So...I have been very delinquent in posting our exciting news. I wanted to post the awesome 3d pics we have from our sonogram, but I keep forgetting to scan them in, so I thought I better go ahead and update without them.
We had our sonogram a couple of weeks ago and many of you know that we are having a girl. When we went in this time she still didn't want to wake up and move around for us much, even though I drank a huge coke before we went in, and Dave made the comment that "Maybe she has ADD like me and caffeine doesn't affect her," I really hope he is wrong.
But...because she wasn't moving around much our sonogram lasted longer, until we could get a good shot in between the legs, and I love every minute I get with her on screen. Once we were able to get a good look at the "goods" the Dr. slipped it to 3d and we were able to see how our sweet baby girl is doing, at one point she appeared to be sucking her thumb, which they do sometimes in the womb. We also noted that she has all her fingers and toes and looks to be developing just perfectly! Technology is a wonderful thing, and I am grateful that we had a chance to spend a full 30 mins with her, in her world.
Dave and I were both getting teary eyed when she did announce that she was indeed a she...it was such a surreal moment. And many of you have been asking about names. We aren't sure about the full name but we do know that we will call her Fay...after my grandmother Mary Fay.
Our life is already changing a great deal as this pregnancy becomes more of a reality. I am definitely showing and wearing only maternity clothes, and we are going to start cleaning out her room this weekend, which we have been using for storage since we moved in. It will be nice to spend a long weekend at home. Belly pics will hopefully be coming later this week.
xxoo
K
Monday, June 29, 2009
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Boy or Girl-We Still don't know!
Now for the video:
So today was supposed to be the day we found out if we are having a son or a daughter...but our precious baby would not cooperate and give us a good shot between the legs! At first it looked to be a girl because he/she was not moving, and appeared to be napping with his/her legs crossed and we couldn't see a thing. As she wiggled the wand around a bit we got some movement but the baby really didn't want to be disturbed...and it may be a little early still to tell. So, we are going back in next Friday, June 19th at 2pm for hopefully the definitive answer to the age old "Boy or Girl?" question.
Although, Dave is convinced he saw a weener, and honestly it does look like it could easily be a boy, but again she couldn't tell for sure. We will all have to wait in suspense one more week. They did give us a DVD of the sonogram and we will be posting it for your viewing pleasure tonight, when I am not on a work computer. And she said I should drink some caffeine next visit to wake the baby up a little and hopefully get some more movement. For now we have some very nice bum shots and healthy baby, which is the most important thing!
So today was supposed to be the day we found out if we are having a son or a daughter...but our precious baby would not cooperate and give us a good shot between the legs! At first it looked to be a girl because he/she was not moving, and appeared to be napping with his/her legs crossed and we couldn't see a thing. As she wiggled the wand around a bit we got some movement but the baby really didn't want to be disturbed...and it may be a little early still to tell. So, we are going back in next Friday, June 19th at 2pm for hopefully the definitive answer to the age old "Boy or Girl?" question.
Although, Dave is convinced he saw a weener, and honestly it does look like it could easily be a boy, but again she couldn't tell for sure. We will all have to wait in suspense one more week. They did give us a DVD of the sonogram and we will be posting it for your viewing pleasure tonight, when I am not on a work computer. And she said I should drink some caffeine next visit to wake the baby up a little and hopefully get some more movement. For now we have some very nice bum shots and healthy baby, which is the most important thing!
Monday, June 8, 2009
Feeling Good These Days
Well, we have only 2 days until we find out the sex of our baby on Wed June 10th! I know I need to post some pics on the blog and I am sorry for the delay in belly pics (I have been getting some requests), but we have all of our pictures downloaded on Dave's computer and he never brings it home. Any way, I am feeling pretty good these days, I still have bouts of exhaustion, but the evening sickness has waned and I can work out again. Which actually makes me feel a ton better. Dave and I planted new flowers this weekend and we are starting to finish up a lot of the projects we started when we first bought the house so we can start on the baby's room. Which right now is a storage room!
Its been really good to be in town these past couple of weekends and we can't wait to give you all the big news on Wed.
xxoo
K
Its been really good to be in town these past couple of weekends and we can't wait to give you all the big news on Wed.
xxoo
K
Thursday, May 21, 2009
Names
So Dave and I have not REALLY discussed all the names we like but we have discussed Wallace as a first name for a boy. I am not sure how I feel about Wallace, even though I LOVED it as a last name and will always be a Wallace. But I get the feeling he would be called Wally by his friends, I was called Wally by my friends and I wasn't a boy, and it wasn't my first name. So feel free to give your thoughts on the name Wallace Joyner. Oh, and we are going to Austin this weekend and I am getting a NEW digital camera. So I can post so many pics for you!
