6 weeks 1 day

So today was our second ultrasound, and sure enough! we got to see the heart beat! We are measuring right on with our dates/transfer. What a relief!



I was so happy to see that little heart beating! I have been stressing about it. I'm sure, just like all first time moms do. So now i get to relax for the holiday weekend, and start stressing again on Monday, for the few days until our next ultrasound! LOL

Houston, we have a baby!

So our first ultrasound was this morning, and we found out we're have a baby! Duh, you say, right?! LOL Well what I mean is that we are having ONE baby!

We are both very excited, and honestly, a little relieved. I would be more than happy to take whatever I can get, but one certainly sounds like less of a handful!

Not to mention, we still have 2 frozen embryos! So having one baby now, still leaves us open to using our frozen ones too! Of course, we'll have to wait and see how that goes...... LOL

Anyway, since we are only 5 weeks 2 days, there isn't a heart beat yet, but next week when we do our next ultrasound, we should definitely see it! We are very excited!

Thank you to everyone who has been thinking about us and keeping us in their prayers!

We're having a baby!

One or Two?!?!

Tomorrow is our first ultrasound appointment! Tomorrow we get to (hopefully) find out whether we are going to have one or two babies! I am so excited I can barely contain it.

I am so grateful I work were I do! Dr. Robins ordered weekly ultrasound through the middle of December, and I am so lucky that I work in an office that is so happy for Matt and I, and so excited to perform the ultrasounds for us.

AND! Thank you Megan and April for showing me the "Confessions of a CF Husband" blog! It is amazing and it is really great to feel like there are other people out there going through things so similar to Matt and I. It really has been an eye opener and makes me so grateful for our health and how lucky we are to be starting our family right now!

More than doubled!

So I had more hcg labs drawn yesterday, to make sure the levels were doubling as they should. And they did! More than doubled! They're still pretty low since we are so early, but definitely within the norm.

So we are on our way! Dr Robins and my nurse sent me orders for labs and ultrasounds for the next month to continue following the development. Luckily, Dr. Kates and Dr. Halvorsen said that we could definitely do the ultrasounds here at work. Awesome! I love these guys and I cant imagine anyone else doing my ultrasounds. (especially after the Kadlec ultrasound fiasco!doh!)

OH! And the sweetest thing happened! On Wednesday, the front office gal from my regular OB/GYN called my to tell me congratulations. They had received copies of my labs and knew I was pregnant and everyone was very excited. THEN, yesterday, my doctor himself called me to say congratulations and say how happy he was for us and that if I needed anything, just let him know, even if he was trying to hide, he would make himself available for me! It's not everyday your doctor calls you before you can call him! It was really cool, and it really made my day, and made me feel like I was in great hands, with both him and his office staff.

So now I've got my first OB appointment and ultrasounds scheduled! Woohoo! What a great week!

Big News!

Of course this is really really early. But the fact that its positive at all we are super excited about! I have more hcg labs tomorrow, to make sure that all my levels double as they should...Then we will really celebrate!

Thank you everyone for all your thoughts and prayers!

Nothing too exciting yet...

So nothing REAL to blog about yet, but I did get a call from my nurse this morning regarding the Progesterone labs I had drawn on Friday. And they came back normal! Normal is good. LOL That means Matt has been giving me the injections correctly, and I have been absorbing them appropriately! YAY! So next week we should be able to do a pregnancy test! WooHoo!

Hopefully we have more to blog about later!

An Amazing Message...

A blessing was delivered to my inbox this morning.

I received a message from someone I don't even know, but who had stumbled across my blog. She was wishing Matt and I well, and let me know that she was praying for us.

I was shocked! I hadn't even thought about the prospect of people I didn't know reading my blog, let alone following it and participating in our journey!

It was amazing. It made my day. And it just opened my eyes to all of the blessings the lord has to bestow upon us.

I just want to say thank you Tiffany. I truly consider your kind words a blessing!

Now We Wait...

So as some of you know, I got the call on Sunday, and they decided to push us back to a day 6 transfer. We had 1 embryo that was ready and 3 that were almost there. So we waited until Monday.

It really worked out better for us. We got a room in Spokane Sunday night and I got a decent night sleep. We didn't have to get up super early, we actually got to sleep in a little! I got the call at 730 am to be to the center at 815 am, and I started drinking my water!

They not only ask you to have a full bladder, but to have an uncomfortably full bladder! LOL

Dr Robins came in and gave us pictures of our little embryos, and showed us that 1 of them was already hatching! The other was looking good too, but not quite hatching. And we had 2 to freeze! So that extra day really did some good!

The transfer was no big deal, just lots of people in the room, while my hoo hoo was out in the open. LOL Followed by bed rest for a day, and then we could travel home on Tuesday.

So I am on light duty, lol, and now it's just a waiting game! We'll see how it goes! It's in God's hands (and my uterus') hands now.