Hurst Family: A Baby Story

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...

Well Hello there again... Just a quick little update.  I called our fertility clinic yesterday to check on our test results from January 9th and received a call back from them stating they were sorry for not calling, but everything came back normal.  Great news for being normal!  On the other hand, they received my results, most likely several weeks ago, and didn't call.  This is not shocking news to me given their track record.  We are honestly thinking hard about switching clinics.  I think Kellen and I both are nervous about completely starting over with someone new, but Family Beginnings is losing our trust.  Since 2009 with Family Beginnings, I've done every test in the books and there has never been an issue with my fertility.  After IVF, I carried Khloe very easily through a completely healthy pregnancy.  I can get pregnant.  I can stay pregnant.  We are very easily considered by our clinic to be "perfect IVF candidates"....

Hi Friends and Fam! I think it's about time for another update on our lives over here.  We have been CRAZY these past couple of weeks.  For months (years, actually) we've talked about moving so we have more space to extend our family and we've always known that we could find something newer and bigger for less money than our Broad Ripple home.  It was a Thursday evening about two weeks ago when Kellen decided to list our home for rent on Craigslist.  He spent a couple of months getting information on owning a rental property and learning about the legal issues and paperwork.  Within a matter of 16 hours, we had several people interested, had already shown the house once, and had a couple of guys sign the lease papers.  Did I mention that we did all that in a matter of only 16 hours? To accomodate their needs, and since we had a good idea of where we were going to move, we agreed to be out in a week.  I always felt that I worked better under pressur...

I have all kinds of emotions, so I'm not even going to begin to express them on here.  During our final week of waiting, we had a good idea that the IVF process had failed.  I called the doctor's office one week before Christmas Eve to tell them I had taken a test which came back negative and I was about 99% sure (due to other reasons besides a store bought test) we had a failed cycle.  I didn't even want to take the time to think about a failed cycle.  I was ready to act like it never happened, move on, get off these crazy drugs, and start it all over again until we get a freaking BFP.  Well, the doctor said it was too early and I needed to finish out the cycle.  I went to have my blood test done first thing the morning of Christmas Eve.  Our doctor called us around 10am to confirm the test was negative and discuss our next steps.  We are meeting with him early next week to discuss the failed round and see where we want to go next.   Ext...

This morning, we dropped Khloe off with her Grandpa in Carmel and got to Family Beginnings at 8:30am to prep for the transfer at 9am.  The embryologist was very happy to show us the pictures of the two blastocysts that survived (and are thriving) for our Day 5 transfer.  This is our first time doing a Day 5 transfer -- we have done two Day 3 transfers in the past.  The transfer procedure is much less invasive than the egg retrieval.  No anesthesia, thank God!  I did have to take a valium one hour before hand, but that was it.  Kellen was dressed in his scrubs, booties, and hair net (LOL) sitting next to me talking to the doctor about the Colts game yesterday while I was laying there with that gooey gross gel on my belly so we could watch the transfer on the TV via ultrasound.  Everything took no more than 5 minutes. Then, I was instructed to lay down in our room for 20 minutes before we could head out.  We left with our blastocyst print out and 2 ...

Our transfer is scheduled for Monday morning (tomorrow) at 9am. Please keep us in your prayers!

We have 6 little baby embryos! Of the 11 eggs the doctor retrieved, 9 were mature and the embryologist was able to fertilize 6. We still do not have a definite date or time for the transfer but the embryologist will call us daily with an update on our babies and when a transfer date and time is determined.