Are There Animals In There?

Mike and I thought we were being pretty obvious with our last blog post but it appears maybe we weren't.







That little black walnut in the middle of the picture is the baby! So far only one, but the ultrasound was pretty early. There may or may not be another sac on the the next ultrasound. We'll of course keep you updated.

Something I forgot to mention in the previous posts...after I had the transfer Rooney asked if I had babies in my tummy. I told him they were not babies yet but that there were embryos in Mommy's tummy. He seemed happy with that answer and went on his way. The next morning he came into my room. He ran over to my side of the bed, where I was laying, and excitedly asked "Do you have animals in your tummy?".

Too funny

King Me

The last two weeks have been kind of weird. The dreaded "2 week wait" has been hard but I tried very hard to keep my mind off of what the results would be when we finally got our blood test. I already have a Rooney afterall we needed to resume our normal schedule.

We did some fun things like took a tour of a dentist's office (he is already Rooney's dentist and a sponsor for our group), had a Valentine's Day party and of course visits to The Bouncy Place and Met Gym. Rooney really likes going to the dentist. Mostly because he comes out of there with an armful of loot and he gets to watch TV while in the chair. They also have toys in the waiting room and if there are toys Rooney is going to play. This picture is from the dentist office tour. They were playing a game where Rooney was blindfolded with a surgical mask. I think he's cheating.

More exciting news that happened in the last two weeks is that Rooney is now sleeping in a big boy bed. We finally just decided to convert Roon's crib and we've had very little issues. I think Rooney really likes the idea of being out of his crib. We are trying to emphasize all the "big boy" stuff he gets to do now that he's getting older. Of course it's all tied to trying to get him on the toilet and I think it worked...

As of today we are considering Rooney potty trained (well day trained). He has gone 3 straight days without an accident. He was able to finally play with the fire engine we bought for him at least 6 months ago. He also got to wear his Potty Trained crown. I'll try to get pics of all this. Rooney has been asking for the crown alot lately and he really worked for it. I am so proud of him!

Lastly, we had our 2 week pregnancy blood test. While Mike and I don't want to jinx anything and tell the results, being as we have been so open about the IVF, we wanted to say that we would tell you if it was negative.

Home to Roost

So the transfer is complete! It's really weird that finally after all the MD visits, shots and waiting that the embryo transfer finally happened. At the end it went so fast and with very little fan fare.

Yesterday I came home and basically stayed in bed the whole day. The next couple of days are loafy days. I can't lift anything heavy, probably shouldn't be too stressed out and basically just take it easy. Hours after getting home that was already proving difficult when Rooney got home from a birthday party earlier than expected and I being the only one here. Thankfully Mike got home pretty soon afterward and I could go back to my lounging. I think I am going to like the next couple of days.

I am still on a boat load of meds and if pregnant will continue with IM shots for 10 additional weeks and most of the other meds. However, I am thankful the up to 4 SQ shots a day are over. Although this is a family blog I think everyone can understand when Mike told me "Conceiving Rooney was alot more fun". He wanted to write about this in his own blog post but he acknowledged that the quads would probably been born before he ever got to it.

We received pictures of the embryos. I can tell they are cute already. I think one is a girl and one is a boy but I'll let you see if you can tell which is which.

More Than A Baker's Dozen

This is just a little update post about the IVF. We had the egg retrieval on Monday. It was very successful with 22 eggs retrieved. The MD called me an overachiever but I told him I was shooting for 30.

I was called by the lab on Tuesday and told that of the 22 retrieved 20 made it to the ICSI process. Of those 20- 19 made it through the process and fertilized! The transfer date is tentatively set for Saturday. We might go sooner but they would like to hold out until Day 5 blastocyst stage. Don't worry we won't be like that lady that had octuplets! Maybe twins but not 8. We will only have 2-3 put back and the rest on ice until we decide if we will have another baby. They won't do a pregnancy test for 14 days so I really won't have news until later and then I may wait to share anyway.

One cute little Rooneyism to this story. When I got home from the retrieval Rooney asked if I got the eggs. I have a picture in my head of him thinking of eggs are like the chicken eggs bought in a carton.