It finally happened!

Well, after almost 3.5 years of marriage, 3 artificial insemination's, 3 rounds of Clomid, 2 surgeries, and 3 IVF cycles, our moment of genetic triumph has finally arrived. Dan and I have successfully multiplied! That's right, come May 2009, we will be the proud parents of a bouncing BABY!

This has been a LONG wait for us, and we have been so nervous watching our baby grow over the last 12 weeks that we haven't really been able to get excited like we want to. But after our appointment today where we saw the little guy(?) move its arms and legs... Dan and I could contain our excitement no longer! As you can imagine, we have had so many disappointments, it's almost been hard to believe that we're finally getting to experience our first baby.

Here is a little journey down our baby's life the last few months.

Here are the 3 embryos they implanted on 9/6/08
(I'm not sure which was the lucky guy that made it).

7 week ultrasound
I was actually pregnant with twins for a few weeks, but lost one at week 9.
Apparently this happens a lot with IVF patients.

This is my 10 week ultrasound. Baby was kicking and punching like crazy, the doctor said this was a great sign as he's developing correctly. This is when I started getting excited and wanted to share the news with everybody...but something inside me made me wait until I was 12 weeks.

Here's our little guy at 12 weeks. He would not hold still for the sonographer,
it was so funny watching him bounce around.

This shot is sort of creepy, he's looking head on. He looks like a little alien to me.
Our sonographer kept reassuring me that he was not going to look like this when he came out. :)

I think this shot is cool, it's a 4d image of our little guy.
His arms and legs look so scrawny!

Thank you to everybody for being so excited for us, for your prayers and fasting as we've gone through this journey of infertility. Dan and I have both learned a lot as we've struggled the past few years, but really felt that the Lord's hand was in all of this and it was for a reason.

At least when we have a baby I'll have something exciting to post, no more cakes and pictures of just Dan and me! :)