Hurst Family: A Baby Story

Celebrating 5 years of fertility treatments and our fifth overall fertility cycle this month!  Just kidding, more like punching it in the face.  Thank God {my Wonderful, All Powerful, Miracle Working God} for my little Khloe Denise, because without her (and sometimes with her) somebody would be likely to get punched in the face.  Okay, really... I don't punch people unless I'm 8 and your names are John and Josh and you just put a worm in my hair. So yes, anyways, today is my last day of not being a lab rat.  Tomorrow we get our shipment of needles and drugs, stop taking the birth control pills, and begin our cycle.  I'm not really THAT nervous this time.  I think I've come to terms with accepting that this will either work or it wont.  I don't Google every single little symptom anymore, I don't worry about all the little wives tales and this and that, I just go through the process and wait for the results.  We get to break out our drug making ...

I just saw this on Pinterest tonight.  Yes, my Friday night is exciting.  Tonight's single parenting is brought to you by "fantasy football draft."  At least I think that's what he called it....could have been "sausage fest," serving up some franks and beans for all I know.  It's been a long day, I can't remember.  Anyways, I'm totally off track now.  New paragraph... In my opinion, this quote is stated SO PERFECTLY.  Personally, I have been blessed beyond all measure being given the opportunity to be Khloe's mom, but before that miracle happened I knew this pain very well and I am extremely empathetic to anyone experiencing this pain.  Maybe I wasn't all that great at explaining how I felt during that time - I don't recall ever using the term "loss" - but this nails it.  Spot on.  "Infertility is a loss.  It's the loss of a dream."  Until you are given the chance to live out that dream and to have that futu...

The laparoscropy went very well this morning.  Dr. Jarrett did find endometriosis, and although that is bad, it is great news that he found it and removed it.  This very well could have been the highest contributing factor to our failed IVF rounds and our inability to get pregnant on our own.  I also mentioned yesterday that they would be inserting some sort of oil (it started with an "L" but I forget the entire name) -- they did just that, as well as injected a dye to ensure my fallopian tubes were open (which they are).  I misspoke about the oil increasing our chances of conceiving by 2-3%, it just makes us 2-3 times more likely to conceive.  Still great news! A special thanks to my sister-n-law, Jess Phegley, for staying over last night, breaking in our new basement bedroom, eating ice cream with me, and hanging around today to watch Khloe for me while I recover.  ;-)  Kellen has been great, too.  I know he loves his day's hanging out with Kh...

A little more than a month in, and we have been pleasantly thrown for a loop with the very positive analysis results from Kellen (give this guy a high five and another punch in his man card) and the recommended treatment going forth with Jarrett Fertility Group.  I strongly believe that the change to a more natural, whole foods diet over the past 3-4 years has contributed greatly to Kellen and I's health and overall well-being. That being said, my personal overall health has been at an all-time high for the past few years and whether or not that has had a direct impact on my fertility has been unknown.  Since 2009, any test ran on me always came back with positive results.  So, with the absence of any issues on my end, being susceptible to pregnancy and staying pregnant was never a problem...until there was no explanation as to why we had two failed IVF cycles.  Dr. Jarrett chatted with us two weeks ago about our options.  His recommendations, after spattin...

Last Thursday, June 12, 2014, we took the plunge and dove back into the world of infertility.  It's much easier knowing that we already have little Khloe running around, but the mindset I have to enter back in to is all to familiar, bringing back those memories of the emotional roller coaster ride we went on four times before.  Fertility attempt Number Five. We've changed clinics.  Our track record with Family Beginnings is not good.  We were successful one out of 4 total attempts (including an IUI and 3 rounds of IVF).  I'm grateful to them for helping us to bring Khloe into this world, but I was left with some concerns that include their lack of organization and their "wing-it" approach to changing our protocol.  We met with Dr. Will at Midwest Fertility and with Dr. Jarrett at Jarrett Fertility Group.  Dr. Jarrett is ranked first in Indiana and 23rd in the country when it comes to success rates.  Kellen said his demeanor was ironically simi...