Visuals

This is but a memory now but I wanted to share some visuals!
You will see two needles; one is used to pull up the progesterone and the other is used to administer it. Pete was in charge of measuring the oil and then administering it. I needed 1 cc of oil every night in my rear. The needle needs to be long so that it will be given directly into the muscle for quick absorbsion. We would have to rotate the site around my hips/rear so that my muscles didn't become too sore.






After each lovely shot, we needed to discard them into this sharps container. It is the size of a 1 liter bottle of pop. If you look closely, it is FULL...yes..FULL! We would not be able to put very many more needles in this conatiner. We did some rough figuring and to date; I have endured nearly 350 shots in the last year. Did I ever dream that this journey would have included any of that? No way, but it's a part of the journey that God has led us down and it has been our job to TRUST in Him along the way. Not an easy thing to do but rejoicing today that this is over with for now!!



In the meantime, we are Praising God daily for his goodness and for the work He is doing with-in me. As I was preparing supper tonight, I was cutting this fruit. I showed it to Pete and he reminded me that this is the fruit of the week! Baby Drury is the size of a ......

THIS WEEK!!!!!

For those of you that know me, you know that I am a visual learner. I love to think of comparisions and I learn best when I have a visual representation. This has been a great way for me to understand the progress of Baby Drury each week. Hope you enjoyed the visual from our dinner!

Sharing the News

This is an ultrasound pic that we had at a 10 week appointment. I was meeting with a specialist and we were not anticpating an ultrasound so this was a pleasant suprise. This was so cool because we got to see the baby moving!! Wow..wish I could have had that on video. Amazing that this little one is inside of me!!!



Week 11
As you can read from the ticker tape at the top of the blog. Thanks Lacie for sharing (or I guess I copied) the idea!!! :)

Overall, Im feeling pretty good. I really can't complain much. I am having the typical nausea at night. Supper is such a chore! Nothing sounds good and I really can't even look at most food after 5pm! A week and a half ago, I had the 24 hr flu, and last Monday-Thursday had terrible congestion, and then had a horrible headache on Monday night; all of which I have dealt with before but seemed way more intensive this time!! :) So trying to praise God for what he is doing in my body in spite of the discomfort I've been experiencing. So honestly, I try not to complain much...I know it is all for a good cause. :)

We decided a week ago to share the news with our youth group kids. We knew that this past Sunday, we were going to tell our church the news, but we wanted to be the ones to tell the kids. Pete and I spent supper that night trying to figure out a creative way to share the news. Our weekly Wednesday night Bible study has been split where Pete teaches the boys and I have the girls. Pete wanted to share the news as a full group but I wanted to be the one to share with the girls. So we decided to slide this in during "prayer request". I let the girls share and then I proceeded to say, with a straight face, I would really like to ask you girls for prayer...I've been..uh.....(long dramatic pause with a straight face and a concerned look in my face :)....uh...well "We're going to have a baby". :) They were silent for about 2 seconds with a look of shock on their faces!! "Are you serious".."You are kidding".."REALLY?"..."No way!!". Then it was followed by a little bit of screaming and lots of SMILES!!!! HOWEVER...I told them...you can't share with with your moms!!! We want to tell them all on Sunday at church. I threatened to wipe their name off the babysitting list if they shared the news too early!! Well, I think that threat worked, because all of them kept the secret. We were able to tell the church on Sunday without some parents knowing. We pulled it off! :)

Week 12 is around the corner which means that the first trimester is nearly over. I have had to continue getting a very large shot (3 inches long) in my rear of progesterone oil every night since the beginning of February. SO I will be so HAPPY when that is over because my rear is so sore! Relief is in sight!!!

Progress

"Great are the works of the Lord. They are pondered by all who delight in them." Psalm 111:2

The first photo here is the picture that we recieved the day of transfer. If you look closely, you will see 2 white + signs. Those are the 2 embryos. They are so small that you can barely see them. This was taken on Feb. 18th.




One month later, March 17th, this is the baby growing! Now it takes a lot to look closely and see our little "poppyseed". You will see //. In between those lines is the baby's heart!! It was just pulsating on the screen when we saw it! If you look down at the bottom of the picture, you will see the heart beating. It's little heart was beating 122bpm! This is a 6 week ultrasound.


Now this was taken on April 1st, just 2 weeks later. This is 8 1/2 week ultrasound. It is unreal what happens in just 2 short weeks. You can make out the baby's head, little limbs, umbilical cord and we also got to hear the heart beat again. The heart beat this time was 158bpm. Our little poppyseed grew into the size of a strawberry in a matter of days!


A friend of mine gave me this very visual book and each week/month it shows a comparable object to the size of the fetus! We have found that to be quite comical, but very helpful in understanding how things are progressing; hence the term 'poppseed' and 'strawberry'! :)

We ask that you just keep praying!! We know that this is a very fragile time and trust God with every day. With each passing ultrasound, we have found that our guard can be let down a bit. We are still trusting and praying for things to progress and that God would continue to knit this little one together within me!