WOW its been a LONG time

Well I dont think any one out there reads this so I dont feel to bad, but here is an update anyway.

IVF worked for us. We did IVF back in aug 2009. We had our Son Brandon Thomas Richard Hayden on April 23 2010.

He is now about 9 months old and is amazing. He can say a few words, mostly da da. he can crawl and walk along the couch and walls. he can even stand unassisted for a few seconds. I dont know how big he is right now since his 9 month appointment isnt for another few weeks but last time we did get his measurements he was in the 90th percentile.

He is a good baby and doesn't often go all emo. lol We are having issues right now with getting him to go to sleep at night and for nap times. He use to go to sleep just fine. We would hold him until he had been asleep for about 30 mins and then be able to put him in his crib and he would sleep there all night.

Then we went on vacation for 3 weeks and he had to sleep with us as there was no crib for him to sleep in. I guess he got to use to that. every time we would try and put him down he would wake the instant his head would hit the mattress.

So now we have started the bed time ritual and he gets a bottle at 8pm then I read to him and we put him down in his crib and he cries it out. I remember when he was alot younger and I said to my self im never got to have to do that cry it out thing. Yeah well that was just one of the thing i started out saying we wont have to do and we now do.

Im already starting to try and figure out what we are going to do for his first bday party. Its only a few months away. It just bogles my mind that my little baby is almost a year old now.

Well he is getting restless so I better go. Sorry I dont have time to go back and edit this to I hope it makes since.

Tickets

Hello out there in Blogger land.
I have an update on whats going on. We had our doctors appointment on May 1st. They did our blood draw for the things they could test for. I will get the rest done when I'm on cycle date 3. When I will go back and get more blood drawn. I have an appointment on May 11th to get a Pap done too just so everything is covered.

I also got the dates for travel confirmed. We will be leaving on September 2nd to arrive in the Czech on September 3rd. We will be there until September 18th and back here in Portland on the 19th. I got the tickets on Friday. We got a decent price. It was a little under $3000.00 for both our tickets.

I also picked out where we are going to be staying. Its our very own apartment while we are there. It was alittle bit more then I was thinking it would be. I thought it was going to be $1000.00 for the 15 days but its more like $1300.00. I will pay what ever though.

On a side note I have some other good news. My husband finally got his offer to go to full time employee as a assistant vice president at his work. They offered him a good raise and some out standing health care benefits. So if this doesn't work that's ok because we will have $10,000.00 in fertility coveridge. So if we are not pregnant in october we will try again in november for another live cycle.

I still believe that its going to work the first time though. But it will be there for the next baby. If I only get prgnant with one I want to do this again with in a year of baby 1 being born. I dont know if my husband will agree but I do want them close together so they are closer. Im 15 months from my sister and we are very close. Bill is 5 years from his brother and they are not very close. So I feel that is important.

Anyway that is all that is going on right now. I will update with my test results when I get them but until then I probably wont have any other updates as I will be going in to the dred waiting mode. lol

Today was a good day

Today was an exciting day. I dropped off the deposit and faxed in the contract for my IVF. Things are moving now. I'm so excited!!!
More after my doctors appoint, Friday. I'm even excited for that, even though its lots of blood draws, and an uncomfortable pap.

YAY

Youtube

Well I decided to start vloging a Vlog on youtube. You can find me under user name Amyh9835. I still have a while until my IVF but I plan on making updates here and there along the way. Every one has diffrent experiances. even if they are the same in essence i find my self loving reading others blogs and see their videos so I had to give back with what I can.

So far I havent heard of anyone having the same kind of tuble problem I have so who knows maybe some one that does will find that and it will help them. Hopefully I will have a BFP the first time and give that person great hope as I have that I will.

So not much is going on since I posted last time. My husbnd has been promoted at work and they are going to bring him on as a employee instead of the contractor he was. this could be really good because he will be working for Bank of America and I hear they have very good health insurnce. We dont know yet as they are still waiting on approval from some other Department and have to agree on salary.

I wanted to wait until we found out if IVF is covered through them but I dont want to wait too long and he said it could be like a month before he knows. First off any one who knows me knows I am NOT patient. lol I want my baby and I have already waited soooo soooo long.

But we are moving forward as we can until then. We have an appointment to get the test done for the clinic in the CR on friday May 1st. I had some of these done already but they have to have new ones since last time they where done was about a year ago. I'll let you know what the results are.

