13 Weeks

We are 13 weeks today. Officially made it through the first trimester and start the second episode of this journey.

First appointment with OB

Today was our first appointment with our OB. All went well. First we had an appointment with the doctor, that was very routine, internal exam, blood test, just the routine first appointment. After the doctor we had an appointment for our nuchal transluency test.If you don't know this is an ultrasound where they check for Down's Syndrome and other chromosomal abnormalities. We did not get the final results of that but the doctor said it looked good. We also got to look at the little baby and he/she was dancing around and putting on a show for Mommie and Daddy. We are 11w4d and the baby measured 12w2d. It was a very exciting appointment!!

First OB appointment - kind of

We had our first appointment yesterday at the new OB clinic. There is not much to report on that, we met with the nurse to go over our history and had some blood test and 2 hours later we were on our way. That was about all there was to that. We do meet with the doctor on 10/1 for our first real appointment. I'm not real sure what the appointment will consist of but we do have an appointment after that for the Nuchal Translucency Test. That is an ultrasound to check for downs syndrome and the such. Ashlea and Bill are super excited about the ultrasound and getting to see her little baby again. On the other side of things, being pregnant at 50 really has not been that bad. I have had no morning sickness so that is good. I am now beginning to come out of the tiredness, that was a butt kicker with have to work a full time job and trying to maintain a household. Luckily I have a super understanding husband, we ate out a lot and I spent pretty much my entire weekends on the couch. Hopefully I will have a cute little baby picture to share with you next week.

Ultrasound update

First, let me apologize for posting so late. I have been swamped at work and have been so exhausted I can hardly function. The ultrasound results were great. We had the test on 7w5d and the baby measured 7w6d so that it good. Better to be a little ahead than a little behind. The heartbeat was 160 and that is right where it should be so all in all it was a great appointment. We have now graduated from the fertility clinic and will be going to a High Risk OB, not that it is necessary but at Ashlea's insistence. I'm not sure how that will be any different but I guess we will find out more at our first appointment. More to come!!!

Beta # 2

2642 - Pretty amazing. We have our ultrasound appointment for September 3rd, we will find out if it is one or two but most importantly we will find out if everything looks good.

Beta #1 - results are in

959


We had our first beta test on Monday. I went to the clinic to have the test done and then went to Ashlea's house to wait for the results and to take a pregnancy test. The test we took that morning was a very strong positive, the test line was darker than the control line so we knew we were pregnant. We just had to wait for the number to come in. I'm sure some of you know what a long wait that 5 or 6 hours can be. We literally sit there and watched the clock. Once it was close to time for the call we were ckecking the clock about every 4 minutes.

The call finally comes and they tell Ashlea that our number is 959, WOW!!! That is a good strong number, in fact, the doctor wanted me to increase my Folic Acid because he said it could very well be twins. TWINS, that makes us both very excited and very nervous but we will have to wait for the seven week ultrasound to see if it is one little baby or two. Just to have one would be such a great blessing, two would be unbelieveable.

We have our second beta test this morning and should have the results by early afternoon. We just need that number to at least double!

Transfer # 2

Since I last posted a lot has happened. Ashlea has had her egg retrieval and that went well. She has 13 eggs retrieved and 8 of those fertilized. We went in on Monday for our transfer and would find out at that point how the embryos were doing. Our appointment was later in the day because they realized on retrieval day that Bill had taken one of his test too early and he had to retake it that day and they wanted to make sure the results were back in time.

Back to the embryos, so on Monday (transfer day) all 8 were still going but it looked like 3 were not going to make it so that left us with 5 - 8 cell embryos on day three. That is just where they should be. So, as I sit there with my full bladder, the test results are not there and because of FDA regulations they can not transfer until they have the test results. We hear them calling and talking to people and calling again. Finally about an hour later the doctor comes back in and says that the results are not going to be there until the next day so they will take the embryos to 5 days and we will transfer on Wednesday. Now we get to wait 2 more days and wonder and worry what the embryos are going to do, will they make it to 5 days, will we have any to transfer?

So fast forward to Wednesday, transfer day again. I meet Ashlea at the clinic and we go back to talk to the doctor and we have 3 - 5 day embryos (I say we like they are mine, I should say they). Two look good and one might not make it so they are going to transfer the best two and let the one grow one more day and see if it will make it to freeze, it does not. The two we transferred look good, one was hatching already as you can see from the picture below.

We do not plan on taking any pregnancy test until the morning of the blood test. Do you remember we said that last time but we did end up taking a test about 3 days before and had a weak positive and we googled ourselves into insanity. Hopefully we will stick with the no test this time but I will not promise that. We have our first blood test on 8/12 and the second one on 8/14. There are no embryos left but that is OK because we are not going to need them. This is going to be the one!