Miracle on 1st North

This story began three L.O.N.G years ago. David and I decided we wanted to have our family grow. After about eight months of trying we decided to go to the Doctor. Long story short we were told that we would have to do Invitro to have a baby.

We were devastated for many reasons but one being the cost of the Invitro. It can cost up to $15,000. We were referred to a specialist at the University of Utah. While we were there visiting with our Doctor. he told us about the Miracle Fund. The Miracle Fund is a grand given by an anonymous donor that pays for Invitro for couples who can only get pregnant through Invitro. It is only given to certain candidates, so we began the process. We had to have two interviews, five letters of recommendation & tax, family and work records. It was an extremely long process. We received a letter stating that we were CHOOSEN, our application had been accepted.We were so thrilled, but we still had to get through one more part of the process. We had a social worker come to our home to visit with us, after an interview a look at the house and two private interviews he left and said we would be getting a letter in the mail saying whether
or not we "really" got accepted. We received our second letter and we were ACCEPTED! We felt so blessed and were so excited that we were getting closer to our dream coming true.

This is the Day we received our first letter, we went to Olive Garden to celebrate.

We were thrilled, now time to play more of the waiting game, and go to tons of Dr. Appointments. We were originally scheduled to do the Invitro in November but than ran into some chromosomal issues that are genetic and run all through David's family. We eventually got that all sorted out :)

and I started my shots.... I was very hormonal to say the least. LOL, I have a high tolerance for pain and thought it was kind of cool to give my self shots. At one point I was giving myself three shots a day in my stomach. Now I am only taking one shot a day in my back muscles, which really hurts and is a lot bigger than my tummy needles were. I can't wait to be done with these ones. April 16th will be my last day. I am on the count down.

Here are my "eggies" They are ready in this ultra sound, and will be taken out two days after this picture was taken. They were HUGE. My Dr. was so funny, here are some of his quotes

"WOW, I am intimidated by your ovaries"

"Your uterus is just gorgeous"

He was very impressed by my eggs, and how large they got.

After that Dr. Appt, we drove by this little restaurant. I laughed so hard and though it was very appropriate for us.

David and I were killing some time in Salt Lake waiting for a call from our Dr. so we went to this little Duck Pond he used to go to when he was a little boy. It was gorgeous.

This is his Grandma's old house. It was just down the street from the duck pond.

Ready for the egg retrieval, The most painful day of my life. First of all the nurse burst my vein trying to put the IV in. They gave me two types of medicine one that makes you super tired so you practically sleep through the procedure and one to help you forget. Well the sleep one didn't work on me and I felt everything. They put a needle of the end of an ultra sound wand and extract your eggs out of your ovaries by pulling them through the needle. I was moaning in agony and poor David passed out. (hehe) I remember the nurses telling him to put his head between his knees and then he had to be wheeled out in a wheel chair to get some juice. I don't know if it was the sight of the needle and blood or me being in pain, either way I thought it was pretty comical. They got 14 Eggs, which was awesome because the Doctor said the most he usually gets is ten.

After the egg retrieval they put the sperm and the eggs together by sucking up the sperm into a needle and injecting it into the eggs. They then let them sit for five days. They called us and said we had six embryos growing and maturing. YAY!

This is the DAY of the actual Invitro. They used a catheter and put it into my uterus, they then put the embryos in through the tube. It was cool because we got to watch it on a big screen.

These are the two embryos they put in. They were the most developed and mature ones.

Now home to bed rest......

Thanks to everyone who brought dinner, treats & flowers. You are the best. I really appreciated it and I know David did :)

I was still taking it easy on Valentines, but we did get out of the house and went to eat at Texas Road House! Thanks babe!

After the invitro we had to wait two weeks go back down and take a blood test to see if I was pregnant. We went at eight in the morning. The Nurse said they would call with the results in a couple or hours. (couple means two right?) So at about two and a half hours I made David call and ask if they were done, she said the results usually get to her desk at noon. Well they go to lunch at noon so we knew we wouldn't be getting the call for awhile. We were both so nervous. I felt like I was giving a talk in church. LOL. well after five hours and forty five minutes they finally called

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We're having a BABY!!!

It's such a MIRACLE. We are so blessed. Thanks to everyone for the prayers and fasts in our behalf. We love you all. Special shout out to those who wrote letters of recommendation.

Biggest thanks to Heavenly Father who knows my heart and made this possible. I am SOOO grateful for modern medical technology. It's AMA....ZING!