This week was a crazy one filled with many dates with the copy machine and getting to school at 5 a.m. three days in preparation for parent/teacher conferences next week. Among all the craziness I squeezed in my weekly doctor's appointment and it was great! My uterine lining was nice and thick at 10mm and all my blood levels were right on track. So we're moving along quite nicely! We're getting so excited to welcome our little snow babies home so soon! Thanks for all your kind words and prayers, please keep them coming.
My next doctor's appointment is Wednesday and I start my Yoga for Fertility Phase 2 this Sunday. I'm excited to get to know some new faces and hopefully see a few old as well! Rhett and I are looking forward to a relaxing weekend together. Happy Friday to you all!
Friday, November 11, 2011
Monday, November 7, 2011
Bliss
This past weekend my mom was in town and we had a great time! We went shopping, ate out, and laughed a lot as we always do when we get together. My mom is my best friend and I cherish our time together so much! I was sad to see her go but happy knowing in two weeks from tomorrow, she'll be here again! As she left I told her, "next time you see me, I'll be pregnant!" She is coming in the night of the transfer and although I won't know the outcome yet, I have good feelings that this is going to work!
My last yoga class was on Sunday and as usual it was wonderful. Yesterday's focus was about finding bliss. It was explained to me by my teacher in a way I had never thought of bliss before. Finding our bliss, our innermost layer, means to be at peace in what's going on in our life. It doesn't always mean that we are at the happiest point in our life, but more at peace and acceptance of what cards we've been dealt and being at harmony with it. As we were doing our poses, the weirdest thought/prayer came to my mind. A prayer of thanks to God was sounding through my head as I moved from downward dog to a forward fold. I thanked God for giving me infertility. Had I not, I would have never met these wonderful women, had grown to know myself better, or grown closer to Rhett. I am at peace now, with my two pregnancy losses and failed IVF. I am at peace with the struggle, the feelings of anxiety, and anger. I now know that this is God's plan and every day, every struggle has helped formed me into the mother I am to be. It's taken three years to get here, but I think I've arrived, I've found my bliss.
Here are some pictures with us and my mom and good family friends, the Truitts! I had a blast shopping with Gina and my mom and dining with the boys at Joe's Stone Crab!
My last yoga class was on Sunday and as usual it was wonderful. Yesterday's focus was about finding bliss. It was explained to me by my teacher in a way I had never thought of bliss before. Finding our bliss, our innermost layer, means to be at peace in what's going on in our life. It doesn't always mean that we are at the happiest point in our life, but more at peace and acceptance of what cards we've been dealt and being at harmony with it. As we were doing our poses, the weirdest thought/prayer came to my mind. A prayer of thanks to God was sounding through my head as I moved from downward dog to a forward fold. I thanked God for giving me infertility. Had I not, I would have never met these wonderful women, had grown to know myself better, or grown closer to Rhett. I am at peace now, with my two pregnancy losses and failed IVF. I am at peace with the struggle, the feelings of anxiety, and anger. I now know that this is God's plan and every day, every struggle has helped formed me into the mother I am to be. It's taken three years to get here, but I think I've arrived, I've found my bliss.
Here are some pictures with us and my mom and good family friends, the Truitts! I had a blast shopping with Gina and my mom and dining with the boys at Joe's Stone Crab!
Thursday, November 3, 2011
Moving Right Along!
Yesterday I went to FCI for Ultrasound and Blood work and all looked great! They were checking to see if the pill and shots had suppressed my hormones sufficiently. Next stop... estrogen patches and baby aspirin. The estrogen patches increase uterine lining and the baby aspirin can increase blood flow to the ovaries, and can also prevent blood clotting, which can cause miscarriage. I go in next Wednesday for another Ultrasound and blood work to see if my uterine lining is getting thicker! We want a nice thick wall for those lil snow babies to burrow and make a home!
