Our babies measured 7 weeks and 1 day. In 2 weeks, at the 9 week mark, we will have another ultra sound to check on them.
Dr. Shomento is lining this up for us in Great Falls. She wants to us to go to a perinatologist...a specialist for multiples and IVF pregnancies.
It's a relief that we don't have to make decisions like who to see on our own.
I'm waiting today to hear from the new doctor's office to schedule the ultra sound. Yet another thing to be excited about and nervous...ultra sound number 2.
Dr. Shomento said that at 20 or 22 weeks we will have a high tech very detailed ultra sound, something that seemed the same, but also sort of different than normal, since we are an IVF pregnancy with twins.
In the midst of thinking about another doctor and doctor's office I have high hopes for friendly and caring people. And I have comfort knowing that Dr. Shomento and Julia are only a phone call away.
On a side note...I've been having some pain in my uterus area off and on, ever since retrieval back in March...
I'll admit it had me worried at times. But guess what we also saw in the ultra sound Friday?
My left ovary is still giant...it is shooting out hormones like crazy at this point...it is the one that during retrieval was poked and prodded the most because it was most full of eggs...
No running for me yet. It's nothing to be worried about, it's just doing it's thing after a cycle of stimulation. But Dr. Shomento did say that if the other clinic says I have ovarian cancer when they see it to tell them that I DO NOT. Just call Dr. Shomento.
Monday, April 30, 2012
A friend...err doctor...for life!
It is time.
Time for us to be handed over to another doctor near by.
It's sort of sad. But it is time.
We waited for Dr. Shomento to come back into the room, after sharing our news with Julia, to help us "hatch a plan" as she called it.
We live 5 hours from her. As much as we want her to keep being our doctor, and she wants to be ours, it isn't safe for us to be that far away in the event of an emergency.
But have no fear! Dr. Shomento told me "you can call me for life"!
A friend...well actually a doctor...for life! Forever. She said to call her with any questions any time day or night. She said she has my number saved in her phone and anytime, please call.
Wow!
That's pretty cool. And so comforting.
I told her the picture of Her, Joel and Julia from transfer day was going on the nursery wall. She asked if once they are born we could take pictures of her and Julia with them...of course! That will also go on the nursery wall.
And when they are born, she will be on our list to call and text a picture to! Both her and Julia.
Time for us to be handed over to another doctor near by.
It's sort of sad. But it is time.
We waited for Dr. Shomento to come back into the room, after sharing our news with Julia, to help us "hatch a plan" as she called it.
We live 5 hours from her. As much as we want her to keep being our doctor, and she wants to be ours, it isn't safe for us to be that far away in the event of an emergency.
But have no fear! Dr. Shomento told me "you can call me for life"!
A friend...well actually a doctor...for life! Forever. She said to call her with any questions any time day or night. She said she has my number saved in her phone and anytime, please call.
Wow!
That's pretty cool. And so comforting.
I told her the picture of Her, Joel and Julia from transfer day was going on the nursery wall. She asked if once they are born we could take pictures of her and Julia with them...of course! That will also go on the nursery wall.
And when they are born, she will be on our list to call and text a picture to! Both her and Julia.
A miracle like thank you...
When the ultra sound was over and Dr. Shomento hugged me I told her THANK YOU for being our miracle maker...
She responded by saying that she just helped it along, we all know who was the real miracle maker is in this situation.
Awe. That God would use her and her team as tools to help create not one but two miracles, for us...leaves us in awe of our Creator Jesus.
Leaves us in amazement that we have a doctor who knows that she is an instrument in this process. She knows who the ultimate creator of life is.
What a miracle. What a miracle. Two miracles.
A team of people willing to to help create miracles. They give up so much time in their lives for us, for our babies.
They are a blessing. They work so hard to help give us the gift of life.
Words cannot even begin to express our gratitude for them and the kindness and love they have for us.
After we talked about miracles Dr. Shomento left the room to go tell Julia our good news!
She responded by saying that she just helped it along, we all know who was the real miracle maker is in this situation.
Awe. That God would use her and her team as tools to help create not one but two miracles, for us...leaves us in awe of our Creator Jesus.
Leaves us in amazement that we have a doctor who knows that she is an instrument in this process. She knows who the ultimate creator of life is.
What a miracle. What a miracle. Two miracles.
A team of people willing to to help create miracles. They give up so much time in their lives for us, for our babies.
