Well I just got my results back from my OB office... I jumped from 872 on Monday to 1635 on Wednesday. This puts me right on track for being five weeks today! Wow... this is insane. I just booked my 10 week appointment (5 more to go!) for 11/4 at 7:30am I'm shaking with excitement. The OB office receptionist was so happy for me she just kept saying congratulations and how excited the office is for me... aww, it's like family!
I'm kinda nervous about going to the Nascar race now... maybe I'll just stay at the food stations, lol. I don't really want to inhale all those fumes but don't want to look funny with a face mask -- hmm, we'll have to rethink this Ryan!
Today I woke up to watermelons... okay not really, but I swear they have grown. They are just so swollen and sore, ouch. The warm shower made them feel a little better... and after having a small cup of 1/2 caff 1/2 decaf coffee I was more awake and less achey too.
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
2nd Beta Today
Today we have the 2nd round of our Beta (HCG) testing, we get the results tomorrow so we'll know if the numbers are going up or not... we WANT them to go up, that means this little bean is sticking! The numbers should double every 48-72 hours. Fingers crossed!!!
My symptoms have eased up a bit, thank God. I have been more hungry though, I eat breakfast at 7am and then am hungry by 9:30am... but the good thing is I've been craving relatively healthy foods - soup, salad, hot sandwiches. I'm assuming its just a salt craving though... hmm, old wives tales say salt = boys. I have been predicted (based on our age & month of conception) a boy too. Ryan thinks girl, I just have a gut instinct it's a boy. No worries though, we won't hold off on knowing the sex... we should find out in early December!!!
I have been more tired lately, I guess baby wears me out. We crawled into bed at 8pm last night -- I was asleep by 8:45, usually we don't go to sleep until 10pm! Needless to say I was wide awake at 6:30am with a full bladder... that's getting to be a little bit of a nuisance! :)
Everything else is so far so good... some mild white heads and pimples on my chin, I feel like I'm 14 again... and mood swings - WATCH OUT, I can attack at anytime! LOL
My symptoms have eased up a bit, thank God. I have been more hungry though, I eat breakfast at 7am and then am hungry by 9:30am... but the good thing is I've been craving relatively healthy foods - soup, salad, hot sandwiches. I'm assuming its just a salt craving though... hmm, old wives tales say salt = boys. I have been predicted (based on our age & month of conception) a boy too. Ryan thinks girl, I just have a gut instinct it's a boy. No worries though, we won't hold off on knowing the sex... we should find out in early December!!!
I have been more tired lately, I guess baby wears me out. We crawled into bed at 8pm last night -- I was asleep by 8:45, usually we don't go to sleep until 10pm! Needless to say I was wide awake at 6:30am with a full bladder... that's getting to be a little bit of a nuisance! :)
Everything else is so far so good... some mild white heads and pimples on my chin, I feel like I'm 14 again... and mood swings - WATCH OUT, I can attack at anytime! LOL
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
It's official... we're pregnant!!!
Just got off the phone with the nurse at my OB office a bit ago... she called to tell me that I am "indeed definitely pregnant" and that my "progesterone levels look very, very good".
HCG - 872
Progesterone - 18.3
I have my 2nd round of lab work tomorrow and should know those results Thursday afternoon... then can schedule my 10 week appointment (hello, ultrasound!) once I get confirmation that my levels are rising... woohoo!
I still have no idea how far along I am for sure, but I'm sticking with what I have... I am pretty sure Thursday the 29th will be 5 weeks for me!!
We are so blessed, happy, nervous, anxious and scared... :)
HCG - 872
Progesterone - 18.3
I have my 2nd round of lab work tomorrow and should know those results Thursday afternoon... then can schedule my 10 week appointment (hello, ultrasound!) once I get confirmation that my levels are rising... woohoo!
I still have no idea how far along I am for sure, but I'm sticking with what I have... I am pretty sure Thursday the 29th will be 5 weeks for me!!
We are so blessed, happy, nervous, anxious and scared... :)
Labwork
So yesterday I went into my new OB's office to pick up my lab paperwork to get blood drawn. Wow, a very big and busy office... that's a good sign, right? Definitely a nice office and right next the hospital that's a major perk in case of emergency! I had my blood drawn yesterday and go in tomorrow for a 2nd draw so they can compare my levels. I'm eager because with my miscarriage my levels were both below 5 (aka Not Pregnant) so I'm curious to see how much they are jumping. I feel like I'm 5 weeks along, but I really have no clue, hopefully they can guesstimate it!!
Today has been pretty good, I woke up feeling really good (minus a bloated belly and I swear my breasts grew a cup size!!) Okay, maybe not really but it sure feels like it. I have only had one nausea/gagging moment since waking as of now... I had a cup of decaf green tea + honey and a Pillsbury Toaster Strudel for breakfast... yum. Last night we had soup & sandwiches, so I'll probably reheat that soon for lunch. It's so weird, for about the past week I've been craving lunch at 10-11am, whereas before I could skip lunch all together! I guess this little bean is causing me to be more hungry or something!
I'm going to start my Pilates DVD today, it'll help me become more flexible in time for labor and make those labor pains a little easier -- well, according to what others have been telling me!
I have little pinching pains down in my pelvic and hip areas -- I read this could be my uterus stretching, blahh!!!
I am creating a little registry on Diapers.com -- more so for my benefit than yours, so I can find things I like without writing it down and losing them! Plus this way it'll be nice and organized by the time I do need to let people know about our registry, baby showers, etc. I'm hoping I'll be able to go back home (Seattle) for a baby shower with family & friends before this bean is born but if not I can always do a registry by mail :) I'm excited to decorate babies room... I'm a girl, I look at baby stuff all the time! We have our nursery decor picked out, but that's the easy party... and it's an aqua blue so its gender neutral... but don't worry, I WILL FIND OUT THE SEX... I'm not that patient!
