6w3d- First Ultrasound!!!

I woke up early and took my shower. We were able to leave the house kind of early since we still had to stop and get gas. We got to the RE's about 20 minutes early. I had to pee so bad, I told Justin that we needed to go inside.

He was nervous about how long this was going to take because he couldn't be late to work. I think we had to wait about 10 minutes and then we were called back.

We headed straight back to the u/s room and I assumed the lovely bottom nakedness and then we waited. I'm going to take a minute and describe the u/s room as a little preface to what happened a few minutes later. This room is about a 10x10 box with only one door, so it's pretty small since it has the bed, ultrasound, and a little shelf that holds all the ultrasound goodies.

We are talking about the baby shower guest list, and all of a sudden I get this whiff of something. I ask Justin if he farted and he just starts laughing. I am seriously dying from the smell, and we are literally being hotboxed by his foul smelling fart!!!

I finally get him to open the door and to let this smell out, which he does. About 1 minute later, a nurse comes in to check on me because the door is open again. We say that we are fine, and then what happens? She closes the door again!!!

Justin thinks that this is hilarious! And then he tells me that he is going to blame me on the smell! I wanted to kill him!

Anyways, Holly comes in about 5 minutes later and thank god, doesn't say anything about the smell.

First thing out of her mouth was, "How you doing, Preggo?" (Have I told you that I love this woman?)

We were able to see our little jellybean right away, snuggled in at the very top of my ute on the screen. She measured and JB is 5.8 mm. We were even able to see the flickering of the heart beat! It was such a surreal moment!

She did some quick measurements and then said that she was going to see if she could get the heart beat so we could hear it. It was such an amazing sound! Heart beat was at 115bpm!

I did ask her if she could tell what side of the ute little JB was on. I wanted to see if the Ramzi Theory would be right. (Ramzi Theory says if the baby is on the right side, it's a boy and if it's on the left side, it's a girl). Well, our little JB is right in the middle!!! So we have no early guesses!

Holly then asks what OB/GYN I will be going to and I told her that I need to switch to a new one that's closer to where we live. She said for me to call the office when I picked one out.

She tells me that's it. I asked her when do I come back for another appt and she says that I'm done.

 I graduated!!!

And with that, she gave me a hug!

We had to wait for our instructions for my medication. I am to still take the baby aspirin up until 10w, so on March 24th will be my last pill. She said that I still need to take the Metformin until the OB/GYN says I can stop.

As my parting gift, I got pictures from my ultrasound and copies of all the bloodwork that I have done to bring to the OB/GYN. And today's visit was only $10!!!

I would like to introduce you to our little jellybean! (In the very top left of the picture)

 

 

Justin even recorded the whole appt too!

 

6w2d

I reminded Justin that we have the ultrasound on Friday at 9am. He then tells me that he has to work that day from 9am-9pm!!!

I call the RE's office and explain the situation. I told her we can either be there tomorrow or it would have to wait until Tuesday which is his next day off. They scheduled me for tomorrow!!!!

That means one less day to wait! Hopefully, we are able to see and possibly hear our little jellybean (JB) tomorrow!

 

At first I was like this...

And then this!!!

6w- Beta #3 Results

Went in the morning and this time I got a different lady. OMG, the difference of the two! This lady knew what she was doing. Quick poke, only just the tip of the needle in my vein and that vial was full in like 5 seconds! In and out in about 10 minutes!

Like before, still no phone call at 3pm. I waited until about 3:30pm and called myself. The results were faxed over, but they weren't in my chart yet. When she found them, she told me that my results came back at 11,396!

Now just a few more days until out first ultrasound!!!

No pic this week, but I did find this really funny!

5w2d- Beta #2 Results

I called as soon as I got up today and got Kim. She found my chart and my levels went from 94 last week to 1,619!!!! That's a doubling time of 46 hours!!!

I feel a little better, maybe now I can stop peeing on sticks!

