Our First Visit With Our Babies

I know I may be “overblogging” about all this, but this blog is a journal for me too, so I am just writing about EVERYTHING :). This is probably one of the happiest days of my life! We both could not WAIT to “meet” our two babies for the first time. I know this is probably a very different situation than most “parents” are in, where most people wait to do a pregnancy test to get this excited. We KNOW that these are babies, it’s whether or not they attach in the womb or not. Until then, we will just celebrate what we do have.

Brenda is so wonderful. She looks absolutely AMAZING! She is on bedrest until tomorrow, then I think she can get up and walk around. It is just so beautiful to think that she was lying there with our babies inside of her. In fact, she could see them on an ultrasound while the process was happening (which lasted only 15 minutes). Everytime I thought of that, I just smiled and just couldn’t believe it. Nothing can wipe the smiles off of our faces right now!

It was good to just catch up with them, talk about what the morning was like for them (since we couldn’t be there), and just to get to this point. Brenda just looks so good!

Here’s the first official pic!

Just letting you all know there are TWO in there :)!

Part of me just didn’t want to leave b/c I want to DO something for Brenda and Tim! We know we can never repay her, but we just want to give them so much. This is just the beginning though of hopefully what will be 8-9 months!

Side note: I have a little more understanding as to why I have not felt very good. Brenda told our dr. who was doing the transfer (and the one that did my retrieval) that I still was not feeling good. He said that he was not surprised because apparently they had a tougher time getting my eggs out. Looking back, I remember the dr. saying I have to go in one more time (and hearing that a few times). I also remember my legs shaking (probably from the pain), but wasn’t coherant enough at the time to understand what was going on. So, knowing that it maybe didn’t go as smooth as what we all had hoped, I at least know why I am still uncomfortable and quite crampy still. Sounds like a lot was going on up there :). So honestly, that was an answer to prayer because I thought I should be better by now!