Labay Family: Our Very Wonderful Christmas

Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Our Very Wonderful Christmas - 2009!

Wow! We had a great Christmas this year! We started the weekend before Christmas at Grandma Kana's house. Then Christmas Eve for the York Family Christmas at Mindy and Gary's. Then Christmas morning at home with just Brent, me and the kids. Christmas afternoon at my parents house. And finally the day after Christmas with the Popp Family in Gatesville. My kids must have been good this year, because they got a ton of really great gifts. Santa brought them personalized backpacks, Little People Farm and a cell phone and a blackberry (the Leapfrog type) and some other cool things in their stockings. Mimi and PawPaw gave each of the babies a battery powered quad - which they love! Now my nerves are shot and I'm looking for helmets. LOL. Momo and Popo gave them Mega Blocks and wagon, a dual DVD player for the car (already came in handy) and a tent with a tunnel and Mom even made them their very own little pillow for their beds. They also got trucks and dolls and a Lego stereo for their playroom and sleeping bags and a hand painted personalized toy caddy. See, I told you it was a lot! We had a great time spending time with family and friends and we hope you all did too! So anyway, here are some pics I got of them having a ball opening presents.

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Jenna @ Newlyweds said...: So glad they had a great time, looks like they had fun opening the presents. How fun!; December 29, 2009 at 3:23 PM

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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!!!