I did ask her if I have to wait until Beta #3 results before I can schedule my ultrasound. She seemed surprised that it wasn't scheduled yet. I now have an appt on Thursday, Feb 28th at 9am when I will be 6w3d since that is the day they check. I tried to push it to March 5th (the next day that Justin has off) but she said I HAD to come in on the 28th. It kind of sucks, since that means we have to get up extra early, drive the 50 minutes into town, get the ultrasound done, and then drive back right away because he starts work at 1pm. I wanted to spend a little time at my mom's after the appt but I guess that's just going to have to wait until March 3rd, which is her birthday!

I had everything written down because I cannot for the life of me remember anything anymore. As soon as I had wrote it down, Kim calls me back and says just to be sure that we can hear the heartbeat that she's changing the appt to Friday, March 1st at the same time.

Hopefully, time flies by the next few days!!!

And to prove my craziness

Hi, my name is Lindsy and I'm addicted to peeing on little sticks!

5w1d- Beta #2

I went extra early to my lab appt, thinking that if I get it done early, they will call me back earlier than last time.

I got the same girl as last time, but this time was so much better! I was in and out in about 15 minutes and then the looong wait for the phone call.

Look who I found when I was cleaning the living room! He was hiding in my tote bag! And once again, I took my sweet time putting back on my sweater so I could get a pic!

After my appt, I went and hung out at my mom's. I took her and my littlest brother (A) out to lunch. I either wanted the Soup, Salad, and Breadsticks from Olive Garden or Chinese from Ming's (a little hole in the wall with the best food!). My mom said that she would rather Chinese.

Oh My God, it was sooo good!!! I ordered the Moo Shu Chicken and then a Sweet & Sour chicken plate. It was so much food! My mom jokingly told me that I better not eat like this the whole time. Even though I ordered a lot, I was only able to eat just a little bit. Yay for leftovers!

The leftover Moo Shu chicken was able to feed 7 more people at my mom's for dinner, lol.

Now back to my beta. I knew that yesterday was a holiday and that my RE was closed so I had a feeling that they were pretty backed up. I don't want to become one of those people who bug them over every question so I decided to wait  and call just before their phones switched over at 4:30pm.

That would have been the perfect time too but I fell asleep! I woke up and it was 4:31pm. I tried calling and sure enough it was their answering service!

I was hoping that they would call me after hours like they have done before, but I gave up hope when it got to be 6:30pm.

I will be calling them first thing in the morning!

My littlest brother A, has gotten quite attached to me to the point where he is on the verge of tears when I leave to go home (I live about 50 minutes away from them). So I let him hold onto Lola for me. My mom says that he sleeps with her every night and even plays with her during the day! So he sees Spike in my purse and he takes him too!

My mom keeps telling him that he needs to give them back to me because they are a keepsake (and a little inappropriate for a 4yr old to be playing with, lol), but he won't give them back! I told him that I would make him a deal, that I would buy him one of his own. We went through pages on Amazon looking for one that he liked. His stipulations: it must be white (like Lola), it must have pink eyes (like Lola), and he also wanted it to have a tail (like Spike).

We finally settled on this one and he wants to name it Spike Jr!

 

 

And here is him playing with "his" Spike and Lola!

 



4w5d- Surprising my mom

Quick update: I feel good today. I had some pretty bad stomach pains (gas?) last night though. I think it was because we had frito boats for dinner. I don't know if it was from the chili or the salt from the fritos but it hurt. Woke up this morning and the pain was gone.

I don't really feel like eating or drinking that much. But I have to eat and drink something when I take my pills (still on the Metformin) or it'll make me sick to my stomach.

No morning sickness yet. I have only thrown up twice so far. First time was after I ate a microwavable tv dinner of chicken fried rice. There was way too much garlic in there! The second time was after eating french fries from McDonald's. I think that it was because they weren't fresh fresh.

Anyways, we decided to tell my mom and family on Valentine's Day. I love watching announcement videos on YouTube so I got my idea from there. We wrapped up a box and filled it with pink and blue balloons along with a huge mylar baby balloon.

