Our Journey to becoming the Rice family of 3 and counting.

Continued.....

So the process for the adoption started. Background checks, child clearances, finger printing, physicals, home study, being matched up with a family who we approved of and they approved of us, finding a fertility doctor to do the implant and scrambling to make money appear each time it was needed. And each time that money was needed it appeared and what a miracle that was. Ya know?! God is WAY to good to me. I fail in every possible way from day to day and even hour to hour in letting him guild my life and trying to do the things I am commanded to do and yet he still blesses me when I cry out. I don't get it but I'm so thankful for it. This adoption process went pretty quick and to some people I really know nothing about something I probably should have researched a bit more. To me though, all I wanted was a baby and I just wanted it to happen and nothing else mattered, I didn't need to know all the extra info or all the hows this work stuff. Maybe that's ridiculous and looking back I kind of wish I researched things a bit more cause we constantly get SO many questions and I just don't have the answers....hey isn't that what Googles for?! And to me that was ALL the easy stuff and hard part was yet to come....

The shots, the dreaded shots. The first set of shots lasts about 2 weeks and those shots are with a little needed in the thigh. A pretty easy shot once a day. I used an ice cube at first but then after getting use to it just did the shot no biggy! Along with the shot you also take oral meds some twice a day some once. The first set of shots sends you into menopause. A way for them to sorta restart your cycle or something. Fun stuff those hot flashes! Then comes shot number two which is twice a day. Its a HUGE needle and I do not exaggerate there. This needle is an 18 gage needle no joke! About 2 inches long as well. Progesterone with oil...OIL! It hurts! Added benefit it goes in your tush! So I would pack on the ice and walk around for about 5 minutes till I was good and numb and then stab myself...felt wonderful =) And that's not even the hard part, the hard part was trying to control the hormones. Feeling like you wanna cry any minute or flip out the next. Sometimes I just completely felt like I was going crazy. Laughing cause I was crying and crying cause I was mad at nothing and never knowing how I was to be feeling and just wanting it to just all stop!!! Then there's the weight gain but I had no control over it it was coming whether I worked out to stop it or not. 

So then the time comes for the implant. What a glorious day that is. When we adopted we received 6 embryos, so they thought, here we had 7...a free bee!!!! The day of the implant the doctor thawed 2 embryos, one however did not survive the thawing process and we were left with one. 

  
Side note. I love PennState Hershey Medical!!! What a great place! Filled with incredibly smart people who are constantly trying to figure out new ways to help people. God has blessed some people with such intelligence and its just amazing to watch those people work!! What a blessing to have had the chance to have meet up with some of those people. 

Another fun part to this process is on the day of the implant you need a full bladder...FULL! So you go in feeling like you need to pee and for me they say drink more!!! AWESOME!!!! Then when you already feel like your going to pee on someone they put you in a freezing cold room and they proceed to push on your bladder to make sure its full enough! Once again though ALL worth it!!! Then the doctor comes in and everyone is in full gear...including Steve! 

And then your implanted....and you sit there thinking maybe just like in Will & Grace (tv show) you should get up and stand upside down for a period of time till everything settles. Instead I sat cross legged holding things in and waited.........