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sful first transfer as you would suspect this was devastating news to us and the following days were difficult this is a new chapter in what seems like our forever long journey of infertility we are holding onto faith and hope that our miracle will still come we would appreciate your continued prayers in the upcoming weeks as we decide on our next steps and hopefully have good news to report in the future here s a story that has helped us throughout this whole process posted by mitch and angela at 9 12 pm 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest 10 06 2013 hyperstimulation and embryo transfer for any who may not have seen mitch s post on facebook the doctor retrieved 51 eggs on wednesday 51 eggs we were thrilled of course but also a little nervous as this put me at high risk for ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome ohss basically with ohss your ovaries freak out and as the follicles begin refilling with fluid so does your entire abdomen in women who have undergone ivf treatment mild ohss is actually quite common given my situation it was almost inevitable that i would experience this to some degree wednesday i really felt pretty good as i rested during the day thursday i went to work and felt a tad bloated but nothing that seemed too bad hooray only mild ohss for me that evening after reassuring my sweet and concerned mom that my symptoms were not too bad and she had nothing to worry about my tummy began to feel as if someone had blown me up like a balloon i looked like i was already pregnant and can t remember ever feeling so full in my life please someone tell me that s not what i ll actually feel like when i m pregnant i had gained 2 5 pounds since the day before and it hurt i eventually went to bed as if i was going to sleep and mitch decided to make a quick run to the store to get some more things he thought might help me while he was gone i became aware that someone had installed a splash pad in my belly bursts of water sloshing and splashing and a whole lot of movement were going on inside of me i wondered if perhaps my organs were starting to burst open well it turns out as mitch played my dashing and masculine nurse my body worked some magic in the night i was in the restroom as much as i was in bed it seemed by morning i was feeling about a million times better and had lost 3 pounds overnight after shedding my fluid build up sometimes heavenly father takes his time to answer our prayers and sometimes he answers them overnight i was so grateful he answered quickly this time we received the news the day after the retrieval that 28 eggs had fertilized we were so happy to hear about our 28 little embryos working on a little mitosis or would that me meiosis according to the message the nurse left yesterday oct 5 all our embryos were healthy and progressing well grow babies grow tomorrow oct 7 we check in at 11 15 and will meet with the doctor at 11 30 to discuss the number of embryos what will be transferred and what we ll freeze more than likely about half of our embryos won t still be kickin in the morning the transfer will follow our little pow wow and then it s lounging on the couch for the next several days for me i m only supposed to get up to use the restroom so i ll be doing some movie watching book reading shout out to megan for the book and movie donations and a little dozing if anyone wants to stop by for a chat or to make a trip to the fridge for me feel free the procedure is not invasive and isn t associated with any discomfort so i should be in good spirits mitch will be home with me tomorrow and then will pop in and out the following days to check on me and make sure i m doing well so to you dear friends and family we thank you for your love support and prayers we ve already seen so many miracles through this process and know they are due in large measure to your great faith we can t thank you enough we d love continued prayers and good vibes that our sweet little embryo will think my uterus is an awesome place to hang out for the next nine months posted by mitch and angela at 9 39 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest 10 01 2013 she s like a fine wine retrieval time has come tomorrow morning at 10 30 i ll be unconscious and the doctor will be taking out all the little eggs i ve been working hard to produce the last few weeks it s true the retrieval should already have happened my tentative date was monday the 30th but i was certain i d be ready early since i tend to be sensitive to medication boy was i wrong apparently i still need these little reminders about who s really in control here after increasing my medication dose last week i still wasn t good to go at my ultrasound on saturday they said i wouldn t be ready sunday either so we scheduled my next ultrasound for monday that meant the retrieval would be wednesday at the earliest at first i was a bit miffed by the delay but decided a few days was totally worth the wait especially if it resulted in a decent set of eggs as i left the office saturday morning one of the nurses said she s like a fine wine while i don t drink the stuff myself i can appreciate that this might be one of those things that gets sweeter with time mitch pulled the trigger last night at precisely 10 30 pm that is to say he gave me my hcg trigger shot this injection should put my body in go mode so we can start the baby making process tomorrow morning so while you go about work school or play tomorrow think of me at 10 30 and be jealous that you too aren t having your ovaries aspirated fingers crossed for a happy healthy batch of eggs posted by mitch and angela at 7 01 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest 9 17 2013 neither are your ways my ways warning this post is long really long if you only read one paragraph make it the last not the first here s the short version if you don t want to read it all we struggle with infertility we re doing ivf at the end of the month we d love for you to pray with us if you want the details by all means continue about two and half years ago mitch and i decided it was time to grow our little family obviously given the fact that we remain a party of two things didn t go as planned i could go into a lot of details about the ins and outs of our infertility the frustration the tears the hope and the incredible blessings we ve received but that s a very lengthy story for another day basically we focused on trying to figure out what was going on with me for about a year and half before we found out that mitch s normal semen analysis actually wasn t so normal then our efforts turned to him but there was a lot of waiting involved with insurance changes and moving after lots of testing and several doctors we re now looking at infertility issues coming from both sides and a whole lot of inconsistent results that leave us wondering what s really going on inside these otherwise healthy bodies of ours we were blessed to find that a well known infertility specialist was in our ward church congregation here in reno and we quickly got in to meet with him i wasn t prepared for the news we received that afternoon i was sure that mitch s results would be normal and we d be scheduling a round of iui but mitch s results weren t normal and iui wasn t an option for us we were told in vitro fertilization ivf with icsi would be our only course of action