This morning my sister had her appointment with Dr. Lindauer - bright and early at 8:15AM! Not only did my husband and I join her for the appointment - she brought along her hubby and youngest son, Oliver. It was quite the party. When we were walking into the examination room, I said to the nurse, "Our parents couldn't make it today..." ;) My sister was also past due for her annual - so Dr. Lindauer took care of that this morning as well. We hung out in Dr. Lindauer's office while she took care of that business - I sent my cousin a payment for hotel rooms while we waited (Thanks, Greg!). When it was time for the ultrasound, we were called back into the room. Luckily, Dr. Lindauer was able to do the over-the-belly ultrasound with my sister to find the babies. The great news is that our other two babies are also doing really well. They weren't as active as the two we saw on Monday - but we saw heartbeats flickering and they both measured 12 weeks. All 4 of them are right on track!
So, we'd like to introduce you to Baby C ("Baby A" within my sister) and Baby D ("Baby B" within my sister). They are kinda laying back-to-back or head-to-head inside. Baby C is on the left and its head is right below the slash at the top of the monitor. Baby D is on the right and its head is under the "64" at the top of the screen.
We are heading out to a Broadway show tonight, so I apologize for such a short post. In closing, I'd like to shout out a huge WELCOME HOME to Annsley Robbins who is going to spend her first night at home - after 8 weeks of being in the hospital
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.