Yes I am still alive :)

Wow now that is an insanely long amount of time to not post an update.

So I will recap in a nutshell and hope to post on a regular basis now!

My pregnancy was uneventful and I enjoyed every minute if it!

Had placenta previa so C-section was a must.

Quit working at the firm when I was 8 months along and have not missed it at all!

Spent the last month of pregnancy working on the nursery and dreaming of my baby!

On November 27, 2011 had Baby Ian....7lbs 4oz and 21"...I was 38 weeks along.

I have added pics....enjoy!!!

Pic #1-my belly before C-section
Pic #2- Ian's Nursery
Pic #3-Ian!!!!

Ian's Big Day

Some purchases finally!!!!

I have waited years literally to start buying baby items!! So it goes without saying that I had an abnormal need prior to pregnancy to research and decide what I wanted even before I was preggo. Its funny how you form a picture in your mind of how you want everything to look exactly.

Well I am 18 weeks along and figured that it was time to get to ordering!!

I love the website Etsy. It has the most beautiful baby items and the best part is they are all hand made. I ordered some burp clothes. Here is a pic:

I also ordered and received the baby's bassinet. J still needs to put it together. Oh and my oldest daughter said that it looked like something from a Russian orphanage...guess her younger sister will have dibs on it!

And I ordered the baby bouncy thing. I am amazed at the items they have for baby's ...I want an adult one of theses!!

17 weeks today and its a BOY!!!!

17 weeks already. Holy cow I have so much to get done and time is just flying by. I have just begun to get some energy back and the morning sickness is pretty much gone. We had our gender scan last week and it was clearly a little boy who is not shy about his ding-ding! I really thought that it would be a girl. I'm super excited to be having a son, it will be a completely different experience for me.

We are going to buy the paint for the nursery this weekend. I plan on doing everything in white, cream and beige. I want a really calm room. I have almost everything picked out. It took almost three years to have this little guy so I have had plenty of time to research everything. I would love to have the whole room completed by 30 weeks so I can relax and enjoy the nursery for the remaining time.

We will be going o vacation the first week in August so it will be the last until the baby is close to being a year old.

My belly is big already and I am starting to toss and turn at night. But I'm not complaining it has all been wonderful!!!!

12 Weeks today!!!

It has been a while since I have posted. I cannot believe how fast the weeks are passing. A quick update of the past weeks. After finding out we had 2 babies we went back for another ultrasound 2 weeks later and we saw two heartbeats...so sweet and they also discovered a third empty sac. That was a little scary!! The doctor found a good heart rate on baby A but baby b was an unreadable rate but still a flickering heart. He released me to my OB and said I was not out of the woods yet......jeez lighten up. I had my first ob appt at 9 weeks. They did a ultrasound as soon as we arrived. I was so nervous. I guess I knew that there might be a chance of no baby b. The ob only found one viable baby...baby A. Baby B had already begun to be absorbed....I hate to think of it that way. The third sac was still empty. Needless to say I was stunned and for a while I thought that maybe she just did the us to fast and missed b.

We were scheduled to come back for the nt scan at 11 weeks...something new to worry about! Turns out our little babies fold is perfect and he was face down with his arms and legs moving.....so cute!! J and I smiled all day about it!!

Today I am 12 weeks and feeling so thankful to have reached this point. We go back in four more weeks for the gender scan...how fun!!!!!!

TWINS!!!!!!!

Here's a  few pics of our 2 little beans!!!

Overdue for a posting!

Wow I've been really bad with keeping up with this blog. So I will sum it all up as quickly and briefly as possible. We had our retrieval which went very smoothly and produced 22 eggs! Not bad for a 42 year old! Of the 22 only one was discarded due to abnormalities. The others all had ICSI preformed on them the same day as retrieval. The following day 18 had fertilized. We made it to transfer with 5 excellent embryos all of great quality. The doc suggested transferring all 5 the embryologist leaned towards 4 and J wanted to do 1!!!! So of course the RE's persistence won out and we did all 5. He assured J that no one my age in his practice ever got knocked up with more than twins. Not sure how comforting that was for my poor husband. After the RE left J announced he would personally come back and kick his *ss if I was an anomaly!!! I was on bed rest for three days. My parents came up from southern Florida to help and it was wonderful. I didn't have to cook or clean or walk the dogs.....AWESOME.

After about a week I started to blow up like a balloon in my abdomen. I was having trouble taking a full breath and was drinking a ton but only peeing a drop. We eventually had to go to the ER that night because I started to have alot of trouble breathing and a burning sensation in my belly. They did an US and it showed massive amounts of fluid in my abdominal cavity. The doc asked if I could be pregnant? You think? I just told you I did IVF and J had to explain to you what it was!! They drew some blood for a pregnancy test and as we waited J stated he wished we would have gotten the doctor that at least got a B in Med school! Doc came back a few minutes later and state I was pregnant!!! He said go see your fertility doctor because we are not touching you. We then drove 2 hours to my RE's clinic and as soon as they saw the size of my tummy they freaked. They did blood work and sent me to be drained....yes drained! I had a lovely needle placed in my belly and out came 3 liters of apple juice looking yuck. I stayed in the hospital that day and night to be monitored and went home the next day.

Fast forward a week and I am being tapped again. Fun, Fun. Luckily I have had no other fluid build up since and am feeling somewhat like myself again! We go in for our first US tomorrow morning and I am so nervous.

BTW we had 3 frosties make it to blast stage and are now keeping each other company in freezer :)