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Amelia Marie
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First off, I just wanted to thank each and every one of you for your continued support. It has really meant a lot to read everyone's posts.
I just wanted to jump on here to give a quick update on how our precious little one was doing.
She is in a great hospital with level 3 NICU. She has some great doctors and nurses taking care of her.
Her last week has been pretty uneventful, aside from her early entrance into this world. She should be getting her feeding tube put in today and they will start giving her very little colostrum at first to see how her tummy reacts to it.
Today she will get a brain scan to see if there is a bleed. This scan happens at day 7 and one month of life. They have said that if there was a bad bleed, that she would have some other symptoms. So we are hopeful that all is ok. We should get her results in about 24 hours.
The NICU does something called Touch Time where the parents can come in and have more hands on interaction. We get to change her diaper, feed her a tiny bit of colostrum on a qtip, weigh her, etc. We cherish those times as they only happen every 4 hours, although we are allowed to be with her 24/7. Today there was an exception at our Noon touch time, we weren't allowed to go because another baby in the NICU was having a procedure done and they don't want parents around.
Around day 10 she will have her IV removed from her belly button and we can start doing skin to skin. I cannot wait for this day to be here already!
One thing that still shocks me....I am a mother...my daughter is one week old today. My wife and I couldn't be happier!
She may have come early but she is really strong. All the nurses and doctors say how feisty she is.
We are taking it one day at a time, but are anxious to have her home. They say if she meets all her milestones that she could be home before Thanksgiving. My wife and I would be VERY THANKFUL mommas!
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Re: Amelia Marie
Me: 30 DP: 30
TTC#1
IUI#1 9/26/13 BFN
IUI#2 10/26/13 BFP beta #1 99 #2 456
2/20/2014 Brynlee Madeline is taken too soon at 19weeks she was perfect
IUI#3 6/10/14 BFP beta #1 276 beta #2 722 20w A/S shows we are having a girl
Me - 30, My wife - 31 , Together for 10 yrs - Married August 2012
5 medicated IUIs w/ RE (March - July 2013) = BFN
Fresh IVF Cycle in September 2013 resulted in 18 mature eggs, 16 fertilized, 12 made it to day 5. Transfer of 2 Grade A blastocysts on 9/15/13, and 10 embryos in the freezer! *****BFP on 9/25/13 - betas: @10dp5dt = 232; @12dp5dt = 465; @15dp5dt = 1,581 *********William George born June 4, 2014*********Married: 10/4/2013
TTC Since September 2014
BFP 11/30/2014 ~ EDD 8/13/2015 ~ CP 12/5/2014
BFP #2 12/30/2014 ~ EDD 9/13/2015 Stick bean stick!
Me (43) and J (45) - same sex couple. And we don't feel 40+!
June'12 - First RE Visit
Sept. '12 - Tubes removed
Dec. '12 - Donor Egg/Donor Sperm IVF Cycle - 4 good embies!
Dec. '12 - Fresh transfer, BFP! EDD 8/29/13
Mar. '13 - Missed m/c at 16w1d, baby boy stopped growing at 15w4d
Loss due to umbilical cord clot...baby was perfect.
Jul '13 - FET#1 - c/p
Sept. '13 - FET#2 - BFN
Dec.' 2, 2013 - FET#3 with our last chance embie - BFP!!!
Dec' 26, 2013 - hb!!
EDD 8/20/14 with a baby girl!
Little S was born on 8/21/14 - 8lb, 14 oz and 20 inches long.
We live in Seattle and used SRM for our donor egg IVF cycle