At the suggestion of my sister (one of my 2 loyal blog readers) I have decided to keep a journal over the next few months as my husband and I travel along the road of invito fertilization. And, I figured I would use my blog to do so. Let's start with basics....invitro (IVF) in a nutshell? Take one or more eggs, mix with sperm, fertilize in a petri dish, grow there for 2 days, return to the mommy to be and pray for attachment in the uterus.
Attachment = pregnant. No attachment= try again or go another route.
Sound like science fiction? You should be looking at it from my shoes. It has taken me quite a while to accept that my getting pregnant is going to be very medical and scientific instead of the typical....I'm late. Could it be? Maybe. Should I do a test? Oh my gosh it's positive!!!! You get my drift. However, what I have come to accept and embrace is that just because our experience won't be "typical" doesn't take away from the fact that it will be truly amazing when the doctor says those coveted words....."congratulations, you're pregnant"
A miracle is a miracle no matter how it is delivered (pun intended)
So...where are we in this process? 5 days ago I started injecting myself with a drug in the stomach each evening. Sounds nasty but the needle is tiny and it doesn't hurt. Not really feeling any effect apart from maybe some increased propensity to become teary-eyed. My husband says that's self inflicted because I watch "A Baby Story". We continue these injections for another week or so then start having ultrasounds of the internal variety (girls you know of what I speak!) to monitor follicle growth. Funny side effect of doing all this is that you get so much medical information that at a party with strangers I could pass as a OB/GYN. Might be fun to try sometime. Anyway, that's where we are for now. I will try to be a regular blogger in the weeks ahead if only to unload my brain of the hurricane of thoughts, fears, excitement, etc.
One thing I know is that our God is good all the time.
We will praise him with a baby and we will praise him without a baby.
Kendra
1 comment:
Kendy, I have been praying for and thinking about you guys all weekend. Praying that God will be preparing you and strengthening you and creating a miracle within you.....so blessed to be sharing in this exciting journey with you. ....and I think you have 3 readers....me, Kennedy and Dan. (!)
N.
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