eggs, embryos and ehlers

This has been a hurry up and wait kind of week!
Monday I nervously went in for the retrieval of all those sweet little eggs that have been taking over my body. To my surprise the doctor was able to retrieve 25 eggs!!!! THANK YOU GOD!!! My pain level has been much less than the last retrieval! ANOTHER PRAISE!
After the retrieval I was whisked away (by my mom) to my acupuncture session. I am not able to give you many details after this part of the day due to some great medications! ANOTHER PRAISE ;)! But I do remember that the acupuncture was very relaxing and I enjoyed sleeping right through it!
It is very great to have a family that will surround you in your time of need and I can't thank my mom (and Zach) enough for being here for me! The only bad thing is that we are very funny people (if I do say so myself) so my Tuesday was spent being very lazy, holding a heating pad on my tummy and saying, "Don't make me laugh!" ;) BUT I did receive good news Tuesday morning...10 of our eggs fertilized!!! ANOTHER PRAISE!!! Wednesday was sort of a repeat of Tuesday but I went to another enjoyable acupuncture session.
So that brings us to Thursday (TODAY)!!!!! I went back to the doctor and they put in two of the most perfect little eggs I have ever seen! I'm already in love!!!
Please continue to join Zach, me, our friends and family and our prayer team as we pray for these sweet, little Ehlers to snuggle in and make themselves comfy for the next nine months! We are also praying that my hormone levels elevate enough to maintain a healthy pregnancy!!!
Here is a picture of our two sweet embryos! Aren't they the cutest things you've ever seen?!

Matthew 7:7
"Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.

Follicle Fiesta!

This is what we have all been praying for!!! Aren't they the cutest little follicles you have ever seen?!

This is a sonogram photo of my left ovary with close to 10 follicles. I know that many of you have no idea what you are looking at so I will explain what I think I know (if you are a dr reading this, you can nicely correct me by commenting, thank you!;)
I will start with the health class basics: Each lady has a left ovary and a right ovary. Each month one ovary forms a follicle, which holds one egg. When it is time for that lady to ovulate the follicle releases the egg so that it can slowly slide down the fallopian tube to the uterus. And I think we all know the rest of the story! ;)
As you can clearly see from the photo the hormones that I have been taking worked! My left ovary has made more follicles but my right one isn't far behind! The sono lady said it's looking like we will be getting a follicle count in the high teens or twenties, which means we will HOPEFULLY be getting that many eggs! Just the number we have been praying for!!! Thank you God!
I will be going in for the egg retrieval at 9 in the morning! Please join our friends, family and prayer team as we will all be praying for MANY HEALTHY eggs, great fertilization, many healthy growing embryos and please be praying for my pain to be much less this time around!
Those who love me, I will deliver; I will protect those who know my name. When they call to me, I will answer them; I will be with them in trouble, I will rescue them and honor them. With long life I will satisfy them, and show them my salvation. (Psalm 91:14-16)

Thank you to everyone that has commented and emailed to check on me and let me know that you, your friends and family are praying for us! I truly feel very blessed to have all of you in my life!

FedEx delivered CRAZY today!

As many of you already know I am not normal but I feel that I'm far from CRAZY! ;) That is until I'm standing in front of the FedEx guy signing for my crazy in a box. After the signing of the package is usually when the crazy starts, way before I start shooting, sticking and swallowing hormones.
So this blog serves two purposes: an update to most and a warning to those of you that are planning on being around me in the next 4 weeks! I am usually an easy going, fun, loving person but you (or I) never know what my emotion will be at any given moment when on these hormones. Something that would be funny one minute can be the saddest thing I've ever heard the next minute and not to mention I could laugh, cry, scream/shout, hug you or kick you without any warning. These hormones that I'm shooting, sticking and swallowing also change my body temperature which means that I might take my clothes off to wipe all the sweat from my body. Please be aware that this could happen in the privacy of my own home or in any public place!
To sum up this blog, CRAZY has entered our lives as these hormones are about to take over my body, mind and sweat glands.

Matthew 21:22 (NKJV)
"And whatever things you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive."

If you are a praying person PLEASE join our family, friends and our amazing prayer team with PRAYER and BELIEVING that these hormones will allow my body to produce many (in the 20s) HEALTHY EGGS so that Zach and I will RECEIVE a sweet, healthy baby or babies!



To clear up some of the confusion for you and me...This is our second fresh IVF treatment but I know that I'm confusing folks because I keep saying our third IVF treatment. We did a fresh IVF (unsuccessful), then we used our frozen embryos for another transfer (FET ~ frozen embryo transfer (unsuccessful)) but I called it an IVF treatment because I didn't know what I was talking about back then. Now that I'm so much more educated in the IVF/FET department I'm sharing my knowledge with all of you! So I can understand why you're confused...it's because I was confused! And if you have any questions about this please ask me after all my hormones have gone back to normal (praying it's after I'm holding a sweet baby or babies) so that I don't have to cry or shout at you without any warning! ;) J/K feel free to ask questions!