This post may be all over the place, so please bare with me....
We went to our last ultrasound appointment at the fertility clinic on June 2nd. Little snowflake was so cute and was moving around a little bit. Looked like a little gummy bear, I was about 8w2d at that point. It is so crazy to finally say we are graduated from the clinic and now this is considered just a normal pregnancy.
I am still taking my medication until the 14th but other than that I am good to go, no extra ultrasounds or appointments besides with our OB. Speaking of our OB we went to her on the 1st and J was able to meet her at the appointment. Was bummed T couldn't come but we have plenty more appointments to go to that the whole family will meet our amazing doctor. I can't speak anymore highly of her. She truly is amazing!
Our OB appointment was great. We weighed me and I can say I've only gained 2 lbs so far since starting this whole process. That is a feat since the medication usually add like 5-10 lbs. ha Dr. L brought in the hand u/s machine and took a little look at my little buddy. Babies hb was measuring about 180ish which is great news! Measuring on track!! I had some blood drawn and left a urine sample and then just needed to wait for those results. I will post about those later. We set up our next appointment which was a little tricky. J&T live in Utah but all their family live in the South, it so happens they are going to be out of two a lot this Summer. We scheduled our next appointment but only T can make it to that one, J and the kids are going to be out of town during it. We will be skyping or facetiming with her.
I just have to send my praises to how grateful I am that everything has been going so smoothly with this process. Besides being super nauseated 24/7 everything has been perfect! I have been so nervous with every u/s that something bad was going to show up. Nothing has gone wrong. Baby is perfect and extremely strong. The family is amazing and I love having them close and so involved. This is going to be an amazing process, I mean it already has been.
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Monday, June 8, 2015
Tuesday, May 19, 2015
Colpo di fulmine
“Colpo di fulmine. The thunderbolt, as Italians call it. When love strikes someone like lightning, so powerful and intense it can’t be denied. It’s beautiful and messy,
cracking a chest open and spilling their soul out for the world to see. It turns a person inside out, and there’s no going back from it. Once the thunderbolt hits, your life is
irrevocably changed.”
― J.M. Darhower, Sempre
I loved this quote because it made me think of how amazing and wonderful yesterday was. We are 6 weeks along now and generally the fertility clinic likes to wait until we are 7 weeks to do an ultrasound to check on baby. T's mom is in town but leaving today and so she wouldn't be here to see her newest grandchild if we waited. J convinced them that we needed to have an ultrasound sooner and that we wouldn't be discouraged if we didn't see a heartbeat yet. It worked and they agreed to do one sooner!
Let me just say how excited I was that we were able to see little snowflake sooner than later, but I think it is safe to say we were all a bit nervous about what we were going into. I went to lunch before our appointment with J and Ms. L, we were all a bit anxious for our appointment and ready to get there.
We got to the fertility clinic and waited for the doctor to get there. I was so nervous that we would be devastated after this appointment because something was wrong. J&T were nervous that there was more than one growing in there. I will say that my beta numbers were higher than normal so it could have been a possibility that this little one split on us.
The second that little tiny body popped up on the screen I was relieved. I was so glad to see that this baby was growing and healthy. It is so stressful in the beginning of any pregnancy but I feel a huge weight lifting knowing that they aren't going to be heartbroken. I was so happy that baby was hanging out in there.
I was 6w1d when we had our ultrasound and so there was a good chance it was too early to see or hear a heartbeat yet. To our surprise we saw and heard this little one's heartbeat. I am elated for us!! I look over and Ms. L is crying and so I started crying. J&T are literally just ear to ear grinning. It is finally more real and is happening. I have felt a little more guarded with this journey and more nervous about what if and so it was so nice and reassuring to see that there is a baby growing and it's sticking around and not going anywhere.
Honestly I wish I could have bottled that moment in time to remember forever. I love seeing the looks on mom, dad, grandma and grandpas faces when they saw little snowflake and heard his little heart pounding. That is one of those most perfect moments and makes this whole process worth it. The shots are worth seeing them light up and get excited. Now if only there was a way to make the next 34 weeks to go by faster!
cracking a chest open and spilling their soul out for the world to see. It turns a person inside out, and there’s no going back from it. Once the thunderbolt hits, your life is
irrevocably changed.”