Today has been pretty good, I woke up feeling really good (minus a bloated belly and I swear my breasts grew a cup size!!) Okay, maybe not really but it sure feels like it. I have only had one nausea/gagging moment since waking as of now... I had a cup of decaf green tea + honey and a Pillsbury Toaster Strudel for breakfast... yum. Last night we had soup & sandwiches, so I'll probably reheat that soon for lunch. It's so weird, for about the past week I've been craving lunch at 10-11am, whereas before I could skip lunch all together! I guess this little bean is causing me to be more hungry or something!
I'm going to start my Pilates DVD today, it'll help me become more flexible in time for labor and make those labor pains a little easier -- well, according to what others have been telling me!
I have little pinching pains down in my pelvic and hip areas -- I read this could be my uterus stretching, blahh!!!
I am creating a little registry on Diapers.com -- more so for my benefit than yours, so I can find things I like without writing it down and losing them! Plus this way it'll be nice and organized by the time I do need to let people know about our registry, baby showers, etc. I'm hoping I'll be able to go back home (Seattle) for a baby shower with family & friends before this bean is born but if not I can always do a registry by mail :) I'm excited to decorate babies room... I'm a girl, I look at baby stuff all the time! We have our nursery decor picked out, but that's the easy party... and it's an aqua blue so its gender neutral... but don't worry, I WILL FIND OUT THE SEX... I'm not that patient!
Monday, September 27, 2010
Blessing in disguise
Wow, I can't believe it... we're PREGNANT... again!!! For those of you who don't know, we did conceive in August and found out through a home pregnancy test on August 16... unfortunately, we miscarried around August 26 and was confirmed on August 30 that I was no longer pregnant.
We were sad, but not devastated... as everything happens for a reason, even if we don't know why. We chugged along and knew our time would come some day.
On September 24th as I was drinking my small glass of wine I started feeling extremely sick and nauseated. All day I'd felt really weird and the day prior I was so sleepy, I just thought maybe I was catching the Flu that was circulating Ryan's work...
Just to ease my mind, I took a pregnancy test at 6:00pm. Immediately a pink line appeared, meaning I was pregnant. We rushed off to Walmart and picked up First Response & Clearblue Easy Digital Tests... I immediately took the FRER/First Response and got a faint, but there pink line... no mistaking it, I had to be pregnant! All night I kept thinking this was a dream. Since the miscarriage I didn't even have a period, how could this be? I'd read stories of how % of conceiving after a miscarriage is very high, but wow... this fast?
The next morning, September 25 I took another two pregnancy tests... this time the FRER again and then the Clearblue Easy Digital test (which reads out "Pregnant" or "Not Pregnant"). The FRER was first... the line showed up much quicker this time. Then I did the CBE Digital... the test says to wait 3 minutes for results... no more than 1 minute had passed when it read "PREGNANT". Wow, Wow... I was in shock! I had taken this test so many times before and gotten "Not Pregnant"...
Reflecting on how I was feeling all week started to make so much sense... the extreme gagging, nausea/dizziness, fatigue, starving at 10-11am, eating more, drinking more water, using the bathroom more... the lingering tension headache. Of course, pregnancy symptoms!!!
As of now I believe my due date is June 2, 2011. Of course this could change since I really don't know how far along I am.
My symptoms range through the day and it's awful. It's comforting because clearly I know I'm pregnant but just awful... fatigue within 2-3 hours after waking, gagging, pimples like I'm 13 years old, dry skin, HUNGRY... man what do I have in me, twins? Triplets? jeesh... I'm eating like a fat kid lately... healthy, but like a fat kid.
We were sad, but not devastated... as everything happens for a reason, even if we don't know why. We chugged along and knew our time would come some day.
On September 24th as I was drinking my small glass of wine I started feeling extremely sick and nauseated. All day I'd felt really weird and the day prior I was so sleepy, I just thought maybe I was catching the Flu that was circulating Ryan's work...
Just to ease my mind, I took a pregnancy test at 6:00pm. Immediately a pink line appeared, meaning I was pregnant. We rushed off to Walmart and picked up First Response & Clearblue Easy Digital Tests... I immediately took the FRER/First Response and got a faint, but there pink line... no mistaking it, I had to be pregnant! All night I kept thinking this was a dream. Since the miscarriage I didn't even have a period, how could this be? I'd read stories of how % of conceiving after a miscarriage is very high, but wow... this fast?
The next morning, September 25 I took another two pregnancy tests... this time the FRER again and then the Clearblue Easy Digital test (which reads out "Pregnant" or "Not Pregnant"). The FRER was first... the line showed up much quicker this time. Then I did the CBE Digital... the test says to wait 3 minutes for results... no more than 1 minute had passed when it read "PREGNANT". Wow, Wow... I was in shock! I had taken this test so many times before and gotten "Not Pregnant"...
Reflecting on how I was feeling all week started to make so much sense... the extreme gagging, nausea/dizziness, fatigue, starving at 10-11am, eating more, drinking more water, using the bathroom more... the lingering tension headache. Of course, pregnancy symptoms!!!
As of now I believe my due date is June 2, 2011. Of course this could change since I really don't know how far along I am.
My symptoms range through the day and it's awful. It's comforting because clearly I know I'm pregnant but just awful... fatigue within 2-3 hours after waking, gagging, pimples like I'm 13 years old, dry skin, HUNGRY... man what do I have in me, twins? Triplets? jeesh... I'm eating like a fat kid lately... healthy, but like a fat kid.
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