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[Update]
DW had a miscarriage at about 8 weeks.
Unfortunately, that was only the beginning: The day after we found out about the miscarriage, our infant son got a stomic virus so bad, we had to take him to the emergency room to stop the vomiting and get him hydrated. The next day, an aunt (DS' name sake) goes to the hospital and has to have surgery for a kidney infection. The day after was the D&C, and DS wakes that morning with a HIGH fever (have to coordinate getting wife to surgery and DS to pediatrition). Two day's later, I wake with the stomic virus so bad (Sunday) that call in sick Monday. Monday night, we get word that my aunt (and God Mother) had unexpectedly died of a heart-attack.
When we had found out that we were pregnant, we had moved our reservation from this year to fall 2005. But with the miscarriage, we've decided to go ahead and make our next cruise this September. That way, it's early enough that even if the wife gets pregnant again, we will still be able to do the September cruise.
[Original Post]
We cruised on DCL soon after 9-11, and Disney was offering some great On-board rebooking discounts (way much better than the best price you can get with the current 10% discounts, we're talking rates below the typical fall discounts, and they were in the spring time too). We booked us a reservation for what was going to be the very first DCL Western Carribean Cruise.
Then disappointment hit in early December. We had been trying to become parents for three years, and had been under the care of specialists for about the last two. It was time to try the last option, IVF; and even then the doctor was only giving us less than a 10% chance of success (previous responses to drugs hadn't been very promising). As we go ready to start the process, initial blood work found an auto-immune problem that would delay our even attempting IVF.
But then Christmas came along and DW noticed something wasn't right. She took a pregnancy test and it came out positive!!! The one down side was that she was going to be one week too pregnant for our Western Carribean Cruise (and since it was the 1st sailing for the Western, we couldn't re-book for an earlier date).
After taking care of a baby for a full year, the DCL bug hit us again and we tried a 4-day "test" cruise with baby. We had enough fun that we used the current on-board booking discounts to book the whole family a 7-day trip for November (going when the rates are the cheapest because she's a stay-at-home mom, so we don't have the income we used to).
Well if you've read this far, you've probalbly already figured out that this week we had another positive pregnancy test. I tried checking with DCL on rates for changing our reservation for this spring (DW isn't interested in doing a cruise while nursing a new-born and taking care of a 2nd on still in diapers if we delayed our trip til this time next year). Well our curring booking price was on the order of 2800, but to rebook for any time this spring was going to be about 4500.
So it looks like DCL is most likely not in our future for about another two years.
But obviously we are thrilled, given our history (we had already starting looking into adoption thinking that asking for two miricles was going to be too much).
DW had a miscarriage at about 8 weeks.
Unfortunately, that was only the beginning: The day after we found out about the miscarriage, our infant son got a stomic virus so bad, we had to take him to the emergency room to stop the vomiting and get him hydrated. The next day, an aunt (DS' name sake) goes to the hospital and has to have surgery for a kidney infection. The day after was the D&C, and DS wakes that morning with a HIGH fever (have to coordinate getting wife to surgery and DS to pediatrition). Two day's later, I wake with the stomic virus so bad (Sunday) that call in sick Monday. Monday night, we get word that my aunt (and God Mother) had unexpectedly died of a heart-attack.
When we had found out that we were pregnant, we had moved our reservation from this year to fall 2005. But with the miscarriage, we've decided to go ahead and make our next cruise this September. That way, it's early enough that even if the wife gets pregnant again, we will still be able to do the September cruise.
[Original Post]
We cruised on DCL soon after 9-11, and Disney was offering some great On-board rebooking discounts (way much better than the best price you can get with the current 10% discounts, we're talking rates below the typical fall discounts, and they were in the spring time too). We booked us a reservation for what was going to be the very first DCL Western Carribean Cruise.
Then disappointment hit in early December. We had been trying to become parents for three years, and had been under the care of specialists for about the last two. It was time to try the last option, IVF; and even then the doctor was only giving us less than a 10% chance of success (previous responses to drugs hadn't been very promising). As we go ready to start the process, initial blood work found an auto-immune problem that would delay our even attempting IVF.
But then Christmas came along and DW noticed something wasn't right. She took a pregnancy test and it came out positive!!! The one down side was that she was going to be one week too pregnant for our Western Carribean Cruise (and since it was the 1st sailing for the Western, we couldn't re-book for an earlier date).
After taking care of a baby for a full year, the DCL bug hit us again and we tried a 4-day "test" cruise with baby. We had enough fun that we used the current on-board booking discounts to book the whole family a 7-day trip for November (going when the rates are the cheapest because she's a stay-at-home mom, so we don't have the income we used to).
Well if you've read this far, you've probalbly already figured out that this week we had another positive pregnancy test. I tried checking with DCL on rates for changing our reservation for this spring (DW isn't interested in doing a cruise while nursing a new-born and taking care of a 2nd on still in diapers if we delayed our trip til this time next year). Well our curring booking price was on the order of 2800, but to rebook for any time this spring was going to be about 4500.
So it looks like DCL is most likely not in our future for about another two years.
But obviously we are thrilled, given our history (we had already starting looking into adoption thinking that asking for two miricles was going to be too much).
