Sensitive post:
It is with much joy and gratitude we announce that we are expecting our first child, due to arrive around April 3, 2019. I would be lying to you if I said that I always knew this day would come, as there were many stretches of time that felt like it would never happen. Over two years of longing and grief led us to pursue IVF this past July. Our first egg retrieval yielded just one viable embryo—one chance at a baby. If the first transfer failed, we would have no back up embryos to try again. So we took our one chance... and it WORKED!
Gratitude sometimes doesn’t feel like a big enough word to express how incredible it feels to finally see our dreams come true. They say it takes a village to raise a child, and our village may be larger than most. Our village is comprised of: every friend who offered emotional support to us throughout the infertility/IVF process; Dr D. and her nursing team, who responded to all of my frantic voicemails for nearly two years; every member of our huge family who wanted this just as much as we did (and who let me cut the line on family dinner night, because “the baby needs this fried rice”); the embryologist who was our child’s first babysitter; my online infertility/loss/IVF support group who have been there through thick and thin; and last, but certainly not least, our dog and two cats, who are already piling up on my belly to protect their sibling from the world (and each other). Our village is extensive, and will only continue to grow from here.
Thank you to everyone who can count themselves as a member of our village. Gratitude is such a small word for how important you are to us and our baby. We can’t wait for you to meet them in April!