They are a blessing. They work so hard to help give us the gift of life.
Words cannot even begin to express our gratitude for them and the kindness and love they have for us.
After we talked about miracles Dr. Shomento left the room to go tell Julia our good news!
Double miracles!
We were so nervous for last Friday!
We were sitting in the waiting room, me trying to focus on a magazine, Joel focusing on the one he was reading.
The door opened and my name was called...by a nurse I'm not even sure of her name, but I've seen her before.
I wanted to see Julia.
We were walking around to our room and we heard a "Hi Guys!"
It was Julia! We love her. She came right over to see how we were doing with progesterone, how I was feeling, and to sort through our box of meds with us (that's a story for another post). We were happy to see her.
The other lady took us into the ultra sound room once it was ready and we sat, nervously, waiting. Joel again was reading a magazine. I sat there staring at an infertility paper sitting on a table to my right.
Eek...nerves were so high!
In walked Dr. Shomento...
She said something like this: "Hi you guys, I don't know how you got an afternoon appointment, I have been waiting all day for this, I'm so nervous".
I thought, she's not supposed to be nervous! She then said something like: "ok, let's see if there are 1, 2 or 3 in there...well, your levels were not high enough for there to be 3"!
Joy flowed from this room at this point.
It was time...Joel stood at my head as she began the ultra sound...
"There's one".
"There's two"! As she turned the screen to us so we could see! I said "there's two?"
YES! Two babies. We could see their hearts beating. She told us everything we were looking at. She had the wand near baby A and told me to hold my breath...we heard it's heart beat! Then we moved on to baby B and heard it's heart beat.
Pure joy.
As soon as it was over Dr. Shomento hugged me.
We were sitting in the waiting room, me trying to focus on a magazine, Joel focusing on the one he was reading.
The door opened and my name was called...by a nurse I'm not even sure of her name, but I've seen her before.
I wanted to see Julia.
We were walking around to our room and we heard a "Hi Guys!"
It was Julia! We love her. She came right over to see how we were doing with progesterone, how I was feeling, and to sort through our box of meds with us (that's a story for another post). We were happy to see her.
The other lady took us into the ultra sound room once it was ready and we sat, nervously, waiting. Joel again was reading a magazine. I sat there staring at an infertility paper sitting on a table to my right.
Eek...nerves were so high!
In walked Dr. Shomento...
She said something like this: "Hi you guys, I don't know how you got an afternoon appointment, I have been waiting all day for this, I'm so nervous".
I thought, she's not supposed to be nervous! She then said something like: "ok, let's see if there are 1, 2 or 3 in there...well, your levels were not high enough for there to be 3"!
Joy flowed from this room at this point.
It was time...Joel stood at my head as she began the ultra sound...
"There's one".
"There's two"! As she turned the screen to us so we could see! I said "there's two?"
YES! Two babies. We could see their hearts beating. She told us everything we were looking at. She had the wand near baby A and told me to hold my breath...we heard it's heart beat! Then we moved on to baby B and heard it's heart beat.
Pure joy.
As soon as it was over Dr. Shomento hugged me.
Thursday, April 26, 2012
Big day tomorrow...
And we're nervous, scared and excited.
I keep telling myself we shouldn't be scared. Then I remind myself it's probably normal.
We pray about our fear, we read scripture about our fear. Sometimes though, it's still there.
But tomorrow we will rise above it, with joy filled hearts...
We get to see Dr. Shomento and Julia again! We get to see our baby/babies.
We get to go to Bozeman! Costco! Target! A mall!
But most importantly of all, we get to find out how this pregnancy is coming along. We get to find out how many babies are being created, we get to bask in the awe of it all.
We have to leave at 5am to get Joel to a day long meeting he has in Bozeman...
Then at 1:15 we'll have our appointment! I'm sure there will be tears, the joyful kind!
I keep telling myself we shouldn't be scared. Then I remind myself it's probably normal.
We pray about our fear, we read scripture about our fear. Sometimes though, it's still there.
But tomorrow we will rise above it, with joy filled hearts...
We get to see Dr. Shomento and Julia again! We get to see our baby/babies.
We get to go to Bozeman! Costco! Target! A mall!
But most importantly of all, we get to find out how this pregnancy is coming along. We get to find out how many babies are being created, we get to bask in the awe of it all.
We have to leave at 5am to get Joel to a day long meeting he has in Bozeman...
