So now I can write a little more that we're back from Maine and the parents are all in the loop. Phew! Everyone knows how hard it is for me to keep a secret, I'm awful at it. I always spill Christmas and birthday presents early, so this was super hard. We surprised them with little cards that have champagne glasses cheering with milk congratulating them to be grandparents.
We're just 5 weeks along and very, very excited and super- surprised! After speaking with our doctor and checking my daily morning temperatures, we were pretty certain we would miss for July. But, if I followed the ovulation tests, we were right on. So it was difficult to figure out who was right. I'm soo happy the ovulation tests won!
My HCG numbers have returned relatively high:
3wk 4day - 145 HCG (early last week)
4wk 0 Day - 330 HCG (mid last week)
... and my progesterone 3wk 4day clocked in at a whopping 42.93! The great news is that the HCG numbers are more than doubling every 48 hours and my progesterone is high, which can lend to a really healthy pregnancy. We have a very early ultrasound scheduled for Thurs, Aug 9th at 2pm. I'll be 5wks & 1 day. My doctor says there's a great chance we can see sacs. There's a very big chance that there's more than one little muffin in the oven, given my first round of numbers are very high. Especially where I had the HSG 4 days earlier, and released a bunch of little eggs on the left side. Patrick and I will be totally thrilled with 1,2,3... Any number is perfect in our eyes.
Today I had another HCG test, checking the numbers and hoping for really really high ones at this point, where they should double & it's been a bit where we were in Maine. The new numbers should be in tomorrow morning. Keep your fingers crossed for big numbers!! I'm also getting pretty good at getting my blood taken, I no longer gag. I found a 'secret location' for St. Joe's satellite lab that hardly anyone knows about - there's never a wait at all. If you go to the main lab, they don't even give you an estimated time of getting out. It's usually atleast an hour. So I go and visit my friend Nelly and she gets the little butterfly needle that doesn't kill me and I'm in and out in 10 minutes flat.
I can say the one little bummer is I was banned from Maine Lobster. I'm sure everyone who knows me knows how insane that was for me! Patrick had 4 lobsters & Mom had 2 - they were insane soft-shells too. But I got an italian sandwich with lots of olives, one of my other favs, to try go get through it all. I'll give up lobbys for a bit, no problem at all.
It's still very early, so lots of prayers and one day at a time.
Can't wait for Thursday! (its awesome to look forward to Thursday for another reason other than Survivor ....)
~ Kristin
Thankfully yesterday I just pulled a ligament somewhere. The little bean is just fine and now (although it is hard) you can see the little bean! The doctor said the size is really good & also we got our first heartbeat! It was at 120, which is slow & normal for 6 wks 1 day. We'll go in again at the end of the month and it should be alot faster then.