-K
-K
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
10 Weeks 2 Days - Doctor visit
Today was our first official OBGYN appointment and our second sonogram. At our last sonogram baby Joyner was 4.3mm or approximately the size of a grain of rice. This time the baby measured 3.4cm, or about 1.3in. We could clearly make out 2 arms and 2 legs (which were moving furiously by the way), we could see fingers, toes, the torso and the head. We heard the heart beat, which was steady as a metronome at 150bpm.
They also gave us our official due date of December 7. A little later than we originally thought which is good because that means we'll be able to attend one extra football game in Austin! We also learned that many of the commonly held beliefs about what can and can't be done while pregnant are wive's tales. Dr. Doke is great and we are glad to have found him in Midland.
-Dave
Friday, May 8, 2009
Big Party Midland Style
So last night Dave and I attended a party for Karl and Cecilie Pfluger. They are new to town and Karl is working for Don Evans (The Former Secretary of Commerce under Bush), and the Evans hosted a party at their house to welcome our new friends to Midland. Cecilie is going to be helping me with my Young Life group of girls next year and I am so thrilled to have her!
Also, I went and saw Emily in the hospital too. She and Phil welcomed baby Jackson into the world on Wednesday May 6th, 2009 and it was a red letter day! Emily is doing great and they sent her home from the hospital today.
I feel pretty good today and Harper and went for a long walk. Dave is out of town fishing with the guys at the Ranch in Llano, and I am having a slumber party with 15 of my sophmore Young Life girls tonight at our house. I just hope I have enough energy to stay awake at least until midnight.
xxoo
K&D
Also, I went and saw Emily in the hospital too. She and Phil welcomed baby Jackson into the world on Wednesday May 6th, 2009 and it was a red letter day! Emily is doing great and they sent her home from the hospital today.
I feel pretty good today and Harper and went for a long walk. Dave is out of town fishing with the guys at the Ranch in Llano, and I am having a slumber party with 15 of my sophmore Young Life girls tonight at our house. I just hope I have enough energy to stay awake at least until midnight.
xxoo
K&D
Thursday, May 7, 2009
Catching up to Today
So...Our family journey begins almost a year ago. And I want to document all the twists and turns that have led up to this point in the journey, so that moving forward on this blog we can see how far we have come!
Dave and I have always known that starting a family was at the top of our priority list. Once we made our way to Midland, I knew that it would only be a matter of time before we were ready to start trying...I just assumed that you decided you wanted a baby and a couple of months later...poof you were pregnant. And although that does happen for many a couple, it doesn't happen more often than you think. After several months of trying, to no avail, we sought medical attention. After tons of needle pricks and tests the Dr. diagnosed me with Poly Cystic Ovarian Syndrome. This disease affects about 1 in 10 women and is the leading cause of infertility.
At this point we were just glad to know what the problem was so that we could start combating it head on. The first thing we had to do was switch Drs...The first Dr. was very hands off and after receiving this news we really wanted someone who was hands on. And that's when we found Dr. Doke! He and his nursing staff have been so wonderful throughout this process, and we knew we were in the most capable hands.
During our first visit with him, he went over everything that being PCOS means. He explained how I am insulin resistant, and this is the base cause for my PCOS, and instructed me to eat a low carb/sugar diet, excersise, and presccribed me Metformin. He also started us on a round of Clomid, which is an ovulatory drug that would help me produce a healthy egg, instead of a cyst.
The diet was hard, but the Metformin helped immediately. I had no idea how many symptoms I had been having that were related to PCOS...I didn't know how good I could feel until I started seeing my skin get healthy (less break outs) my weight dropped, I had less headaches, more energy, and didn't get dizzy or shaky any more. All symptoms that I thought were just things I had to put up with, I never realized that healthy people didn't feel this way!
So, all of that to say I felt much better overall and that was the best step yet on the road to baby. When you are taking ovulatory drugs the Dr will do sonograms on the 12th day of your cycle to see if there is a viable egg in the works, and to make sure you are responding the meds appropriately. My first sonogram went well and he gave us the option to try IUI (Interuterine Insemination), which we elected to do on the first go round. We figured why not pull out all the stops on the first round. It does increase your chances and we were ready for a baby. But unfortunately it didn't take.
