One of my co-worker friends and his wife had their twins earlier this month. The doctors had discovered during the pregnancy that one of the twins had some heart complications. Grayce and Rosie were both born on May 15th - Rosie was in the NICU due to some breathing issues. This morning, his wife announced on Facebook that they had lost Rosie this past Sunday. My heart is breaking for them - can't imagine the pain and mixed emotions they must be feeling. Mourning the loss of Rosie and joyful that Grayce is still here. Please say some prayers for the Stroud family!
My husband and I got married in 2005 and tried to start our family back in January 2008. We started our 1st round of in-vitro in December 2010 - which is when this blog was started. Despite a near perfect cycle, it resulted in a negative pregnancy test in February 2011. We were fortunate to get 6 extra embryos from that cycle that were frozen. In March 2011 we started a Frozen Embryo Transfer cycle. Despite another great cycle (on paper), all 6 of our frozen embryos had to be thawed to get 2 good ones for transfer - which failed to result in a pregnancy. In 2012, we took the first half of the year off and then tried a couple rounds of IUI with and without fertility shots - still no baby. In 2013, we did our 2nd round of in-vitro with my sister offering to be our gestational carrier. We ended up transferring 2 embryos into each of us and were blessed to welcome 4 babies in October 2013.