We’ve
officially jumped on the crazy train again and can’t wait to become a family of
five!! After two boys, we get to add
some estrogen to our family!! Logan and
I and our families are thrilled and feeling so blessed that the events of the
past two months have produced such happy news.
I always dreamed of having a daughter but never let myself think about
it too much in case it didn’t happen. I
have a special relationship both my mom and dad and can’t wait for my baby girl
to have that with me and Logan as well.
She already has more clothes than she could ever need but I’ve had way
too much fun to contain myself. I hope
the next six months fly by!
We
first met with our doctor a few weeks after Austin’s birthday at the end of
May, then started the injections at the end of August, did the transfer on
September 21st, and found out it was successful on the first of
October. It has been a crazy few months
to say the least with many ups and downs but they were all more than worth
it. The day of our transfer was super
special and I hope I never forget the happiness we felt! We had two frozen embryos left and, just like
last time, asked them to choose the strongest looking embryo without telling us
the gender. After they transferred the
embryo we asked them to tell us so two nurses came in with the biggest grins on
their faces. They were so excited for us
to find out! They asked if we had any
kids at home and we explained that we have two boys but that one had passed
away and both had dealt with health challenges so whatever we were getting
would be perfect. They smiled and said:
“Well, you’re going to have to buy all new clothes!” We were SO happy! We both got emotional and hugged and already
couldn’t wait to meet our little princess.
Things
were going well until the night I turned six weeks pregnant when I began
bleeding. I bled with Austin’s pregnancy
but it slowed down pretty fast so we were hopeful that this would be the same. I went to bed hoping to wake up to no more
blood only to be awakened at 3am because I was bleeding so much. I was now passing clots and tissue and knew
that couldn’t be good. I called and woke
my poor mom up and she assured me that it was okay to pass clots (I was
concerned about that) but that I was likely miscarrying. We all tried to stay hopeful and I honestly
felt a lot of peace still. The next
morning we went to the IVF clinic and did an ultra sound but there was still
too much bleeding to see anything. Our
doctor wasn’t convinced there was a baby but said there could be. An ultra sound two days later still didn’t
show anything so we waited a week and half or so until I was almost eight weeks
and we were finally able to see our little bean! There was still a lot of blood but we got a
strong heart beat and her growth was right where it should be so we were
extremely relieved. Our IVF doctor
released us from his care at that appointment and said we were free to move on
to our regular OB.
Eli
and Austin were both delivered by Jeff Quinn, who I LOVE! He’s the most amazing doctor and more than
worth the drive all the way out to Riverton.
If you go to him, you know what I mean!
Because of the nature of my high risk pregnancies, I’m no longer able to
see him and I couldn’t be more bummed about it!
It means so much to have a doctor you trust with yours and your baby’s
life. Thankfully we fell in love with
one of the high-risk doctors at IMC during Austin’s pregnancy and were able to
get into be seen by him as a regular patient this time around. We know he will take excellent care of
us! We saw him for the first time two
weeks ago and were able to get a clear picture of my uterus and the baby with
NO blood! Hallelujah! She looks great and is growing just as she
should so that’s a relief. The bleeding
doesn’t seem to have slowed her down one bit!
Our doctor told us to expect to have at least as many transfusions this
time as we did with Austin (2) but probably more. He said some women don’t follow the norm and
have a better pregnancy than the previous one but to not expect that. Austin’s first transfusion was around 31
weeks and his second one was around 33.
We’re hoping to make it that far before we have to think about it again
this time. If this pregnancy is “picture
perfect”, the latest they will have me go is 37 weeks so with a due date of
June 9th, I’ll likely be delivering at the end of May. That’s what we’re hoping for anyway! Many of Austin’s challenges when he was born
were a result of his diabetes so we’re hoping that was just an anomaly that
doesn’t happen again so this little love can have a better start than her
brother. We’ll just take it one
appointment at a time and pray and hope for the best!
You
may have realized that with both Eli and Austin we decided on a name pretty
fast and that didn’t change this time either.
Logan and I agreed right away that her name will be Victoria Elizabeth
:) Victoria isn’t after anyone we know but it’s a name we both loved and
Elizabeth is after me and my mom. We’ve
been asked a lot already if we have a short name in mind for her but I really
love the full name and hope she gets called Victoria a lot! I’m sure she’ll have a nickname too because
that’s what our family is known for but I really love the full name.
We
are so excited to share this news with our wonderful friends and feel so grateful
to have so much support. We know this
journey will be a wild one so we can’t express how much we love having each of
you along for the ride!
