I'M PREGNANT!!!

Finally the day came that I went and had my blood drawn for a pregnancy test. The doctor's blood machine was broken so they had to send my blood to the hospital. They said it would take a few extra hours. Finally at 4:45 pm I called. The hospital had run the wrong test on my blood so they were having to retest it. Finally about 6:00 they called. I had not been feeling well all day and I told Jared I wasn't pregnant so when the phone call came I was shocked beyond words. The nurse came on the phone and told me I was pregnant. I started nodding my head and smiling so hard at Jared he thought I was crazy. I gave him the thumbs up sign and then he finally sat up like "you've got to kidding". I hung up the phone and started jumping up and down and Jared was like "stop jumping around - go lay down, go lay down"! We still didn't believe it and figured they probably mixed up my blood with someone else's so we went and bought our own pregnancy test. It was awesome to finally have it come out positive. Anyway, it was so fun calling and e-mailing all of our family and friends with the best news ever.

Invitro Fertilization

As all of you know we did invitro back in June. Here's how it works: I took birth control pills for about 6 weeks to suppress my ovaries. The last weekend in May I began giving myself shots of Lupron, another suppressor. I thought I would have a really hard time with the injections because as most of you know I pass out at the sight of blood! Jared was going to be out of town for a week so I knew I needed to buck up and do it. These injections were done subcutaneous - taking a fold of skin in the abdomen. I had a blood test and ultrasound to confirm that everything was "quiet" in my system. Then the stimulating began. I had to mix different meds together and do more subcutaneous injections. I went in for a blood test and ultrasound every other day for about 2 weeks. My body didn't react very well at first so they had to bump my meds up to a higher dose and boom all the sudden I was working right. On June 19th I went under conscious sedation to have the eggs retrieved. They were able to retrieve 14 eggs, which is normal. It was supposed to only take about 30 mins. start to finish. I have a really hard time coming out of anesthesia so I was there for about 3 hours! On this day Jared began giving my the deep muscle injection, in my hip, of Progesterone. Progesterone helps the uterine lining to remain thick and also helps the embryos to implant. They called the next day to say that only 6 eggs had fertilized. I was kind of bummed, but all six kept growing until Sat. when it was time to put 'em back in. We had them transfer 2 of the best - and the rest is history!

This is what we all started out looking like!

Embryo Transfer Day 3