December 1, 2010

Happy Conception Day to my babies!!!  As I type this, there are baby Breitensteins growing and dividing and waiting for the chance to be born.  We are SO committed to giving it to them. I keep thinking about their little lives.....I am wholly, completely in love.  <3

Today went well.  God is SO faithful, and we continue to be in awe of his mercies that are ever new.   I woke up this morning with excitement and joy.  We felt your prayers just surrounding us, and we were both so at peace as the whole thing got underway.  Thank you.  We love our doctor, and know that God has placed him in our lives for a reason.  We also got to meet the lab doctor who will actually be making our babies--what a kind gentleman he was.  I shook his hand and told him to take good care of my precious little ones :)

Our doctor had expected to get 20 or so eggs to choose from, but when it was all said and done he ended up extracting a whopping 46.  The anesthesiologist said is the most she'd ever seen taken out of one person! Obviously, they aren't going to use all of those to create 46 embryos, but what it DOES mean is that they'll get to choose the very best ones to make our babies <3 We are expecting a call tomorrow telling us how many embryos fertilized, and then sometime between Saturday and Tuesday they will be transferred back to my baby-maker.  Amen and hallelujah!!

Right now, I'm lying in my comfy bed with my two four-legged babies sprawled out beside me.  My wonderful husband had been an absolute saint today, catering to my every whim and making sure I'm taking all my medications at the right time.  I feel good (admittedly due to some pretty sweet pain meds) but a little uncomfortable.  Because they took so many eggs, my doctor asked me to spend the day in bed to make sure I don't develop hyperstimulated ovaries.   At the moment, they kind of feel like beach balls with little spikes on the outside.  But, like I said, all is well in the world once I pop that pain pill :) A little loopy and a lot tired, but good.  And don't worry, I spell checked this three times to make sure you aren't a victim of my sloppy typing today :)

But I don't even care about all of that.  I'd do it over again in a heartbeat.  Why? 

Because Adam and I made babies today.