I had my CD3 ultrasound this morning at 9:50. Jeff asked me last night and this morning what we were looking for and what the plan was. He repeated each step to me, and which CD things would happen. It's so sweet and encouraging how much he cares and is insterested in this whole process. I'm thankful to have such an amazing hubby! Anyway.....
After waiting in the waiting room forever, ok 25 minutes, my name was finaly called. I undressed and waited for nurse to come, dreading the 'vag cam' because I was still having heavy bleeding. I prepared Jeff for the grossness that was about to come! The uterine lining looked good, and suprisingly the right ovary was producing follices, on it's own!! Whohoo!! Now, I still need to do the injectables but they are lowering the dose to 75, rather than 150. After digging (literaly-ouch!) for my left ovary we saw that it was producing more follicles, just smaller ones. So, all in all, I had a little under 20 follies growing! I will do my first injection tonight and then come back on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday for more ultrasounds, monitoring and bloodwork. We are hoping to trigger Saturday or Monday, then IUI 36 hours after trigger. Prayers, prayers, prayers please!!!!!! On our way home from the appoint Jeff said, wouldn't that be awesome if we had a baby? Wow, yes hunny it would. I'm excited, nervous, and trying to learn patience! AH!!!!!!!!! Here we go!
Saturday, August 15, 2009
Thursday, August 13, 2009
Guess who arrived?
Yup, AF came today! Just a week or so late...but better late than never! I have my CD3 ultrasound on Saturday morning and I'm hoping they say all is clear so that we can start the injections Saturday night. Then, the everyother day ultrasounds start and the bills rack up, but hopefully it will all be worth it :-)
I'm very excited and nervous! What sucks is I'll be in San Diego cycle days 21-26 which means I won't know if I'm pregnant before we go. Not that it matters, but it would be fun to know :) Maybe while we're away I'll be able to forget about it all and my 2ww will go faster!! Prayers are always appreciated, we'd love our own little miracle :-) Have a fab weekend everyone, updates after the u/s!
I'm very excited and nervous! What sucks is I'll be in San Diego cycle days 21-26 which means I won't know if I'm pregnant before we go. Not that it matters, but it would be fun to know :) Maybe while we're away I'll be able to forget about it all and my 2ww will go faster!! Prayers are always appreciated, we'd love our own little miracle :-) Have a fab weekend everyone, updates after the u/s!
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
IUI is still on!
I talked to Dr.C today and explained that I haven't had my period but don't want to take Estrogen supplements again because of how they made me feel. He said that was fine, come in Monday for an u/s to see if your ovaries are 'quiet' meaning no cysts and no follies. If all looks good we can go ahead with injections and IUI. I'm pretty excited but a little worried to...hopefully this is our month. PLEASE whatever you do, say a small prayer for us. I wanna be a mommy :-)
Duckies due date is Friday, I'm taking the day off to spend with hubby. I'm just not in the mood to be at work on that sad day. Where's missing you ducky, love you so much. Give Taz and Blue Blue cuddles from me. We'll meet you at the Gates some day, until then say a prayer for your sibling, will ya?
Duckies due date is Friday, I'm taking the day off to spend with hubby. I'm just not in the mood to be at work on that sad day. Where's missing you ducky, love you so much. Give Taz and Blue Blue cuddles from me. We'll meet you at the Gates some day, until then say a prayer for your sibling, will ya?
Sunday, August 9, 2009
Gender Neutral Nursery-I need YOUR help!
Alright ladies, time to decorate the nursery! Yah!!! Below is what I think I want to do with the nursery, but I need your ideas! Please, please, please post your favorite gender neutral nursery and ideas! Once I've decided on my favorite I'm going to post a poll and you guys can vote on what we should do :-)
Here's my idea so far......
I love this nursery! It's calm, quiet and neutral. I would love to do blue stripes on the bottom. Should I rotate between dark and light blue or shiny and flat paint for the stripes? Top will be blue also. I'd love to do the white bedding, with maybe a little more brown tied in.
I love the pattern in this bedding. I'm hoping to make a quilt and some pillows for the nursery with fabric similiar to this.
I love these 'balls' above the crib instead of doing a mobile. I would probably do browns and ivories. Whatcha think?
