Hubby and I have talked about it and we've decided that going local will be much better unless we absolutely need to see my RE in the city. I'm very happy with that decision. I'd also forgotten that my Godfather, who delivered me, is a retired, but local ob/gyn. So I've asked my lovely mummy to give him a call to find out who's the best person to go and see locally. Yay!
Symptom wise, I'm feeling pretty normal today, just had a couple of mini cramps and that's it. For now I've got to assume that everything's okay and just be grateful for the lack of symptoms. Makes me nervous though...
Friday, 14 September 2012
Thursday, 13 September 2012
5 weeks & a decision to make
My RE finally got back to me tonight to say that my HCG numbers were much better and could I go for a scan either here or in the city (with him) on the 20th or 21st (which would make me around the 6w mark).
Now my decision is which to do. I'd like to stick with my RE/ OBGYN because he knows our history and I also know that he is very good at what he does. However thanks to flights and taxis, it'll cost about £122/$198 more each time I go for a scan. But I love the idea of going locally and being able to hop in the car, go to my scan, and then just come home again, all in a couple of hours at the most, rather than it taking the whole day if I go to the city. And then thinking further ahead, am I really going to move to the city for the last part of my pregnancy just so my current Dr can do the delivery? But then again, if hubby and I decided on an elective c-section that might be more feasible. Also what if something were to go wrong, I know at his clinic in the city, they've got the latest equipment both for mum and baby, locally I'm not so sure (but that's not to say that they don't, I just don't know). I think I've got some homework to do on that front.
But for the mean time, I just need to make a decision on where to go for my 6w scan... ??????
Oh and symptom wise, I'm not feeling much, only a couple of twinges today and boobs are a little swollen, but craving salt like a crazy woman. However, unlike my last pregnancy where I did pretty much zero exercise, I have been doing something everyday this time. Yesterday I was on the exercise bike for 20 minutes and today I did a pregnancy yoga workout I found on YouTube.
Now my decision is which to do. I'd like to stick with my RE/ OBGYN because he knows our history and I also know that he is very good at what he does. However thanks to flights and taxis, it'll cost about £122/$198 more each time I go for a scan. But I love the idea of going locally and being able to hop in the car, go to my scan, and then just come home again, all in a couple of hours at the most, rather than it taking the whole day if I go to the city. And then thinking further ahead, am I really going to move to the city for the last part of my pregnancy just so my current Dr can do the delivery? But then again, if hubby and I decided on an elective c-section that might be more feasible. Also what if something were to go wrong, I know at his clinic in the city, they've got the latest equipment both for mum and baby, locally I'm not so sure (but that's not to say that they don't, I just don't know). I think I've got some homework to do on that front.
But for the mean time, I just need to make a decision on where to go for my 6w scan... ??????
Oh and symptom wise, I'm not feeling much, only a couple of twinges today and boobs are a little swollen, but craving salt like a crazy woman. However, unlike my last pregnancy where I did pretty much zero exercise, I have been doing something everyday this time. Yesterday I was on the exercise bike for 20 minutes and today I did a pregnancy yoga workout I found on YouTube.
Tuesday, 11 September 2012
4w+5 - 2nd bHCG results are back
I've been stalking the clinic's online results thingy like a crazy woman and my results are just in. In those few seconds between the link appearing and me reading the result, I think I was close to having a heart attack! haha And my results was 427.7 and according to www.betabase.info for 18dpo (what I was yesterday) I am now bang on where I should be for a singleton pregnancy. Obviously I was straight on the phone to my lovely hubby who sounded very happy! I am so happy too and soooo relieved. Deep down I think I knew the result was going to be fine, but there was just that little niggling worry. But that's gone now, so I can just enjoy until it's time for the first scan where I'll obviously get all nervous and worried again. Phew!
Oh and I've emailed my RE my results so we'll see what he comes back with.
Oh and I've emailed my RE my results so we'll see what he comes back with.
Monday, 10 September 2012
4w+4
I can't believe I've already started bloating at night. It started the night before last and also last night I started feeling a bit queasy. I still feel like it this morning, and a bit light headed but I also feel quite coldy so I'm wondering if I'm coming down with a bug. I've also got a fairly persistent on/off cramp in the lower left side of my abdomen & I briefly got that metallic taste in my mouth. So today I'm feeling pretty bleh, but I'm hoping that it's all meaning that I'm well and truly pregnant, in which case I'm loving the bleh! haha. This afternoon I'm off for my second HCG test and by tomorrow I'll have a much better idea of how things are going. I have to admit that I'm really nervous. I really don't want it to all be over before it's really even begun. Fingers crossed!
Friday, 7 September 2012
4w+1 & blood test results are back
Today is when af was due to show up and she didn't - yay!!! And I've been stalking the clinic's online results section and mine are up, a whole 3 days before they told me they would be.
My beta HCG is 67.2 and the range they have for 4 weeks is 50 - 500.
Estradiol is 132.21, they don't have a range on there for pregnancy so no idea if that's okay or not.
Progesterone is 16.89 and the range for the 1st trimester is 11.22 - 90.
So, so far so good. I've emailed my RE with the results and we'll see what he comes back with.
As for pregnancy symptoms, apart from slightly fuller boobs and the occasional hot flush, nothing.
Update: My RE replied to say I need to go back for another HCG test and that I'm positive but on the low side. Thankfully in that sense I know not to stress too much as it's not so much to do with the level but rather the doubling time. So I'm going to go back on Monday for another test and we shall see. Fingers crossed!
My beta HCG is 67.2 and the range they have for 4 weeks is 50 - 500.
Estradiol is 132.21, they don't have a range on there for pregnancy so no idea if that's okay or not.
