Our Pea, Her Pod : Extremely Blessed!!!

Wow!! So much has happened!! We finished stimulation phase, retrieval has been done and now we are waiting to transfer! So let me back track a few days to keep everyone up to date. During the stimulation phase they did an excellent job of keeping my estrogen level within a normal range. At all of my scan/bloodwork appointments everything was looking right on track. I did my trigger shots on Monday night the 25th. When I went in for my check on Tuesday am, they were very pleased with the way things looked. My awesome nurse-Jessica called to let me know everything looked great and we were set for egg retrieval on Wednesday morning. I asked what my estrogen was because normally she would tell me and she said.. now Liz don't get caught up in that we're on track. Right away I knew it must have spiked because she didn't want to tell me. I said please Jessica I have to know- she said it has spiked to 7400 but please do not worry we are still okay.. you are much less than you were the first time which I was at nearly 12k by retrieval. She said you are at the best place you could be and I know everything is scary but I truly believe everything is going to work out. I couldn't help but stress.. I started to feel like I was reliving the nightmare of the first round. Tuesday night my mom came in town to stay with us so that she could go to the retrieval with us and take care of me while Thomas was working. We got up early and thank goodness I was able to sleep like a rock, because Monday night I had food poisioning and was up sick all night.. so Tuesday was all about sleep! We had to be at the office at 730 for the retrieval. As I was laying there I felt so many emotions.. I was nervous, scared, happy, sad.. you name it I felt it. Thomas had to give a new sample that day-- again, poor guy haha! They took him back and about 15 minutes later they came to get me. I walked into the surgical room and told the anesthesiologist, I am an extremely hard stick.. I have really small veins and me not being able to drink anything past midnight I was slightly dehydrated. He started to look at my hands and arms and looked up at the doctor(McKnight) and said this is going to be a tough one. My arms were so bruised from daily bloodwork he was really left with nothing to work with.. After 3 tries he finally found a small winner in my hand. Phew! While he was doing all of that the nerves set in.. As I looked around the room I saw the test tubes, all the supplies and to my right was an incubator...(which I never saw at my first office). I said is that where they will be? She said yes sweetie that is where your sweet little ones will be growing and developing.. I lost it, just cried my eyes out. Dr. McKnight, who I hadn't personally seen but she had done Lacy's procedures was amazing.. She rubbed my legs and kept telling me it was going to be okay and they were going to do everything to make it work! They told me to scoot down and said you'll feel some warm water-- I said Wait!! Won't I be asleep, she said yes just getting you prepared, and wouldn't you know that was the last thing I remember until I was in recovery. I woke up to Thomas and my mom staring at me, my first question was how many did we get? They said 16 and still counting! After being in recovery for a while they gave me the go ahead to be released and we headed home. I sleep most of the afternoon and woke up in quite a bit of pain. That night was tough, I couldn't get comfortable and I was anxiously waiting for the phone call in the morning to let me know how many, how many were mature and how many fertilized. I woke up the next morning in pain and with some anxiety. Jessica called about 9 to inform me that we had a total of 21, 16 were mature and 11 had fertilized. She eased my nerves and reminded me that they are in a state of the art lab and right where our little ones needed to be. This was considered day 1. We wouldn't get a call until day three which happens to be today for an update on how our embryos were looking and how many had survived! We received the best news we could have-- all 11 were still developing and looking good and we are set for a 5 day transfer on Monday!! I couldn't help but start crying!! I remember the phone call from round 1 like it was yesterday. SHe told me they weren't looking good and we would need to come in the next day for transfer, after 12 we only had 3 and none were able to be frozen.. ugh. I knew I couldn't handle that devastation again. There are no guarantees and this journey is all a waiting game, but to hear all 11 are still progressing gives me such hope which I was beginning to loose. Let me make myself clear I have never lost faith-- faith that God knows what is best for us regardless of what I want or what I feel is best.. but hope, my hope tank was on E. Now it's full again!! We need our prayer warriors to please pray that our little ones continue to develop and progress normally over the next two days and that we have two little fighters to transfer on Monday. Lacy is ex tactic and we are over the moon!! We truly feel our prayers and dreams of becoming a Mom and Dad might be coming true! Also some other great news... we will be an AUnt and Uncle again any hour now!!! Allison (thomas' sister) should be having our precious niece Logan sometime this evening!! SO many good things happening lately I can't help but be overjoyed that we're having some of the goodness!!! Again, we want to thank everyone for their support and prayers through all of this. We chose to put our story out there in hopes of helping others and everytime I get a message, text or call from someone saying how we have inspired them makes every emotion we have felt or every comment that we have had to deal with worth it. I pray that no one has to go through any type of fertility treatment but studies show 1 in every 4 couples will have some type of issue and they can all be very different. Just remember before you judge someones journey, take a few steps and see how far you get.. #babybray #round2 #justonegoodone

Here are a few snap shots from the past couple of days: