Dr Visit

Today was my first Dr. visit since getting my positive pregnancy test results. I am/baby is 6 weeks and 1 day.
So I got an ultrasound to confirm there is in fact a baby growing inside and that it has implanted in the correct spot.
And..

There it is! A tiny little peanut.  It measured at exactly 6 weeks and 1 day. We got see the tiny little heartbeat flickering and we got to hear it as well.  Heart was beating at 107 beats per min.  Just getting started working.

Dr. said things look great!  He did warn that even though things are good there is still always that chance of miscarriage. Which I am quite aware of it, since we have been here before.  Hearing the heartbeat and losing it later.  But we are being optimistic!

I am suppose to be staying on all my medications, continuing injections and such till at least 10 weeks. Only a month to go, I hope!

My due date was confirmed at August 14, 2014!

And I suppose everyone wants to know if its a boy or a girl?!

Well....

We are joining Team PINK! 

So hoping that this little girl will be the one sticks through and makes it all the way!

I can't wait to buy little girl things! Trying to restrain myself (and my mom) till we are through the first trimester, at least!  But its fun to look!

and yes, those of you knew I wanted a girl were right. But she did also happen to be the first genetically good embryo on the list. I think we were just meant to have her!

thank you all for your continued support and prayers!

Love you all and Thanks again!

Results

As most of you are aware because I couldn't keep my anticipation off of Facebook, I had my 1st pregnancy test blood draw on Wednesday.   Thankfully, the results came in relatively quickly so I didn't have spend all day in suspense.  Those results were POSITIVE! I had a HCG number of 74 and the nurse that called with my results said all they wanted to see was a number over 50. And she also told me that I was considered 3 weeks and 6 days along. So my number was perfect for being a day behind 4 weeks.  So I was over the moon excited but then I had to wait till today for my second blood draw. This time the HCG number needs to double or at least raise by 60% at the minimum.  Results from that blood draw came in with an HCG number of 157. So the number is great!
Now I'm officially 4 weeks and 1 day!
I have an ultrasound appt on the 20th so hopefully little embryo keeps growing at the appropriate rate and hopefully we will be able to see something.

I have been at this place 4 times now, so I'm excited and nervous. I've never had a pregnancy go past 8/9 weeks. So, just have to stay hopeful that this one will make full term.
I'll be keeping everyone updated as to how things progress.
For the time being though, I'm still on my progesterone injections and estrogen patches until otherwise told by the dr to stop. So probably 6-8 more weeks.

Also,  Greg told me not to tell what the gender is of what we are having until after an ultrasound. So another couple weeks of secret keeping! :-)

Thank you everyone for the all the support and prayers!  We appreciate it so much! Love you all!

Thanksgiving Weekend and the Waiting!

I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving weekend!  I enjoyed mine for sure! Lots of food, family and fun!
After my parents left (after being here to help me out while I was bed rest after my transfer, Thank you to them!), my in-laws and BFF Ashley came to stay with us for Thanksgiving and the weekend.  It was definitely nice having people to our house for our first time hosting thanksgiving. Even though my in laws did most of the cooking.  Greg and I have no idea what we were doing and in general I wasn't very helpful except to tell everyone where things are in the kitchen. Everything turned out tasty and great! Special thanks to  the Noel's!
Over the weekend, we took everyone to Santa Fe to check out the shops at the Plaza and enjoy a New Mexican lunch. I also took everyone to a drinking chocolate place where they have meso-american hot chocolates (basically spicy hot chocolate) and candies. No one tried it but Greg.  They are the second group of people I have taken there and no one tries it. So not taking people there any more.
Greg also took his family up the Sandia Tram and hiked up in the snow. Ashley and I didn't go with them because I was taking it easy still, Ashley has already been up the tram and it was cold and there was snow up there still.  The pictures they took though were beautiful.  It is pretty in the forest with the snow on the ground. Greg and I then took everyone to our favorite New Mexican restaurant in town. It did not disappoint! Though the chili's were a little spicy for a couple of people. ; )
And everyone went home yesterday! Empty house and lots of laundry (which is all done already).