This Sunday is my last Yoga for Fertility Class, but I enrolled in phase 2 and can't wait to continue on this journey. I've gotten to know some really amazing women and learned a lot about myself. A friend at work had a yoga for kids book and we've started doing a few moves a day and the kids love it! Yoga has become such a postive part of my life, I want to share it with others!
I'm getting so excited for the transfer to get here but I'm enjoying the journey up to it. I'm trying to eat as healthy as possible (I really miss my coffee) and being as stress-free as I can. I actually enjoy going to the fertility center for monitoring. Through my several cycles I've gotten to know a lot of wonderful nurses, sonographers, and doctors. Everyone I've met along the way has played an important part in our journey and I'm thankful for their warmth and kindness.
My mom comes this weekend and I can't wait to see her, it's been too long. Happy Almost Friday everyone!
This Sunday is my last Yoga for Fertility Class, but I enrolled in phase 2 and can't wait to continue on this journey. I've gotten to know some really amazing women and learned a lot about myself. A friend at work had a yoga for kids book and we've started doing a few moves a day and the kids love it! Yoga has become such a postive part of my life, I want to share it with others!
I'm getting so excited for the transfer to get here but I'm enjoying the journey up to it. I'm trying to eat as healthy as possible (I really miss my coffee) and being as stress-free as I can. I actually enjoy going to the fertility center for monitoring. Through my several cycles I've gotten to know a lot of wonderful nurses, sonographers, and doctors. Everyone I've met along the way has played an important part in our journey and I'm thankful for their warmth and kindness.
My mom comes this weekend and I can't wait to see her, it's been too long. Happy Almost Friday everyone!
Sunday, October 30, 2011
Me Against the Fish
This past week I decided to try and master cooking fish at home for Rhett and I since I'm making more of an effort to incorporate it into my diet. It's funny how many people have told me they about fell out of their chair when they heard that I tried fish.. the things we do for our kids (or future kids). Anyways, I digress. So I go to Whole Foods and I buy the fish from the counter and the guy tells me he de-boned it and all that good stuff. I come home, ready to make a delicious dinner (with a little help from my girl, Giada) I brush one side with olive oil and then flip it over to brush the other side when GASP! (I think I actually said something else) the entire side was covered in fish skin... gross! You see, when I'm eating fish I keep trying to tell myself I'm not actually eating a fish, but that scaly sight made it harder to believe my delusions. So I grabbed by knife and tackled it as best I could ( in-between gags, of course). Good news is, it turned out really good! I think I'm over the initial shock and ready to tackle it again.
I went to see my nutritionist again this past weekend and got some more really great advice! She helped me think of more ways to incorporate protein into my diet and advised me against most canned goods besides a brand called "Eden's Organics" due to the fact that most cans are lined with a chemical called BPA which I'm sure you've heard in recent years getting a bad rep for causing hormonal disturbances in our bodies. I had a relaxing acupuncture treatment and a great yoga class today! I love the time with fellow women who truly understand how I feel. It's a great way to vent, grow, and further learn the yoga technique. Next week is my last class and I really hope to enroll in Fertility for Yoga Phase 2 with my yoga buddies, and continue our journey together! I've felt like I'm dealing with stress much better and have a more positive outlook on life and our pursuit towards parenthood. This week we learned meditation and I'm excited to practice this new skill this week.
23 days until transfer!! I can't wait for our three little snow babies to come home! There's no place like home! There's no place like home! There's no place like home!
I went to see my nutritionist again this past weekend and got some more really great advice! She helped me think of more ways to incorporate protein into my diet and advised me against most canned goods besides a brand called "Eden's Organics" due to the fact that most cans are lined with a chemical called BPA which I'm sure you've heard in recent years getting a bad rep for causing hormonal disturbances in our bodies. I had a relaxing acupuncture treatment and a great yoga class today! I love the time with fellow women who truly understand how I feel. It's a great way to vent, grow, and further learn the yoga technique. Next week is my last class and I really hope to enroll in Fertility for Yoga Phase 2 with my yoga buddies, and continue our journey together! I've felt like I'm dealing with stress much better and have a more positive outlook on life and our pursuit towards parenthood. This week we learned meditation and I'm excited to practice this new skill this week.
