First OB Visit

Weeeel, we had our first OB visit today after being discharged from the reproductive endocrinologist who made baby Alex. Literally :) The visit itself was fairly boring aside of the fact that they will induce me a week ahead of my due date, so I will have a baby by July 9th. I also got some freebies (neither of which is a brand I intend to use, sorry).

The highlight of the visit was the technician who was taking care of me. She had absolutely NO CLUE about IVF. What? You did most of the blood tests already? What? You don't go by your last menstrual period? What? You already had three ultrasounds? Lol. She was so lost it was actually funny.

And we are 10 weeks today, woohoo! And the baby is starting to look more like a human and less like an alien, which is definitely a good development. I love my baby ticker :)

A Quick Update

I am appropriately busy with my parents here and work seems to be picking up too, so not a lot of time to hang around my blog :) If I haven't written about my parents learning about their upcoming grandparent status, it went great and included a lot of hugs and tears and some yelling about the fact that I told them we did the IVF a month later, so although they were hoping to find out we were pregnant, they sure were not expecting we would be 9 weeks pregnant. But they were very happy and probably kind of glad the most dangerous period is behind us already anyway.

I also had another ultrasound last Friday at 9 weeks 1 day and it showed a growing baby. They also let us listen to the heart beat. The pics are really crappy, so I am not going to share those for once, basically show a bigger white blob that is really hard to tell apart from the rest of me. Good thing they put arrows around it or I would be lost too. But the ultrasound machine was great and not only did we get to see the heart beating away like crazy, but we also saw the armsies and legsies moving all over the place. The baby is sure getting some cardio in. Maybe that's why it was so tough to get a good picture :)

Changing

It is kind of funny how a person changes when expecting. Well, I guess it depends on how long the person was trying to get pregnant to begin with and what kind of journey it took to get there. I am personally a very take charge and impatient person. And as you can imagine, after 17 or so miscarriages it is pretty hard to let one's hair down even if the pregnancy is going very smoothly. But I think I am doing great. For one thing - there is absolutely nothing that I can do to prevent a miscarriage. If it happens, I'll deal with it just like I dealt with the other miscarriages. But for right now, I need to wait it out, something, I am really not used to doing. Would be easier if those cramps went away, though.

On a brighter note, my parents will be arriving tomorrow. Can you say exciting? I have not seen my mom since before Christmas last year. And with the news, I am expecting their stay to be absolutely fabulous :)

2nd Ultrasound

We have a second ultrasound behind us. Baby Alex (boy or girl) is measuring right on time at 8 weeks. The sack is measuring 4 days ahead. We have a heart beat of 163 beats per minute - perfect again. Unfortunately, as far as the picture is concerned, the baby is still just a white blob, albeit bigger than it was 2 weeks ago. We are very happy the progress. Next Friday we are seeing a perinatologist, though we are not entirely sure what exactly they will do for us. The Thursday after that we will have a first check-up by my OBGYN. Graduating from our IVF center! 

Next Wednesday my parents will come to town and we will be sharing with them the night they land. Can't wait!

Morning Sickness, yay!

I have not written for a while, mainly because there really wasn't anything to write about. I was sleeping good 12 hours a day and working for the rest of the time, which really did not make for interesting stories. Our Thanksgiving was good but short, we got totally rained out at a Redskins vs. Giants game, and there is way too much to clean around the house to make it ready for my parents arrival next week. No, they still don't know about their approaching grandparenthood. We have a little Christmas box with a bow and a sticker that says to: Grandma and Granpda (babi a deda) from Baby and we are putting an ultrasound picture inside. The ultrasound is tomorrow, so hoping everything is OK with our little bean.

What I know is that the morning sickness is kicking in these days. Well, it has been kicking in since week 4, but now it is REALLY kicking in. No, not losing any meals yet (thankfully), but even with all the ginger and ginger ale and who knows what else is out there, I am still pretty nauseous these days. Which I can usually handle at home, but working is becoming a huge pain in the behind. We just hit week 8 here and people are telling me that this is when the bad times start. Wish me luck :) Oh, and I thought that my alien baby would look a bit more human today, but nope, no such luck, it's still an alien baby.