Hello everyone! I thought I would start a blog for those who like to know what's happening in our everyday... no longer mundane lives. It's best to start from the beginning... well the beginning of our marriage.
Jenn and I got married on August 16 2008. We had a beautiful wedding and an amazing honeymoon in Mexico. We started the process of trying for a baby the following January. After many doctors appointments and sorting through hundreds of potential sperm donors we chose 4 and ordered the junk! We found out through testing that not only do I have very bad endometriosis, I only had one functioning ovary. This meant that for us it would be even more difficult to achieve our dream of becoming parents. We decided to try anyway.
We started fertility medications and had our first ultrasound to check for follicles in March. No luck. My body did not respond to the medication. We upped the dose and tried again in April. No luck again. This time I had a cyst on my ovary, so no tries that time either. I was not willing to give up hope. In May we checked again on a new medication. This time I had 1 good follicle and we were able to try. On May 29, 2009 we had our first Intrauterine Insemination (IUI). We did not get pregnant. The process was very difficult, given I had to ovulate from one ovary and we had to be sure each month that the "good" ovary was responding to the medications. Our amazing team of doctors decided to do surgery to see if they could remove the blockage in the "bad" ovary and remove my endometriosis. I had surgery on June 25, 2009 and they removed what they could of the endometriosis but were unable to reverse the damage that had been cause to the blocked ovary. Again, we were informed how hard it would be to conceive. We were still not willing to give up.
After surgery we had to wait 2 months to try again. This time my body responded well to the treatment and I had 2 good follicles. We had our second IUI on August 20, 2009. Once again, our hearts were crushed when we found out that we were not pregnant. The hardest part of the process in the roller coaster of emotions we had to endure. There were so many doctors appointments and so much hope each month and 2 weeks of willful waiting, only to find out we had to do it all over again the next month.
We had our 3rd unsuccessful IUI on September 15, 2009. Our 4th attempt was on October 12, 2009 and the insemination worked but we lost the baby in the first 2 weeks of the pregnancy. We decided we would take a little break for the Holidays. I was emotionally drained and beginning to get discouraged. It seemed as though I would never get pregnant.
We started 2010 with a renewed sense of hope and excited to start trying again. On February 3, 2010 we had our 5th IUI. This was our last try. We were out of money and the insurance would no longer cover the cost of insemination. It was our last vial of sperm too. So we decided we would try and if it didn't take we would wait a few years and try again. I had 1 good follicle and 1 "ok" follicle. So we did the insemination and started our wait.
On February 14, 2010 I decided to take a pregnancy test early. It was valentines day and we were going out, I wanted a margarita and figured the test would be negative and I would be able to have a drink :). It was not! I didn't want to get my hopes up because we were testing early and because of the medication I was on, it is easy to get a false positive. We weren't supposed to test until the 17th. On the 16th I started throwing up. I went to the emergency room because I could not hold anything down. They did a pregnancy test and it came back positive... :) It turned out the puking was the flu, THANK GOD! and it went away 24 hours later. I called the doctor the next day and we went in for blood work and confirmed we were pregnant! THANK YOU JESUS!!!!
We went in for our first ultrasound when I was 6 weeks pregnant and with 2 nurses in the room saw not one but TWO babies on the Monitor. We were having TWINS!!!!!!!! We heard both heart beats and there were lots of tears. Then... the fun began.
