IUI scheduled!!! :-)

We went to the Dr Yesterday for my Saline Ultrasound and guess what...my tubes are all clear so there is no blockage and I have 3 follicles ready to release eggs:) Clomid def did its job:) They gave me a Shot of HSG to take at 11pm last night. I was unable to give myself that shot and Jason had to work so our awesome neighbors Adam & Sarah helped me out:)
Now...because my follicles are almost ready to release the eggs I didn't have to go in this morning and get another ultrasound & they went ahead and scheduled my IUI for 10am tomorrow morning:) We have to get there at 8:30 for Prep etc. So excited! We really pray this is the cycle that we get pregnant but also remember that God is in control of all this.
Please keep us in your prayers :)

Irritated was an understatement

So..... I was supposed to have an appt with Dr Toma at 3:45 today. Around 12:30 today the nurse calls me to tell me he is in surgery and they need to reschedule my appt until later that day.
Since I wasn't going to take a lunch I decided to meet Jason so that we could ride to my appt together. I was almost home when I received another call from the nurse telling me he is still in surgery and they need to reschedule my appt until tomorrow. I was so pissed to put it lightly. For one my horomones are already intensified because of this Clomid and I'm already trying not to be stressed about my week and it's also the End of the month at my job so it's not the best time for me to be missing work. We ended up rescheduling my appt for tomorrow at 2 but not before she knew how upset I was...let's just say I had to call her back and apologize. I never act like that so I felt terrible.

Jason was so sweet! He kept telling me "it's okay..God knows what he is doing and there is a reason for all this we just need to trust in him." He is so right. We are not in control!



***And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose. (Romans 8:28 ESV)***



Thanks for all the calls, text, comments
and most of all Prayers:)

Busy week coming up.....

Well I am finshed taking my Clomid. I can't really tell I have been taking it other than the crazy mood swings I was having yesturday. Every little thing was making me angry. I did not take it out on anyone though because I knew it was just a side effect.

Today has been just a little stressful to say the least. I woke up feeling great but when I was about to fix my hair for Church I got dizzy. I was so dizzy this morning I had to lay down for about 10mins.  I have been like this off and on since the end of last week. I almost threw myself into a panic attack a few times. I am pretty sure it is stress related since I have all this important stuff coming up this week. Please just keep us in your prayers because I don't feel like I am all that stressed but I must be really nervous on the inside since Im feeling this way.

We have the Saline Ultrasound tomorrow at 3:45 & The Ultrasound to check my ovaries' follicles to see if they are ready for Dr. Toma to do the IUI.

Oh but Guess what!!! We have decided on a girl name & boy name for the baby we will have in the future :)

If we have a girl we will name her Emelyn Rae & Elton Preston for a boy. They both have very special meaning to us. Rae is my parents and siblings lastname but they spell it Ray, Elton was my late Papas name, & Preston is my Stepdads name. Emelyn doesn't really have any special meaning We just really LOVE the name:):):)

Day 1....

Well guess what came this morning. My period. I usually am not super excited to see it, but today I WAS bc this means I get to start my Clomid. I really hope this little white pill helps us make a baby:)
Plz pray for us!:)

New Update with New Information

So today was our appt with Dr Toma to get our Labs results.

He started with Jason & the only real concern he has is that Jason's Semen Analysis showed his Sperm Morphology at 2% when it should be at 10%-15% everything else was in a pretty normal range. Now that news is AWESOME news compared to the last Semen Analysis. He did tell Jason he needs to Stop drinking coffee, Alcohol, putting the lap top in his lap, Start exercising, & eat a better diet. He also said his testosterone was on the low end of normal but his Brain was compensationg with FSH. The Dr wrote a proscription for him to take 1/2 dose of Clomid for 30 days to help with this.

Dr Toma told me that my labs showed my ovaries are producing eggs like a 39 year old not a 31 year old :( He also wanted me to schedule an Appt to have a Saline ultrasound to make sure my left tube isn't blocked since me HSG 7 years ago was hard to read due to my tilted uterus. This appt is scheduled for 1/27.

He wrote me a prescription for Clomid. I take it for the 1st 5 days of my next Cycle which should be any day now..On Day 11 I start checking my ovulation every 12 hrs & once I pop a positive test for Ovulation I go in for a ultrasound then within 24hrs they will do the IUI:):):)

Another thing he said that was different from Last year results was that the IUI success rate would be about 10%-15%. They told us 5%-7% last year.

I know God is in control of all this and everything happens in his timing for reasons that only he knows.

Thanks again for all the prayers/text/calls and kind words:)

Consultation with Dr Toma at NCCRM

This afternoon Jason & I had an appt with Dr Toma who works at North Carolina Center for Reproductive Medicine (NCCRM). Went to go see him because he had been highly recommended from so many people.

The appt was basically giving him our background information since I did not have our medical records Thanks to the previous Infertility center we used never mailed our paperwork to us, nor responded to my email or returned my phone call :(

After we gave Dr. Toma a little background info he wanted to have both Jason & myself blood drawn to check our levels. He also wanted Jason to have another semen analysis.

We were able to take care of all of that today.

So...we have an appt Friday Feb. 17th @ 9am to go over our labs and possibly start me on clomid. He also mentioned possibly starting Jason on clomid as well. Jason's reaction was funny...The look on his face was priceless. Dr Toma said Clomid can also help with men.

I am really glad we didnt move forward with anything last year with the infertility Doctors we talked to in Greenville because based on the experience we had with the doctors there and the experience we had today with Dr Toma. I feel like the other Drs in Greenville just wanted to have another IVF patient instead of  looking further into everything. They never mentioned anything to either one of us about having our blood drawn... their answer after Jason's Semen analysis was IVF ICSI is all we can do....

God is amazing & he has a purpose for everything :)

So....... I will keep you all posted!!

Please continue to keep us in your prayers :)

And a BIG Thank you for all the prayers & support!!

1 Peter 5:7

Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.

Adoption luncheon at Church today

After Church today we had a luncheon regarding adoption. Several families in our Church have adopted or are fostering children.

Did you know that.....

It is estimated there are between 143 million & 210 million orphans worldwide (recent UNICEF report)
Everyday 5,760 more children become orphans
Approximately 250,000 children are adopted annually, but...
Each year 14,505,000 children grow up as orphans and age out of the system at age 16
Each day 38,493 orphans age out
Every 2.2 seconds another orphan ages out with no family and no place to call home.


The facts I listed below really made Jason & I fall more in love with adoption. It breaks my heart to think that all these children are going through this.
We are still going to talk to Dr. Toma Tuesday but we are def not doing IVF.We both agree that it would be selfish for us to spend that money not knowing if it will work when we can use it to adopt a child.
Please keep us in your prayers. We are getting really excited about this journey we are about to endure.

Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress. James 1: 27-28