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Hello friends and family, We know you've all been waiting so patiently and eagerly with us as we await the results of our blood test!  So far it is good news!  For our first blood test, the doctor told us that they are happy with any number over 150... Jess's number was 2008!  Well over what we even dared to pray for. This means that the embryo did indeed implant and now we are praying that it is in the correct spot and growing!! Unfortunately, that part won't be confirmed until next week, so the waiting continues just a little longer until we feel like we can really believe this is happening.  However, we are so encouraged that everything seems to be going in the right direction so far.  The wait until next week seems agonizingly long, but we are hopeful and trying to be as patient as possible.  We are praying that next week we get to send you all the message that we have been waiting to share with you for over 5 years!  Prayer Requests: 1. Please cont

Hello friends and family, Thanks again for your patience and your faithfulness to pray for us even when we are late to send out our updates. ;) Our transfer last Monday went well and we thank you so much for your prayers.  We are officially PUPO (as they say in the IVF world) or Pregnant Until Proven Otherwise! Here is a picture of the tiny embryo you all have been praying for! Now we wait some more and continue to pray for the embryo to implant and grow in the correct place.  We have a blood test next week to verify whether or not the pregnancy took. Prayer Requests: 1. Please continue to pray that our baby would grow! 2. Praise: Jess made it to Massachusetts (and back) safely and was able to see her grandfather and say goodbye before he passed peacefully at home Friday evening. 3. Please pray for patience, peace, and emotional stability through all the ups and downs we've experienced lately.  Video We love you guy

Hello friends and family, We have a date for transfer!  This  Monday, April 2nd, at 11:30 AM  we will be transferring one of our precious embryos back to Jess. The big day is finally almost here and we are filled with anticipation, excitement, and nerves. Jess has had to start injections again.  They have been a struggle this second time around so we would appreciate prayers for that.  These injections are different in that they are intramuscular rather than subcutaneous so the needles are much bigger and have to be injected much deeper into her body.  She is feeling quite sore and wishing she could go back to the old injections, something she never thought she'd say.  Prayer Requests: 1. Please pray that Jess would be able to endure the painful injections. 2. Please pray for a successful transfer  on Monday  and for a successful pregnancy to come of it! 3. Jess's grandfather on her other side of the family is not doing well.  She is planning a t

Hello friends and family, First of all, we just want to say how incredibly astounded and blessed we feel by the outpouring of generosity we have received from family, friends, loved ones, and even strangers on  the GoFundMe page  created on our behalf.  From the bottom of our hearts: THANK YOU. God has continued to provide in many different ways; all of which have been unexpected.  Frankly, we are still a little bit in shock. As far as  updates  go, we had an appointment this morning to see if Jess was on track for our upcoming transfer.  Things are progressing, but we're not quite there yet.  We go back for another check next week. We are trying to be patient as we wait for our official transfer date.  This will come once we get the green light to start injections again.  Right now it feels like lots of waiting.  Something you'd think we'd be used to by now. ;)  Prayer Requests: 1. Please pray that Jess would continue to progress and we would g

Hello friends and family, Thank you for faithfully praying for us even during the lack of  updates  the past week or so. While not much has changed in our fertility status, it has been quite a roller coaster of emotions lately. We were quite happy to hear that we ended up with a total of 6 embryos to freeze for future cycles.  Though we wish all of our embryos could have made it, six is a really great number for the average cycle and Jess is relieved that she will not have to go through this process 13 more times. We are in a bit of a waiting period right now.  Jess is on estrogen to prepare her body for transfer and we will find out at our next appointment if she is ready to start injections again. Once the injections are started, we will then receive our official transfer date.  Then we will get to wait some more and pray as hard as we can that the embryo implants and results in a healthy pregnancy. Prayer Requests: The past couple of weeks have been full: 1. It

Hello friends and family, We are thankful to share that 5 embryos made it to "full maturity" on Wednesday.  As of today (Thursday) one more had made it giving us a total of 6 frozen embryos right now.  Four more are still maturing and we have lost 3 so far. The doctors have also told us that the frozen embryos are "grade A/B" which means they "look great" to them.  What that means exactly, we are not sure but we will take it!  Our future babies are already overachieving... they get that from Jess. The next step now will be to wait for Day 1 of Jess' cycle to begin the hormones in order to begin the process of transferring one of our precious ones back inside Jess. Prayer Requests: 1. That we would trust that the "still-growing" embryos are in God's hands. 2. Continued patience and peace. 3. Praise! Jess has been able to avoid any signs of overstimulation and seems to be in the clear! Love you guys! Doad and