at me to eat some fruit! So fruit & oatmeal, here I come. To bad veges don't have enough fiber, I have been eating alot of those! YUM!

Poor Chris has started a boot camp class that lasts for 6 weeks - he can't move now. I am very very proud of him. I did a trial day of this boot camp he is taking and it kicked my butt! I can't believe he is going 3 days a week for 6 weeks! High Five to Chris!

Life is normal other than that. Back at work - I get home eat and go right to bed. I love getting all this sleep! LOVE IT!!

Pins & Needles

Alright - less than one week to go! Can I make, I don't think so! I have been telling myself not to think about it or worry about this pregnancy test coming up. While I best rest I didn't think about it much. My brain was shut off and I was watching useless TV and reading books, so it was not on my mind. Now that I am back to work, my mind won't shut off! I can't quit thinking about it. What if it is negative and what if it is positive!!! I can't go back! What is done is done! I know that if it is negative we will be devastated, but we will also know it happened for a reason. A life lesson that God needs us to learn. If it is positive we will be way excited and won't be able to stop telling people! Michelle is making us some cute "things" to tell our family, I can't tell you because the family reads this! But I am getting to the worried point and I have been near tears all day. I know - emotions! Sammy still won't leave me alone. In fact, Sammy & I were sleeping on the couch last night in each others arms/paws face to face. Such a cuddle bug - me, not her. I am trying really hard to stay humble and not get my hopes up, but dang it! I want this to work!

On a funny note - I will tell you my embarrassing story. So - after the transfer they told me I could have some bubbles and pass some gas, no big deal. Well, when you add that and all the fiber I am eating, not good. Chris & I were watching a movie and I started laughing. I was laughing so hard I started to fart and it came out in laughs to. I then started to laugh even harder. I couldn't stop either end! Bad news!! I hope you got a laugh out of it, cause we are still laughing about it!

Bed Rest

So here I am on best rest - well the end of best rest. Thank goodness!! I am going stir crazy and I have cabin fever bad!! Chris took me out to lunch today, YEAH!! So not much has happened. Been reading, watching movies, the Olympics and napping. You would think it would be nice to have a few days off to do that, but after a week and a half, I am ready to get going. And I can't. Today is the first day I can get up and move around, but for the next week, I have to take it easy. No walks or runs, no going up stairs fast, poor Chris - no intercourse -, no heavy lifting; basically light duty. It is hard. I am such a mover. I have so many projects around the house I want to get done and I can't. I will have to watch Chris do them. No worries, they are simple projects, a little painting and a little tile work. Easy right. I am still on my Gatorade and Powerade diet, it's getting old. I really wish I loved it as much as Coke. Chris does spoil me about once a week with a coke. He fills a shot glass up and lets me down. It tastes so good!! I also have to be careful on my meds - it can cause constipation. Have I ever mentioned how much I LOVE fiber. I can't stand oatmeal. So, I have some fiber bars and lots of fruit. I can handle that. I saw a commercial today for fiber cereal, I will have to try that one out. That is about what is going on. I am trying to be patient until the 28th for the pregnancy test. I have gone thru all the motions of being nervous, anxious, upset, happy...........I really try not to think about it, which is hard. One thing I have notice, Sammy, my female boxer, has been hanging very close to me. I have always trusted a dogs judgement and I think she knows something I don't. When I say she has been hanging close, she is laying basically on top of me, won't quit licking me and is always looking at me with her tail wiggling. I sure hope her sense is right!! I want to throw a shout out to my friends and family that have taken care of us!! The dinners have been awesome!! I needs to get a few new recipes, Chris is in love!! My Mother In Law is addicted to getting us fruit smoothies from McDonald's - they are pretty awesome!!! All my love!

Baby Making!

