16 weeks!!

I stole this from another friends blog, but I love it. Hope you enjoy it too!!

Avocado!

How Far Along: 16 weeks 1 day

Baby's Size: Avocado (~4.5 inches)

Symptoms: Tired in the evenings but don't need naps. Round ligament pain when I cough and sneeze when stretched out. Hungry.

Sleep: Sleeping better.  Crazy dreams (as usual). Trying not to toss and turn. 

Maternity Clothes: Love the pants with the elastic band that goes up over your belly. The ones that go below my belly hurt. I bought a pair of yoga pants yesterday and I think I might live in them!!                                                                                      

Best moment this week: Creating a registry with my mom. I can not believe this is real. I actually have a beautiful healthy baby growing inside of me.

Food Cravings: No real cravings but sweets, carbs and anything sour are what sound good to me. ( I know I know all the bad stuff!!)

Gender: GIRL!!!! Rob and I are both so excited!!!! Rob has already dreamed up her serene lavender paradise of a room and I am indulging in watching him get excited about our princess to come.

Movement: Felt her move for the first time!! What an amazing feeling. Its actually a really strange feeling. I have felt her two nights in a row. I am in heaven!

What I miss: Being able to wear all the clothes in my closet. However I love being pregnant and showing off the baby bump!

Milestones: Finding out we are having a little girl and feeling her move. Both amazing things. 

The last 2 months!!

The rest of May and June have been a whirlwind.

Rob Left June 1 for Basic training in the Air Force. It is now Week 4 and he is doing great!! I get to talk to him on Sundays for 15 min. Its way to short, but its something.

We are now 9 weeks pregnant. I am feeling pretty good. I have my sick days and my super tired days and most definitely my Emotional days, but I'm loving every moment of it. I can not wait to find out the sex and stop calling it and IT!! Rob really wants a boy so that's what I'm hoping for, but a girl would be just as wonderful.

My family has been amazingly supportive. They are going to all the appointments since Robby is not here to go. I know that kills him. He asks me every week "How is my Baby doing?" makes me cry every time, but am overjoyed to tell him its doing GREAT!!

I was released from my RE and sent to a high risk DR. for next week, that was bittersweet.

I hope to post more often now as we experience new things on this journey.

God bless and thanks for all the prayers!

HOLD ON TIGHT!!

Here we are at our May post!

A little background on this month. We are now on month 3 TTC after 2 previous losses. We did 250 MG of clomid and IUI with trigger shot this month. Dr said scans looked really good and this cycle looked better than last time. At the time of IUI I had two 3 mature Follicle's and two that released. This time Hubby was able to be there and the DR. even let him squeeze the syringe. Mom got to come too. I was trying to relax but this one was much more painful than the last and I cramped for 2 days later. I ate my pineapple like usual and ate healthy and did everything I was supposed to do. I took Robby to the airport on Tuesday the 17th for four days. I was lonely so I had my lil sis come stay with me one night. She said "hey go take a test" I was like OK but it will be negative. I went in later to look at it and it was positive. I think I said something like " oh crap" and Morgan came running in. We went to the store to get a digital test. It came back negative ughh. So I waited impatiently till Friday for my blood work. Got it back around 3 and WERE PREGNANT!!!! Oh my gosh, this is so exciting and so scary. Numbers are a little on the low side so we will need to come back on Monday to see if they are doubling. If they are this will most likely be a good pregnancy.

So I went to the pharmacy and picked up my Lovenox (blood thinner for MTHFR disorder) and took my first shot. OMG burned like no tomorrow. Wow I can not believe I will be doing that everyday for the next 9 months. ughh!! But I cant wait to meet our beautiful miracle.


We are not out of the woods yet so please continue to pray that our numbers go up and I will keep you posted in real time now that we are 8 weeks.

MONTH NUMBER 2 LETS TRY SOMETHING NEW!

OK, so this is my April  post!

