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| Last year in 2012 we did a 5k called footsteps for fertility. For every person that signed up for the 5k you got a raffle ticket for a free round of invirto. (an expensive infertility procedure that we were told was necessary for us) We mainly got our families and a couple of friends because I found out about it probably a month or two before the race. |
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| our nephew McKay |
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| my sister-n-law Monique, my mom and me |
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| our other two nephews Max and Mason |
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| We didn't win this year but it was definitely worth a shot! |
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| So we found out they were doing the same race in August 2013. We entered again. This year they gave away 2 free rounds of invitro. Shockingly enough we won the very first one. We were so excited. |
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| We had a ton of support this year. All of our families, tons of our friends, neighbors, and some of my parent's friends. |
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| We started the invitro process as soon as we were able to. In November the finishing procedures were done. (egg extraction and embryo transfer) I talked to a lot of people who had done it before and I'll be honest I was scared because of there explanations. It ended up not being that bad. I felt like a little bit of pain was nothing if I was able to conceive a baby. They extracted 22 eggs from me. 14 of them were mature eggs. Out of the 14, 7 fertilized. The day of our embryo transfer, we found out that only 2 survived out of the 7 and that they were only rated fair quality. So instead of a %60 chance we only had a %40 chance of it working. The picture above is of the two surviving embryos. |
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| And we're pregnant!!! We are so excited. It was amazing to hear the heart beat. We're due August 9. |
