Progesterone level!!

I have some good news for you guys today!

I went for my progesterone check this morning and they called me this afternoon with the results!

All I needed it to be was above 15 and it ended up being 23.3!!!

I am so happy with the results!

It is the highest my levels have ever been during a medicated cycle!

Now..just because my levels are great, doesn't mean that I am pregnant..it just means that if I am pregnant then I wont have to do suppositories to keep from miscarrying. 

Now we just have to wait until next weekend to test!!!

I will update you guys when I know for sure if I am pregnant or not.

Thank you for the positive thoughts and prayers!!!

First IUI After Miscarriage

Well...yesterday was our first IUI after our miscarriage in April.

And I have to say...I feel good about it!

We had 12.1 million sperm from Wesley which, if you remember from the last IUI, is rather low. The IUI when we got pregnant, we had 47 million. However, the doctor said that the heat plays a huge factor in sperm count. But that's ok!! As long as it is above 2 million then it is considered a good number :)

But other than sperm count, everything felt very much like the cycle we got pregnant on. 

I had ovulation cramps for the rest of the day following the IUI, which is exactly how it went with the last IUI. 

I think I am psyching myself out a little bit by comparing it to the last cycle when we got pregnant...but its hard not to when everything is going, basically, the same. 

So from here we wait until Friday when I get my progesterone checked and then another week or so until I take a pregnancy test!!

Thank you for all the positive thoughts and prayers!!! Keep them coming my way! And make sure to keep all the ladies out there going through the same thing in your thoughts and prayers as well!!! 

And if you haven't already, go "like" my Facebook page "Hurry Up and Wait"!! That way you can get all of my updates as soon as I post them!

Also, share this page with anyone you know going through similar circumstances...no one should go through this thinking they are alone.

Follicle check and IUI date!

Hey Guys!!!

On Monday Wesley and I went in to have my follicles checked and got some good news and some ehh...blah news. 

Good news first!

Good news is that we had 5 total follicles! 3 in my right ovary and 2 in my left! Its nice to see them both participating this month! haha!! The biggest one I had was an 18 in my right ovary. Im not sure if you guys remember but my doctor likes them to be at least 20 before we can do IUI. 

Which brings us to the ehh..blah news. We weren't allowed to move forward with the IUI until it reached 20. So we went back this morning and it grew to 20!! We also had a 15 and the others were pretty small. So we have 1 that is ready and another that could be ready by Saturday when we do the IUI!!!!! 

YEYYYY!!!!! 

The doctor called me this afternoon and I do my HCG injection tomorrow night and the IUI will be Saturday morning :)

AHHHH!!! We are so excited! It has been a long 3 months and we are beyond grateful to be back to this stage and we are hopeful that within 1 or 2 IUIs we will be pregnant again and we will have our Take Home baby!!! :) 

Thank you guys for the positive thoughts and prayers and I will update you guys on Saturday after the IUI to let you know how it went! 

Update! Update! Update!!!

Ok..so I'm a little late on this post but with moving and doing stuff around the house and working, its been a busy week!!!
Sooooooooooo...who is ready for some good news?! I for one, LOVE good news ;)
So I started my cycle last Thursday!!! That means that Thursday was cycle day 1!
I had my initial exam and ultrasound on Saturday and they said that everything looked good to start my Femara :) ahhhh music to my ears!!!!
So I take my last 2 Femara pills tomorrow and I have my follicle check on Monday to see if my follicles are big enough to do my HCG injection and hopefully have the IUI on Wednesday-ish!!!! Ahhhhhh we are so excited and ready to get this party started!!!
Can you guys believe that its been 3 months since the miscarriage?
It has taken so long to get back to this point and we are so thrilled and ready to get pregnant again and have our take home baby!
Thank you guys for the positive thoughts and prayers!!!
I will update you guys on Monday when o have my follicle check!!!

Poppin' Progesterone!

Well...the journey begins again!!! Today I started taking progesterone to start my cycle back up(hopefully within the next 2 weeks). We are so ready to get this process going and we are so relieved to be back in this spot to where we can do IUI again! Even if it is a highly medicated journey... We are ready and willing to do whatever it takes to get pregnant again and become parents ☺

We also have some other exciting news...we bought a house!! We are packing up now and getting ready to move into our new home :) We are excited to start this new chapter in our life and are praying for more positive things to happen!!! Hopefully sooner rather than later ;)

I might even start vlogging everything! Just have to convince Wesley to let me buy a vlogging camera ;)

Thank you guys for the positive thoughts and prayers!
As always..I'll keep you posted!!!!!

Why we choose to share

So I feel like I have been a bad blogger lately!!! Im not talking with you guys like I used to. I know you guys understand but I promise to get back into the swing of things!!

With that being said, my first blog post, unrelated to what cycle day I'm on, will be about why Wesley and I chose to reveal our pregnancy so early, why we don't regret it, and why we will reveal to the world our next pregnancy as soon as we know there is a little Pav in my womb!

Ok...I feel like when women reveal they're pregnant early on in their pregnancies, they get a lot of flack (maybe not to their face). And I am going to be completely honest..I used to think women were CRAZY for revealing it so early. I mean, WHY ON EARTH would you do that and then potentially have to go through the process of having a public miscarriage?! It's hard enough as it is, why would you want the world to know?

Then I started blogging our fertility journey.

Now I get it. 

It's not about me.

It's about the life I was carrying.

I would rather blog every second of my pregnancy and miscarriage than to hide a precious life from the world. I want the whole world to know that I was pregnant and that my child exists.

I got a TON of support from my readers and I'm not sure how I would've dealt with it all without you guys!

My husband is my other half. My rock. My everything. Without him, I would probably still be sitting in bed crying. He let me know that this isn't the end. Its the beginning. We WILL get pregnant again and we will bring a baby Pav into this world and we will be amazing parents!

I love how I am usually so positive, but when I can't be, he reminds me to see the positives and to look to the future. 

But there is a special place in my heart for my readers! No matter if I know you personally, if you found our journey on Facebook, or you stumbled upon my blog on pinterest...you give me support in a different way. I cant even describe it. 

So from revealing our pregnancy and miscarriage, I gained support from people that I didn't even KNOW before. Its just awesome.

But would we do it all again? Would we shout to the world that we're pregnant and then potentially have to tell them that we miscarried again? Could we go through all this publicly again?

Yup. 

100%. This next pregnancy will be just as much as a gift as the last and we want the world to know about it. We don't do it for attention...we do it because we refuse to hide our child from the world. 

Is this right for everyone? No. Not everyone is comfortable telling people that they are on their period, let alone that they made a baby with their genitalia! ha!

But for us...it is/was right.

So thank you guys for the

Positive thoughts and prayers! 

Finally!!!!

I FINALLY have some good news!!!!!! My levels are FINALLY at ZERO!!!! So I start my progesterone in 3 weeks and then we can do another IUI! Best news I've heard in a long time!
AND Wesley and I bought a house!! We will finally move off base and into a home that fits us and our needs :)

It has been a week full of blessings :)
God has truly rewarded our patience!

Thank you for all the prayers and positive thoughts!
I will keep you updated as we approach IUI time :)