Labay Family: Our First Birthday Party!

Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Our First Birthday Party!

Finally, I have a chance to sit down and blog about our excellent birthday party - We had the best one ever! Even though it rained (a lot) I think a fun time was had by all. Camron and Olivia received a ton of great gifts. They needed clothes and PJ's really bad and now they each have a complete wardrobe. Also, we needed to finally upgrade our car seats so we received cash and gift cards that will go toward those purchases. Some of the special gifts we got were Cozy Coupes from Momo and Popo Kana, a swing set from Mimi and Pawpaw Labay, James Avery necklaces from Great Grandma Popp and Nike Shox from Aunt Dusty. Also, we got a lot of books and I can't wait to read them all to my big one year olds!

Birthday cake and cupcakes and cookies I made for them!

Party favors!

Camron getting his first haircut. Now he looks like a little boy and I love it!

They are clapping when they finished their birthday cupcakes!

Livy being silly and her sippy is so slippery she can't even get a good grip in it!

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My Pregnancy

Feb. 22, 2008 - Positive Pregnancy!
Feb. 28, 2008 - TWINS!
14 Weeks - Cervical Cerclage
24 Weeks - Admitted to the hospital for 3 days -Pre-Term Labor. Sent home on fetal monitoring and terbutaline pump. I have to monitor for contractions once a day and send the readings in for review. The terbutaline pump in a cathater in my leg that sends a contiunous flow of "anti-contraction" medicine into me. Complete bed-rest!
28 Weeks - Admitted to the hospital for 90% effacement of cervix. Cerclage still in tact but pulling. If it broke I would have to deliver and this is too soon. The babies are measuring 2.8 and 2.11 pounds. Was in the hospital for 23 days this time.
31 Weeks - Was sent home. Babies were 3.9 and 3.10 pounds. Stay on bed-rest.
36 Weeks 3 Days - Scheduled C-Section
Babies Born October 3, 2008!!!

5 Years of Infertility

Brent and I had dated for years - since my senior year of High School and were finally married on September 27, 2003. We had been together so long that we decided we would start a family immediately. Things turned out to be a bit more difficult than we planned. After many years of trying and medical intervention I was finally diagnoised with Endometriosis in Feb. of 2007. My disease was severe - stage 4 and had spread to my liver. After having exploratory surgery Dr. Cook thought that my ovaries and tubes were capable of functioning properly enough to produce a pregnancy but with the hostile environment inside of me I would need lots of help. We began Lupron therapy that would last 6 months as a way to try to "kill" off some of the endo. When the 6 months was up we began rounds of Clomid with IUI (Intra-Uteran Insemination). We did 2 cycles of this with no result. Our only other option was IVF which we decided to begin in January of 2008. After carefully following the treatment schedule of meds. and shots we had 14 eggs retrieved on Feb. 5, 2008 and of the 14 eggs 6 fertilized and became embryos. On Feb. 8, 2008 Dr. Gill transfered 3 of the best of the embryos. Two weeks later (Feb. 22nd) MaryLou called with the good news that my pregnancy test was positive!!!