Monday October 5, 2009 My Labor Story....

So my lovey doctor gives me the option for a trial run of labor or the option to go straight to a c-section. I choose the trial of labor and my labor was ofical put into gear on sun Oct 4 at 7p. I was already dilated 1-2cm but my cervix was still very thick. So we started out with cytocec to thin out my cervix and about 745am on October 5 he broke my water and started me on pitocin. By this time i was 3-4cm and thinning my cervix out. So labor progressed rather fast and about 1045am i could no longer take the back labor and asked for a epidural. I only had a few scares after my epidural of really low blood pressure and Hope's heart rate dropping. At 3pm i was complete and felt the urge to push my lil girl into the world. At 320pm on Monday October 5,2009 I gave birth to a 4# 11.4oz 19 inches long babygirl named Hope Elizabeth.She was healthy little 35 week babygirl with only a few issues along the way.She had a high magnesium level due to all the medication i was on during labor. She came home from the hospital at 5 days old weighing 4# 4 oz. Our lives are now completed.

Our Miracle Pregnancy...

My 1st IUI took place on Monday February 16, 2009. I had my 2nd IUI on Tuesday February 17, 2009. I received my 1st positive home pregnancy test on February 26th. My 1st beta draw March 6th was 217 and my 2nd on March 8th was 496.My 1st ultrasound was on March 23rd at 6weeks and 6days and I cried like a little baby when I saw the baby on the screen and heard a heartbeat. My 1st trimester went smoothly as far as morning sickness I had none. My only problem was my blood pressure was elevated. We dove head first into the 2nd trimester to be greeted with a burst of energy and lower blood pressure. We sailed on through to 16 weeks when we discover we were having a bouncing bundle of joy that would wear lots of PINK…We decided on the name Hope Elizabeth for a precious lil miracle baby girl. We moved along to 19 weeks and had our 1st visit with the High Risk ob just for careful watch over baby and me. I developed some food poisoning at 24weeks that sent for an overnight stay in Labor and Delivery with my wonderful co-workers. We sunk right in to the 3rd trimester with decreased energy and high blood pressure again. I continued cooking our precious lil girl Hope Elizabeth. I was 33weeks and 6 days when I was called out for my job at about 2am. I went home from work to my bed only to wake up with a pounding headache and extremely high blood pressure around noon. I went to the labor and delivery unit and stayed overnight along with a ton of blood work and urine test to rule out pre-ecclampsia. Everything came back fine so i was sent home to follow up with my doctor on that Thursady. I saw him on thursday and he took me off work for the remainder of my pregnancy due to showing signs of pre-ecclampsia. I was allowed to take my maternty pictures that sat and had a total of 2 hrs to be out of bed for the whole process of getting ready to getting home. Well thankfully my dear friend was taking them for me in the back parking lot of the hospital. I got home only to have an increasing pounding headache. So about 7 I called back to my lovely co-workers in Labor and Delivery and I was told to get there asap. Thank God i only lived 2 minutes from the hospital at that time.I arrive at the hospital to be greeted by my Doctor who just happened to be on call that weekend. So we begin the battery of blood and urine test again and discover that i have devolped pre-ecclampsia. Im told that i have to deliver my babygirl in order to get rid of the pre-ecclampsia going on with me. next up my labor story....

Our Fertility Journey in a short version...

October 2004-Diagnosed with Polycystic ovary syndrome
November 2004- Start Birth control
July 2006- Stop Birth control
July 2006-November 2006- No Aunt Flow
November 2006- Start Provera and Clomid 50mg
December 2006- Provera and Clomid 50mg
January 2006-March 2007-No aunt flow again :(
March 2007- Start seeing a Reproductive Endo.Provera again and Clomid 100mg
April 2007-Provera and Clomid 100mg
May 2007-Provera and Clomid 100mg
June 2007- October 2007- Occasionally spotting but no true Aunt Flow
November 2007- Provera and Comid 150mg,Femara 5mg
December 2007- Provera and Clomid 150mgFemara 5mg
January 2008- Decide to break and look at weight loss surgery
February 2008-August 2008- Break to have weight loss surgery in June back on Birth control
August 2008- Off Birth control, Clomid 150mg,Femara 5mg,oviredl trigger shot,post coital testing confirms need for iui-Not Pregnant
September 2008-January 2009- Birth control again
February 2009- Clomid 150mg,Femara 5mg, Ovidel trigger and iui #1. Big Fat Positive 10days post iui
And now on to our joys of pregnancy...

Michelle and Jordan

A little background on us...

My name is Michelle and im 25 almost 26. I work at a local hospital on the Womens and Childres unit. I also am the Labor and Delivery sctrub tech. My wonderful husband is Jordan and he is 24 almost 25 and works at a factory in the local area...Not sure exactly what he does but he comes home dirty and smelly everynight.We met in and started dating in August of 2004.In October of 2004 I was diagnosied with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome. We were engaged in Dec 2005 and married on Septmeber 9.2006. We stopped birthcontrol just 2 short months before our wedding in hopes of a Honeymoon baby. Doctors had said it would proably just take few months off birthcontrol to get pegnant. Much to our suprise this only started a roller coaster of emotions, many doctor appoitments, many blood draws, many uncomfortable test, and many many many road trips to doctors out of town.This isour story of our journey and we hope you enjoy..

Michell and Jordan

My Very 1st Blog...

Well Hello fellow bloggers. Ive been following a few of my friends blogs and have decicded to start my own blog. I have a long list of blogs already typed up in my computer that detail my journey over the last 3 plus years and will be adding those tonite. I cant wait for everyone to enjoy my blog and create some friendships along the way. I hope you all enjoy my blog as much as i have enojyed typing my journey over the years. This has been a long time coming for me to post openly for everyone to read. I know this will take a big burden off my heart and emotionaly help me heal from my struggles. Thanks again for stopping by and reading and i hope you will jump on the blog and follow me.