Progesterone is 16.89 and the range for the 1st trimester is 11.22 - 90.
So, so far so good. I've emailed my RE with the results and we'll see what he comes back with.
As for pregnancy symptoms, apart from slightly fuller boobs and the occasional hot flush, nothing.
Update: My RE replied to say I need to go back for another HCG test and that I'm positive but on the low side. Thankfully in that sense I know not to stress too much as it's not so much to do with the level but rather the doubling time. So I'm going to go back on Monday for another test and we shall see. Fingers crossed!
Thursday, 6 September 2012
We're pregnant - my first ever natural bfp!!!
I'm so glad that I followed my gut instinct and didn't start on the bcps for IVF #2 when the coordinator told me to!!! Hubby and I followed the Sperm meets Egg Plan, although we did miss the day before I ovulated. I was super relaxed about ttc this cycle as well because I honestly thought it wouldn't work so happily had a drink probably every night, though only one or two.
I did start to get sleepy really early over the past week and a bit but I thought it was more down to me also waking up really early. Then I started spotting at 8dpo which is really early for me but I thought that was me out, except that it stopped at 9dpo. Then when we had sex on 11dpo there was one wipe of blood (again I thought that was me out) but then nothing. Then hubby made a comment about my boobs being big, I thought it was the bra I was wearing. And then the night before he went back to work, we were having a discussion about something and I burst out crying for no reason. So with each of these things I wasn't symptom spotting but at the same time things were starting to make me curious and also I was daring to get a little hopeful. So there we are sitting in a restaurant at the airport waiting for hubby's flight yesterday with a fair bit of time to kill and I just blurted out that maybe we should take a pregnancy test just as something to do as it would kill 5 minutes. Hubby agreed so I popped next door to the restaurant which was a pharmacy and got myself a ClearBlue test. And there in the public toilets of the airport, I saw that blue cross appear within about 30 seconds. So I went back to the restaurant with a silly grin on my face and plopped the test stick in front of hubby and said, looks like we're pregnant. And then we spent the rest of the time pretty much in stunned shock that we beat the odds and actually got a natural bfp.
And so it all begins again. We agreed that we are not going to sit around worrying about things going wrong because if they're going to happen, they are going to happen and there's probably going to be nothing that we can do about it, so we're just going to enjoy this pregnancy for all it's worth! Though don't get me wrong, I know that each scan I'm going to be terrified of seeing that still screen again and that little heartbeat is going to be the first thing I look for before I start to breathe again. But I've got a good feeling about this one and so far my gut feelings have been pretty good so I'm just going to go with it.
I also emailed my RE right away to let him know and also to ask him what I needed to do now. So he emailed back saying I needed to get blood tests for HCG obviously, as well as progesterone and estradiol. I'm just back from getting those done though they said that they results wouldn't be in until Monday at 6pm! I'm hoping that the results will be up online well before that though. And I think I'll stick with my RE and all the travelling that it'll involve until the end of the first trimester as I like him, I trust him, and I know he'll do everything he can to look after me and make sure this pregnancy is a success.
So there we go, I'm still in shock and probably won't start to accept it until the HCG results are back, and again it won't really feel real until that first scan, which I hope will be sooner rather than later.
I did start to get sleepy really early over the past week and a bit but I thought it was more down to me also waking up really early. Then I started spotting at 8dpo which is really early for me but I thought that was me out, except that it stopped at 9dpo. Then when we had sex on 11dpo there was one wipe of blood (again I thought that was me out) but then nothing. Then hubby made a comment about my boobs being big, I thought it was the bra I was wearing. And then the night before he went back to work, we were having a discussion about something and I burst out crying for no reason. So with each of these things I wasn't symptom spotting but at the same time things were starting to make me curious and also I was daring to get a little hopeful. So there we are sitting in a restaurant at the airport waiting for hubby's flight yesterday with a fair bit of time to kill and I just blurted out that maybe we should take a pregnancy test just as something to do as it would kill 5 minutes. Hubby agreed so I popped next door to the restaurant which was a pharmacy and got myself a ClearBlue test. And there in the public toilets of the airport, I saw that blue cross appear within about 30 seconds. So I went back to the restaurant with a silly grin on my face and plopped the test stick in front of hubby and said, looks like we're pregnant. And then we spent the rest of the time pretty much in stunned shock that we beat the odds and actually got a natural bfp.
And so it all begins again. We agreed that we are not going to sit around worrying about things going wrong because if they're going to happen, they are going to happen and there's probably going to be nothing that we can do about it, so we're just going to enjoy this pregnancy for all it's worth! Though don't get me wrong, I know that each scan I'm going to be terrified of seeing that still screen again and that little heartbeat is going to be the first thing I look for before I start to breathe again. But I've got a good feeling about this one and so far my gut feelings have been pretty good so I'm just going to go with it.
I also emailed my RE right away to let him know and also to ask him what I needed to do now. So he emailed back saying I needed to get blood tests for HCG obviously, as well as progesterone and estradiol. I'm just back from getting those done though they said that they results wouldn't be in until Monday at 6pm! I'm hoping that the results will be up online well before that though. And I think I'll stick with my RE and all the travelling that it'll involve until the end of the first trimester as I like him, I trust him, and I know he'll do everything he can to look after me and make sure this pregnancy is a success.
So there we go, I'm still in shock and probably won't start to accept it until the HCG results are back, and again it won't really feel real until that first scan, which I hope will be sooner rather than later.
Wednesday, 5 September 2012
Well that was unexpected!
I'll post more tomorrow when it's sunk in a bit more. Hubby and I are in shock!!! And obviously very happy!
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