I decided that I would put the box together while Justin was at work, and I had a huge fail! The box was huge (I connected two boxes together) and there was no way that it would fit in my car. So Justin had to unwrap it and take it apart. So much for me being helpful!

He decided that it would just be easier to put everything together when we got there. My job was to make sure we had all the supplies and they made it into the car.

Jaimee (BFF) wanted to be there but she was at work. She said that she was trying to get off early so we put off telling my family. It's about 8pm and Tracy (sister) is getting ready to go since it's almost my nephew's bedtime. So I had to think on my feet and told her that she needed to stay because Jaimee was coming over because she wanted to tell us something.

Tracy flat out asks, "She's not pregnant, is she?"

I played along and just replied with, "I don't know."

Jaimee was still stuck at work and we couldn't wait any longer. Justin and I carried out the (much smaller) box into the den.

My mom starts to freak out because she hates when people buy her stuff. Tracy is saying things like, "She's just trying to out do me from Christmas." (She bought my mom a flat screen)

I told my mom to sit down and that I'll open it for her. The kids wanted to rip into that box too and we kept having to tell them to stay sitting down. (hence the yelling on my part, lol)

Justin had my phone and was recording.

I opened the box and out flew the pink and blue balloons and my mom was laughing because the kids were all like, "Balloons!!!"

Then the baby balloon flew out. My mom stopped for a second, and then asked, "Lindsy, are you pregnant????"

Then the tears started!

I then gave her the gift bag that had the Love You Forever book with a message to her in it and a cute little onesie.

It was a pretty special moment. My mom had been praying for this moment for soo long and I am just so happy that I could surprise her with the good news!

She was also asking who she could tell! She wanted to tell my brother and sister in law and I told her that was fine. She called right then and woke them up!

Of course after all this, Jaimee finally shows up!!! So she was still able to participate a little!

4w0d- Frist Beta Test

I had to go to a different Quest Diagnostics to make sure that I got the results back the same day. The lady put the needle in sooo slow, and it frickin' hurt!!!

And the tube wasn't filling up that fast, even though I drank half a bottle of water of the drive over there. I think it's because she shoved so much needle in my vein, it just wasn't flowing right.

But it's over now. I was even able to sneak in some pictures of Lola after she left the room.

My first beta came back at 94!

My next beta is not scheduled until 8 more days! I asked my RE's office why they have it spaced out so much and she just said it was because I had an IUI. I even told her that everyone else I know, they get theirs done every other day. She said that she never heard of that before, and they do theirs weekly.

Well, I tried!

Another thing, is that I can not, for the the life of me, find Spike! I told Justin I think that he disappeared because Lola ate him!  :::que Justin giving me the side-eye:::

Spike found Lola!!!! BFFP!!!!

After my pity party of 1 yesterday, I went back into the bathroom to look at all my tests. I have them all arranged neatly so I can see an early, faint line if there is one.

When I went back to look, I saw a faint second line! I couldn't believe it! I picked it up and compared in to my test from 9dpIUI (stark white BFN) and you could totally see a line! I know that you can't trust a test after the 10 minute time limit, so I held me pee for about 2 hours and POAS again. Another faint, faint second line came up but it was after the 10 minute time limit! By now I just decided to test in the morning, hoping that FMU would give be a more conclusive answer.

We went to bed at 2am, and because of my nerves I think that I fell asleep around 3am! I woke up before my alarm and took my temp, still high! I tested again, and a second line came up within the time limit!!! I couldn't believe it so I dipped another Wondfo, another positive. I pulled out the big guns, and dipped a First Response Early Response (FRER) and it's positive!

I had to run a few errands before Justin left for work, so I stopped at Target and bought a 5 pack of Clear Blue Easy digital tests (and I stocked up on Pre-Natal vitamins). Rushed home and dipped the digital (yes I saved my FMU). I swear the next 3 minutes took forever, but it flashed that beautiful word that I thought that I would never be able to see!

Last year I had bought 2 gift packs of Chicago Bears baby items. The first one has a onesie, a bib, and booties. The other one has a bottle, a pacifier, and another bib. I wrapped them up and put them in a Valentine's Day bag. I left it on the coffee table so Justin would find it. He is notorious for always trying to open presents early (birthday, Christmas) so I figured that he would want to open it.

