New Hats!!

I've been whipping up some hats...any takers? (hats, not the baby)

Hat and legwarmers, tooo cute :) These all can be made to order, your choice color :)



Ready to ship!


This one now has an adorable bow!


made to order


ready to ship with a brown button


or check me out on Etsy....http://www.etsy.com/shop/ThePaisleyPerle/

4/15 Tax Day!!

I told my sister on Saturday - that we're pregnant :) I wish I had some fun way to surprise her, but, well, she knows everything we are going through :) hehe...so I finally thought of something for my parents...they know everything too.

I brought over some Pumpkin Bread I made over the weekend...and I wrapped it in Green and Red Ribbon with this tag...





My mom couldn't figure it out...lol...Dad did and then said - The bread will be really old by then :) hehehe....They were both SUPER happy :)

If Dad was already gone for work, I was going to text him something about us getting a little tax deduction due Dec 24th :)....but he was home :)

And this is similar to what I might put on facebook, when we announce in June...

Betas and Frosties!

Good News :) My betas were 55.2 at 10dp3dt and 108.3 12dp3dt.

Mallory was in the 70's and 150's - So, I'm going to guess this is a singleton pregnancy. We are beyond thrilled. I am again due in December, which didn't end so well for us last year. So just praying everything continues to go well.

My first appt is May 6th at noon! We can't wait :)

I feel pretty good, but very exhausted...which I didn't really notice with Mallory. Yawning all day long and falling asleep early at night....praying all is well in there :)

And...we have two embryos that made it to freeze!! Our Frosties :)

Alllll the tests :)

Testing!!! YIPPEE :) Testing out the trigger shot (not real positive tests....)Should say DPTransfer not DPTrigger



hint of a line!!! Only a serious POASer would notice this :)


Now that it's dried...I think it's darker :)


baaaarely there Clearblue Easy...first CBE I've ever taken.


Very faint FRER


internet cheapie Wondfo tests....very faint line, but lines!








getting darker!!!


First Beta at 10dp3dt


Second Beta this morning!!!!


Line is darkest today...I should probably stop testing!!!

4/5 Our Embryos are home :)

Okay a little behind...so I decided to spend some time catching everyone up!

My retrieval went amazing! We had 2 embryos transferred....a 9 cell 1.2grade and a 10 cell 1.2 grade. 1.0 is best and 3.0 is poor. So these are some amazing embryos!!! Mallory was an 8 cell 1.5 grade, so better than her :) We're super excited.

We also had an overacheiver 12 cell that they wanted to watch, because it was growing so fast, an 8, 7, a slow to poor 6 and a perfect slow 4 cell. We might have some to freeze!

My lucky socks!


Our Embryos


Our Embryos are home :)


Mallory's first car ride in a front facing carseat today....big sister to be!


I'm on bedrest for the rest of today and Saturday...I'll take it easy Sunday as well. Glad Mike can take care of us :)

Transfer Scheduled 4/5

I got my fert report - NOT. All they told me was the timing for everything, i.e., what time to drink my 24oz of water, what time to take my valium and be at the clinic. No mention of how many fertilized or anything. I sorta remember them doing this last time. I called the clinic and they said the embryologist will tell us when we get there. I hate this. I don't know if I have 1 or 2 or what grade/cell size they are....so it's a 3d transfer for us....we had that with Mallory, so I'm not worried, I just thought we'd have more embryos and would be able to do a 5 day transfer.

Transfer tomorrow at 11:15. Praying we have 2 embryos to transfer.

I'm a bit frustrated about acupuncture too. My acupuncturist is out of town tomorrow and Saturday (which I totally understand). And, I thought we might do a Sunday transfer since we have 11 eggs, and she was awesomely willing to meet us Sunday for a session after the transfer, but now, it's on Friday.

I just keep reading how this is the most important treatment and now I'm not having it. I looked into getting someone near my clinic, but it's like $230.

I have some IVF meditation mp3's I'm going to listen to in the car on the way up there and back...maybe that will help. I mean, can missing one appt really be that detrimental?

Retrieval Time!!

Recap...we had 9 follies on Friday, and yesterday at retrieval...we got 11 eggs!!! WOOOOT! They said at the last check that I had some smaller ones too, I guess a couple caught up. I'm SO HAPPY. Dr. S said it couldn't have gone better!

Mike got to watch the retrieval, he watched the U/S machine and could see them extracting the eggs. He thought it was really interesting. He didn't watch last time, I don't remember them asking if he wanted to though. He said I was snoring LOL...oh well, I guess I was comfortable :)

So happy. Just rested today and a bit tender in the abdomen, but fine. I can't wait until Thursday (tomorrow) at 2...I'll find out how many fertilized, as well as if it is a 3day transfer (Friday) or 5day (Sunday).

I start a half dose of progesterone in oil (PIO) intramuscularly (ie booty) tonight...continue with the doxycycline, this will be my second dose of the medrol tonight.

Almost PUPO!!

Friday Follie Check

My check Friday went great :) I had 9 follies!!

L - 15, 15, 12.5, 12, 11.5

R - 14.5, 12, 11, 9.5

Lining was 9A, so that is great as well. I went to a movie with my sister and cousin on Saturday night and had to do my last menopur and ganirelix shot in the bathroom of the theater haha...It went okay.

I did my last 4 Bravelle Sunday morning and I did the trigger shot Sunday night at 11:45pm.

All set for my Tuesday retrieval :)