If it didn’t feel real before, it does now! Not only has my belly kind of popped, we sent out announcements to our family and close friends and posted about it on Facebook! It’s so sweet to hear so many wonderful words from friends and family all over the place!

We debated back and forth whether to tell the Facebook world about everything we’ve gone through to get to this point. Laryen wanted to keep it more to close friends and family and I agreed – but part of me wants more people to know this isn’t any normal pregnancy. I’m a helper – I want others who might secretly be struggling to get pregnant like we did for years that there’s others out there. There are people just like ‘us.’ And if it’s not infertility, it’s something else. EVERYONE goes through struggles. That’s what life is all about. It’s about how you overcome and live with those struggles that tests the kind of person you truly are in the world. It’s all part of the story; and this part is the beginning chapters of our little embie. I hope he/she look back and realize just how precious life is and how much love already surrounds it’s little 17-week old heart.

That being said I think we will eventually tell everyone our story. Maybe it’ll happen next week, maybe when the babe is born, msybe on its first birthday. I want our story to help someone. Even if one person feels more at ease about what’s going on in their life then it’s worth it.

Here’s a look at our announcement:
The front side:

And the back:

That’s pretty much everything it took to get the little nugget pictured in the middle. We kept all our needles and medicine bottles from the ivf and frozen transfer. It’s been in our medicine closet because I knew I wanted to do something with it. I’m a visual person and I wanted something tangible to show everyone the love, science, prayers, hope and pain. And in smaller than a millisecond of time, I would do it all over again. No doubt about that.