Well.. I officially haven't blogged for well over a year and I think it's time I blogged again. And this time it's something worth blogging about....
That's right!! I'M PREGNANT!!! We are super excited for this new chapter in our lives. I'm due in April.
it was a long and emotionally draining journey to get us to this point and we feel very blessed. We've never prevented pregnancy in the whole 6 years we've been married. A year after we were married I was diagnosed with PCOS. So we knew it was going to be difficult to get pregnant so we never prevented it from happening. About 2 years ago we decided that we would officially invest the time into actually TRYING to get pregnant. Than started the fertility treatments. 9 rounds of clomid, a Hysteosalpinogram (a contrast dye test to make sure your tubes are clear) that test reviled that I had another little hiccup in our fertility problems which than lead to Intrauterine Insemination's. We did 3 of those all which failed.
There is a certain medication that helps PCOS patients it's a diabetic medication called Metformin. Alot of PCOS patients have difficulties regulating their insulin levels and are insulin resistant so this medication is supposed to help.
Well, I'm not your typical PCOS patient. I have regular "monthlies" and ovulate regularly and I'm not insulin resistant. The only thing I have that causes me to fall under the PCOS category is I have lots of cysts on my ovaries. Also I truly believe that my eggs weren't of the greatest nature.
So after our 3rd failed insemination my Dr. put me on 1000MG of Metformin and I decided that we needed a break. After all the money we've spent and the emotional toll it was taking on me every month I needed the break! Plus I wanted my body to get back to normal after all I had put it through, and to regulate my body to this new medication I was on.
fast forward to May. I woke up one day and just had this gut feeling I needed to find a new Dr. I had spent alot of time with my old Dr. and something just didn't feel right, something wasn't working... obviously, no baby! So I started googling and found I kept finding the same Drs name popping up with great reviews.
So I figured, what harm will it do to go in for a fertility consult with the new Dr. So I called and got an appt. for July 6th. Which actually turned out perfectly because that was the start of my new cycle and I thought "great we can get back on the clomid and maybe do another insemination this month!!" So Danny and I get to the office and were told they were going to have to reschedule me because the dr. had to go to a delivery. I was kind of bummed because I though, "well great, there goes ANOTHER month"
They rescheduled me for a few days later. With clomid its typically prescribed cycle days 3-7 or 5-9. The day I got in was cycle day 6 so I was bummed that I missed it by one day!!. Well the appt went well. The Dr. was so friendly and really took his time to go over everything with me and he spent almost 2 hours with me. Towards the end of the appt. is when he outlined the plan of attack. He decided it wasn't worth skipping a whole month based off 1 day. So he decided to up the clomid, (i was on 50mg and he changed it to 100) and he upped my metformin from 1000mg a day to 2000mg a day. He didn't want to do an insemination just yet because he wanted to see how I responded to these meds first.
Well... 2 weeks later I was pregnant!!! After so long with negative test after negative test I wasn't really expecting a different result this month. But I took the test on a whim and this is what I saw...
I was so shocked!! I had always thought about how I would react when I found out I was pregnant and those lines appeared and those words popped up. Well I
didn't' react the way I thought I would... I looked at it and said "HOLY SHIT!" it was 6:30 in the morning and I ran into the bedroom and jumped on the bed and shoved the test in his face and he opened up his morning crusted eyes and said "you're pregnant??
hmmm" I looked at him and said "AFTER ALL THIS TIME THAT'S HOW YOU'RE GOING TO REACT!!!!????" Needless to say we sat on the bed looking at that test and was just stunned and shocked and I was shaking like crazy!!
We went in for our first
appt last week and saw that little baby of ours and saw the flicker of the heart beat and I just melted. I was so relieved that there was a heart beat and that everything looked good so far. I loved seeing the huge smile that Danny had on his face. I loved having my little family all in that little room with me. Its amazing that I
don't even know this little human being in me yet and it's just the size of like a grape right now but it's amazing how much LOVE I have for it already.
I decided to stay with the new
Dr. for the rest of the pregnancy because I was so impressed with him and his staff. When I called him to tell him I was pregnant he immediately knew who I was and acted
genuinely so happy for me. When he walked into the room at our ultra sound he looked at me and looked at Danny and got this huge smile on his face and said " So... I hear I got you pregnant!" it was hilarious! I'm so happy to be with his practice... SHOUT OUT TO DR.
HEALY IN LAYTON!!
woot woot!!
So far I'm feeling really good. No real morning sickness. I'm just super tired all the time and I'm trying really hard not to fall asleep at my desk every morning. It's really rough getting a full 8 hours of sleep and waking up totally exhausted every single day!
But I wouldn't trade it all for anything in this world. I am so lucky to have Danny in my life and to have this new baby coming into our family! I couldn't feel more blessed right now!