So here we are, Transfer Day!! We got up this morning and headed south. It was a pretty quiet ride down. Chris has been sick with what we think is the flu - perfect timing - and then we hit North Salt Lake. Our nerves got to us. A fight broke out of something stupid and the tears came out. All in all - we worked it out, but we were both scared. Chris was scared it wouldn't work and I was stressed with the responsibility my body has. Can I make this embryo attach and this little baby grow?? I sure hope so. I have asked alot in my prayers to God, but please let this one happen. Please!

After some breathing exercises we walked in and headed to the doc's office. They took us right back, I did the routine, get undressed from the waist down sit there, you know the drill. We waited for about 5 minutes when Dr Gercheff came in. I was excited! She was the very first Dr was saw. She gave us the pic below of the embryo to take home and I started to cry! Cried hard. That is our baby! She told us we had text book embryos and she suggested we implant just one. Doing one also qualified us for a study they are doing comparing fresh to frozen being implanted, so they are paying to freeze the embryos at their costs! Yahoo! We just saved $1000! After we talked about this, she left the room to give us a minute, I turned and looked at Chris and he was crying. How Sweet! I don't know who is more excited! Me or him!! So we did the transfer. It took about 10 minutes. We got to watch on a monitor the most of the process. I got the "shoe horn" in me and she cleaned my uterius, the embroylogist came in with the embyro and in it went. They also put some of the solution the embyro was hanging out in so it had something familiar. Did I mention they had me take some valum, yummy stuff! I was totally relaxed. After the transfer was done, I got to kick back and sleep for about 30 minutes. I get the best naps at that place!
Here is our embryo! This is the one they implanted. The big part is what will become the baby and the circle around it will become the placenta. I keep finding myself holding my belly and saying, please attach and stay in there. We headed in the car and headed home, let me tell you, that valum was amazing!! Love it! We drove home and I had to do the classic "Phoebie" from friends. Stay in their little embyro!

Chris took the pic and I layed down and slept for two hours!! Good sleep is amazing. I am grounded to the couch and bed. I have a lot of projects planned on the computer and lots of books and movies I am going to read this week. I am kind of excited to kick back and relax. I haven't don't it since..........Jamaica, no if I only had some virgin pina coladas and a warm sunshine. We will go back in 12 days to have a blood test to see if we are prego. Keep the prayers going! We are know they are out there!! I feel selfish for asking, but I want to be selfish thru this!! Thank you everyone!

Thursday, Friday, Saturday & Sunday

Sorry it has taken me a couple of days to get caught up - but I am here and giving you the update!

I will start with Thursday!!
We got up before the sun - I hate getting up early! We were up at 5am and out the door by 5:45am..........and it was snowing! I am so glad I didn't drive. My Mom, Chris' Mom and Chris' sister came with us! They were such a help!! We arrived at the U of U at 7:00am and headed back about 10 minutes later. Yes, we were both really really nervous. I wasn't sure how they were going to do my procedure and Chris knew that his "boys" were going to hurt! We went back, the hooked us both up with IV's we signed consent forms and off we went. Chris went in before me. They wanted to make sure that they had sperm before they started on my procedure. About 10 minutes later, off I went. I was so nervous. My Mom got to go in with me, Thank Goodness! They explained the procedure to me and off we went. I went in and sat in a chair that they tilted back, so my head was below my butt, hehe, and then the bottom of the chair fell out! It was kinda cool, I know, lame. They started the drugs - and I was on the beach! It was nice and sunny and ouch! What was that! I don't remember alot of the procedure, but my Mom said I was hilarious!! They take a vaginal ultrasound and put a needle at the end of it. They guide it up to your ovaries and one by one they "vacuum" out the eggs (follicles) into their own vial. Dr. Jones was able to get 16 of them!! 16! I am superwoman!! After they were done, they wheeled me back to my room; they did the same with Chris. We both slept for about 10 minutes, we had our juice and crackers and we were on our way. We had strick rules to stay down all day and take the next day really easy. Chris could lay down, take drugs and use his peas. I was told not to lay flat or sit up straight, take Tylenol and if I needed it I could take one of Chris' drugs, and stay down for about two days and take it really really easy. No problem! I hate to say it, the Gatorade diet didn't end. I am still it, blah. So we got home Thursday and crashed. Here are some pics - Keep reading, I will post the weekend!

