I think I want to try to revive this lonely old blog. For the last few months I've been toying with the idea and I think I'm ready to give it a real shot.
A lot has happened since my last post some 2 years ago. I now have a 2 year old little girl whom I love and adore more each day. Life is great with her in it and we have so much fun!
We started trying for #2 pretty much immediately after my period returned in December of 2013. Brad and I were hoping that we would be one of those lucky couples that would be fixed after going through infertility treatments for our first child. Maybe my body had "reset itself" and I would get pregnant the old fashioned way? Well, not so much luck on that front. By November of 2014, we were back at Dr. Springer's office to talk about what he recommended and where we would like to go with treatment....Straight to IVF since the other options did not work for us last time.
So, we geared up to cycle for January. Our original plan was to use the 2 embryos we had on ice from the last cycle we did in 2012. Long story short, those were anticipated to not survive the thaw. This was not what we wanted to hear. The doctor wanted us to do a fresh cycle. We would still thaw the older embryos before the transfer, but this way we would have some fresh embies to choose from if those older ones were in fact, no good. We got to the transfer and were made aware that our frozen embryos did not make it but that we had 2 good embryos from this cycle that we could transfer back. Fast forward to the day of my blood test- my hcg was 19 and I was spotting. When they rechecked me 3 days later, my hcg was 7. It was over.
Brad and I collected ourselves and immediately decided that we would try again in March. My insurance coverage for IVF ran out as of April 1st, so this was our last hoorah. I threw myself into acupuncture again, started doing yoga, running, and meditating. Not sure how I had time for all these things in my hectic life, but I managed to do them and not get too stressed out.
We did a day-2 transfer this time around because of my ridiculous work schedule and put 2 back, just like before. On April 13th, I got the call at 2:28 pm. Hcg was 320! OMG, it worked! Two days later it came back at 960. It was really happening. Oh, soooo happy! Both of our ultrasounds went great. Everything was measuring perfectly on track. The doctor released me on May 1st. I was 6 weeks 6 days. Baby had a heartbeat of 125....just one baby that is...no twins for us. :)
Fast forward to today: I'm 8 weeks 2 days and feeling like crap 24/7. While I'm happy to have a constant reminder that I'm pregnant, being sick all day long definitely takes it's toll on me. It's funny how different this time around has been so far. I guess I figured it would be the same as when I was pregnant with Olivia. I've had nausea since I was 4w3d this time around and it's definitely more intense than the first pregnancy. I still haven't thrown up but there are days when I dry heave over the toilet...fun. Exhaustion hit me like a brick wall last week. I'M SO TIRED!!! My boobs are growing, so that is a welcome change. I wish they weren't so darn sore though...that part is not so welcome. And I swear, I already look bigger. I haven't gained any weight, but I think I've got some bloat going on...not sure how long this will be a secret if I start showing before I'm out of first tri.
So here I am, pregnant with my second little miracle. Blissfully happy is an understatement. I really wanted to chronicle this pregnancy the way that I did last time, so I'm hoping to keep up the posting this time around. We'll see if I can make it. I think I'll start doing weekly updates in a couple of weeks.
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