After I had my miscarriage, and we had to tell everyone that we had lost the baby only weeks after telling them we were pregnant, we decided not to tell anyone that we were trying this time around. It has been so hard to not tell my Mom. I am hoping that when the time comes and we do tell her, that she will understand that we were not only protecting ourselves from potential heart break, but protecting her as well.
It was kind of last minute this time around when we started trying to conceive. We were running out of time to have an insemination in October, and we hadn't settled on a donor yet. Very quickly we narrowed down our choices to four potential donors and listed them in order of preference. We had all of our paperwork completed and FedEx'd overnight to the new cryobank we had chosen, in Washington state. Once our paperwork was received and processed, we learned that in order to have our donor sperm shipped to the lab (as per the lab policy which does not allow us to hand-carry the tank), another form had to be completed, and notarized, and returned. Now we were certain that October was no longer an option. But, we still overnighted the form back to the cryobank.
Surprise! The form was received and processed in time to purchase the sperm, we thought. Apparently the cryobank is short handed, and they were not able to charge enough tanks and did not have one available for us to use. "Oh please" we begged, "you must have something!" After waiting on hold for several minutes, he comes back and says, "you're in luck!" They had a cancellation and we were able to use that tank! It's now Tuesday, October 13. We had our ultrasound scheduled for the next day, and knew we would need to have the sperm on hand by Friday. We were told that even though they were shipping the tank priority overnight, there was a possibilty that it would not arrive in time because it wouldn't ship out until Wednesday and overnight service isn't guaranteed. We took our chances, and we got lucky! The sperm arrived on thursday, and we had the insemination on Friday, October 16, 2009. We welcomed the two week wait by going out and having lunch at Panera Bread.
October 27 comes, we're nearing the end of the two week wait, and I notice that Julie's nipples look very odd. The surface is cream-colored. We try not to read too much into it, especially since the blood work isn't scheduled to be drawn until the 30th. I notice that Juls seems to be a bit more tired than usual, but she has a lot going on with school and work. But then, she smells the balloons on the side of the road! Juls, who normally does not have the best sniffer in the world, can smell the balloons (from inside her car) that are on the side of the road near her work. I thought it was odd, but didn't think much of it at the time. Then I started thinking about everything else, and I can't help but get a little excited.
Friday, October 30, 2009: Time for the first blood draw! We go to the lab and have the blood drawn around 8:30am. After dropping Juls off at school, I call the doctor's office to let them know. "Thanks for calling. Just to let you know though, we may not get the results back today." WHAT!? Not today? I can't wait any longer! So, 2:00 comes and still no call so... HPT! About a second after she starts peeing on the stick, the test turns..... POSITIVE! Yes! So, we call the doctor's office to let them know that we did get a positive result on the hpt. Still no results from the blood work though. Saturday morning the doctor calls, Juls doesn't recognize the number so the call goes to voice mail. "Hi Julianne. This is Doctor H calling to inform you that YOU ARE PREGNANT!" YES! We now have blood work confirmation. She doesn't state what the actual numbers are, so we will find out on Monday, November 2, 2009.
Until next time...
~Dana
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