Spoiled Rotten?

Last night Jeff was giving me my shot and we realized that we used up the last of our progesterone.  We both thought we had another vial.  Oops!  I remember seeing a bottle at his office so this evening after church, we made a journey over to Forney.  While we were there.....I mean, the machine is just right there....what will it really hurt????  So I made him give me a quick abdominal sonogram... :)  He didn't print a picture, but that is ok because I have an "offical" visit tomorrow to get a sonogram.  I will have her print me a picture.  Jeff thinks I am spoiled cuz I have already had 5 sonograms (tomorrow will be 6) and I am only 8 weeks pregnant! :)

Baby is still there.  Yes, there is only 1.  Heartbeat looks good.  Jeff thinks he knows what the baby is going to be.  Now, I am only 8 1/2 weeks pregnant.  We will do a transnucal sono the Wednesday after I become 13 weeks (that is when the MFM they use is in the area apparently)  He is sooo good with the sex of the baby, Jeff said he has seen him wrong only once.  It will be interesting to see if Jeff is right as well.

To give y'all some info: 
I have had nausea to the point of not really wanting to eat only once. (week 6) 
I have actually thrown up only once (last Sunday 7 1/2 weeks)

So I have posted a poll...just to see what y'all think we are having.  The poll will be open until the sonogram - Feb 3rd....

Oh and for those keeping count... ONLY 12 more shots!  I cannot wait until January 8th - that will be the first night that I don't have a shot!  All in all, I will have had 58 shots!

7 Weeks

I went to the fertility doctor today.  They did a "level 1" sonogram...whatever that is.  They were just checking to see if they could actually see the baby and the heartbeat - they need to declare me pregnant and release me to my regular OB.  The sono tech that did it was the same sono tech that did the sono during the embryo transfer.  She was very quiet and looked and looked and looked, she kept shaking her head and looking....she was trying to find 2 babies...she only found 1. 
The doc came in and asked, "now how many embryos did we put in?" 
me: "1"
him: "hmmm, how many babies do we see?"
sono: "1"
him: "are you sure???? she sure did have some high levels." 
sono: "yep" 
him: "hmmm, that is what we get for second guessing...we were sure that there had to be 2 babies in there with those levels.  in fact, we had the lab check your results 3 times!"

So that is why I got such a late call back, they were running the numbers again!  I have been cleared for regular OB care.  He was very happy with what he saw in the sono.

The Whole Enchilada

Thursday night while Jeff went to YM/YW to teach the scouts first aid, I thought that I would be a nice wife and make Jeff some enchiladas.  I used my grandmother's enchilada receipe. 

This was the first time I had made them for Jeff.  It had been about 20+ yrs since I had made them with my Grannie.  Jeff was a little put out that I had waited 13 yrs to make them for him...oops!  I had to make 2 pans of them...I knew that the minute my Dad read this posting, he would be wondering why I hadn't invited him over, so one of the pans was for them.

All was going great until about 2am...the enchiladas started biting back!  All night/morning I was constantly being woken up by heartburn, Jeff's snoring, heartburn, heartburn, Jeff's alarm clock...it was not a good night to sleep.  It looks as though I hit 6 weeks and everything hit me back!  All day Friday I suffered from heartburn or nausea.  I needed to deliver the enchiladas to my parents and help them out a bit with their computers, so at 2pm I braved it and drove to Plano.  I was hungery, so I stopped by a Chick-Fil-A on the way.  As soon as the sandwich entered my car, I had an instant wave of nausea hit.  I then decided that eating some McD french fries probably wouldn't be bad, so I stopped and picked up some.  When I got to my parents' house, I offered my sandwich to my Dad and then after I had eaten just a handful of french fries, I gave him the rest of those too!