i cried in dr foulk s office much to his bewilderment you should be thrilled he said 30 years ago you d have no choice but to adopt you re young and healthy and have great odds for success he seemed incredibly confident that ivf would work for us despite the fact that success rates overall are really quite low he was right we are incredibly blessed but what he didn t know and i didn t either in the moment was that i was finally being stripped of my pride god was asking me to really rely on him not just pretend i was it took several days a lot of prayer scripture study and profound conversations with mitch for me to start realizing this i thought i had been relying on the lord i thought i trusted him and had faith that he knew what was best i thought i was working on utilizing the atonement to help get through our adversity i suppose that i was trying to do those things and i certainly was putting in some effort to seek the lord s will but god has a way of showing us how much more profound his grace can be and how much more wholly we can trust in him as i pondered on my attitude toward our infertility and the answers i was seeking i realized that i had been looking for the lord to deliver us in the way i wanted him to not in the way he knew was best i was set on being healed naturally being a bit of a granola girl i love green cleaning herbal remedies and food fresh from the garden though i m incredibly grateful for the advances of modern medicine and the many life saving procedures and medications we have available i typically view those as a last resort i virtually never use over the counter medications as i prefer more natural healing methods in the beginning i was determined to cure our infertility issues myself when nothing seemed to be working i decided to meet with an ob and eventually an infertility specialist i thought maybe we would be able to pinpoint a problem or perhaps just a round of clomid would work for us that wouldn t be so bad i convinced myself as things began to appear more dismal i decided that i would resort to iui if necessary anything for a baby right i actually prayed that something anything would work before ivf was brought up please don t ask me to do ivf i thought i prayed for the will of the lord to be brought to pass but secretly hoped that his will was something non invasive and toxin free god wants me to have a baby the way he originally designed it right babies aren t supposed to be made in a lab i was drowning in the sea praying with faith sure that the lord would magically deliver me either via miraculous transport or granting me strength to swim but sometimes god sends a boat instead a little boat called ivf i had a choice to make i could accept the rescue efforts of the boat or wave it along announcing i was sure god would save me any minute we climbed aboard for all of the goodness and beauty in natural living and for all the miracles of western medicine we are not saved by what school of thought we employ herbs and oils won t get me to heaven but trusting god will the issue is not one of natural versus conventional healing the lord is not trying to tell me to stop making my own lotion and laundry detergent he s trying to tell me that he knows what is best not me from the time we left the doctor s office until we had made our final decision the words of a familiar scripture echoed in my mind and surfaced in more than one lesson conference talk etc for my thoughts are not your thoughts neither are your ways my ways saith the lord for as the heavens are higher than the earth so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts we are currently in the middle of our ivf cycle the retrieval will happen between the 28 th and the 2 nd with the transfer five days later as we are swiftly approaching these dates we extend the invitation to anyone interested to join us in a fast this sunday september 22 for any who are unable to join the fast we would be incredibly grateful for added prayers we know that there is strength in numbers and that collective faith can bring about miracles here s to hoping we got on board the right boat posted by mitch and angela at 9 54 pm 7 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest 9 14 2013 part dos update pics here are some pictures from our time in portland or we loved it there even though we picked the worst time to go fall winter the green the produce the people the weirdness the restaurants the smell of rain and family we enjoyed it all just not the traffic we are grateful to mom and pops banks for letting us crash in their north wing for the seven months we enjoyed the 2012 holiday season up in oregon with angela s parents and then rang in the new year as the smith clan visited kimber s family for eliana s baptism mitch s sister and niece mitch cut down his first real christmas tree here are more portland adventures including our valentine s party our favorite restaurant there trebol mitch s clinical rotation site on the waterfront and wakeena falls hiking we took our three year anniversary trip to the place where we first met tacoma it started off with a stressed mitch taking and passing his boards in puyallup but then followed with a relaxing vacation where we enjoyed our bed breakfast joint good eats beautiful scenery and fond memories by the puget sound the restaurant of our first date anthony s above is ups where we were efy counselors as well as the steps where heath ledger once sang below is the highlight of the trip for us a picnic on a random secluded beach we found on our way to seattle in mid may it was back to vegas where mitch graduated from unlv s doctorate of physical therapy program can t believe three years came and went so fast and then in june came our fresh new start in reno nevada posted by mitchell jay at 11 38 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest 9 01 2013 two year update part i well since it s been over two years since our last post i think we are due for some updating a lot has happened in the past two years but we thought a few pictures and explanations of the major stuff would give enough detail to fill people in i mitch thought i d give it a shot to get the ball rolling and then angela can get back to her regular regular for us is like every few months blogging soon without people wondering what the heck happened in 2012 and 2013 because of course everyone is so curious and intrigued by our lives to start off a quick reference to the last post we put on here back in august of 11 some of you may be wondering if we actually stuck to that weird diet thing and the answer is you betcha we continue to love our plant based minimally processed food as much as ever we ve added many more ideas and recipes over the past two years and are always sometimes maybe more than necessary looking for more or trying to stay current with nutrition research our odd way of eating has become something we truly enjoy together a recent homemade pizza we made half barbecue chickpea with sweet potato corn onion and pineapple and half tomato basil and mushroom with hemp hearts and nutritional yeast in place of cheese and fresh avacado placed on some pieces we thought it was quite delicious now back to an update of special events for us in the last two years shortly after our last post angela accepted her first and only to this point full time teaching job at somerset academy a charter school in north las vegas she taught 1st gra...