― J.M. Darhower, Sempre
I loved this quote because it made me think of how amazing and wonderful yesterday was. We are 6 weeks along now and generally the fertility clinic likes to wait until we are 7 weeks to do an ultrasound to check on baby. T's mom is in town but leaving today and so she wouldn't be here to see her newest grandchild if we waited. J convinced them that we needed to have an ultrasound sooner and that we wouldn't be discouraged if we didn't see a heartbeat yet. It worked and they agreed to do one sooner!
Let me just say how excited I was that we were able to see little snowflake sooner than later, but I think it is safe to say we were all a bit nervous about what we were going into. I went to lunch before our appointment with J and Ms. L, we were all a bit anxious for our appointment and ready to get there.
We got to the fertility clinic and waited for the doctor to get there. I was so nervous that we would be devastated after this appointment because something was wrong. J&T were nervous that there was more than one growing in there. I will say that my beta numbers were higher than normal so it could have been a possibility that this little one split on us.
The second that little tiny body popped up on the screen I was relieved. I was so glad to see that this baby was growing and healthy. It is so stressful in the beginning of any pregnancy but I feel a huge weight lifting knowing that they aren't going to be heartbroken. I was so happy that baby was hanging out in there.
I was 6w1d when we had our ultrasound and so there was a good chance it was too early to see or hear a heartbeat yet. To our surprise we saw and heard this little one's heartbeat. I am elated for us!! I look over and Ms. L is crying and so I started crying. J&T are literally just ear to ear grinning. It is finally more real and is happening. I have felt a little more guarded with this journey and more nervous about what if and so it was so nice and reassuring to see that there is a baby growing and it's sticking around and not going anywhere.
Honestly I wish I could have bottled that moment in time to remember forever. I love seeing the looks on mom, dad, grandma and grandpas faces when they saw little snowflake and heard his little heart pounding. That is one of those most perfect moments and makes this whole process worth it. The shots are worth seeing them light up and get excited. Now if only there was a way to make the next 34 weeks to go by faster!
Wednesday, May 13, 2015
Final Beta
We had our final beta on Monday the 11th and it was perfect! It was....
7649!!!
We are definitely pregnant and expected a very strong baby in there! We have our first ultrasound this coming Monday and are hoping to see a heartbeat. It still might be a little early so we are trying to not get our hopes up if we don't see one then. YEAH for our little snowflake wanting to stick around. :)
7649!!!
We are definitely pregnant and expected a very strong baby in there! We have our first ultrasound this coming Monday and are hoping to see a heartbeat. It still might be a little early so we are trying to not get our hopes up if we don't see one then. YEAH for our little snowflake wanting to stick around. :)
Friday, May 1, 2015
Addicted
Any surrogate will tell you that you become obsessed and addicted to seeing that line get darker and darker. I couldn't help but constantly taking tests to see it get darker and be reassured that the baby was growing and doing okay. It is hard not to.
On Friday I also had my blood drawn to see what the levels were, they generally want the numbers to double every 48 hours. My numbers were at 85 on Friday morning which meant we were right on track. I don't have my official beta per the clinics orders until Monday morning. We have dinner with J, T and the kids. We also get to meet Todd's mom for the first time! I am so excited!
My last test I took
On Friday I also had my blood drawn to see what the levels were, they generally want the numbers to double every 48 hours. My numbers were at 85 on Friday morning which meant we were right on track. I don't have my official beta per the clinics orders until Monday morning. We have dinner with J, T and the kids. We also get to meet Todd's mom for the first time! I am so excited!
Wednesday, April 29, 2015
Sign
Tuesday morning I peed on the stick and anticipated it to be negative again since it was still too early. To my surprise there was another line and this time it was darker than Monday's test. I was really starting to freak out and do the happy dance. I sent it to my surro friends again and we picked it apart to determine that there was indeed a second line starting. I wanted to wait til it was darker to show J and T again just to avoid them getting discouraged. J was texting me by 7 am though asking if I had tested yet, it is kind of hard to hold this huge news in too. I sent her the picture and she said she could see it. I told her I would test again later that night just to make sure it was getting darker. I was technically only 3.50 days past transfer when we got this line, so super early to know.
Since I wasn't at work on Tuesday the soonest I could get my blood levels checked were on Wednesday to see what was going on. I was thinking they would be about the same as my first journey and be maybe 15 or so. They ended up being at 26 on 4.50dpt. I was pretty excited that we had some really good news here! It worked and this little "snowflake" stuck around!!!
3 weeks and 2 days along
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