Hi there folks!
GREAT NEWS!
It’s a bit earlier than I thought I’d be posting anything like this…… but I can’t take it any longer.
The Doctors say everything is groovy and proceeding as planned so I would like to take this opportunity to officially announce… I’m gonna be a Daddy!
Yep! Jana and I are pregnant!
We’re not yet at 12 weeks (the traditional “tell everybody” time frame) so your thoughts and prayers are appreciated.
It’s been a long and winding road requiring all the marvels of modern science available, but it actually worked.
To the left is a picture of the two embryos that were implanted.
In the picture here they are about 2 days old. A collection of cells nine and six strong respectively.
It’s a bit odd how attached one can become to a collection of nine and six cells, but we did.
Jana and I spent a great deal of time wondering which would take.
Maybe both?!
What if none??
None was almost to sad to contemplate.
We’re very pleased that one did take, and now I find myself wondering which one was it?
We’ll never know for sure of course… but I do wonder.
The weeks that followed were crazy.
Fun, stressful, and everything in between.
We counted the hours until our next doctor visit to get another ultrasound and another thumbs up.
Here (to the right) is the six week ultrasound.
The baby has a heartbeat now and is about a quarter of an inch big. (7.09mm)
Let me digress for a moment.
The Six week image is actually four REAL weeks.
Apparently pregnancy takes 38 weeks.
But somebody decided that didn’t sound good so they started telling everyone it was 40.
Forty must have sounded like a nice round number.
So now… when you get pregnant.
They ADD two weeks to everything. So this is our “you’re six weeks along” picture… but we’re really only four weeks at this point.
ANYWAY…
That was a big day.
At that point our percentage of risk for “something bad” to happen that would derail everything before we even got out of the station was about 8%
Pretty good odds I suppose… but enough to make you nervous.
Our most recent visit (shown here) is the “You’re eight weeks along” visit. It went well, and we are now around a one half of one percent risk factor.
That feels better.
Still gotta worry a bit though.
I suppose that’s how the rest of my life will go. 
Here the little one is about 18.22mm long.
Growin’ like a weed already.
The heart rate is a good 160 bpm.
Jana is doing great, and despite a little nausea now and then is still functioning pretty much like normal.
We look forward to all the next little milestones.
And before you ask…
1) We DON’T know what it is yet.
It’s still too early to figure out the gender.
2) We DO WANT to know.
Stay tuned.
We’ll let you know when we do.
3) We DON’T have a name yet.
We’re accepting suggestions.. but it’s not a vote.
We have supreme veto power on this one. 
In the meantime….
We’re preparing a photo galery.
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Congrats Doug!