On top of Sandia




As for me and my transfer which I suppose in the real reason everyone is reading this:
Things are going as well as can be expected. I am trying not to read too much in to every pinch, twitch and pull in my lower abdomen but I can't help it. There isn't much I can do, this either worked or it didn't. I am 6 days past transfer so if my little tiny embryo implanted it has already happened (or not).  I still have to wait 2 more days until I get my first blood test.  Then 2 more days to get the 2nd, which will confirm either the positive or negative I get with the 1st blood test.  I was doing pretty good with the waiting until Saturday then really started wanting to know. Good thing we had people over to keep me distracted otherwise I would have been going crazy by Saturday.
In theory, I can test with a home pregnancy test, even though it wouldn't be completely accurate. Thankfully I don't have any in the house. I don't want to give myself false hope before getting actual results.
2 more days, just have to keep telling myself that!  Good thing I am going back to work this afternoon. Gotta stay busy!
So hopefully I will have results for everyone by the end of the day on Friday!

Time for everyone to start thinking, if in fact this entire process has worked (and I make it full term this time), are we having a BOY or a GIRL?

Lots of people have already told me what they think based on what I said I have wanted in the past, but as I said before we picked the 1st good one on our list.  Do you still think its a BOY or GIRL??
(I gotta have fun with the little bit of mystery I have left with this, cause obviously I've shared a lot)

Transfer

Transfer is complete! Finally!
The process was fairly simple today.  Went to the dr office with very full uncomfortable bladder and waited for the dr.  When he finally appeared, my bladder was so full I had to empty it a little bit.  Then a catheter was inserted up into my uterus using ultrasound guidance. And so increased pressure on the bladder.  Once the catheter was in place, the embryo was inserted. Literally took 5 minutes for the proceudre. Then it's was a long 20 minute wait till I could move off the table.  Had to have my bladder emptied by catheter since I couldn't move off the table and I had to pee soooo bad.
My dr said our embryo looked beautiful so he thinks our chances are pretty good!  Just need a little bit of luck!
So bed rest the rest of the day and tomorrow.  Then just going to take it easy after that.
We'll know if this work by next Friday the 6th.
So glad the waiting is almost done!  Just hope this works so we do not have to do this again until we want a second baby.

I'll keep you all updated as test results come in!
Thanks for all the support!

There it is! 6 day old blastocysts!
No bigger than half the diameter of a strand of hair (or so I've read)!


special thanks to my parents for getting my house ready for my Thanksgiving guests, taking care of me while i laid on the couch and for re-staining my stair banister!

1 Week Left

One more week! Its finally getting close to the all important day that I have been waiting 4 months for!
I had an appointment at the Dr. office today for an ultrasound to check the lining of my uterus.
The nurse that did the ultrasound said everything looked great. Nice and thick and has all 3 layers that it should have. Ready for an embryo to snuggle in to!
I got all my instruction for the next week and  for the day of the transfer!
I have to take my injections that I give myself in the thigh until tomorrow and then Thursday, I start the progesterone injections. : ( My thighs will finally be able to recover for the all the injections. I have bruises and I feel like I am covered in punctures. But the progesterone is so much worse!
I also have a belly covered in estrogen patches. 4 of them now.  I have red splotches all over from taking them off every other day and putting new ones on. I'm going to run out of fresh skin to put new ones on soon.
This will of course all be worth it when this works!
I'll post an update after transfer to let you all know how it went.
The nurse today said the transfer itself will only take a few minutes but then I'll have to hang out laying down for about 30 minutes (with a full bladder, since that's apparently necessary for the transfer). Then I'll be home on bed rest until Thanksgiving.
My parents are super nice and are coming out a couple days before the transfer to help me get ready for thanksgiving and take care of me while Greg works on Wednesday. Then Greg's family will be here for Thanksgiving weekend and Ashley will be here from Texas as well. So I'll have plenty of people to help out while I take it pretty easy for the weekend.


YAY! ONE MORE WEEK!