A big announcement

Well, the McCarthy's have a big announcement to make. The main reason I haven't been blogging much lately is that I have been a little busy as of late! We are expecting another baby into our family!~

Yes, we did IVF again and it worked!!!

A singleton this time.

I guess it's "early" to announce it, but I figure I'm feeling very positive and good vibes and prayers will only help! I am 9weeks 5 days and am not feeling all that well. We had our 3rd ultra sound today, and here is the picture of our little peanut!

This is a moment I've been dreaming about since the second my first born daughter passed away in my arms. No baby can replace my angel, but I've just felt I was destined to have 2 children.

When I found out I wasn't having twins I was quite mournful, as I felt also that I was supposed to be a mother of twins, while at the same time I was relieved. This must be a hard thing for some to understand my emotions on this....I was terrified of the decision of how many embryos to transfer, as I want more than ANYTHING to carry a baby to term, and the risk of having twins is so much more than I ever knew. I know too much now. After 4 months in the NICU and seeing multiples after multiples arrive early...my dream for a full-term "healthy" delivery and baby outwon what I've missed by not having the twins I was supposed to have.

My due date is 8/27/08.

We are esctatic!

ultra sound from 1.28.08

9weeks 4 days

The 2 beautiful embroys we transfered. It could have been twins again....

IVF sounds sort of non-chalant right? I thought this might make it all a bit more "real" for what I just went through. These are the drugs that I injected into myself. This isn't any of the used needles, nor the bottles that were for multiple days. I had meant to take a picture of all the drugs and needles before I used them but forgot to do so. Crazy. Crazy. Crazy! I'm still on Progesterine actually. I was luckily able to switch from the 2.5 inch needle nighly butt injections a few weeks ago, I was hardly able to walk and I had to have my incredibly nice neighbor give me the shots when Brian was out of town or at work! I did that for 8 weeks! in Addtional to the daily injections I had for 3 weeks before that. Doctor visits, surgery. IVF is a very big deal, it's very stressful, very expensive and a huge emotional roller-coaster. We are very lucky it worked again for us.