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Aria
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We're having a baby or two!!
I got the call not too long ago, then set out calling people. My hCG is 149 right now, and there will be another blood test on Friday to make sure it's doubling. Then the first obstetric ultrasound will be scheduled for two weeks from right now and we'll be able to tell them how many, and then an obstetric ultrasound two weeks later, and then being released from the fertility department to an OB/GYN!!
Cody doesn't know yet. He'll find out Friday afternoon. I have a little surprise plan. He doesn't even know I've have my blood drawn yet. He'll be thrilled to know though. I'll write about what he does on Friday!!
As I wrote in the LTTTC section yesterday, this is what we've been through to get here:
I've taken 14 home tests, but wasn't going to believe them until I heard official word.
If you want to see the progression pictures of all 14 tests, you can click these links. They go to my Wordpress blog. I could be a one-woman study of "Do the lines get darker as the days go by, and do the lines get lighter the later in the day it is?"
10DPO: Test 1
10DPO for #2 and 11DPO for #3: Tests 2 and 3
11DPO: Test 4 and trying an OPK
12DPO: Tests 5 and 6 and Test 7
13DPO: Tests 8 and 9 and Test 10 and Test 11 and Test 12
14DPO (today!!): Test 13 and Test 14
No I need to stop shaking. I have to appear normal so Cody doesn't suspect yet! And for the inquiring minds, I'll be having a scheduled c-section, not elective. My dream birth would be a home water birth, but a previous medical issue already makes me high risk just to carry to full term. So c-section it is, and that terrifies me more than anything else.
I got the call not too long ago, then set out calling people. My hCG is 149 right now, and there will be another blood test on Friday to make sure it's doubling. Then the first obstetric ultrasound will be scheduled for two weeks from right now and we'll be able to tell them how many, and then an obstetric ultrasound two weeks later, and then being released from the fertility department to an OB/GYN!!
Cody doesn't know yet. He'll find out Friday afternoon. I have a little surprise plan. He doesn't even know I've have my blood drawn yet. He'll be thrilled to know though. I'll write about what he does on Friday!!
As I wrote in the LTTTC section yesterday, this is what we've been through to get here:
Long story short:
Got pregnant at 18 despite a ton of bc (pill, condom, spermicide, and diaphragm every single time). m/c'd.
I've been infertile since I was 19, hit by a car, bad times.
Been ttc as much as we can for a year. I saw "as much as we can" because we couldn't start IVF right away.
Since November:
First cycle had four faint positives early on (the retrieval was on my 28th birthday!!, and one day after his 26th birthday), then the beta came back negative. Doctor said chemical pregnancy, and that's a nicer way to say miscarriage. So it's considered to be a loss of two more. Got this news three days before Christmas. Sad times.
Second cycle nothing. Not even close. Somehow I knew early on nothing would come of it.
So two frozen embies from cycle #1 and seven more from cycle #2. Decided on a frozen transfer.
Natural cycle FET, low-dose hCG trigger on the 9th, transfer of two on the 16th. The first two thawed made it!
On the 21st I started getting positive tests, that soon after. A total of nine positives, no negatives.
Got pregnant at 18 despite a ton of bc (pill, condom, spermicide, and diaphragm every single time). m/c'd.
I've been infertile since I was 19, hit by a car, bad times.
Been ttc as much as we can for a year. I saw "as much as we can" because we couldn't start IVF right away.
Since November:
First cycle had four faint positives early on (the retrieval was on my 28th birthday!!, and one day after his 26th birthday), then the beta came back negative. Doctor said chemical pregnancy, and that's a nicer way to say miscarriage. So it's considered to be a loss of two more. Got this news three days before Christmas. Sad times.
Second cycle nothing. Not even close. Somehow I knew early on nothing would come of it.
So two frozen embies from cycle #1 and seven more from cycle #2. Decided on a frozen transfer.
Natural cycle FET, low-dose hCG trigger on the 9th, transfer of two on the 16th. The first two thawed made it!
On the 21st I started getting positive tests, that soon after. A total of nine positives, no negatives.
I've taken 14 home tests, but wasn't going to believe them until I heard official word.
If you want to see the progression pictures of all 14 tests, you can click these links. They go to my Wordpress blog. I could be a one-woman study of "Do the lines get darker as the days go by, and do the lines get lighter the later in the day it is?"
10DPO: Test 1
10DPO for #2 and 11DPO for #3: Tests 2 and 3
11DPO: Test 4 and trying an OPK
12DPO: Tests 5 and 6 and Test 7
13DPO: Tests 8 and 9 and Test 10 and Test 11 and Test 12
14DPO (today!!): Test 13 and Test 14
No I need to stop shaking. I have to appear normal so Cody doesn't suspect yet! And for the inquiring minds, I'll be having a scheduled c-section, not elective. My dream birth would be a home water birth, but a previous medical issue already makes me high risk just to carry to full term. So c-section it is, and that terrifies me more than anything else.
I hope you have a H & H 9 months! 
xx