So we started the process over the next month and did not have any sucess (minus the IUI, we tried the old fashioned way), but the good news was they could tell from my progesterone test on day 21 that I had ovulated, which is the goal with Clomid. (When you get pregnant or ovulate your progesterone levels should go up.) SO...this was also a good step in the right direction. But that is easy to say now, at the time I was devestated to have had another negative month. Because in my mind we had been trying for months, we just hadn't been taking fertility meds.
So then we started Clomid in month 3...this was the low point on the fertilty train. The treatments and sonograms we getting more expensive and the hormones and mood swings on this drug had hit a fever pitch. I was sure I didn't even want kids at this point and poor Dave had to put up with me through it all and try and be supportive. He deserves a metal for how terrible I was this month. Needless to say it didn't work again.
We were to say the least disappointed, broke, and I was just plain mad. Then we decided to see a specialist in Dallas, not because we weren't happy with our care here, but because we felt like we needed to do more, be more proactive. We were really just trying to find some control in the uncontrolable.
So, we met with Dr. Chantilis, and he was very confident that we would get pregnant. He said Dr. Doke was doing everything right, and that we could try Fomara instead of the Clomid, because my mood swings had been so bad, and he upped my dosage on my wonder drug metformin...and sent us back to Dr. Doke and Midland.
Once again we started the cycle of meds and monitoring over again. This was now the fourth month, and when I went in for my sonogram it was the best looking egg we had seen! And I was feeling like myself again and not satan. I felt confident that this was the month, I just had a good feeling about it. So, we did our very best to make sure we had the best shot possible, and I told Dave that I knew it had happened. I tried not to be too sure, but I just knew I was pregnant.
On March 13th, 2009 I went in to get my regular progesterone test on day 21 of my cycle, and I never dreamed we would get the news we did. My sweet nurse Kim called at 4:45 on that Friday to tell me I had a .7 level (which is VERY low) and indicates that I did not ovulate and I wasn't pregnant. I was SO UPSET...I will never forget the helplessness I felt that day on my drive home from work. I was so confused, mad, sad, and scared. I couldn't even call Dave, I was too upset.
I couldn't believe another month had passed with so many positive signs and still no baby. When I got to the house I climbed in the bed and cried for an hour all by myself, mourning a baby that I thought had existed, at least in my heart. That's when Dave arrived home and found me in a ball of tears and I told him about the test results and we cried together. We held each other and prayed and cried, and prayed some more. And then I had to pull it together because Dave's parents were on their way into town. That weekend was a tough one, and I wasn't myself at all. In my heart of hearts I thought I was pregnant and I couldn't believe that I gotten my hopes up, even though I knew not to with everything we had already been through.
The Dr. had to prescribe me progesterone supplements to help me start my period, since I would not start on my own because they thought I hadn't ovulated. You must ovulate to have a period. Sorry if this is TMI, but it is crucial to the story and God's goodness. I started the pills and normally after taking them for about 7 days I would start, but in this case I just continued taking them until I had finished off the bottle of 15 days. Meanwhile, it was my best friend Anna's wedding weekend in Austin and I was a bridesmaid. And while we were there I danced, drank, and ate my way through the city. I had not a thought of pregnancy on my mind the entire time I was there, and that was a relief. It was great not to have to worry about it for just a little while, and I got to really enjoy myself.
After the wedding some friends were going to 6th street and Dave wanted to go. I told him I wasn't digging it and wanted to go back to the hotel because my back hurt and I was REALLY tired, but he insisted that I would regret missing out on the fun and drug my ass out to 6th st. The next day we headed home and that night I took my last dosage of progesterone. With not a second thought I went to sleep with no idea what would come our way.
Monday morning I took a pregnancy test (as is standard if you haven't started your period, regardless of what past tests have indicated, the Dr. always wants you to have taken one.)So I dutifully peed on the stick, and continued getting ready for work. Dave on the other hand was still hopeful and was praying in the bedroom for a miracle. He walked into the bathroom to check the test, and I told him to put it down or he would mess it up (it hadn't been 2 minutes yet). Instead he looked up at me and said it's "Positive". What??? I just looked at him in disbelief...I had looked at so many of those stupid evil tests with negative signs....I couldn't believe my eyes! So I took another one, and it was positive too. What the hell was going on? Two minutes later I was telling the Dr's office about everything that had transpired and they concluded that I more than likely was pregnant and that the progesterone they had prescribed to start my period, had more than likely save the pregnancy! When my progesterone levels had tested so low back on the 13th I had been pregnant but my body wasn't responding properly. My levels dropped instead of going up and I would have definitely miscarried had they not started me on the progesterone pills. SO...what this means is that GOD IS GOOD, and he provided for the little soul growning inside of me.
