I know there's not much going on over here these days (I expect a massive new wave of bump buddies soon!), but I'm jumping in with my first post so I can keep my girls from phase 1 updated!
I'll be 11 weeks tomorrow and it still feels unreal to me that I'm pregnant. A run down of what's happened so far... At 9 weeks, I had an ultrasound check up with my RE and everything looked good. The baby had grown sufficiently and the heartbeat went from 121 at 7 weeks to 168 at 9 weeks. I was released to my referring OB. The only problem was that my referring gyno (a relatively new one locally that I just started seeing a few months before the RE became by main squeeze) doesn't see OB patients. Her practice wanted me to see a new doctor I'd never met, who just passed her boards last year. Not that she wouldn't be perfectly well qualified, but I wasn't on board with that.
So through a lovely turn of events, I'm back with my doctor of over a decade back in my home town. It's an hour+ drive each way, but it's totally worth it. He's done all of my surgeries in the past and I have full confidence in him. At my first check up with him at 10 weeks, he said that my uterus is measuring larger than it should be. Unfortunately, that means I have another fibroid. Ugh! I knew it was a possibility, especially with all of the fertility meds. At my ultrasound right before my IUI, the RE said she thought she saw something and had I not gotten pregnant I was going to have to have a saline test to see what it was. I guess it really was something. Nothing to do now but watch it and see if it grows so large as to interfere with baby's growth. He said removing it during pregnancy would most certainly lead to me losing the baby and most likely losing my uterus, so now we just wait. Other than that, things are looking good though!
I had nausea from about week 6-9, with just a few days of it being really bad, but that's settled down. Heartburn is a constant. I'm no longer a stranger to food aversions or food cravings, but they haven't been terrible. I'm tired all the time. I have serious shortness of breathe, but my doctor said it's normal with the progesterone. I'm still on a supplement for a few more days and the shortness of breathe started right about the time that my body would have started making it on it's own, so I'm hoping that gets better once I stop the supplements. I've had no spotting, so I'm very relieved of that and hope that it's a great sign. I have had some cramping, but nothing consistent and never painful. I'm hoping it's just stretching cramps. I have a general feeling of "blah', but overall, I can't really complain. It's not as bad as I expected in some ways and it's just not at all what I expected in others.
Next up is the screening for chromosomal abnormalities. My appt is in two weeks and I'm terrified. Not so much about the results, but I have a fear that when they do the NT ultrasound, there won't be a heartbeat anymore. Of course, there is some worry associated with the results, but DH and I have talked and have a pretty clear agreement of the fine line between what we feel we could handle and what we wouldn't want to subject a child to. It's become very clear to me recently that the worrying truly never stops, there's always another hurdle. We're just taking it one day at a time and that seems to be working. And honestly, I think it helps that I don't really think about being pregnant. Not in a bad way, I think about it every day obviously, but I'm not obsessing about it. And that's helping me not obsess about all that could still go wrong. If I can just make it through the next few weeks, I think I'll finally exhale and be able to start planning things and getting excited. In the meantime, I'm going to be searching for a black market ultrasound machine that I use at home every few days for reassurance. (kidding, a little!)
Hopefully they can give her lots of attention!
She has a million of them along with baby headbands. 
you have to feel so helpless, so I'm sure getting that Zantac for her was such a relief for you both.
