My beautiful niece Ludie Ella Griggs!!!! I got to go see her this past weekend and she is wonderful. Can't wait to live near my favorite baby girl.
September 22, 2010
Dad, Bowling and Kanban
For Dads 55th birthday we went to Main Event and played arcade games and bowled. We had so much fun!!! After bowling we went to our favorite hamburger joint (if that didnt sound like Nancy I don't know what would). We had cake later that night with the Carrigans! I made a Kanban board cake for Dad. It is the new big thing in being LEAN and efficient! Sadly we did not take enough pictures at all!!!!
Five candles for 5 and 5 = 55
Lets just say I did not have a lot of time!!!!!
Real Kanban board although Dads personal board looks like the one on the cake
September 04, 2010
Paintball Cake
Hannah had her birthday about a week ago and I made her birthday cake! They played paintball that morning so I made her a paintball cake... notice she didn't get hit!!!!! The pictures are really dark so you can't see the bottom tier very well. I hand painted camouflage.
One paintball didn't splatter!
September 01, 2010
Sad
I just found out this morning that I can't do in vitro. I am heartbroken.
PREIMPLANTATION GENETIC DIAGNOSIS (PGD)
Preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) is an alternative to prenatal diagnosis for people at risk of passing on an inherited disease to their children. The main benefit of PGD is that it maximizes the chance that a couple will have an unaffected pregnancy, greatly reducing the possibility that they will have to contemplate pregnancy termination. This is achieved by analyzing embryos before they have implanted in the womb, in other words before pregnancy has begun. PGD usually requires that the couple undergoes in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatment. This involves hormonal treatments that allow the collection of multiple eggs from the mother. The eggs are then fertilized using the father’s sperm and the resulting embryos are transferred to an incubator. After three days the embryos usually consist of a tiny ball of eight cells, known as blastomeres. One embryo cell (blastomere) is then removed (biopsied) from each embryo and subjected to genetic testing. If a blastomere is found to be unaffected by the inherited disease then the embryo that it was removed from will also be unaffected. Embryos that are revealed to be healthy can be transferred to the womb, ultimately producing unaffected babies.
At this time, IRMS offers PGD primarily for three specific single gene disorders – cystic fibrosis, Tay Sachs disease and myotonic dystrophy.
PREIMPLANTATION GENETIC DIAGNOSIS (PGD)
Preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) is an alternative to prenatal diagnosis for people at risk of passing on an inherited disease to their children. The main benefit of PGD is that it maximizes the chance that a couple will have an unaffected pregnancy, greatly reducing the possibility that they will have to contemplate pregnancy termination. This is achieved by analyzing embryos before they have implanted in the womb, in other words before pregnancy has begun. PGD usually requires that the couple undergoes in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatment. This involves hormonal treatments that allow the collection of multiple eggs from the mother. The eggs are then fertilized using the father’s sperm and the resulting embryos are transferred to an incubator. After three days the embryos usually consist of a tiny ball of eight cells, known as blastomeres. One embryo cell (blastomere) is then removed (biopsied) from each embryo and subjected to genetic testing. If a blastomere is found to be unaffected by the inherited disease then the embryo that it was removed from will also be unaffected. Embryos that are revealed to be healthy can be transferred to the womb, ultimately producing unaffected babies.
At this time, IRMS offers PGD primarily for three specific single gene disorders – cystic fibrosis, Tay Sachs disease and myotonic dystrophy.
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