How many?

Friday, March 4th.

It had been a few weeks since we found out we were blessed with being pregnant. Now, the next question piquing our curiosity was...

"How many are in there???"

When we had the InVitro fertilization done, the doctor gave us the choice to try one or two embryos. Thankfully, our doctor was of the morally sound variety and wouldn't have inserted more than two embryos even if we begged him. Somehow, I couldn't see my 4'9", petite wifey becoming an "octo-mom", so two was definitely more than enough. Statistically speaking, inserting two embryos would give us a better shot at becoming pregnant than one. But, of course that also came with the chance of having twins. And, if those embryos were to split, that could be four. Now, our other issue is that we have a somewhat small house. It's technically a three bedroom house, but one of the rooms is so small that forcing a child to use it as a bedroom would be like an 18 year+ jail sentence. Plus we eliminated the closet in that room in order to expand our tiny bathroom's closet.

Ultimately, we decided that implanting two embryos would be best. If we had twins, they'd just have to share a room for a few early years. If we had more than twins, well, we'd just have to start house hunting a bit sooner. Ultimately, finding a bigger house seemed like a piece of cake in comparison to all we had gone through so far in trying to get pregnant (bedrest due to excess ovarian fluid, a burst cyst, allergic reactions to the injections, etc...).

Happily, it looks like our cozy, little ranch house will suffice for now. The doctor confirmed that only one of the embryos had implanted. After careful monitoring, the odds of it splitting into two became less and less.

Throughout my childhood, I had grown up with two siblings, a brother and sister, who were 8 and 9 years older than me, respectively. Yet, due to the significant gap in our ages, sometimes it sort of felt as if I were an only child (unofficially speaking). My wifey was officially an only child.

We were both at peace with the news of there being only one little bun in the oven. Would we have been excited with two? Of course! But, one was better than none, and we were extremely thankful for the miracle we had been given up to this point.

So, now we knew that we'd only be decorating one nursery.

But, one of the most important questions was still on our minds.

What color would we be decorating the nursery???

--8 weeks--