THANKS TO ALL OF YOU!

Hey everyone what a cute post Jon did of our embryos. He was so excited about all the comments we got. I think now he knows why I am a little addicted to this. Well I am feeling better than I have in three weeks. I feel completely recovered from all the procedures I have had done. The egg retrieval was the worst and left me feeling really crappy for about a week. But now it is all over with and other than the progesterone injections I am done! Now the waiting game.....it hasn't been too bad cause the boys keep me busy.....but I am sure the closer it gets the harder it will be. Technically I am three weeks pregnant right now since the embryos grew for 6 days out side of me. But unless you do IVF you don't know fertilization has even happened. So now all that has to happen is implantation. This is where the embryo finds a nice little home in your uterine lining and starts to multiply. It is about the size of a poppy seed.....is that amazing or what! We feel very hopeful and we are staying positive. This is our one shot. By growing to day 5 we lost the rest of the embryos and don't have any to freeze. We knew this was a possibility but wanted to give us the best possible chance. We were a little disappointed but knew we had made the right decision. But I just want to take a minute and thank everyone for the phone calls, e-mails, prayers, comments on the blog, for putting our name in the temple, fasting, all those who gave me the wonderful blessing, and all the sweet gifts to help me get through this time, and most of all helping with my sweet boys. It has been hard on them and it has brought much comfort knowing they have been loved and taken care of. What a roller coaster ride! But really I couldn't have done it without you. And to my sweet hubby who has been right by my side in all of this.....he is truly the best husband I could ask for and shows me so much love and sympathy for what I have had to endure. I could go on and on about how much I love him and how grateful I am for all that he does for me. Thanks hun I love you soooooooooooooo much!

Ginger bought the boys a whole bunch of stuff to keep them busy. Their favorite thing has been the slip and slide. It is nice to just go out and be able to sit and watch them and not have to entertain them. Thanks Ginger it was so nice of you! Cade's cousin and BFF Sidnee came over to join in the fun. They are little buddies.

My sweet neighbor who has also gone through IVF and had the cutest boy and girl twins brought me a bag of her favorite things. I thought it was so sweet of her to think of me. She is now pregnant again with another little girl without any fertility!

Then my little sis and Carla brought me flowers. They are starting to die now but I wanted to take a picture and thank them any way. They were beautiful and every time I looked at them I felt hope and peace.

So I just want to say thank you I couldn't have done it without all your help and well wishes. So now all we can do is pray for a miracle....we will let you know the news in a couple of weeks.

The Embryos!!!

I'm substituting for Kim today because she's a little loopy right now and may be too detailed in her description of the implant process. I don't want her to wake up tomorrow not knowing what she typed in her blog. Anyway it all went good and here's a picture of the Embryo's that were implanted today. The left one is little more advanced, but the Doctor said both looked very good. Now it's a waiting game for two weeks until we go back and get the Confirmation that KIM'S PREGNANT!!!

This is my first and last blog post; it's been nice chatting with everybody. Later!
Jon

DAY 6 TRANSFER

What a roller coaster ride this whole process has been. The Dr. Called this morning and said that all the embryos are still alive and....he said there were still 13 so I must have misunderstood him the first time thinking he said 11. Anyway that means all that were fertilized are still alive....which is amazing! There are three that have separated themselves from the rest and look the strongest. By going to day 6 they will be able to determine which two out of those three are the very best to transfer. We were all ready to go this morning and we were surprised by what they said.....but we feel that we need to trust there opinion....after all they are the experts. So tomorrow at 12:30 FOR SURE we will do the transfer. Sorry to drang you through this whole process but pretty exciting stuff goin on!

DAY 5 TRANSFER!

Well we got the phone call this morning that 11 embryos are still growing. So we have decided to grow them to day 5. This is really exciting news and we are so happy. Four out of the 11 look a little stronger than the rest so hopefully at least those four will make it to day 5 so we will have some to freeze. But all we really need is two. I just can't believe how well everything is going. We have definitely seen the Lords hand in all of this. From the timing to being able to go to day 5. This will give us a 70% chance of conceiving. Considering a normal couple only has a 15% chance each month to get pregnant we feel pretty good with our 70%. So now we just need to pray that they will continue to grow and that it will work!