Just updating.

I am failing miserably at updating this :(

Anyway. Quick update..

The Clomid didn't work. It actually lessened my levels. The doctor in Abingdon sucks. He refused to see me anymore after the last round with Clomid. So now mommy and daddy are travelling 4 whole hours to a new doctor!! Her name is Dr Maggard in Kentucky. She has been amazing thus far. Granted, I have only seen her twice. She is sure she has pin pointed the first issue we have of having you.

I have quite a few cysts on my ovaries. One very large one, she said it was the size of a softball! How crazy is that!? She put me on birth control after the ultrasound at the first appointment to try to shrink the cyst. Obviously I was not thrilled with this, but the cyst has to be gone before we can take the next step. So, birth control it was! I did one round, 4 weeks, with it. We went back last Wednesday for a follow up ultrasound. The cyst has shrank in almost half!! Which means the medicine is working. Now I have to do 6 more weeks of it to hopefully get the cyst completely gone.

We are crossing our fingers we are close to starting the next medicine!!

Love,
Mommy

Side Effects & Round 2!

Hello future baby!!

Your momma here.. Just wanted to post a little update.

I finished the first round of Clomid last month. We hoped and we prayed that it would work. It didn't. :(

As far as side effects go, I didn't kill your daddy. :) I did have some rough headaches, though. Oh and the hot flashes shew!! Those were not fun!

I had more blood work done a few weeks later, and they were not the results we were hoping for either. The blood work I had done originally (with no medication) and my levels were 9.7 times higher. Which is not good, since the medicine was supposed to make the levels go up up up!

So. On to round 2! This time I will be taking a higher dose, and we are hoping that will male the difference.

I will start the five day treatment tomorrow! I hope this brings us closer to you!!

<3

-Mommy

Day 1

Well, today is day 1 of taking the medicine. I am rather nervous of how this will go. I hope it works!!

Just some numbers

It's been a while ...

Dear baby --

As you can see it has been a while since I have posted anything. There are several reasons for that.. Mainly because I got very frustrated with not getting anywhere with this whole pregnancy thing. I was mad. I was sad. I wanted to throw in the towel. Wave the white flag. & That's exactly what happened. I stopped trying to track everything to become pregnant.

A lot has changed since the first post. Let me update you :) I now am three months shy of being 24. Your dad just turned 30 at the beginning of the month. And let me just tell you.. despite anything he says he was upset to be "old." We still live in Council -- right next door to your Momaw Hale. Daddy is still teaching (History) and coaching (only basketball). I have been working as a switchboard operator at New Peoples Bank in Honaker for almost 4 months.

Now to update you on our journey to get you in our lives! So after I was out of that funk I was ready to dive back in head first! I went to the doctor (Jay W. Lavigne in Abingdon) and he ordered blood work to test some levels in my blood. <---- Fast forward a week ----> The nurses in Abingdon called me at work with the results. Not what I wanted to hear exactly but glad we may have a lead on why it's taking so long to get you! My levels were 12.8 and they should be *at least* 15. Next step is a medicine. Dr. Lavigne called me in a prescription for Clomid.

I picked up the medicine this evening after work. Your dad and I are both nervous for me to take them. The side effects are pretty nasty. :/ But if it leads to you I would do it 10 times!!!

One interesting side effect of Clomid is giving birth to multiples!!! That freaks your dad out more than anything else. Ha ha

So... will you be a twin?

We will just have to wait and find out!  <3

Until next time ...
-Mommy

Before the Doctor

I promised to post about what has happened up until I started this blog for you. So here's a little about that ..

Around November 2012 I became sick. Throwing up, crabby, sleepy, I really wanted to be alone 24/7. Your dad and I had a fight and I left to stay with Mimi (that's what she says she wants to be called right now - either way my mom) I still wanted to be alone. I didn't want to talk to anyone because I didn't have anything to say. My mom thought I was pregnant. I didn't think so but I was afraid to take a test to find out for sure. I was scared because your dad had told me multiple times he wasn't ready for a baby. I didn't have a job and we were living with his dad. I see why he was saying that, now. However at the time I didn't understand. I was afraid to take a test because if it said positive, I was afraid he would be mad at me. Looking back it seems so silly now. But that's where I was then.

A few weeks passed and I wasn't as sick as I was before. Your aunts and cousins came in from North Carolina and Vegas for Thanksgiving. We had dinner with my family, just us at Mimi's house. Then had dinner with everyone on dads side at Granny Pat's. That night Aunt Rah Rah and I went shopping at Walmart to get my camera at a Black Friday price :) I wasn't feeling up to venturing anywhere else. I was instantly sick again.

The next day was a rough one. I woke up so sick I couldn't get out of bed. Weird things were happening to me and I was in horrible pain. I still refused to go see a doctor because I was so scared. Finally about a week later I went. I didn't see my regular doctor I saw who could get me in at the time. Test were ran, ultrasounds were done, and I was put back in the waiting room. Finally I was called back. The doctor told me I *might* have had a miscarriage. I was instantly crushed. He said I was probably 6 weeks along but there was no way to say for sure.

It was hard for your dad and I. For a while. Things have gotten better now as we try to not live in the past but move forward for our future. It is particularly hard for me. Though I know and trust in God that one day I will become pregnant and have a successful delivery and be able to see your smiling face.

Until next time ..

-Mommy

The introduction post..

Dear baby..

Well, I guess you're not so much of a 'baby' now if you're reading this. Let me you a little about myself and your daddy. & Why I wanted to make this blog story in the first place.

Ok.. Mommy: As I am writing this, I'm laying under a big fuzzy blanket, snuggled with our Molly cat. I am watching A Cinderella Story on the Oxygen channel and I'm sure you haven't heard of that movie :) I'm 22 years old - almost 23. I'm not working right now but hope to be soon again.. (Don't tell daddy but he's been driving me crazy haha) My favorite things are anything crafty and baking.

Daddy: Your daddy is all about sports; basketball more than anything else. Right now he is gone to a meeting to choose the All District players for 2013. This is his second year coaching the varsity basketball team at Council High School. He is always gone doing something with basketball or his team. This year his team is in a 4 way tie for 3rd place in the district. If you have learned to know anything about your daddy, he is on the edge of his seat until we find out the coin toss.

Since I haven't posted before, I will have to post about our journey thus far. Just know that your daddy and I want you in our lives so much!

We love you :)