Lastly, I want to do an Upper Case Living saying about the crib that says "Miracles come in all shapes and sizes". Our miracle may not be made in my belly but s/he will be loved with all our hearts! Any other cute sayings you love? What else should I put on the walls? Above the changing table, etc?!
Thank you for all you ideas and opinions! I can't wait to start!
IUI #1 is a Failure!
It looks like we won’t be doing an IUI after all. I’m ok with that actually, maybe even a little happy. I had a feeling this wasn’t going to work and now we don’t need to waste the money.
I started provera about 2 weeks ago to induce my period, well my period never came. I took a HPT and it was a BFN. In March this happened and my estrogen was extremely low. I had to take Estrodial for 30 days, then provera again. Doesn’t seem so bad but the estrogen supplements gave me the worst migraines all month! Ugh! I’m ok with this though. I think this is God saying that foster care and adoption is in our plans. I’m actually very excited for the journey we are about to embark on and Jeff is excited too. It’s fun to talk about everything and exciting for all the unknown. Knowing six months from now we could have a son, a daughter, 2 kids, or none. Crazy huh? One minute we’ll be husband and wife, and hours later we could become parents!! Ah! Exciting and nerve wracking but this has given me so much drive to get stuff done. I’ve been garage saling, saving money and reasearching a lot to prepare for all this. We’re finishing up lots of little projects to get ready for our home study! I can’t wait….the Lord has a greater plan for us and I’m excited for it!
I started provera about 2 weeks ago to induce my period, well my period never came. I took a HPT and it was a BFN. In March this happened and my estrogen was extremely low. I had to take Estrodial for 30 days, then provera again. Doesn’t seem so bad but the estrogen supplements gave me the worst migraines all month! Ugh! I’m ok with this though. I think this is God saying that foster care and adoption is in our plans. I’m actually very excited for the journey we are about to embark on and Jeff is excited too. It’s fun to talk about everything and exciting for all the unknown. Knowing six months from now we could have a son, a daughter, 2 kids, or none. Crazy huh? One minute we’ll be husband and wife, and hours later we could become parents!! Ah! Exciting and nerve wracking but this has given me so much drive to get stuff done. I’ve been garage saling, saving money and reasearching a lot to prepare for all this. We’re finishing up lots of little projects to get ready for our home study! I can’t wait….the Lord has a greater plan for us and I’m excited for it!
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
Watch out...this ones a long one!
Jeff and I have some, sort of, big news. No, unfortunately we’re not pregnant but we may become parents in the spring! As many of you can image, the fertility treatments are taking a toll on my life and heart. Every month with discouraging news really ways on you and I’ve gotten to the point where I don’t want to do this anymore. Yes, I would love to have a biological child, and just because it doesn’t happen now, doesn’t mean it won’t happen in the future. So, what am I getting at? Jeff and I have decided to become foster/adoptive parents. We are going to attend orientation on August 31st and then decide for sure if this is the path we want to take. There are many reasons why we decided to do this. I always felt like I was put on earth to be a mom but also to care for children. If you know me personally, you know I love children with all my heart. I prayed a lot this summer about the path God wanted us to take and somehow, somewhere I stumbled upon foster care and adoptive parenting. (I’ll explain what this all means later). Jeff’s heart wasn’t in it at first and I think he still hasn’t completely fallen for the idea. We still plan on going through with the IUI in August, and if we get pregnant with that we’ll be super excited! But if not, we’ll continue with foster care. I looked into adoption but for many reasons my heart didn’t feel like that was right. The cost and wait is long, plus there are so many children here that need good, loving, stable homes. Everyday I do more research on this and find this is the path God wants us to take. Jeff’s heart has slowly been softened to this idea and he is open to taking this journey.
