The Anticipation

You all have met somebody who can’t just listen to your crazy, wonderful, hilarious, or traumatic story without telling you about their much crazier, more wonderful, even more hilarious, or more traumatic story than yours.  As I sit here and think about the wonderful rollercoaster we have been on so far I cant help but think, "I am constantly “one upping” myself"! When JCH and I got the amazing news that they found sperm, I cried and said that it was the happiest day of my life (I also said that on my wedding day).  Unless you have been faced with the horror of not knowing whether your husband will be the sperm donor for your children you could never imagine the orgasmic flood of emotions when you find out HE WILL.  BEST DAY OF MY LIFE!!!!! (or so I said) Yesterday, I “one upped” myself.  It was the BEST DAY OF MY LIFE…and orgasmic doesn’t even begin to describe how amazing I feel! 

You probably guessed by now, we’re PREGNANT!!!  Yep, crying again.  I can’t even begin to describe how amazing it was to share our news over and over again…with my mom, mother-in-law, father-in-law (surprisingly emotional), sisters, and best friends (and now with y'all).  What a day!   It truly is unbelievable how lucky JCH and I have been through this whole process.  From finding out that I wasn’t a carrier of CF, finding out JCH had viable sperm, that we retrieved 14 eggs, got 10 embryos, implanted 2 embryos, and froze 3 embryos.  AND NOW WE ARE PREGNANT on the first cycle!  It’s hard for me to not think that KARMA has come back around.  All of those small kind, selfless, thoughtful, generous, do-gooder things that JCH and I have done in our lifetime have finally come back to award us the greatest gift of all-A BABY!

Over the past 2 weeks I've honestly felt "different".  Most people find out that they are pregnant well after I have...and dont get the opportunity to get excited with anticipation with every twitch or twinge in their belly and could probably never relate their constant thirstiness and "night peeing" to being pregnant...but I felt it...and I knew.

And now we wait...again.  What an exciting wait though!  How many babies will we be having?  Boy? Girl? Both?  This is an exciting wait!

1st "bump" picture :)