Friday night was ward temple night, Jeff & I had planned on going, but after the day I was having eating wise, I was begining to feel a little scared about going.  Jeff went without me.  I went home and found some noodles my Mom had dropped off a few weeks ago and ate those without any incidence. whew!  On his way home from the temple, Jeff stopped by and picked up a loaf of bread.  He started thinking about the way I was feeling and started asking himself what would he want to eat if he was in my shoes...it came to him, "Amy's Grilled Cheese Sandwiches".  Jeff has told me on countless occasions that anytime he wasn't feeling good, Amy would go into the kitchen and surprise him with a grilled cheese sandwich.  To this day he swears that hers are the best!  He didn't know how to make a grilled cheese sandwich, so he did the next best thing...he made me some cinnamon toast and surprised me with it!  How did I luck out with such a kind, thoughtful, wonderful man like Jeff?!?!?!

So I guess I need to be on my guard a little more with my food.  Today Jeff braved the grilled cheese sandwich.  I thought they were kind of soggy...apparently he buttered both sides of the toast, put cheese in the middle and stuck it in the oven until the cheese melted.  Oh well, it is the thought that counts!

I am off now to make some sweet potatoes and mashed potatoes for our ward Christmas party.  Hopefully I will feel better and will brave eating something, but we shall see.  I am now a little gun shy when it comes to food.  I guess I am not as bullet proof with the nausea/pregnancy stuff like I once thought I was!

Perks....

I am officially 5weeks 6 days today.  I decided that it might be good to go have lunch with Jeff today down in Forney.  Oh...and while I am here....get a sonogram? :)  With such a high repeat beta, one of the questions going through our mind was "twins?"  There is only a 3% chance of twins with one embryo, so we have been patiently waiting 2 weeks to see why the jump in my HCg level.

Here is the result:

As you can see we have one baby in there.  The levels just mean it is a really good pregnancy!  It was such a relief to see the "fetal pole", the yoke sac, and the heartbeat!  According to the sono, we are due on 08/05/2010.  I think the tech was a little surprised that we could see the heartbeats this early. - Usually that is something you don't see until week 7.  It doesn't look like much.  She said the baby is the size of an uncooked grain of rice and the gestational sac is the size of a grape.  But we could definately see the little flicker of the heart beating!  It was really special.

Jeff's whole office was waiting for the results.  When Jeff left the sono room I could hear the whoops and hollers!  I came out a min or two later with the pictures.  Jeff was seeing a patient when I came out, so I waited for him to come out before I said my goodbyes.  When he and the patient came out, the patient turned to me and gave me a congrats.  She said Jeff came into the room beaming and was so excited to tell her that he got to see his first baby for the first time today!  Jeff was all smiles and beaming like a proud papa!

To make this day complete, as I was driving home from Jeff's office, I got pulled over for speeding!  Nice way to bring me down out of the clouds! :)

Repeat Beta

I am going to give you a little lesson first... your "beta" or beta hcg is the hormone that tells your body that you are pregnant.  It should double every 2 days.  This indicates that the pregnancy is going along great.  So last Wednesday my beta was 75.  One would conclude that on Friday it would be 150, Sunday - 300, and today, Tuesday it would be 600.

By the time I am done with this pregnancy, Y'all are going to know more than you ever wanted about the whole process!

I went in this morning for the blood test and had to wait allllll day long for the results.  Last week I got the results back at 2 pm.  Today I had to wait until almost 4pm!  I just knew that this was a sign that they didnt want to talk to me, cuz something was wrong...of course based on the blessings I have had lately - I KNOW I am pregant.  So finally the nurse calls and tells me my number 1,968!  I had her repeat it a couple of times...I said, "Wow, I was only expecting 600."  She said, "Yeah, well, so were we!"  I asked her what it means and she said that it meant I was PREGNANT!  That this was a good pregnancy.  She also told me to talk to my husband, the OB for more details.....

I have a Level 1 sonogram set up for Dec 16th (@ 7 weeks)  We should be able to see heartbeats at this sono.  WOW!  I am reeling!  I am so overcome with happiness and joy that this is really happening!  Jeff and I are going to be parents!  CRAZY  Wonderful!