Then at 1:15 we'll have our appointment! I'm sure there will be tears, the joyful kind!
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Gratefulness
I am so grateful.
In the midst of awe and joy...I am so grateful.
Daily I soak in it.
I sit on the deck, still in the midst of some disbelief, and I tear up...
I'm so grateful. God has give us this miracle.
As I reflect on our journey, and what the top of this blog says about how this miracle seemed, for so many years, unreachable...
I am so grateful.
A miracle is growing...I'm tired, I'm nauseous at times (though I have not gotten sick), I'm all of a sudden picky about what I eat (I mean I sort of was before, but now I eat what sounds good with some vegetables thrown in, and sometimes nothing sounds good...but pancakes recently!)...
I take naps when I can...
And through it all, I am so grateful. He chose us to bare this miracle! To be mommy and daddy...it still seems so surreal. I'll probably still be saying that when our children start Kindergarten!
We are grateful.
In the midst of awe and joy...I am so grateful.
Daily I soak in it.
I sit on the deck, still in the midst of some disbelief, and I tear up...
I'm so grateful. God has give us this miracle.
As I reflect on our journey, and what the top of this blog says about how this miracle seemed, for so many years, unreachable...
I am so grateful.
A miracle is growing...I'm tired, I'm nauseous at times (though I have not gotten sick), I'm all of a sudden picky about what I eat (I mean I sort of was before, but now I eat what sounds good with some vegetables thrown in, and sometimes nothing sounds good...but pancakes recently!)...
I take naps when I can...
And through it all, I am so grateful. He chose us to bare this miracle! To be mommy and daddy...it still seems so surreal. I'll probably still be saying that when our children start Kindergarten!
We are grateful.
Friday, April 20, 2012
The shot
We are still doing 1 shot a night. For the next several weeks.
Sometimes I don't feel like having a shot.
Sometimes we almost forget. Which is why I have an alarm on my cell phone to remind us. It goes off every night at 9pm.
Tonight was one of the nights we almost forgot. We tend to remember a few minutes before the alarm goes off then we listen to it as Joel is giving me the shot. We stop it from ringing, but we never turn it off. It must always be set.
It was the left sides turn for the shot tonight. It's usually the worst side...a couple of times it has hurt really bad. Which is another reason I dread it sometimes.
But tonight was different. Tonight was the most pain free this shot has ever been! Must have been because we needed a slight reprieve.
The nights that go smoothly always make us ask ourselves, "did we do it wrong?"...but Julia told me on the phone a few weeks ago that no, we cannot do it wrong! Whew!
Joel is a trooper, every night he sets the shot up, picks where to stick me, and then sticks. I had to do part of his job while he was at a conference last week, my grandma did the other part...
And though we both did our part very successfully...it was joyful for both of us to have Joel back!
Last night I dreaded it. Tonight it was just something we had to do.
You know what? Whether we dread it or not, we are so grateful we get to keep doing it. Every night. Every shot. Every bit is, well, amazing really. What is does to help our baby/babies grow, what it means getting to keep doing it...
In the end, we welcome it!
Sometimes I don't feel like having a shot.
Sometimes we almost forget. Which is why I have an alarm on my cell phone to remind us. It goes off every night at 9pm.
Tonight was one of the nights we almost forgot. We tend to remember a few minutes before the alarm goes off then we listen to it as Joel is giving me the shot. We stop it from ringing, but we never turn it off. It must always be set.
It was the left sides turn for the shot tonight. It's usually the worst side...a couple of times it has hurt really bad. Which is another reason I dread it sometimes.
But tonight was different. Tonight was the most pain free this shot has ever been! Must have been because we needed a slight reprieve.
The nights that go smoothly always make us ask ourselves, "did we do it wrong?"...but Julia told me on the phone a few weeks ago that no, we cannot do it wrong! Whew!
Joel is a trooper, every night he sets the shot up, picks where to stick me, and then sticks. I had to do part of his job while he was at a conference last week, my grandma did the other part...
And though we both did our part very successfully...it was joyful for both of us to have Joel back!
Last night I dreaded it. Tonight it was just something we had to do.
You know what? Whether we dread it or not, we are so grateful we get to keep doing it. Every night. Every shot. Every bit is, well, amazing really. What is does to help our baby/babies grow, what it means getting to keep doing it...
In the end, we welcome it!
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