There is no other moment that I have felt more loved by our maker. It was no accident or coincidence that this baby had made it this far. Later that day I went in to have a blood test run to confirm the pregnancy. Kim called back an hour later with the wonderful news!
That night we told our family and it was a joyous and happy day! It felt like a weight had been lifted off of us, and we were free to dream again. (Corny I know, but you start to wonder if your family is even a possiblity).
At 7 weeks we went in for our first sonogram, and there he/she was! Heart beating, and very alive. The sonotech used the doppler and we even got to hear the heart beat!! It was so surreal.
Now I am 10 weeks and counting. My next appt is Thurs May 13th 2009. I have been feeling a little green and tired, but all good signs and reminder that I have a baby growing inside of me! Last night was the first night I have ever woken up to hunger pains. They were so bad that I got out of bed at 3 AM to eat a bowl of Cheerios. More on pregnant life later.
xxoo
K&D
Dave and I have always known that starting a family was at the top of our priority list. Once we made our way to Midland, I knew that it would only be a matter of time before we were ready to start trying...I just assumed that you decided you wanted a baby and a couple of months later...poof you were pregnant. And although that does happen for many a couple, it doesn't happen more often than you think. After several months of trying, to no avail, we sought medical attention. After tons of needle pricks and tests the Dr. diagnosed me with Poly Cystic Ovarian Syndrome. This disease affects about 1 in 10 women and is the leading cause of infertility.
At this point we were just glad to know what the problem was so that we could start combating it head on. The first thing we had to do was switch Drs...The first Dr. was very hands off and after receiving this news we really wanted someone who was hands on. And that's when we found Dr. Doke! He and his nursing staff have been so wonderful throughout this process, and we knew we were in the most capable hands.
During our first visit with him, he went over everything that being PCOS means. He explained how I am insulin resistant, and this is the base cause for my PCOS, and instructed me to eat a low carb/sugar diet, excersise, and presccribed me Metformin. He also started us on a round of Clomid, which is an ovulatory drug that would help me produce a healthy egg, instead of a cyst.
The diet was hard, but the Metformin helped immediately. I had no idea how many symptoms I had been having that were related to PCOS...I didn't know how good I could feel until I started seeing my skin get healthy (less break outs) my weight dropped, I had less headaches, more energy, and didn't get dizzy or shaky any more. All symptoms that I thought were just things I had to put up with, I never realized that healthy people didn't feel this way!
So, all of that to say I felt much better overall and that was the best step yet on the road to baby. When you are taking ovulatory drugs the Dr will do sonograms on the 12th day of your cycle to see if there is a viable egg in the works, and to make sure you are responding the meds appropriately. My first sonogram went well and he gave us the option to try IUI (Interuterine Insemination), which we elected to do on the first go round. We figured why not pull out all the stops on the first round. It does increase your chances and we were ready for a baby. But unfortunately it didn't take.
So we started the process over the next month and did not have any sucess (minus the IUI, we tried the old fashioned way), but the good news was they could tell from my progesterone test on day 21 that I had ovulated, which is the goal with Clomid. (When you get pregnant or ovulate your progesterone levels should go up.) SO...this was also a good step in the right direction. But that is easy to say now, at the time I was devestated to have had another negative month. Because in my mind we had been trying for months, we just hadn't been taking fertility meds.
So then we started Clomid in month 3...this was the low point on the fertilty train. The treatments and sonograms we getting more expensive and the hormones and mood swings on this drug had hit a fever pitch. I was sure I didn't even want kids at this point and poor Dave had to put up with me through it all and try and be supportive. He deserves a metal for how terrible I was this month. Needless to say it didn't work again.
We were to say the least disappointed, broke, and I was just plain mad. Then we decided to see a specialist in Dallas, not because we weren't happy with our care here, but because we felt like we needed to do more, be more proactive. We were really just trying to find some control in the uncontrolable.
So, we met with Dr. Chantilis, and he was very confident that we would get pregnant. He said Dr. Doke was doing everything right, and that we could try Fomara instead of the Clomid, because my mood swings had been so bad, and he upped my dosage on my wonder drug metformin...and sent us back to Dr. Doke and Midland.
