Everything's ok!

OMG please don't hate me. I can't even begin to tell you how busy life has been - and yes, all while being in the early stages of PREGNANCY! (woot woot!!)

Everything's ok over here!

And I don't even have time to sit here and write a detailed blog post to you like I really want to do, but I felt I had to at least let everyone know that ALL IS GOOD. We had our first ultrasound this past Monday and not only saw but HEARD baby's heartbeat! Yay, usually at 6 weeks you can just see it flickering, but not hear it yet!!

You know how detailed I am and honestly the reason I haven't given you a blog post is because I was being super anal about it and knew I didn't have the time to write a post like I wanted to. Every night I'd go to bed (way too late) and think "OMG I still haven't updated my blog!" But I didn't want anyone to worry or think bad things or even just hate me for abandoning you all!!

So there's a brief update to hopefully hold you over! It's such a busy Fall for us. I will give you more details soon. But all is GREAT and GOOD and we are pregnant and it's so amazing - even for the 2nd time. :)

SooooOoooOOooo

I'm here! I'm here! (and I have a lot to share so be sure to read all the way to the end!)

OMG going through all of this stuff while RAISING A CHILD, is no joke! There is no relaxing. There is no sitting down for a LONG, LEISURELY, blog-writing session. Everything is short bursts of getting a little done here and getting a little done there.

With my first transfer I think I wrote in my blog like almost every day after the transfer. When I think back to those days and picture myself lounging around my house, I can literally hear harp music in my head and I see myself wearing flowing silk robes and practically floating from one resting spot to another, all with this amazing soft glow of warm light radiating over me.

THIS TRANSFER is me lugging my toddler on my hip, un-showered, barely dressed, trying to eat and feed my family and like - transfer? what transfer? I would not advise this. You really are supposed to rest if you can. And you really shouldn't be carrying that toddler around (mine is 30 pounds!!!)

This is literally what I looked like this morning

It's hard because my Little One is incredibly demanding of ME (and me only) and Hubby works a lot. We probably should have had him take some days off work...But I also did look at the below very closely. I had this in my last transfer post and will share it again here:

Days Past 5-day Transfer	Embryo Development
one	The blastocyst begins to hatch out of its shell
two	The blastocyst continues to hatch out of its shell and begins to attach itself to the uterus
three	The blastocyst attaches deeper into the uterine lining, beginning implantation
four	Implantation continues
five	Implantation is complete, cells that will eventually become the placenta and fetus have begun to develop
six	Human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) starts to enter the blood stream
seven	Fetal development continues and hCG continues to be secreted
eight	Fetal development continues and hCG continues to be secreted
nine	Levels of hCG are now high enough to detect a pregnancy

The day of my transfer and the 2 days following, I *DID* try to take it easy. I didn't carry my toddler. I tried to remain sitting or reclining as much as possible. I wanted to give that little embryo a good solid chance to implant in my uterus. But as the days have passed, I just haven't been as diligent as I was the first go-around. I mean, back then I was nervous to carry my own computer bag!

So anyway - do as I say, not as I do...

Just listen to me, gosh dangit!!!

But there is business to report on, so report, I must:

2 Days Post Transfer (Sun): 

I was hoping to see implantation bleeding (spotting) but didn't. I took it pretty easy again today so it was a very low key day.

3 Days Post Transfer (Mon):

Still no spotting…this made me kind of...sad. Because I had implantation spotting with my first pregnancy so I was fully expecting to see some spotting yesterday and count it as a good sign.

BUT.....

I have a new theory about this. For all of you keeping track - you'll recall that last time, my report to Dr. A that I saw some spotting had her say "yay implantation bleeding!" but she also had me run into her office to check my progesterone levels because low progesterone levels can cause your lining to start breaking down. Not good. And in fact, last time my progesterone level was low and we started shots of progesterone in oil that night. I started developing a new theory this time that maybe the no-sign-of-spotting was actually a good thing and meant that my progesterone levels were good! Maybe it had NOTHING to do with implantation bleeding. Hmmmmmmmmm.

Hmmmmmmm.......

So anyway - I won't know for sure until my pregnancy test. But this thought was keeping my spirits up! I returned to acupuncture this afternoon. It was weird to be back there doing acupuncture on a routine basis again! Today was the first day I saw one of the doctors who used to treat me when I was pregnant before. So familiar! When he asked, I told him I hadn't felt much cramping today, but then of course I noticed some as I headed home.

4 Days Post Transfer (Tues):

So maybe I've been feeling more cramping today - or maybe it's just my imagination? GAH!!! But by the evening today I'd say I felt a lot of faint cramping. I also ran over to Dr. A's office for a blood draw to check my progesterone levels (not sure if she does this for everyone, but since I had progesterone "issues" last time, I wanted to check it this time to see if we needed to add shots). And we got: 8.5 ng/mL! This is excellent!! And could also be confirming my theory (and explanation why I still have seen NO spotting.) Dr. A said it's a GREAT number for vaginal administration of progesterone (Crinone). WHEW.... maybe I'll dodge the shots this time?!

5 Days Post Transfer (Wed):

I am definitely feeling cramping. It’s faint and not as strong as period cramping, but very noticeable. This is good news I would think! My boobs feel a little sore/tingly but I have a hard time believing that's anything to note (and yet here I noted it...)

6 Days Post Transfer (today):

And folks - that leads me to TODAY. This morning to be precise. I'm doing exactly as I did with my last transfer since, well...we have a toddler now (I mean: success!) And I had a really, quite honestly, uneventful pregnancy which went full term. Baby was textbook perfect - so why would I not do everything the same this time? 

Last time, on the morning of my 6th day post transfer, I took my first pregnancy test. A First Response Early Result pregnancy test to be exact. This is the one that apparently can detect trace amounts of hCG in your urine, earlier than other tests. I used it last time and it didn't let me down on 6dp5dt.

As I would assume most of you ladies know, when you take a POAS (pee on a stick) pregnancy test, you want to do the test FIRST thing in the morning - with your most concentrated pee. So if you wake up and have to pee at 5:30am - then you do your pregnancy test at 5:30am. I woke up at 5:30am, likely due to the suspense, but I laid there for half an hour trying to go back to sleep (yah right). It didn't work - so I got up and got my things together:

• 1 Dixie cup
• 1 FRER pregnancy test
• 1 generic Target pregnancy test (why not?)

Want to know what happened?... come back and check tomorrow!!

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Hahaha just kidding! 

Yah right you think I'm going to have time to write a long ass blog post tomorrow?!!!!

:)

We got a faint positive!!!