Roccie Road: Safe. Take home complete.

Wednesday, June 4, 2014

Safe. Take home complete.

Welcome home baby!

All is well. We had a baby girl. She is just right. She may be perfect.

I'm typing w one hand.

She looks like Jay, our DE baby. Ha! Oh, the humor of it all.

Everything is fabulously hard work. I am delightfully exhausted.

I see less blowouts with cloth diapers.

I worked with a post partum doula and she was freakishly magnificent. My milk came in 3 days compared to the IVF and DE 5-6 days.

Bowls of pasta warmed 30 seconds to room temperature makes a good breakfast.

The Bigs are great with her. They love on her a little hard, but they're learning.

She was 6 1/2 pounds where my others were 8ish. Tiny love.

Who knew.

22 comments:

AnonymousJune 4, 2014 at 8:40 AM
It, and she, sound utterly wonderful.
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My New NormalJune 4, 2014 at 9:37 AM
Hooray for take home babies!
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AugustaJune 4, 2014 at 9:53 AM
Sending my warmest congratulations, Roccie.
Welcome home, baby girl. You've just landed in one amazing mama's arms.
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SJune 4, 2014 at 10:25 AM
Awesome! Congratulations, Roccie! So glad things went (and are going) well. :-)
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dspenceJune 4, 2014 at 11:02 AM
Congratulations!!!!!!!
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AnonymousJune 4, 2014 at 11:11 AM
Congratulations! ~N
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gwinneJune 4, 2014 at 11:17 AM
I've been waiting for this!! Congrats!
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SilverJune 4, 2014 at 11:57 AM
Congratulations! I was wondering when there would be news. She sounds wonderful :-).
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MoJune 4, 2014 at 12:34 PM
Oh, Roccie! Congratulations!!!!! And love to you and your newest family member : )

Mo
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DoraJune 4, 2014 at 2:46 PM
Yay! Congrats! And welcome to the world little girl.
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AnonymousJune 4, 2014 at 7:58 PM
Wonderful news! Congratulations and welcome, little one!
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Good Egg HatchedJune 4, 2014 at 8:02 PM
Oh. There are no good words here. Just: keep enjoying every hard-fought, so deserved moment of this. What a total blessing. Love to all of you.
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StacieJune 4, 2014 at 11:37 PM
Congratulations! I'm so excited for you and your whole family!
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My VegasJune 5, 2014 at 5:23 AM
Congrats! Been thinking about you!
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RebeccaJune 5, 2014 at 9:22 AM
Congratulations! So very happy for you.
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HeatherJune 5, 2014 at 11:54 AM
Hi Roccie! My name is Heather and I wanted to know if you could answer my question about your blog! My email is Lifesabanquet1(at)gmail(dot)com :-)
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GurleeJune 6, 2014 at 5:29 AM
Bliss! Congratulations, beautiful mama.
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UnknownJune 7, 2014 at 6:23 AM
Congratulations!!!! So very happy to hear your good news!
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MichaelaJune 8, 2014 at 6:46 PM
Welcome home baby girl!
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bunnyJune 10, 2014 at 8:40 AM
Oh Roccie, hurrah. Welcome, wonderful little miracle in a family of miracles.
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AdeleJune 11, 2014 at 12:29 PM
So very glad.
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Mrs. LemonJune 11, 2014 at 12:45 PM
Excellent news! So very, very, very happy for you!
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Well, how did I get here?

- Pull goalie.

- Dark Ages. A stillborn loss I don't talk about much here. I lost the plot for a while.

- Try, try, try for 1 year. Welcome to the world of IVF. Do not pass IUI. Go directly to ICSI.

- Full Cycle, Round 1 - Hurrah, we have insurance! No baby. Nothing to freeze.

- Full Cycle, Round 2 - How the hell did we burn through $25k of insurance coverage? Self-pay. Change to microdose Lupron. Baby girl home: healthy, happy.

- Frozen, Round 1 - Have one, transfer one. BFP. All three beta levels look good. First u/s doesn't show a fetal pole. Second u/s never finds heart beat. Miscarriage completed with medication.

- Try for Full Cycle, Round 3 - Poor response with only 2 follicles after microdose Lupron, increased from 350 to 450 Follistim and 150 Menopur. Convert to IUI. Lame counts, 15 million. BFN.

- Canceled The Final Full Cycle after estrogen priming with Ganirelix the month prior to retrieval. Starting at 450 Follistim and 150 Menopur. One follicle measured at final u/s. BFN.

- Crap. Diminished ovarian reserve at 39.

- Transfer one beautiful blastocyst from a donor egg. BFN. What. But this is DE, right??? BFN.

- DE FET canceled due to a cyst in January. Lots of Lupron for no good reason. We tried again for the FET in February. Another cyst. Finally cyst free and set for March. 50%-50% chance of pregnancy.

- BFP and a heartbeat followed by Giant SCH Scare the very next day. Last bleed was at 13 wks.

- Added marginal placenta previa to the mix at the 20 week level II ultrasound. Gah. A follow up appointment four weeks later shows the PP gone and the uterus growth resolved the issue.

- Welcome Baby Jay at 39+ weeks via scheduled repeat c-section. A boy. A boy!!

- Considering the future of our frozen embryos. Letting "Party of Four" sink in.

- Starting the process to find a family for our remaining embryos. Feeling perfect about it. UPDATE. That was a total lie. I am freaking the fuck out. UPDATE. I got this. UPDATE. Total melt down. FINAL UPDATE. Recovered, with a tender heart.

- Find a magnificent family to accept our remaining embryos. She is pregnant, first try. Joy.

- For the love of all that is holy, I am pregnant. We made this baby like animals. No RE involved.

- Explore the possibilities of Down Syndrome. Find a beautiful community fiercely dedicated to their children. We are prepared to welcome home a baby with Down Syndrome, but it was not meant to be us.

Welcome to my family: one from my old eggs and one from a donor. A bonus from my very old eggs and the Two Backed Monster. Irrelevant, huh? Joy.