All buns accounted for

Well my apologies for keeping you all in the dark for the past two weeks. There is really no good reason or bad reason for not updating the blog, I just was feeling a tad lazy. Maybe it was because we received good news and so I just wanted to keep taking it in and not quite blog about it yet. I also have an acquaintance that is going through infertility and unfortunately had a very sad outcome from it all. I feel like I needed to keep this post to myself for a while before I shared it.

I realize that although Brandon and I have endured a very trying and emotionally challenging four years, these past two months have been very fruitful for us going through IVF. Not many people have as good of outcomes as we have. For that I am forever grateful. We have been blessed with many eggs, embryos, blastocysts and genetically sound embryos. My whole retrieval process went smoothly (beyond all the hormones and feelings), nothing went wrong in the actual procedure, all the followup and testing has gone well and I pray that our testing and transfer here on out all goes just as wonderfully. I know that many others cannot say the same. And for them I am truly sorry. Just as I don’t want to take away from the pain that they have felt, I don’t want to take away from the joy we are feeling.

Last Wednesday while Brandon was at work, I received a phone call about midmorning. It was from ARMS Clinic, I’m not going to lie, I slightly panicked when I saw them calling as I had an appointment just the next day with Brandon to go over our PGS results. Putting on my bravest face I answered the phone. It was the embryologist, oh lord, what could she be calling about? “Hi is this Bri? This is so-in-so and I just wanted to tell you that we got your results in a day early and I wanted to share them with you!!”

Oh! What an amazing phone call! I was so very excited. My palms got so sweaty and I ran to go get a piece of paper, any paper I could find and a pen. I did not want to forget anything this glorious woman was going to tell me, if you know me then you know that I forget a lot of things (a gene so nicely passed down from my grandmother and mother). She told me that we had wonderful results from the PGS testing. Now not to be negative but last time she told me that it sure didn’t feel like it, so I definitely was bracing myself. Thirty to fifty percent of embryos are not genetically sound and could/would result in miscarriage.

But guess what? Out of the ten we sent SEVEN, I repeat SEVEN were healthy. Praise that woman on the phone, praise our embryos, praise my husband, praise Jesus, praise every single person that has prayed for us, praise all my family and friends that constantly check in on me and ask how we are doing, praise ARMS for working as hard as they do to give us the best results, praise my body for making good eggs and praise Brandon’s swimmers for blessing me with seven healthy embryos. Oh my gosh. Excitement ran through me like you couldn’t even believe. We could, if we wanted and if all went perfectly have seven children, we won’t, but we could! Haha! (Don’t worry we won’t have seven children)

Now you will have to wait to find out the sex of the embryos by waiting to find out the sex of our babies as they happen! Sorry! Have to have some suspense and surprise for you all!

I immediately got off the phone with the embryologist and tried to Face Time Brandon to let him know the amazing news. I was literally beaming (and shaking) from my excitement and happiness. Brandon didn’t answer. Shoot. I texted him and told him to call me ASAP but that everything was fine. Didn’t need to worry him at work like something was wrong. It took about an hour or so before he wasn’t busy at work and was able to call me back. That was my favorite phone call so far that I was able to make. To hear the happiness in his voice, I could tell that he had the biggest smile on his face while we were talking.

Now we have totally started talking about baby names, how we are going to decorate the room depending on what baby will be, I’ve been a pinning mad woman on Pinterest, the whole shebang! With that being said though, there are still a few tests/procedures that have to be done for me. I also have to continue to get lab work done and then eventually start taking meds again to prepare my uterus for a transfer. We are patiently awaiting dates for all the things just mentioned. And this is where we are going to go rogue for a while. Not that we don’t want to include you all in these last steps, we definitely do. But for the sake of us not getting to be surprised about being pregnant, we want to be able to do that for our loved ones and all of you. If we kept you updated with each and every step from here on out, you would know exactly when things were happening and when to expect some results.

And to be quite honest, we would like a little privacy for this part of the adventure. It is something that Brandon and I would like to cautiously celebrate or tenderly mourn with just each other depending on the outcome. When we see fit we will indeed update you all. It is my goal to still write some posts on this blog over the next few months. Some will be public and others will be private! Once we are ready to share the news, happy or sad, I will make all the private posts visible for you all!

I hope you can respect our wishes. We appreciate the following we have and the support, love and prayers you all have given us. We would appreciate now more than ever for your continued love and prayers on our future endeavors in this IVF process. We hope that our official post in a few months will be one of complete and utter happiness. From our hearts to your’s thank you all so very much. We couldn’t have got to where we are now without you. Whether you know it or not, you all have helped us tremendously for getting through this season in our lives. For that I will be eternally grateful. I know that one day our future children will be loved by so many, as I have a feeling they already are.