23 days until transfer!! I can't wait for our three little snow babies to come home! There's no place like home! There's no place like home! There's no place like home!
Monday, October 24, 2011
Third Time's a Charm!
Today I had my ultra sound and blood work to see if my hormones have been suppressed from the birth control pill and if it's time to start the shots and.... all looked GREAT! We start our first round of shots tonight and I can't wait to get this ball rolling! I had a great, optimistic feeling in the doctor's office and I texted Rhett and told him this. He said, "Third time's a charm." I think he may be on to something, third IVF and 3 embies? Sounds likes a recipe for success!
Check back often for updates! I go for ultra sound and blood work again next Wednesday! I can't wait for November 22nd! My mom is coming to help take care of me on bedrest and make sure Rhett gets a proper Thanksgiving dinner! I don't think she knows what she signed up for, there may or may not be a dog eared copy of southern living waiting for her upon her arrival! Haha, she's the best!
Have a good night everyone and please keep your amazing thoughts and prayers coming our way!
Check back often for updates! I go for ultra sound and blood work again next Wednesday! I can't wait for November 22nd! My mom is coming to help take care of me on bedrest and make sure Rhett gets a proper Thanksgiving dinner! I don't think she knows what she signed up for, there may or may not be a dog eared copy of southern living waiting for her upon her arrival! Haha, she's the best!
Have a good night everyone and please keep your amazing thoughts and prayers coming our way!
Sunday, October 23, 2011
Week in Review and Pots and Pans Too!
This past week has been filled with lots of happenings! Rhett's mom and dad have been in town since August and are headed back to Arizona tomorrow so we went out for a nice dinner to a french restaurant called Mon Ami Gabi. Rhett and I were actually doing a rating there for a secret diner program we do, and our coordinator let us bring them along! It was nice to be able to catch up and spend some time together!
On Saturday we had our niece, Lucy's first birthday! It's hard to believe she was born a year ago! The party was great and we got to play with lots of adorable babies. I kept thinking about how this time next year Rhett and I will hopefully be bringing our little one or ones to Lucy's second birthday party! We're less than a month away now from our transfer and we're getting so excited! I go tomorrow to the doctor for an ultra sound and blood work to see if we can stop the pill and start some shots! It will be here before we know it!!!
In other exciting news Rhett bought me some new stainless steel pots and pans!! My nutritionist advised me that using non-stick (as I have for years) is actually not good practice because after a while it can start to break apart and the chemicals can get in the food you're cooking causes further hormonal disturbance, which I don't need! She also said that when using nonstick you use less olive oil to cook with, and right now she's been having me work on increasing my intake of healthy fats into my diet. When those pots and pans came I was so excited, I was like a kid in a candy shop! My brothers and I used to tease my mom about her obsession with new pots and pans, but now that I'm an adult I totally get it... when did I grow up?
On Saturday we had our niece, Lucy's first birthday! It's hard to believe she was born a year ago! The party was great and we got to play with lots of adorable babies. I kept thinking about how this time next year Rhett and I will hopefully be bringing our little one or ones to Lucy's second birthday party! We're less than a month away now from our transfer and we're getting so excited! I go tomorrow to the doctor for an ultra sound and blood work to see if we can stop the pill and start some shots! It will be here before we know it!!!
In other exciting news Rhett bought me some new stainless steel pots and pans!! My nutritionist advised me that using non-stick (as I have for years) is actually not good practice because after a while it can start to break apart and the chemicals can get in the food you're cooking causes further hormonal disturbance, which I don't need! She also said that when using nonstick you use less olive oil to cook with, and right now she's been having me work on increasing my intake of healthy fats into my diet. When those pots and pans came I was so excited, I was like a kid in a candy shop! My brothers and I used to tease my mom about her obsession with new pots and pans, but now that I'm an adult I totally get it... when did I grow up?
