Getting Anxious...

I'm counting down the days until we can "try" again...Please start your prayer circles, as we are aiming for a July embryo transfer. I will begin my regular check-ups (more needles and blood drawn) in June and will let you know when the big day is scheduled.

Results

We have received the results from my surgery and everything came back good. It turns out it was a fluke thing and we can try again in January. However, since the soccer season begins on the 12th, we've decided to wait until later in the year when I can lay low, relax, and not have the stress of defending our two year undefeated winning streak!

I will visit HFI in March, and we'll go from there. Stay tuned...

Post-Op Dr's Appt 10/15

I visited Dr. Schmidt again today for my post surgery check up. She says everything looks good and that the results of my D and C should be available in another 2 weeks. She will call me with those results and let me know when/if we can try again. Please continue to pray for us as we wait for answers...

Surgery

Everything went well this morning...aside from the fact that I'm still hard to prick. During the time of the egg retrievals, it took six times to get the IV threaded into my vein...today, it took nine. I think I hold the world record.

Aside from that, I am doing well. Thank you all for your prayers/emails/comments/love/concern. We are doing better today. The emotions seem to come in waves. I think this will be the case for many months to come...we are trying to look ahead and not spend too much time thinking about what is now behind us, as we know it will help with the healing process. I will keep you all posted on any results that come from today's D and C in 4-6 weeks as they grow the chromosomes.

This IS NOT the end of my pregnancy story. We'll just say it was a bump in the road...this too will pass.

Rough Day...

I went to what was to be a final visit to HFI this morning before they officially released me to my OB for the remaining part of my pregnancy...however, it turns out that today won't be the last day after all. Unfortunately, two doctors searched for the heartbeat and were unable to locate it. Sometime between last Monday when I went in and heard a strong heartbeat to today, it just stopped beating. There are many reasons why this could have happened but there is little anyone knows about miscarriages in all honesty.

After calling my husband, we met at home and made an appt. with my OB to "verify" that there was no heartbeat. We just returned home. Three doctors can't be wrong right? Sometime in the middle of last week (according to the size of the fetus) the baby stopped developing. Tomorrow morning at 5:30am, Rob will take me to the hospital for surgery, where they will remove the fetus and send him off for testing. We hope they will discover through this D and C, the cause of this so we can decide if we will try again in December. Luckily we have several embryos frozen at HFI, and they will be able to transfer them in a matter of months.

We are in need of prayers. Prayers for understanding and acceptance. We know that for whatever reason, God didn't feel this was the right one for us. If it was indeed unhealthy, he didn't want us to bear such a burden and will give us another chance...

Makin' Room for Baby! Vroom! Vroom!

Robert and I went to GMC this weekend to look at SUV's in preparation for baby. With us owning a 2 door Honda Civic and a single cab Chevy Silverado, we knew a car seat wouldn't fit or be a safe ride...so...we traded in our cars!!! With GM employee pricing, we both got awesome deals and are only paying a little bit more than we were paying on our "single hood" cars. I drove away in a 2008 Black GMC Envoy, and Rob got a 2008 White Texas Edition Sierra (extended cab)!! We love our new vehicles and can't wait to look into the back seat and see baby Carlyle!

We joked about who would now get to park in the garage! (Of course I won that argument hands down!) I don't think we'll let each other drive the others vehicle until many months down the road. Rob even considered spending the night in his new truck! ;)

Sticker Mania!

So in all of the excitement of the day, I just HAD to go to Hobby Lobby to check out the pregnancy and baby selection in the sticker aisle for my scrap booking habit! I bought the Cricket Cutter cartridge for "New Arrival" (it makes die-cuts of baby themed items)! Though I don't know the gender yet, I went crazy on buying stickers to start my pregnancy scrapbook. I bought a neutral color album, paper, and stickers. Most of the sticker sheets are pregnancy related only and don't reveal a gender at all...I will print out each of my blogs and make copies of all of my ultrasounds for this album. I will also do some additional journal writing and add pictures of my expanding belly. I am very excited about this album and plan to start this weekend! Some habits are hard to break!