Prayed really hard and with the help of my wonderful parents we decided to try IUI, and Clomid. I started with 200MG of clomid and the rest of my meds and just waited. After multiple U/S and waiting I had two beautiful follicle's and it was time for the IUI. The procedure was a little painful, and it sucked that my hubby had to work that day, but my Bestie Kat was there to support me! I went home and ate Pineapple for 5 days (supposed to help with implantation) then waited another week while praying those little swimmers would just pick one egg and go to it!! I mean come on they had 2 to choose from. But after the 2 Week Wait we got a BFN (BIG FAT NEGATIVE)

This was truly a hard month for us. I had felt the Lord telling me I needed to trust and not test early and just to wait on him. (so hard for this control freak), but I know the LORDS timing is always perfect and he has my miracle baby waiting for me someday.

Cant wait to see what next month holds.

ANOTHER CYCLE DOWN!

Ok, so I said I was blogging a month late from now on, so here is my March cycle blog.....

After multiple tests and diagnoses we were now finally able to try again. We did this as a cycle with a Trigger shot and timed intercourse. My Dr. scanned me every few days to check on the growth of my folicles. He wanted to make sure it got to 16mm before we could trigger. Those of you who are not familiar with fertility speak it is a HCG shot that forces your body to have an LH surge that causes ovulation. The Dr. wanted to do this with me because I ovulate late and that might have contributed to my previous losses. So when my follicle was large enough he send us home to baby dance!!

I came in two weeks later for my beta (pregnancy blood test.) No bueno big fat negative!!!

I knew though, I had no symptoms and had taken an HPT at home. Never softens the blow though. Still just as devastating when it seems like everyone around you can get pregnant by just looking at their man.

We plan on continuing next month (April) with fertility meds this time. (Clomid) Keep checking back for more updates!!

We are very excited about the next chapter of our lives to start very soon. Rob (husband) leaves June 1, 2011 for basic training.

From Now On...

Good afternoon my fabulous friends!!

This has been a good week for us. Getting ready for a new journey and very excited! I am going to steal something from someone elses blog that I follow. It worked well for her so I am going to give it a whirl!

I will now be blogging one Cycle (month) behind. So if I blog in April it will be about March. Don't worry I will post the actual dates so your not confused.

I am doing this so Rob and I and our family have some time to process baby news. Unless it is something urgent to post (like another loss) we will be keeping it to ourselves for four weeks. When we do get prego after 12 weeks I will blog as normal.

So I hope you will stay in touch and I will blog again the end of April.

Wish us luck and keep us in your prayers this month as this is our first new month TTC!

February Update!

Ok it has been a while so let me update you. Remember this is a blog about fertility read at your own risk!

I have now been diagnosed with MTHFR and PCOS. I went to see the Dr. Today to get the results of all my tests and what our next step was. First piece of good news was that we could start trying again!! Dr suggested we get on clomid and another fertility medication. He feels that we would be able to bypass some of the things my body does and reduce our chance of a miscarriage.

 As good as that sounds I told you we had some big news coming in our family. Rob (my husband) has joined the Air Force!! I am so proud of him and can’t wait to embark on this new journey with him. However he can only go to basic if he has 2 dependents or less. That means 1 wife (me) and one child (rainbow baby). Clomid and other fertility drugs will release more eggs...i.e. possibly more babies. So we decided to decline the clomid and fertility drugs. I am already on a lot of medication and feel confident that the Lord is going to protect this next pregnancy. We are going to move forward naturally until we get orders from the military. If we are not pregnant by then we will try the clomid at that time. My mom still thinks we are going to have twin boys, so we will see!

The doctor told me PCOS could have also been a contributor to the miscarriages. He said PCOS causes insulin resistance and that can make for a hostile environment to grow a baby. He also said weight is a big factor in that. So he told me no soda and light carbs. No carbs at night. Walk 30 min a day.

Dr Gellman will be monitoring my cycle starting March 10th. Every day by ultrasound to see when I am ovulating. Then he will send us home to baby dance!!

We are ecstatic to start trying again and are praying for a fast, safe and healthy pregnancy to come.

Check back in the next few weeks for another update!!

Praying for a rainbow baby!

FOREVER IN MY HEART 9-30-10 & 12-10-10 MOMMY AND DADDY WILL ALWAYS HAVE A PLACE IN OUR HEART FOR YOU!!