Hurst Family: A Baby Story

Our appointment on Wednesday went really well.  They saw several follicles (measuring at least 8 in each ovary) and are keeping me on the same dosage until my next appointment Friday morning at 9:15am.  Everything is on schedule and going as planned.  I wasn't really worried, but now that I say that...I wonder if I should be.  I know how to handle a successful IVF cycle, you have a baby [duh]; I know how to handle a failed IVF cycle, you go on a girls trip to a cabin, sip goldschlager and woodchuck by the fire and pile into the hot tub with ice cream and doritos until the water overflows.  That's how you do it; that's how it's done, friends.  Either way, I guess I should continue to not worry. Becca's Cabin 2010 All in all, I would say it was a successful day yesterday, birthday and all.  My house is clean, laundry is done, family is coming in town today, and my brother's wedding is this weekend and everybody and their mother's brother will be the...

Four shots a day, two in the morning, two in the evening.  I am officially feeling "the suck" part of IVF.  I'm freaking bloated and feeling like a whale and I use the word freaking because my hormones are telling me to bite somebody's head off right now.  I'm angry, happy, excited, depressed, anxious, nervous, optimistic, pessimistic and thankful all at the same time.  Thank God for IVF, for the hope that it brings, and for the miracle babies that are created due to this procedure.  Thank God for Khloe, our little IVF miracle (from IVF round #2).  Thanks to God and to my little Khloe, I was able to spend the past 2 years free from the life of infertility.  Now, in the midst of our 3rd round of IVF and 4th infertility procedure total, the emotions and those feelings are flooding back.  BIG TIME.  This is the conversation the little devil guy and the angle on my shoulders have been having lately:  "Why is it so freaking hard for us to hav...

Happy Thanksgiving! I don't know if it's our fear of losing control or what, but Kellen and I always seem to step up our fitness game around Thanksgiving time.  We started our Thanksgiving morning off with my brother, Josh, and his fiance, Jess, running 3 miles on the hilly trails of Hawthorne Park.  It was ROUGH and according to our smartphones we burnt 500 calories or so! You know, it may not just be due to our fear of losing control around the holidays, but also the fact that our IVF shots start tomorrow morning.  My countdown to lazy, couch-potato, non-alcoholic, and non-crossfitting days is on and it's coming fast!  I'm already going through the "high school acne breakout" phase of IVF as a result of the birth control pills they started me on a few weeks back.  Apparently, those birth control pills were necessary to put my cycle on track with their IVF schedule for their December patients.  And now that we're right on their schedule, we begin two s...

The holiday's are coming so darn fast this year.  Thanksgiving is next week and I'm pretty sure we just celebrated the 4th of July yesterday, right?  Well, whatever...I'm not ready and that's my point.  Last weekend we had some pretty ridiculous weather (in the 70s!) and enjoyed every minute of it while we were away celebrating our 5 year anniversary.  Kellen and I went to Hocking Hills, OH after a recommendation from a friend.  It was beautiful!  We spent our time there in a cabin with an over-sized bathroom I liked to call "my spa," zip-lining through the hills with awesome lake views, hiking near beautiful cliffs and waterfalls, and eating lots of food!  It was a great time and much needed break from reality.

Lots and lots going on around the Hurst household these days!  I just spend this past weekend in Chicago with Jess (my soon-to-be sister in law) for her bachelorette party.  It was so much fun just to be in such a huge city; and to dress up and go out on the town was a nice change of pace for this stay at home mom!  The weather was perfect and I think I could have stayed and hung around by myself for a couple of extra days.  ;-) Coming up this weekend is our FIVE year anniversary!  CRAZY, right?  My mom is headed up tomorrow morning to spend the weekend here watching Khloe while Kellen and I head to Hocking Hills, OH for a relaxing vacation away.  We've heard great things about Hocking Hills and plan on doing some hiking, seeing a few waterfalls, relaxing in a nice little cabin, and even doing a little zip-lining to throw a little action in there! As far as the baby creating process goes, we've started our "calendar" given to us by the doctor....

Well, well, well....what do you know?  It's November already!  This means several things to us; Kellen's 28th birthday on the 5th, our 5 year anniversary on the 10th, Thanksgiving, and my 29th birthday on the 28th!  And to top of all that busyness off, let's do another IVF cycle!  Since it is the month of Thanksgiving, I have to add that I am thankful for so many things at this point in my life.  I won't go into details, but God has definitely blessed us in many ways. While we're on the topic of November, let's quickly bring up this "Movember" nonsense.  Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know it's for a great cause; but if I find out that any of you had any part in encouraging Kellen to participate in this silliness, I will be sending him to your house to live for the remainder of this month so you can hang out with him in public.  We all know (and if you don't, you do now) that Kellen has no business attempting to grow a mustache and/or a beard.  Let...