And no, I am not referring to the weather!
It has been quite an adventurous year (and a few months) for us. It has been so much fun watching E grow and change every day and become a silly toddler. Making eye contact, smiling, rolling over, laughing, scooting, crawling, pulling herself up, walking, running, climbing. She enjoys “talking” on any one of her 4 play phones, riding her pony, cooking up a feast in her play kitchen and hiding in her princess tent. She adores all of her friends at daycare and loves being the welcoming committee and always makes a grand exit at the end of the day by making sure to wave goodbye to everyone!
When we first had her I was pretty sure I was done having kids. I did not enjoy pregnancy and was uncomfortable from day 1. It didn’t help that it all ended in a very scary emergency C-section. The early months were exhausting. Of course, she was worth every single minute of it! I think my initial fear was that I wouldn’t be able to do it. Turns out, I can. We can! And we’re pretty darn good at it!
Here we are 15 months later, ready to move forward with adding to our family (I am so relieved that we opted to keep our frozen embryos for a while!). We went in to our RE (reproductive endocrinologist) on Wednesday to see if we could try for baby #2 and we got the go ahead! We are very excited at the prospect of doing it all again.
This next baby won’t come any easier than the 1st though. There will still be weeks of meds (various shots and pills). An embryo has to survive the thawing process and show evidence that it will continue to grow once thawed. If the first one doesn’t survive, we’ll try the other (we have 2). Then of course, there is hoping it sticks.
We are cautiously optimistic.
I share our story because I want others that might be going through something similar to know that they have someone they can talk to if they choose to. I share our story because infertility affects 1 in 7 people. I share our story because I didn’t know anybody who had dealt with any of this in the early days of discovery and it was scary. Know that you are not alone!
Journey of a Player 