We know their story. Well not their EXACT story, but we know what they’re going through. 

We had our 12.5 week ultrasound and everything looks great! Baby S is growing like it’s supposed to! We even saw it practicing swallowing fluids and it had the hiccups! It was so stinkin’ cute! Heartbeat is 155 (even with the hiccup interruptions) 

In our hospital you get ultrasounds at one central place. It’s definitely kind of weird that it’s not at the actual doctors office but also makes sense to have all patients go to one place then put it in our file in the computer. Anyway, the ultrasound office is just down the hall from our fertility clinic. And there were a number of times we’d be in the waiting room at the clinic and expectant moms would go to the fertility clinic thinking it was where they needed to be. It didn’t bother us too much because we really tried to stay positive through the whole process, but there were times it just kind of stung. And who knows if it bothered other couples there. It’s all part of the infertility game of life- you see pregnant woman and sometimes it takes all you can to just turn your head the other way. 

Anyway, back to the couple. As we were leaving from our ultrasound a couple was leaving from the fertility clinic. And Laryen and I just squeezed each other’s hands a little tighter. We hope and pray they’ll get the answers they’re wishing and praying for, just like we were lucky enough to get. ❤️

Can it be? Can we really be almost done with the first trimester? What a milestone changing the number on our banner this morning! As my friend Trish always says: “God is good all the time. All the time God is good.” And that is just so true, isn’t it? 

We are excited for our 12.5 week ultrasound next week and as long as everything looks good, we can’t wait to tell the rest of our family and friends. I can’t describe how we’re feeling about that. The only word that comes to mind is Ahhhhhhhhhhh!! 😉

We are all signed up for “Childbirth 101” class at our hospital. Another thing to check off the list…which seems to get longer and longer every day! LOL Just one thing at a time.

Hi blog world! It’s my (and my parents) graduation day!!

(P.S. see my arms, legs, and even eyes?!! I’m getting so big!)

Yes, we have officially graduated from our fertility doctor…now we only see the OB! It was bittersweet but we are just so happy that our little embie likes its home enough to stay for a while and allow us to graduate!

 

And our 10.5 week ultrasound was the perfect way to end our time at the fertility clinic! Our baby was dancing and moving around-it was soooo cool!

I’m feeling ok. The nausea comes and goes and gets worse at night. And I’m still really tired but I think now that I’m not taking the progesterone pills that will get better soon too. But I’m so happy that I even have “symptoms,” it’s just so great! ☺️

“Does this mean we’re normal?” That’s what I asked Laryen this week as we went to our first ob appointment, you know where all the non-infertile people go when they realize they’re pregnant. Ya know, all those normal peeps. Lol.

It felt so weird there. They asked normal questions like “when was your last pap” and”what kind of prenatal vitamins are you taking” not “come in on day 3 of your cycle so we can check for cysts” or “when’s the last time your husband had his sperm examined?” And now that we’re at the “normal” stage it does give us a teeeeeeeny more sense of “ok, this is going how it’s supposed to. Baby embie is growing and growing like it’s supposed to.” Unfortunately I think because of everything we’ve gone through I think Laryen and I are both wondering when the next shoe is going to drop. But through hope and prayers we know 1) it’s out of our hands and 2) hopefully the shoes just wanna stay up there on a shelf for a while.

10 weeks not only means

we’re in the double digits but it’s time to say so long to my meds! At 10 weeks the placenta takes over and provides the progesterone and estrogen for the little babe, so bye bye pills! It’s so weird– I feel like I’m totally forgetting to do something because I’m so used to always taking some medicine or a shot or something on our calendar. Now all I need to take is my prenatals and that’s it! The good thing is less progesterone means less bloat so hopefully I’ll look more pregnant as opposed to bloated and pregnant next week! Even though isn’t pregnancy really all the same thing? 🙂