Maddie and Drew: December 2007

Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Dawn's update

Sad news to update you on....my grandma in Florida passed away on Sunday. Most of you know she has been struggling with cancer for quite some time. As sad as it is and as much as we will miss her we know she is at peace now and is in a much better place.

On a happier note: Today is Mike's Birthday. Happy Birthday Honey!

December is always a little stressful with all the holiday running around, shopping, wrapping, and all the places to go and people to see and if that's not enough we are starting injections. Jen will start hers today and I will start mine tomorrow. The good thing about it is we are only taking one injection and it's the easier of the three.

I have taken a picture of my new meds and will upload it soon. I have to run I have lots to do. I'm making a picture board for my grandmas viewing and funeral.....wrapping.....cleaning house for out of town guest....and the list goes on and on..........until next time

I decided to clean house later and finish my blog instead. You can click the image to enlarge it.

We hope you have a great holiday season spent with family and friends.

Cycle Two Calendars- Meds start Dec 18

The items above are Jen's calendars for cycle two....just click on them to enlarge them for viewing

Just below and to the right is Jen's patch calendar...just click on it to enlarge for viewing

The final calendar is Dawn's.....Just click on the calendar to enlarge for viewing

Sorry these are in such a crazy order I was struggling trying to get them where I wanted them.

Our Story

This is our journey to have the baby we want so much. As most of you know we have had quite the journey already.Before trying for our first pregnancy I had to have surgery for endometriosis. After the surgery we were ready to start fertility treatments. We finally got pregnant with our third fertility treatment. The pregnancy was going great until I got to 21 weeks then it took a turn for the worse. I got Eclampsia and HELLP and was very ill. My illness was just too much for our little guy to take and we lost him at 21 weeks.A year has passed and we have struggled trying to decide what we would do adopt or try again. The doctors told us I would probably get the illness again and the only thing we could do was try to hold the illness off until we were far enough along in the pregnancy where the baby could be delivered safely. Neither of us wanted to take the risk of illness in another pregnancy.We were very fortunate to have Jennifer and Shawn offer to be our gestational carrier.We were thrilled and Jennifer and Shawn were very excited. We have been so blessed to have two wonderful people in our lives that would be so giving to help us achieve our dream of having our own child. This is an unbelievable gift for which we will never be able to repay Jennifer and Shawn for.Our prayers just may have been answered!