I hope you all are having a wonderful weekend! check back soon :)

SEPTEMBER!!

September is the month!!! Yes I said September. We have both agreed to go to this program that offers IVF in the Czech Republic. It is a good and licensed clinic. It's about half the cost of IVF here. This means if it does not work we will be able to try again that much sooner. Of course we hope we wont need to plan that.

I am very excited about this. I have a feeling this will work, this will bring me the child(ren) we have been longing for. Bill wants a vacation and I want a baby. It's perfect. Here is the website of you want to check it out. http://www.myivfalternative.com/ivf-program

I'm not sure the date we will be going but I should have all the money by June so plenty of time before we need it. Bill and I have an appointment Fri May 1st to have the many tests we need ordered. This will start out journey for real. I can barley believe its happening finally.

Things are really doing well for us. Bill got promoted at work last month although he has yet to find out how much of a raise he will get. I am not working anymore. Got laid off, Ok fired lol oh well I'll always have unemployment lol. ok not always but for a while anyway.

other wise not much going on right now. Ill try and keep this thing more up to date now that things are moving. still moving slowly but they are moving. I will also start making vlogs when things start happening. Have a good day people out there.

Still hanging in there

Hi every one, lol Ok I know no one reads this but it's nice to pretend.
So anyway nothing has really changed since I last wrote, but i figured its been over a month I better check in so I can remind my self that we are moving forward. Only 119 days until we start IVF. I know that is a very long time but when I first started writing it was over 8 months away.

I have been filling my time with reading Cafemom.com posts and reading other people blogs relating to IVF. They give me so much inspiration to know that this process even though its hard as hell to go through, both physically and mentally it works.

I know in my heart that its going to work. I can feel it i just have to get through the next 119 days. Talk about a 2WW lol.

In the mean time I have starting to really work on crafting. I enrolled to sell Stampin up stuff. Not so much to sell it but so I could get a discount buying the stuff myself. I have already spend over 200.00 buying stuff. I have these wonderful little stamps I will be able to use for the baby shower when that finally comes. I will also make all the Christmas cards this year. I'm excited about that.

Some thing that im excited about coming up is the Largest Christmas Bazaar here in Portland that will start the weekend of Thanksgiving. I love that place and usually buy half my Christmas presents for people there. They also have a lady there that sells the best embossing powers there. I stock up every year.

On the baby mission: We have paid off one of the 2 credit cards I talked about in other posts, so just one more left. I have it figured out that it should be gone the 1st or 2nd week in December. So as you can see things although slowly are moving.

Working out you ask well I'm still doing it. I had a set back but we are back on track and doing well. I'll Write more some time soon. I hope every one (if there is any one out there) is doing great and I wish any and every one trying to get their BFP gets them.

Work Out for that baby!

I would like to start out with OUCH! Bill and I have been working out but today was our first session with a trainer. I did my treadmill like normal then we went to our apt. Rusty was all like you ready and we where all YEA let do this. By the time we where done we where all Rusty you A** H***. lol
So we did these stretches, that wasn't so bad for me, but Bill had a hard time with it. I did have a harder time with one of the stretches that you have to balance, so I guess I need to work on that.
Then we did weights, that was interesting. We only did 6 different machines. I had been doing more on my own but I learned why we needed to do these, and not the ones I had been using.
We learned how much weight to lift and the setting we need for the different machines.

Then after we had our ass' kicked we had to go and do more treadmill. Rusty wanted us to do 20 mins but said that if we start feeling sick then just do what we could. We did like 5 mins before I feel like I was getting a migraine and I was about to hurl.

Both of agreed that we have never sweated so much on our own so we must be working out harder. We where going to work out 5-6 times a week but Rusty said that 4 times is best because the body does need a rest. We all agreed on every other day.

The nutrition is the hardest for me. After they had taken my measurements and body fats, He said that I need to eat like 2600 calories. No thank you. With my lap band I couldn't eat that if i wanted to. So we'll see how this goes.

That's about it. Oh I did get that collections job. It's ok nothing to wright home about. It will do for now. I think with it I should be bring home about 1500 a month. I have decided to save half and through half on to bills and get those paid off faster. Once those are gone, I get all Bill's left over money for the baby fund. His extra money is between 800-1000, so once I can add that everything will come together fast. March here we come!!!