Making Mini M&M

Howdy! My name is Marisa and my husband is Mariner. Together we are M&M. We have been married for 8 years and live in Texas. It took us nearly 7 years of infertility, nearly 4 of those years doing IVF to finally get our magical rainbow baby. In order to get her, we did 2 egg retrievals and 8 transfers (one of those was with a surrogate). We had a failed transfer; a miscarriage at 5 weeks, 4 days; a double embryo transfer that ended in a miscarriage at 6 weeks, 2 days; a miscarriage at 5 weeks, 4 days; a chemical; another chemical; our surrogate miscarried at 8 weeks but our baby stopped growing at 7 weeks; our last transfer was with me and also a double embryo transfer with the birth of my daughter at 34 weeks. That�s not including all the shots, testing, bloodwork, ultrasounds, biopsies, and tears! As I said our magical rainbow baby was born at 34 weeks due to IUGR. She was only 4lbs, 4ozs when she was born. She spent a couple of weeks in the NICU. Today she�s 1 and you would never guess she was born early other than she�s still tiny! She is absolutely the best baby in the world and lights up any room she is in. We honestly can�t believe we have not only a baby but such an amazing baby. We truly ask ourselves every day how she is ours. Our family dream has always been 2 kids. Infertility and recurring losses definitely shifted that to getting a kid to thinking we may live our lives childless. Thankfully we did get our kid and even though we are old (I�m closing in on 38 and my husband is 39), we have a decent amount of embryos left that we would like to pursue a sibling journey. We know we may only end up with our girl� and that�s more than fine with us. But, as long as we have the embryos� we would like to try to make our ideal family dream a reality. As you can imagine from all we have gone through, we have a quit a bit of IVF and medical debt. We have always found a way to make treatments possible but we definitely appreciate any help we can to ease the financial burden. That�s why we have this fundraiser. Any amount helps and is greatly appreciated!!!! Thanks for learning about us and we hope you�ll help us attempt to make our family dream a reality. ??