Sunday, January 5, 2014

Let's Make A Baby!

We have truly enjoyed every single second of our miracle baby, Charlie. He has been everything we could hope for, and more. And as he is growing, crawling, standing, tumbling, giggling, eating, making messes, and being everything little boys should be, we are starting to look to the future and imagining all the great things that he will experience in his life.
Upon doing In Vitro for Charlie, we thought we would either get pregnant with twins or at least have some extra embryos to freeze so that if we felt so inclined, that we would be able to give Charlie a little friend. Neither twins, nor extra embryos were in the cards last time around and so we thought we were done having children. That was until he was born. Since then, we've been praying and pondering, and we feel that we should try one more time. Charlie needs a friend to grow up with. When he's 8, Tori and Abbie will be out of the house and we'd love to have one more for Charlie to grow up with.
In Vitro is an expensive and hard process ($16,000-$18,000), but after going through it, we feel it is worth every penny and more. Charlie has brought us so much amazing joy, more than we could have ever imagined. The joy we have felt has far exceeded the pain and sorrow we felt in the 8 years of infertility that we struggled through. We are so grateful for our three amazing children, and as we ponder the idea of doing In Vitro one more time, we know we are so blessed already.
We'd like to invite you, if you feel so inclined, to help donate to our "Let's Make a Baby" fund to help us be able to afford doing In Vitro one last time. We are saving every penny that we can and hope that if you have a little to spare, to help us in our journey, we would truly appreciate it. We are hoping to be able to do In Vitro in July, but it will depend on how quickly we can save and raise the money.
One thing we'd like to do for our future baby is create a book that includes everyone who has donated who wishes to be included, it would include a picture and a story or note to our future little one. So that our baby can keep this as a keepsake to see who it was that loved them even before they were born.
We appreciate your love and support. If you cannot donate, we understand. We've been there. But we do appreciate your prayers and happy thoughts. Thank you! -From the Brockbank Family