Sunday, October 16, 2011
Yoga, and Needles, and Fish? Oh my!
I've been meaning to blog all week, but here it is Sunday already and I am just now sitting down to do it! It has been quite an eventful week and I'm excited to share the latest developments. So take a seat (seriously, sit down for this), grab a cup of coffee in my honor (since I no longer drink it...sigh) and be ready to be floored!
In my last blog I stated that I started seeing an acupuncturist again and that I was going to be seeing a nutritionist this week. My acupuncturist and nutritioist had highly suggested that I incorporate fish into my strictly 17 year vegetarian diet. I obviously was not pleased by this news, but I want a baby more than anything in the world, so if they told me shaving my head and sleeping on the floor would do it, then I'd be a bald lady with a sore back, so I figured what the hell..
As many of you know, Rhett and I participate in a rating program for Lettuce Entertain You Restaurants. This week we rated Shaw's, which is a fine dining seafood restaurant, so I figured if I'm gonna do this, this is the place to start... I ordered salmon and drumroll please.... I LIKED IT!! Also, even better, I didn't puke!!! Rhett was so proud of me and I was proud of myself, if I'm going to be a mommy I have to put those little one's needs ahead of my own, so I thought, first step in the right direction!
The nutrionist gave me lots of great pointers and put me on four different supplements. I'm eating all organic, trying to cut out refined sugar, lots of protein, lots of sleep, and no caffeine! I had a few slip-ups this weekend (eating out gets me everytime, good thing we're on a budget and don't do it that often!) but today is a new day! Only 38 days til transfer!! I can't wait! I have it marked in my calendar as the day we get pregnant!!! I'm feeling so positive and ready! I just know we are going to be blessed! This Thanksgiving (even though we won't know the outcome yet) we will have even more to be thankful for! I'm off to Yoga!
Namaste,
Bails
P.S. Here are some pics from the week; my first fish dish, my sweetest day pizza Rhett brought home, I splurged and had one,tiny, little slice, and Boomer "doing" yoga. He says he likes, "downward facing dog"!
In my last blog I stated that I started seeing an acupuncturist again and that I was going to be seeing a nutritionist this week. My acupuncturist and nutritioist had highly suggested that I incorporate fish into my strictly 17 year vegetarian diet. I obviously was not pleased by this news, but I want a baby more than anything in the world, so if they told me shaving my head and sleeping on the floor would do it, then I'd be a bald lady with a sore back, so I figured what the hell..
As many of you know, Rhett and I participate in a rating program for Lettuce Entertain You Restaurants. This week we rated Shaw's, which is a fine dining seafood restaurant, so I figured if I'm gonna do this, this is the place to start... I ordered salmon and drumroll please.... I LIKED IT!! Also, even better, I didn't puke!!! Rhett was so proud of me and I was proud of myself, if I'm going to be a mommy I have to put those little one's needs ahead of my own, so I thought, first step in the right direction!
The nutrionist gave me lots of great pointers and put me on four different supplements. I'm eating all organic, trying to cut out refined sugar, lots of protein, lots of sleep, and no caffeine! I had a few slip-ups this weekend (eating out gets me everytime, good thing we're on a budget and don't do it that often!) but today is a new day! Only 38 days til transfer!! I can't wait! I have it marked in my calendar as the day we get pregnant!!! I'm feeling so positive and ready! I just know we are going to be blessed! This Thanksgiving (even though we won't know the outcome yet) we will have even more to be thankful for! I'm off to Yoga!
Namaste,
Bails
P.S. Here are some pics from the week; my first fish dish, my sweetest day pizza Rhett brought home, I splurged and had one,tiny, little slice, and Boomer "doing" yoga. He says he likes, "downward facing dog"!
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