6weeks 5days

Sorry for lack of posting.  Busy busy.

Thanksgiving is fast approaching with some much needed rest.  Here’s to 6 days of nothing but family, sleeping, eating, and watching too much shows when I should be cleaning.  Yay!

6 weeks, and here is to the second scan!  After a 30 minute wait and 2 trips to the bathroom, I am admitted.  Standard questions. “How are you feeling? Any symptoms?” and the weekly blood pressure check, the magic begins.

“Feel a touch, touch, and lets see if we have a heartbeat..” As I anxiously wait to see if the cramping I felt was a miscarriage beginning, or uterus expanding, the screen lights up and BAM. Baby.  Right in the middle, flickering light heart beat and all.

After a few close ups, checking of ovaries, and for any leaks or pockets of blood. (everything good no abnormalities) we got the heart beat!!

110 beats per minute.  At this point they look for anything over 90.

Hubster could not keep his hands off, nor stop smiling. Stop being perverted.  ;P

Thus, symptoms are as follows in the past week;

• mild nausea – ginger helps
• mild cramping
• headaches
• weeing. A lot.
• Hungry – If i don’t have a lot of small meals/snacks I feel awful.
• Tired.  Always tired
• Thirsty.

So here is to another week. Can’t wait to see you next week sweet pea!

-Naked Egg

20dp5dt

Yesterday was the third beta test to check hormone levels.

After a lot of wondering and hoping the call came.

Nurses need to start with high numbers first, just saying…

The call started off with the nurse asking the basic questions,  “Can I speak to so-and-so, this is name-and-name from place-and-place, The doctors reviewed your blood work and you are at 109…”    Wait,  What?!  1900’s to 109?  How can this be?  what happened?  I knew I shouldn’t have run that fast to catch some stupid kindergarten from almost being run over by some idiot parent…

“No, no you are in the 109th  percentile.”  Not 109 the level!  I went from wicked sad to wicked elated. “Sorry, your HCG level is 4,100” {Huge sigh of relief and a yay on my end at this point.}  See?  See Puddle on Floor, See Puddle reform into a human.

Gezz, Big numbers first Lady,  BIG NUMBERS.

Because my levels are “Wonderful” I am scheduled to have my first scan on Monday.  Monday!   Hopefully I get to find out how “far along” in the process the peanut is and get to see the uterus expanding the way it should be.

I have been feeling slight twinges of pain on the right every now and then.  I chalk it up to expansion and normal beginnings of pregnancy.

Still cautiously optimistic.

-The Naked Egg

I’m up all night to get lucky!

Today is the day!

Doxy + Nerves = horrible.  Also, my Boss is the best!

This morning was a non-stop roller coster of nerves and excitement jitters. THis would have been great if it weren’t for the iron clamp on my stomach.  Just when I thought I was doing well I start sweating and feeling hot, I can’t move.  Then the lerch comes, that tickle down your spine.  After a rendezvous  with the rest room my dear friend (Lets call her J) who has gone through this before takes one up down look of me and without blinking an eye. “Doxy got you didn’t it?”  Damn, She’s good. (I even had food!!)

Boss drives me home, Yes, He is that awesome! And I curl up waiting for my appointment!

Implantation.

Baseball players have all kids of lucky rituals, rite or charms.  J has the same.  It is a lucky shirt. She has said that each time she wore it during her 2 implantation that she got pregnant, another lady wore the same shirt during her two implantation’s had children.  I hope I can keep the luck alive.  So donning the shirt, head high, I hope I get lucky!

The worst part of implantation day is the bladder. As I  get into the stirrups and I pray  I won’t pee on the nice doctor who is shoving the catheter up my vagina.  Hubster and I watch the snake like apparatus enter the uterus, all the technicians get ready and with a 3-2-1 Inject! A little bubble plops into view on the ultra sound and the deed is done.  The blastocyst is in!  Luckily it was a very beautiful blastocyst with assisted hatching.  down side?  It is the only blastocyst so far.  We have a possible two more that could turn but we will not know for sure.  48 hours time will be the next update.  I am hoping for the best.

So now begins the TWW.  So to my one blastocyst currently inside,  Implant, grow and be happy!  I don’t want to see you again till you have developed into a healthy baby!

Now I’m off to nibble pineapple cores and drink green tea.

-The Naked Egg