4 months old!

October 8, 2008 at 10:48 am · Filed under PDB - PetriDish Baby

The time is seriously flying. Of course, with each update I get somewhat sad because I know that our little girl is getting bigger and bigger!

Emmy is quite the “spirited” little girl. She has bouts of screaming hysterically for no reason at all. You can try everything then the second you give up - she stops!

She also *loves* talking. She coos and yells constantly. In fact, her favorite times to do this are from 3:40am to 5:30am! She’s constantly keeping us awake and many times it’s not because she’s crying but because she wants to party like a rockstar.

Even though she can be a real cranky pants sometimes - she still makes us laugh and even on the worst of days we love her dearly.

This past weekend in Philadelphia she had “blow out” city! She blew out of her diaper at the Chinese Dim Sum restaurant leaving poo all over the restaurant and causing us to leave before we had even finished our meal. All we can say is “sorry” and tip generously! Then run like hell out of the restaurant before they realized that we left a trail of poo.

Emmy goes this week for her four month pediatrician visit where she’ll get weighed and measured and also get a few shots.

She has yet to actually get her two bottom teeth which I would have thought would have been here by now. She’s been overly grumpy for the past two months and is constantly drooling and putting her hand in her mouth.

Emmy has been flipping from her back to her side and sometimes over to her belly for a few weeks now. She lifts her head up so high and doesn’t even need her arms to keep her balanced.

Graem absolutely loves Emmy and it’s so amazing to see the two interact. Graem can walk up to Emmy at any point and hug her and Emmy will get this big glowing smile - that I think only sisters can share.

To say the least…we’re deeply in love with this little girl and no matter how bad she can be sometimes (okay, all of the time) we’re so glad she’s here and part of our lives.

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To start the week off…

September 15, 2008 at 1:17 pm · Filed under PDB - PetriDish Baby

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Peace and love….

September 15, 2008 at 9:08 am · Filed under PDB - PetriDish Baby

I’m not sure I realized that Emmy was giving us the peace sign until my parents pointed it out!

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Friday photos

September 12, 2008 at 9:51 am · Filed under PDB - PetriDish Baby

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A year ago today…

September 11, 2008 at 12:12 pm · Filed under PDB - PetriDish Baby

our little Emmy was conceived in a petridish.

On September 11th, 2007 I went in for egg retrieval and I was pleasantly surprised when they retrieved 21 eggs.

That afternoon the embryologist injected 14 of the 21 eggs with a single sperm from Chinese doctor.

Overnight my little eggs became fertilized and grew into two cell embryos.

On September 12th I wrote this post:

I got the call today that out of the 21 eggs - 14 were injected with sperm and only 5 fertilized.

I’m so upset I can’t even begin to write about it. That’s absolutely horrible and I feel like I should have trusted my gut and not had them do the injection of sperm and instead had the eggs fertilize naturally.

When the doctor called back all he can say was “be positive, you have 5 embryos.”

Blah…I feel like I’ve been positive when I had 14 embryos and look where that got me.

I guess the good thing about all of this is that at least I don’t have a false sense of hope that this could work. Maybe this is a good thing cause for the next two weeks I can be prepared.

On September 14th we transferred the following SEVEN embryos:

I would have never guessed that one of those embryos would have resulted in the beautiful baby that’s in my arms right now.

Wow…life really is good. It’s been an amazing year full of ups and downs.

I’m glad that despite the heartache, financial strain, and emotional rollercoaster that I stayed the course and kept my eye on the prize. I’ll never take any of this for granted.

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