Once again we started the cycle of meds and monitoring over again. This was now the fourth month, and when I went in for my sonogram it was the best looking egg we had seen! And I was feeling like myself again and not satan. I felt confident that this was the month, I just had a good feeling about it. So, we did our very best to make sure we had the best shot possible, and I told Dave that I knew it had happened. I tried not to be too sure, but I just knew I was pregnant.
On March 13th, 2009 I went in to get my regular progesterone test on day 21 of my cycle, and I never dreamed we would get the news we did. My sweet nurse Kim called at 4:45 on that Friday to tell me I had a .7 level (which is VERY low) and indicates that I did not ovulate and I wasn't pregnant. I was SO UPSET...I will never forget the helplessness I felt that day on my drive home from work. I was so confused, mad, sad, and scared. I couldn't even call Dave, I was too upset.
I couldn't believe another month had passed with so many positive signs and still no baby. When I got to the house I climbed in the bed and cried for an hour all by myself, mourning a baby that I thought had existed, at least in my heart. That's when Dave arrived home and found me in a ball of tears and I told him about the test results and we cried together. We held each other and prayed and cried, and prayed some more. And then I had to pull it together because Dave's parents were on their way into town. That weekend was a tough one, and I wasn't myself at all. In my heart of hearts I thought I was pregnant and I couldn't believe that I gotten my hopes up, even though I knew not to with everything we had already been through.
The Dr. had to prescribe me progesterone supplements to help me start my period, since I would not start on my own because they thought I hadn't ovulated. You must ovulate to have a period. Sorry if this is TMI, but it is crucial to the story and God's goodness. I started the pills and normally after taking them for about 7 days I would start, but in this case I just continued taking them until I had finished off the bottle of 15 days. Meanwhile, it was my best friend Anna's wedding weekend in Austin and I was a bridesmaid. And while we were there I danced, drank, and ate my way through the city. I had not a thought of pregnancy on my mind the entire time I was there, and that was a relief. It was great not to have to worry about it for just a little while, and I got to really enjoy myself.
After the wedding some friends were going to 6th street and Dave wanted to go. I told him I wasn't digging it and wanted to go back to the hotel because my back hurt and I was REALLY tired, but he insisted that I would regret missing out on the fun and drug my ass out to 6th st. The next day we headed home and that night I took my last dosage of progesterone. With not a second thought I went to sleep with no idea what would come our way.
Monday morning I took a pregnancy test (as is standard if you haven't started your period, regardless of what past tests have indicated, the Dr. always wants you to have taken one.)So I dutifully peed on the stick, and continued getting ready for work. Dave on the other hand was still hopeful and was praying in the bedroom for a miracle. He walked into the bathroom to check the test, and I told him to put it down or he would mess it up (it hadn't been 2 minutes yet). Instead he looked up at me and said it's "Positive". What??? I just looked at him in disbelief...I had looked at so many of those stupid evil tests with negative signs....I couldn't believe my eyes! So I took another one, and it was positive too. What the hell was going on? Two minutes later I was telling the Dr's office about everything that had transpired and they concluded that I more than likely was pregnant and that the progesterone they had prescribed to start my period, had more than likely save the pregnancy! When my progesterone levels had tested so low back on the 13th I had been pregnant but my body wasn't responding properly. My levels dropped instead of going up and I would have definitely miscarried had they not started me on the progesterone pills. SO...what this means is that GOD IS GOOD, and he provided for the little soul growning inside of me.
There is no other moment that I have felt more loved by our maker. It was no accident or coincidence that this baby had made it this far. Later that day I went in to have a blood test run to confirm the pregnancy. Kim called back an hour later with the wonderful news!
That night we told our family and it was a joyous and happy day! It felt like a weight had been lifted off of us, and we were free to dream again. (Corny I know, but you start to wonder if your family is even a possiblity).
At 7 weeks we went in for our first sonogram, and there he/she was! Heart beating, and very alive. The sonotech used the doppler and we even got to hear the heart beat!! It was so surreal.
Now I am 10 weeks and counting. My next appt is Thurs May 13th 2009. I have been feeling a little green and tired, but all good signs and reminder that I have a baby growing inside of me! Last night was the first night I have ever woken up to hunger pains. They were so bad that I got out of bed at 3 AM to eat a bowl of Cheerios. More on pregnant life later.
xxoo
K&D
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