The thing about our plan and His plan is they are not always the same, very rarely in fact. We had our egg retrieval the last Wednesday in January. Everything went great. A little more pain afterwards with this procedure but overall good. We had 32 eggs retrieved and 27 were mature enough to use or freeze. Those are really great numbers. We chose to do a limited insemination, which just means a smaller number we try to fertilize while we freeze the rest of the eggs. In talking with the doctor and going off percentages we chose to start with 8. He said most times there’s some drop off and hoping for 2 or 3 blastocysts (eggs to implant). We ended up with 4 in the end, almost a 5th one. That number was a little overwhelming but also a great thing. You see, if by some miracle the first one works we have those blastocysts frozen to use on the next time we would like to get pregnant. Therefore if we were done we would have to chose what to do with those blastocysts. I didn’t want to think about that right now, but God had other plans and He watched over the process and gave us great numbers to work with which isn’t a guarantee. We are thankful for the number and look forward to this next step. I will have an appointment on February 16th and March 2nd. I’ll have medicine to take during that time (more injections). If everything looks good at those two appointments we’ll have our first transfer day. Exciting! Thank you all whom have been praying and following along!
Also an update on the fostering side. We were fortunate enough to be able to do a respite for a fellow foster family that had a funeral out of state to go to. The little boy was 7. He was non verbal autistic so that was a bit of a challenge. Again God’s plan can show us all sorts of things. Lately we’ve been wanting to fill our home with a foster again, in that saying yes to a lot more referrals. This weekend showed us that we need to pray more about each referral that comes through and make sure it is the right fit for us and more importantly the child. As I know had we had the little one full time we would’ve learned more about each other and would be able to make it work better for both. We had a great weekend with him and even with a few challenges it went well. It showed us that we work well together as a team and need to continue in our daily lives as husband wife. God is faithful through all His plans and watches over us each and everyday through everything that we do. We need to continue to have faith in Him and His plan for us. Thanks everyone for following!