At home getting ready to leave, see how tired I am!! I hate mornings!We just got to the U or U - headed in - oh boy!Chris say this ad and we laughed before we went in "Coping"After my procedure - sweet dreams!Chris eating is cracker's & juice - I think he still a little sleepyEating my crackers & juice - love the hair! All Done! Headed home!

Friday

What did we do Friday - oh ya! Slept all day and watched movies. Pretty boring. You think it would be nice to relax, but after awhile, it gets pretty boring. And let me tell you about my new shots. I am off all of my other ones and my belly is feeling amazing now! The new one is my Progesterone, this is to help build the uterine lining. Pretty much telling my girl parts we are prego. These are done in my back - right about the love handles. They HURT! I dread 7-8pm, dread. Chris has to give them to me and I have to have them until the 10 week of pregnancy. Maybe I only want 1 baby.

Saturday

I got up and showered! So did Chris!! Chris worked his way off his meds. His "boys" are feeling pretty good. We took it easy still. We did laundry and hung pics up in our house, finally. But for the most part we stayed down. Remember how I said the doc said not to sit up straight, yeah, it hurts. Sitting up straight puts alot of pressure on my ovaries and that was a sharp shooting pain.

Sunday - Valentine's!

Happy Valentine's! We are both up moving around and loving it!! We are both still a little sore but moving around. Chris prepped our entry way to tile - that about killed him, but he was ready to. We ran into work for a couple of hours and we cleaned the house. Dr. Jones called me to see how we were doing. She reminded me that I need to eat a lot of fiber, I guess the Progesterone can make you constipated, believe me! I don't want that - so we headed to the store and loaded up. She also told us that out of the 16 eggs we got, we had 12 that were working!

Monday

Embroyologist called me this morning - we head down tomorrow morning!! Is this real! Are we really going to the doctor to get prego? Oye......it's a good thing I am sitting down. It has felt surreal that my "kids" are being created outside of my body. So, we have 12 embryo's to choose from tomorrow! The doc will sit with us and let us know how they look and what we should do. Tomorrow we have a big decision. Implant 1 or 2. Chris and I have felt different on it, but we figure we will see what the doc has to say tomorrow and we will make the decision. Once they implant the embryo, I am grounded to best rest for about 48 hours!! Online scrapbooking and reading- here I come!!

This is pic of my hand - it is way bruised from the IV. I never realized I was a bruiser.

This was a really long post and I am sure I am missing alot, but most of all, Thank You for being patient with me. Thank you for all the love & prayers. We have felt them and know that God is with us!! We love you all and I will let you know how tomorrow goes!!

Thursday

I got my HCG shot last night - I am so excited to be on the HCG craze, even if it only lasted for one shot!! haha!! Can I tell you that I had a break down last night. ME, break down - never! But I did. I cried. I am scared! Terrified!! What if we have done all of this and it doesn't work? What if I am a terrible Mother and my kids hate me! And What if I bring a baby into the world and I can't support it or protect it from everything out there??? HUH!?!??! I know - everything will be fine and I am just going thru the cycle of emotions. I know I will be a good Mom, I know I can't protect this child from everything, and I know that this whole process we have started will work.

Tomorrow morning - 7am at the U of U. Blah. If you know me, I HATE mornings and I know I am not going to sleep a wink. But I am going to be sleeping good when they knock me out - oh the dreams I am going to have!! I will keep you posted. Be patient with me - it might not be tomorrow or Friday. I will have my cell phone & email if anyone needs to get a hold of me. Don't be offended if I don't respond right away!!

Yippee!!! (Did a little twirl!)