17 months

Happy 17 months to us!  Mommy decided to celebrate our milestone "birthday" by FINALLY taking us to visit the doctors who took such great care of us while we were growing inside mommy's belly!  We also got to ride facing FORWARD for the first time in our BIG KID car seats (yes, I know the suggestion is 2yrs, but we met all the legal requirements & if we're rear facing in these, it's more of a danger for mommy/daddy so we get to benefit from it & turn around to see everything from a whole new view!)

Here we are at the hospital where mommy spent many hours looking at us, hearing our strong heartbeats, seeing us in a million ultrasounds as well as jumping in a helicopter to deliver us downtown!

 Dr. Schmidt is the wonderful OBGYN who has taken care of mommy for many years & was so good at helping mommy determine all the appropriate blood work to have done before attempting to get pregnant then the whole 29wks we were in her tummy! :)

Miss Christina on the left was the poor nurse who had to search for our 3 individual heartbeats at EVERY appt ... boy did we give her a run for her money!

Dr. Haddad, the RE is actually next door so of course we HAD to stop by & show him what "he" created :)  We owe him SOOOOOO much - he has created our perfect, little family & for that, we couldn't be more thankful!  Mommy likes to call us her "gifts from God, with a little help from Haddad" ... silly mommy!

Miss Vanessa & Miss Maribel helped mommy with meds, ultrasounds & everything before/during our existence....

Dr. Wang happened to be in the office that day.  He was the FIRST person to literally "meet" us - he took our cell samples & sent them off for PGD testing. {reminder:  out of the 19 eggs that were taken from mommy, 18 of them were fertilized, but after the PGD testing only 3 were "genetically sound" enough to be used & that was US - whoo hoo!!!}

WHEW!  What a long day ... we are SO thankful for the doctors who cared for us and watched out for our mommy.  It's so hard to believe that we were just little embryos floating around a petri dish , but God's ultimate plan was in place & we are so glad to be a part of it (not to mention how grateful we are that he let mommy & daddy take care of us)!!!

 

~ Alyssa, Brandon & Cassandra