Now, what does foster/adoptive parenting mean? There are many ways to be foster parents but we have chosen a special route with the intention of adoption. We are going to orientation in August and should be starting our 10 weeks of PS-MAPP training in October. From what I’ve learned during the 10 weeks of training we’ll have 2-3 home studies, collect reference letters from family and friends, and learn about how to be a great foster parent as well as the type of kids that are brought into foster care. Jeff and I have decided to foster 0-3years of age children. I am going to stress the fact that we would like a newborn or baby because we want to adopt. We are also going to talk to our social worker and let her know we’d really like ‘low replacement’ children. This means that a child is taken out of their home and placed in foster care. During this time the parents rights can be terminated by court and they contact other families members to see if they would like to adopt the child. If the parental rights are terminated and family member don’t want to adopt the child we start the process of adoption. We have been ‘warned’ that we may be foster parents to a few children before we have the option to adopt but I think the most important part to remember in all this is that we are there for the child, to give them a loving, stable home during this hard time. I know this will be hard for us but I also know God wouldn’t have put this in our hearts if it wasn’t the right plan for us.
Now, I’m very excited and a little stressed. Our age range is pretty large which means I need to be prepared for a newborn AND toddler. (Oh, and did I mention we could get siblings to?!) We already have a nursery set up and will be making the guest bedroom more ‘kid friendly’ just in case. But how do I plan for all this? I need a toddler car seat and an infant car seat, do I get a single stroller or double or wait to see what happens? What if we foster one child then a few months later another one-so we have two? How do I decide on clothes? Get a few outfits in each age range? Ah!!! SO much to do. I may be getting ahead of myself as we still have an IUI to do and training to attend, but I’m trying to my hardest to prepare our home and us mentally.
I know many of you may be judging our decision, but please support us through our journey. It will be hard, it could be emotionally painful, but I think through the support of God and our family, we can do this. If this is how He wants our family to grow, this is how we will do it!
PS- I am making my blog private from now on. This isn't because I don't want you to read it (I hope you all still follow us!) but we need more privacy. Plus, with foster/adoptive care the childs privacy needs to be respected so we are making sure that I know (or kind of know) all of our followers!
Now, what does foster/adoptive parenting mean? There are many ways to be foster parents but we have chosen a special route with the intention of adoption. We are going to orientation in August and should be starting our 10 weeks of PS-MAPP training in October. From what I’ve learned during the 10 weeks of training we’ll have 2-3 home studies, collect reference letters from family and friends, and learn about how to be a great foster parent as well as the type of kids that are brought into foster care. Jeff and I have decided to foster 0-3years of age children. I am going to stress the fact that we would like a newborn or baby because we want to adopt. We are also going to talk to our social worker and let her know we’d really like ‘low replacement’ children. This means that a child is taken out of their home and placed in foster care. During this time the parents rights can be terminated by court and they contact other families members to see if they would like to adopt the child. If the parental rights are terminated and family member don’t want to adopt the child we start the process of adoption. We have been ‘warned’ that we may be foster parents to a few children before we have the option to adopt but I think the most important part to remember in all this is that we are there for the child, to give them a loving, stable home during this hard time. I know this will be hard for us but I also know God wouldn’t have put this in our hearts if it wasn’t the right plan for us.
Now, I’m very excited and a little stressed. Our age range is pretty large which means I need to be prepared for a newborn AND toddler. (Oh, and did I mention we could get siblings to?!) We already have a nursery set up and will be making the guest bedroom more ‘kid friendly’ just in case. But how do I plan for all this? I need a toddler car seat and an infant car seat, do I get a single stroller or double or wait to see what happens? What if we foster one child then a few months later another one-so we have two? How do I decide on clothes? Get a few outfits in each age range? Ah!!! SO much to do. I may be getting ahead of myself as we still have an IUI to do and training to attend, but I’m trying to my hardest to prepare our home and us mentally.
I know many of you may be judging our decision, but please support us through our journey. It will be hard, it could be emotionally painful, but I think through the support of God and our family, we can do this. If this is how He wants our family to grow, this is how we will do it!
PS- I am making my blog private from now on. This isn't because I don't want you to read it (I hope you all still follow us!) but we need more privacy. Plus, with foster/adoptive care the childs privacy needs to be respected so we are making sure that I know (or kind of know) all of our followers!
Going Private
We have decided to 'go private' with this blog for many reasons, main one will be 'announced' in a couple days! So if you want to continue to read this blog, which I hope everyone of you does, please email me your email address at jplotz22 at gmail dot com.
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