Update

To all 5 of you who read my blog I thought since I have updated on every stage of our IVF I should get to the results quickly. Soooo.....Ryan and I found out we are going to be parents!!!

Here's how it went down:

On Monday the 20th we did the transfer, the next 3 1/2 days I did bed rest and any other trick I read about or had friends tell me about like, keeping your feet warm and drinking hot liquids. The Dr. told us I would be coming in on Saturday the 25th for bloodwork and there is a chance you will be able to out then but most of the time it's too soon. So Saturday came and Ryan left at 6:00am for a early tee time to golf. I couldn't sleep so I got up and went to get my blood drawn. I came home and normally they call around 1-2pm with medicine instructions so I started cleaning and doing laundry, around 10am I heard the phone ring I looked and it was the Dr.'s office I picked it up and it wasn't the nurse it was my Dr. He said "Congratulations" and I burst into tears lol. Ryan was golfing and I wanted to scream it to the world but it was so soon so I text Ryan and then just had to wait for him to come home to celebrate. We decided not to tell anyone until we got to day 10 in case something changed.

We ended up telling our parents at Sunday dinner that things were looking good but that nothing official until the 30th. I went in on the 30th for blood again and once again the Dr. called and said I am still pregnant!! (I maybe have taken a test or 5 to check everyday lol)

I feel fine, just hungry right now. I'm almost hoping I get morning sickness so I can loose a few pounds I have gained through this IVF process.

We go back in a week for blood again my beta numbers are on the higher side so there is a chance both took and we have twins on our hands. We have our first ultrasound in 2 weeks to find out.

Thank you all for the love, support and prayers! We couldn't have done this without our family and friends. This has been such a long expensive draining process that we will probably not go through again so to have it work means so much to us.

Please refrain from Facebook comments of any kind, it will not go public until we are in the clear and have been released from the Fertility Center!

Soul Sunday

I love when I sit in church and the message really speaks to me. Some messages being in a home ward with no children yet do not speak to me. I am sure they will once we have a child but sometimes I leave feeling like I am still stuck in between singles ward and home ward not quite fitting in either place.

Today was our Ward Conference, our stake president is a great man. I actually know him through work since he is a lawyer we have used many times and I think it makes me listen all the more when he is speaking.

The lesson that stuck out to me the most today was in Gospel Doctrine about nourishing our marriage and our families, we watched a video of a injured husband in the hospital with his wife by his side and there child and family members in the waiting room. After we had a discussion about what we noticed. A few comments were, his injury didn't just affect one person he had many people waiting to find out if he is okay, how was he injured he wasn't with his wife since she was fine was he doing something he shouldn't have been. Then Bro. Stephenson said he was looking at a plant that is dying in his house and wondering why, he is watering it and he knows how to take care of it yet he must not be doing enough.

We all know how to nourish our marriages but do we do it? In the last couple of months I have seen couples get divorced I never thought would. When I first met them years ago they were happy loving families, but like life does they were thrown trials and instead of sticking together through them they drifted apart. Like the people in the waiting room their decisions have not just affected them but their children and extended families. I have seen parents who once having children have stopped being a couple and are now just mom and dad, they pour all there time and energy into their children thinking they are giving them the world but in the end when at the end of the day they have no time for each other they are actually hurting them.

I don't presume to know exactly how I will be after we have children. I know that our every weekend dates and our out of town weekends will decrease while they are young of course. But I also know I grew up in a house where we did not sleep in our parents room or bed ever that was their space, that almost every Friday night we had a babysitter so my parents could go out, that my grandparents watched us a few times a year so my parents could have a week or a weekend away together and I know I saw my parents kiss, hug and love each other daily. They showed me they not only loved me, but they loved each other.

I pray I never stop nourishing my marriage and my family, that I love my children by always loving my husband and putting our family relationships to each other and to Heavenly Father first.

Now we wait...

All went well yesterday, the embryos looked good and the doctor was happy with the placement and the quality.

The whole procedure took like 6 minutes, the waiting with a full bladder needing to pee for 45 minutes before that and 20 minutes after was the hard part.

Ryan took good care of me yesterday and our friends the Barney's came over and brought us dinner last night. My mom and aunt are coming over today to stay with me and I am just laying down with my feet up for the next three days. I have one job, make these babies comfy :)

Here is the picture of them :). I think they are cute but I am biased so let's hope one of them at least turns into a little baby!

We won't know anything for almost 2 weeks for sure. So now we wait...