Day 0 - How Babies Are Made

I imagine, one day Talia will ask us where babies come from. And we'll just have to tell her...

When two people love each other and want a baby and save forty thousand dollars and find a doctor called "The Embryo Whisperer"...

The party package of $5K of meds and needles shows up

And another one. .. and another one

Fertility Meds - administered in the Lexus

And at work in the bathroom

Alisa's old bottle storage system becomes the storage cooler for meds.  "Strong babies start here". 

Road trip to LA for a wedding - can't forget all the needles!

First Lupron injection. This puppy puts you into temporary menopause. Holy wow. 

First Follistim injection. This puppy makes you produce more eggs than Octomom

Even your 2 year old knows how to shoot you up

Follicles starting to grow

And grow and grow. 

Trigger shot. You do this one shot wrong and the whole cycle is ruined. 

All of the needles

Getting ready for the retrieval

Circles drawn on my butt to know when to inject the Progesterone

The butt shots begin. This will continue twice a day for 12 weeks

And don't forget the pills (and wine)

And what's an IVF cycle without an emergency trip to a retinal specialist (view out the window )

Getting ready for the transfer

See the green plus? Ok, now look a little bit above and to the right. See that gray dot? That's a Grade 5AB hatching blastocyst. AKA - Talia

Posing with Talia for the first time

Ohhhhh shit. 

Alisa using the doppler to listen to the baby in her tummy

At the fire station - disposing of the used needles