When he comes into the living room, he just looks at it and sits on the couch. I told him that it was his Valentine's Day gift and that he could open it if he wanted to. He looked at me and said, "It's not Valentine's Day."

Really???? Of all days, he doesn't want to open a gift early?!?!?!?!

I told him fine, he could wait until next week to open it. He crumbled and asked if he could use it at work, which I said yes.

That perked his interest and he got up, and started to go through it. I opened the bootie package and wrapped each piece separately, and left the pacifier set in the box and put that at the bottom of the bag. That way the first thing he was going to open was the booties since I put those on top!

He starts to really dig around the bag, and ends up pulling the box out from the bottom! He looks at it and thinks for a second before responding with, "This is baby stuff. What does this mean?"

I ask him, "What do you think it means?"

And then he asks, "Are you pregnant?"

He got so excited especially after he opened everything else that was in the bag! I'm so glad that I recorded it!

I called my RE's office and told them I got a positive but she said they can't schedule my beta until Monday which is my "official" test date.

I know that it's extremely early but I am super excited! As they say, "Today I am pregnant!"

EDD is October 21st!

 

Holly just called me

After she said who she was, I swear my heart stopped for a second. She was calling to tell me my test results from my 7dpo bloodwork.

My p4 (progesterone) is at 20.5!!!!! It needs to be over 15 during a medicated cycle and that means I ovulated! Woohoo! I always worry about the trigger shot not working, so now I have proof that it did!

I also asked to get tested for DHEA-Sulfate. This test is for hyperandrogenism: to check the function of the adrenal glands. The adrenal gland is one of the major sources of androgens in women.

My levels came back at 271 ug/dL, so normal!!!!

So I guess I just have PCOS and nothing more, but I still have an appt with an Endocrinologist on Feb. 13th, just in case. I want to have all my bases covered!

I recovered from my pity party earlier by putting on my big girl panties after I realized that I needed to go to DMV to pay my registration since it's due tomorrow!

Emotional Day

I've been testing out my trigger since 12 hours after I took it. Call me crazy, but I like to see the second line and watch it get lighter so I know that what I get at the end of this cycle is legit, and I like peeing on things.

Today is 10dpIUI and since 8dpIUI, I have been getting BFN's on my tests. So the trigger is definitely out of my system, but just seeing just that one lonely line, makes me think that it didn't work. I know that the first IUI usually doesn't work, but like always, I was hoping that I am/was in the exception category.

My temps are still way above the coverline, which Justin keeps asking me about. I don't have the heart to tell them that they will be like that even if I'm not pregnant. I'm just praying everyday that I don't get a temperature plunge meaning that AF is well on her way.

I have been praying almost everyday that this cycle did work but then I think that I shouldn't just pray for this to happen, but to also say Thank you, for everything that I already have in my life.

All the symptoms that I've been having, sore nips, weird twinges in my lower belly, skin breakouts, feeling bloated, all of this can be chalked up to AF symptoms.

I'm not getting my hopes up, though

To sum it all up, I feel pretty defeated right now, and I still have 4 more days to my "official" test date.

Time to Update

Today is 5dpIUI/7dpT and there's really nothing to report. I'm testing out my trigger and as of this morning, it's still there.

I am getting some painful nipples, though. Not the type where they hurt by clothing or anything, but only when I poke at them. So what do I do all day? I poke them! I did notice that I had very, very slight pain when I poked at my boob. I'm not reading anything into, since it's still very early.

It looks like the trigger will hopefully be leaving completely in the next 2 or 3 days. I do plan on testing on 11dpIUI. Actually, I will be testing everyday but will take the 11dpIUI results as final. Okay, okay, if I don't like the results, I know that I will keep testing until AF.

At least with me being able to use the trigger, I will hopefully start AF on my own and not need birth control pills this time.

The bottom one is just more than a shadow

Can kind of see it