Movin' and a Shakin'

Today I had another sonogram and got to meet my new OB. Loved my new doctor and very relieved to have that taken care of. The appointment started with my sonogram with the nurse and guess what?! The baby was kicking and waving it's arms! It was incredible, I can't even describe the feeling. I mean I know there is a baby in there, but to watch it moving on the screen while it is actually moving inside me - unreal. You can even see it's profile!

We are 9 weeks 2 days. The feet are on the left and the head is on the right, the baby is on it's back in this picture. CRL is now 1 inch and heartbeat is 178 bpm.

Look at me grow!

This sonogram is at 7 weeks 3 days. The baby is growing faster right now than it ever will in it's life. The baby is on the left and the little cirlce next to it is the yolk sak. We got to see the heart pumping away - 159 bpm! CRL 12.5 mm

First Sonogram

Our little poppyseed at 5 weeks 5 days. The heartbeat was already there - 95 bpm! CRL (crown to rump length) is only 2mm!

Baby's First Picture

Our baby actually had it's first picture taken just 5 days after conception!

Retrival and Transfer

Sounds romantic huh? Nothing much was romantic about it, but pretty interesting and cool if you are a science/medical junkie like me. Retrival (August 9) was when my eggs were harvested and put in a petri dish with Bryan's little guys and mother nature takes it from there. Five days later was the transfer (August 14) when our embryo was put back into my uterus and then you wait. And wait. And wait. Then on my lunch break at staff development I decided to take yet another pregnancy test (all had been negative up until then and I was convinced it hadn't worked) and I got a faint line! I called Bryan to see if he could take lunch early and eat with me, he had no idea until I picked him up from work and pulled over to have him drive and told him. We sat at lunch smiling at eachother in shock.

The Drugs

Who gets excited when a large cooler gets delievered full of needles, syringes and drugs?

New Baby, New House, New Blog

Things have been pretty exciting lately at the Fletcher apartment. We are going to have a baby! And we bought a house! Two major life events all in one month. With so much going on I have decided to start a blog to keep all our friends and family in the know.

How did we get here? Well, it has been a journey. I was diagnosed with endometrisosis during college in 1999 and had my first surgery. I had two more surgeries during college in 2001. Since then I had been symptom free. Bryan and I got married in Novemeber 2008 and knew getting pregnant could be a challenge so we started trying immediately. When nothing had happened by March 2009, my doctor decided we should do another surgery to take a look. Sure enough the endometriosis had grown back and was stage III. When May rolled around and nothing had happened we decided it was time to see a fertility specialist. Good news: I was ovulating and all my hormone levels were normal and Bryan had healthy little guys! Bad news: endometriosis interferes with the fallopian tubes picking up the egg from the ovary and getting it down the tube to be fertilized - the only treatment to overcome this obstacle, IVF. And so it began. IVF is quite the process, daily shots, every other day doctor visits with ultrasounds and bloodwork, lots of side effects and of course quite a price tag. All worth it!!!