Happy Labor Day!! Hope everyone had a nice long weekend. We went to my husband's hometown this weekend. Good times with the family and the big Sellman reunion was yesterday. Today I took my niece & nephew to the movies while the rest of the family went golfing. They wanted to see "The Odd Life of Timothy Green." I had seen previews for it earlier this year and did want to see it as I knew it had some infertility themes in it. And even though I'm not usually one to cry at the movies, this movie definitely had me crying more than once. Not like sobbing crying, just tears coming down. I could definitely relate to parts of the movie, very touching and heart-warming. The kids liked it, too. My 13 year old niece just said it had some sad parts in it. And my 8 year old nephew said it was "depressing" - lol. Luckily, neither my nephew nor niece read too much into my crying. ;) I definitely give the movie two thumbs up!
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.