Officially in the TWW

This is the first time since March!

it feels good to be here again... kind of, of course. We went in today for the insem. We actually received good news for a change. Our sperm's motility was about double what the bank recorded, which meant twice as many swimmers. Hopefully that translates into a first time success. (First time with this donor, first time with this doctor, first time on these meds for TTC #2.) This is officially our fourth try for TTC #2 (Jan, Feb, March and then cancelled June4.)

I am feeling a bit crampy, but actually not as bad as most IUIs. I hope that's a good sign too.

We are also packing for a trip this weekend. E is still at work, so she will be up late. I have A packed and am just about to resume my own packing. Laundry should be done soon. Now, if only our cat would come in!

Two weeks before we know the answer. I am praying that this is it.

Logger

CD10

Had the 10 day u/s today and there was a 21!!

I was so surprised. When she told me how big it was, I figured it was a cyst. the E2 was good enough tho, so insem on Wednesday afternoon, which means we get to go on our vacay this weekend uninterrupted.

Now, if we get the +, things will really have fallen into place.

Trigger shot tonight 2am. Come on, baby!

CD something or other

We started another cycle over a week ago. We are doing another medicated one. We just want this to happen, and soon.

I'd like to be full of hope this time. On one hand things kind of fell into place after a ton of running around. I got in for my u/s, the u/s was clear of cysts, and I managed to get all the paper work to the new spe.rm bank in time to get it shipped for this insem next week. (B/c the paperwork is never done right and I always have to do it again. I hate dealing with them!) This time, though, we are with a new bank and I think they have much better service, so that's a plus.

Ok, so I don't feel very positive really-mainly b/c I just haven't been doing the things I should. I'm going to cross my fingers that this whole pregnancy thing really is more out of my hands than I'd like to admit. If that's so, then the fact that I'm not eating particularly well and not exercising at all (ok, a smidge) will not impact our chances this month.

I made too many excuses after last month's disappointment, and now I don't feel very hopeful for this month. Would I anyways? Probably not. We have the day 10 u/s tomorrow. We will have a pretty good idea if we get to do a Thursday insem, which is how it would work out based on last month. If so, we will get to take our July 4th get away trip. fingers crossed - all around. We get to try, the swimmers swim, the swimmers do their job, my body does its job too.

On a happy note, here's A. Last weekend we went to a Touch A Truck Event. He was mostly in heaven, unless a stranger talked to him (or looked at him, really.) He's a bit of shy guy until he gets to know you.

Because I'm loving it

I feel the freedom.

I feel the zeal.

I feel like blogging again!

Nothing to say, just loving the chance to say it. Here's a pic of A:

We went with our pre-school co-op to a horse farm. Not too keen on riding the horse after all. Hey, those animals are pretty big up close!

On the other hand, the tunnels at the zoo were a big hit!

Better news, for once

It turns out that our new RE's office - probably in order to stave off our anger- went to bat for us with the Cryo. The bank has agreed to refund us for the last four dead vials. We are expecting a check late next week. That is obviously very helpful. I think we deserve this little break in TTC #2.

On a less happy, but completely unsurprising note I did talk to the bank about getting our donor reinstated, but the fees associated with it are a total JOKE! If we did that we wouldn't be able to afford to have a baby! Seriously, these banks are ridiculously expensive. They are a total racket. That's what happens when you don't have many options...

So, we are anxiously awaiting CD1 (should be today, but I don't know if the meds are going to throw me off or something). I need an u/s to see if we can go this month. Otherwise we are sitting out (which is what I am expecting.) In the meantime, we have selected another donor. Once we receive our check, we will be ordering - unless we get the green light for this month, which would put us into high-flying action.

A and baby #2 will have different donors, but with the universe slightly on our side today I'm starting to believe again that we will have a baby #2, which is an improvement from where I was two weeks ago today.

I hope this means the Village is back

We are back to blogger. I never felt at home at WP, so when we were ready to move E set up a new blogger site. This being my first post, I can say that I already feel like I'm more at home.

For those of you out there that are wondering what the H*LL is going on here, I had people in my real life tell me that they were still reading the blog. Since we moved home and I now see basically anybody that should know anything about me, I am not really keen on having said folks know things about me that I didn't tell them (i.e. that I didn't know I told them.) So, the old blog had to come down.

There are probably some other good reasons that it had to come down too. I never found my voice on WP, yet I didn't want to give up our Village reference -especially since we are on TTC #2. I have been aching to write, but felt trapped in being unable to do so. My dear sweet wife recognized my hardship and set up some new blogs with Village references so that I could choose the name that worked best.

Village Devoted makes sense for our continuing journey. It is still true that it takes a Village to make a child (Fed Ex, sp.erm banks, doctors galore, u/s techs, and a support system.) It is also true that we are fully devoted to our Village: both our familial Village, and the metaphorical Village that we are living in.

Those of you out there that are part of our internet world: I am sorry the last two years have been so spotty from us. I hope to reconnect with some of you now.

For those of you who have been keeping up with us, I will finish last month's story. As you must know we had decided to pursue a full bio-sibling for Asher. We only had four vials left, and the donor is no longer donating. We did a medical cycle with our new RE and we drove the hour to have our insem. When we arrived, they informed us that our vials were all dead. Not exactly the news E wanted on her birthday. We were devastated.

So, that's where we are. We haven't even tried since March. In the meantime everyone we know is pregnant. Argh.

It feels good to be back on blogger and back to blogging. :-)

(pics: A eating ice cream over memorial day weekend and A playing in the sand at the beach in early June.)