May 24, 2011 Drs appt

Well today was an EVENTFUL day! Today Mark and I drove to Lubbock to have our 7 week sono with Dr. Dorsett. We got there and my appointment was at 10:30 .... we had to wait til 11:15!! The suspense was KILLING us!! We get to the room and had to wait another 20 minutes or so!! Mark was about to have a seizure over the wait!! haha ... FINALLY Dr. Dorsett came in and we started the LOOKING process. If anyone of you ladies have had a vaginal sonogram you know that they are the DEVIL!! UGH!!

She got that probe up in there and BAM ... there they were ... 2 little sacks! I said "Oh HELL!" she laughed!! It honestly looks like an alien head with eyes! haha ... She looked and looked ... Baby A had a heart rate of 122 bpm and Baby B had a heart rate of 118 bpm. They will get higher by the next sonogram on June 9. They will be able to be measured as well ... they were very hard to measure because they are SOOOO small. It was like a dot in that big ole sack!

I will try and post the sonogram pic if I can figure it out!! I need to solicit the help of my VERY creative friend Stephanie Drozell!! She has an awesome blog with TONS of pictures and I want to know how she did that!

HOLY CRAP!

CRAP! Its been a month almost since I did a post!! What has happened to me??!

Well ... I am done with school (for the summer at least)! I walked away with a 3.25 GPA ... NOT TOO SHABBY considering all that happened this semester!! I can't believe I am 16 hours from graduation!! HOLY S**T BATMAN!! That just makes me wanna jump for JOY!!

The baby(s) seem to be doing well. We will get to see just how many are in there in ONE WEEK from today!! I am officially 6 weeks pregnant TODAY! I can't believe that I am doing this again!! I look at myself and think .. "WHO AM I?!" haha ... 5 years ago there is no way in HELL that I would have done this for ANY man!! Apparently this one got me all soft and mushy and wormed his way in ... But ... its ok .. I like him. (haha) I seem to have less swelling and don't appear to be too pregnant now ... I believe all those drugs played a BIG part in me looking like I was 6 months already!! I guess that is a GOOD thing since I was about to not be able to fit in my wedding dress!! haha

Speaking of a wedding dress ... I have EXACTLY 74 days until I get married .... EEEEKKK!! I have let the planning go to the wayside because of school and I am not sure what else I need. Got the place, the minister, the party, the reception hall, the flowers, the cake ..... the dresses .... the invites, the rings, the honeymoon (MOST IMPORTANT!!) ... what else is there??? Geez .. time flies when you aren't paying attention EXCEPT when you want to know how many babies there are in the belly!!

I am off to have lunch with Brandan and Piper for their end of the year cookout ... Brandan turns 8 tomorrow ... I am getting old!! VERY VERY OLD! I am now the mother of an 11 year old, an 8 year old and a 6 year old ... and adding more!! CRAP!

Bedrest is for the BIRDS!!!

Well .. I am going cRaZZY!! I hate this bedrest thing. I have accomplished plenty but MAN ... I have a house to maintain, children to take care of .. ya know .. MOM STUFF!! But .. I just have one more day!

I get a blood draw Friday to check my levels of my Progesterone. And ... May 4th we will have our pregnancy test ... It is sooo LONG away!! I am pretty sure I will break before then and do one. But .. then again .. what happens if it comes up negative??! EEK!

So ... That is all I have right now ... I am bored with this bed rest business. But ... It will be over soon!

Babies are IN!

Well ... today was the day!! The babies have been placed ... yes BABIES ... there were 2 put in. We lost 4 in the process. The lab guy said that they "arrested" ... I am assuming that means that they died. Sad ... but ... we still had 7 that were viable!! We placed 2 so that leaves us 5 to freeze.

We were in Lubbock for the transfer at 3 pm and we were out the door by 4:15 pm!! I had to pee so bad by that point. It was AWFUL!! I was so miserable and it is something else to lay with your head down and all your organs heading towards your brain and your bladder full!!

Ok .. so in 5 days I go back for a blood draw and in 10 days I go for the first pregnancy test .... They say that there will be a series of 3 tests to make sure that my levels maintain. We will have a TON of sonos which just thrills me to no end.

I will let you know!!

Updates on the egglets .. I mean EMBRYOS!

Ok .. so Wednesday I got the call for the update on the egglets. They retrieved 12 and 11 fertilized successfully!! That was cool news! That was the news that we wanted to hear at this stage of the game. Not sure what happened to the one that didn't fertilize. I honestly don't know if I want to know!! haha ...

Thursday's call revealed that all 11 divided and were progressing. 1 had 5 cells, 1 had 2 cells, and 9 had 4 cells. This is also good news. Our egglet watcher said that this is EXACTLY where they need to be at this stage and tomorrow will be the big kicker as to who is good and who isn't. All the embryos are mature and of good quality so far.

Friday's call was AWESOME!! All embryos have 6-8 cells and ALL are of good quality!! That means I will have NINE amazing little embryos to donate for someone to have a baby and 2 that will come to me and hopefully take up residence and produce some healthy babies OR baby. Tomorrow we will know what time Sunday we need to be in Lubbock to have the little ones put into the oven for baking!! I can say that I am now honestly TERRIFIED!!!

This whole process has been an amazing experience and I am happy that I agreed to do it for Mark. The whole process has also been SCARY AS HELL for me due to the fact that my children are housebroke and half raised!! The thought of starting over is so scary!! BUT ... I know that it will be good in the end.

I will let you know how the transfer goes .. and in 12 days from Sunday ... we will know if it was successful. Prayers would be fantastic. Thanks all!!

Drs appointment 04/19/11

Well .. today was eviction day for the egglets. That was very exciting for us! I think Mark was VERY excited to finally be in the final stages but he was also very worried about me as well. They retrieved 12 egglets today and they were classified as healthy and mature. YEAH! We plan to donate the remaining embroys so that someone else can have a baby!!

The little egglets are hanging out in the spermie pool for the next 24 hours and then I believe they are moved to an incubator type thing so that they can imitate the "womb" until they are ready to be transplanted. Which seems to be scheduled for Easter Sunday. That is just so cool!!

I will get updates daily about the progress of my egglets (embryos). The lab guy is really REALLY knowledgeable about what he does and he told us that he will be in contact daily and he will let us know how the little ones are doing.

I will let all know tomorrow what the lab guy says ...

12 hours .. and yes .. Mark IS counting!

Well .. in 12 hours I am evicting these eggs!! We are a go for a 7 am retrival in Lubbock. I am freaking terrified but Mark of course is counting the minutes!! I will be OUT for the procedure (THANK GOD because there is NO way that I could be still knowing that she has a needle up my whoo hoo and is poking things in there!!)

We will know Wednesday if the fertilization process took. We will get a call everyday updating us on the process of our little embryos. So ... in about 14 hours my little eggs will be freely swimming in spermies!! haha .. SORRY!! I just HAD to!!

Ok .. that is all for me tonight because I am hitting the bed. 4 am is MIGHTY early for this cow and I am needing some sleep so that I am not all crazy tomorrow. Nighty!