Adventures in Baby Making

Creating a post about the goings on of the past few weeks has been on my mind, but until now, I never seemed to find the time.  Our first attempt to create our little munchkin was far more emotional than either of us anticipated.  As is the norm, from what I have now read, Cami really thought she was feeling so many tell-tale symptoms of an early pregnancy.  She was convinced she was pregnant.  I thought I saw the signs as well.  When the test told us that we were wrong, it was pretty devastating.  It took us a few days to wrap our heads around "next month" and moving on, but we did.

This time, a little bug prevented me from going with Cami to her follicle ultrasound on a Friday.  They told her that she had some very small follicles, but they probably wouldn't mature enough to try this month.  We were to  return on Monday to check again.  This time, to their surprise, but not mine, one had grown to a healthy 13mm.    There were three at 8mm, but the 13 was what we were focusing on.  We were to go home and test, waiting for Cami to begin ovulating so we could trigger again.  Well, we never got that positive!  We called the clinic on Thursday, as they requested, and scheduled another ultrasound.  This time on Friday, a week after the initial ultrasound, we were surprised to discover that we had not one, but two big healthy follicles.  One was 18mm and the other was 19mm.  This was just perfect.  We were supposed to trigger that night and to inseminate on Sunday.  This is where the plot thickens.  Jack was coming for the weekend.

We picked up Jack and Cami triggered at midnight.  We had a good weekend and then loaded up the boy and the puppy to go to the hospital on Sunday.  Did I mention that this was Mother's Day in the US?  Sally and I got settled downstairs and Cami got Jack settled with his DS XL in the waiting room.  I came upstairs in time for the appointment despite a very unhappy howling Sally.  We had the same very nice doctor this time.  All went well.  We had a very intimate, romantic afternoon celebrating Cami's brother's birthday with her mom and all the nephews.  lol  It wasn't the perfect planned quiet afternoon we might have wished for, but it was appropriate somehow.  

Now we are in that dreaded two weeks wait again.  We get to test next Sunday.  10 more days to go.  Did I mention that that Sunday will be Mother's Day in Sweden?  Fingers crossed!