10 weeeks

10 Weeks!

How big is baby? The size of a prune. About 1.2 inches!
Symptoms: Still gagging/dry heaving a TON and throwing up whenever I have any sort of food in my stomach. Blech.  I'm also having very, very vivid dreams. Last night I dreamed I had to hide my cats from the Nazis (WTF?) and that I was being attacked by a killer placenta--only it didn't look like a normal placenta. It looked like that thing from the Alien movies that attaches itself to your face. It was creepy. My boobs are also huge. I only have one bra left that fits halfway decently. I've also been dreaming about food--a lot. Then I wake up even more starving. I honestly think this kid is determined to return me to a carnivore because I've been dreaming about pulled pork sandwiches. Random, right?
Total weight gain/loss: None
Maternity clothes? Jeans and a few shirts.
Sleep: My back has been hurting, even with a pillow between the legs. I'm still up frequently to pee (It's only going to get worse, right?) and having trouble going back to sleep so I end up awake from 4-6 and then end up sleeping until 9 at least.
Best moment this week: A friend telling me I'm actually starting to show. I think that Mike and I also decided on God Parents though we will have to confirm our choices once we meet with our Priest on post. Another great moment that's not baby-related was booking our tickets to see family in March! I've already nominated Mike to change every one of Charlotte's diapers- he needs the practice.
Movement:   None that I can feel.
Food cravings: I did crave Thai this week and it was so good. Mango curry with tofu. Yummmm!
Gender:  Too early.
Labor Signs:  Nope.
Belly Button in or out?  In.
What I miss:  Sleeping and eating like a normal person. I hope at least the eating thing gets better soon.
What I am looking forward to: Feeling the baby move.
Next Appointment: 1/27 for another ultrasound and then I will graduate to the OB!
Weekly Wisdom:  Barf buckets are still a pregnant woman's best friend.
Milestones: The baby's tail is gone. :) No more estrogen patches! I'd probably be off the PIO too if I was able to make it to get my blood drawn yesterday but the ice storm fixed that. Hopefully I'll be off the PIO by the end of this week!



I had to reschedule my midwife appointment due to the ice storm and now we're not being seen until the 30th--I'll be almost 12 weeks and graduated from the RE at that point.  Mike and I have been discussing the NT scan a lot and we're still torn. We are both young, healthy and have no family history of anything like Down's or heart defects. As far as I can think the only risk factor we have is the fact that we did IVF, which has been linked to slightly increased rate of birth defects. We want to be prepared if there are any potential problems but I'm worried about getting bad news only to find out everything is perfectly fine (it happened to a friend) and I already know that it wouldn't change the outcome of this pregnancy. We will love our baby no matter what, we'd just like to be prepared. However, if we do get bad NT scan results I already know that I would not do an amnio due to the risk of miscarriage. I just don't know what to do! If you are a mom or an expectant mom, how did you make this decision?

My Humps

Okay, you know that Black.Eyed.Peas song where she's talking about her lovely lady lumps? Well, I'm pretty sure those lumps have been transported....to my ass.  Seriously--the PIO is kicking my butt, quite literally.  The right side isn't too bad--I hardly feel a thing during the injection, but my left side is terrible painful, causing me to jump and tense up which only makes the entire injection all the worse.   The stupid injection two nights ago made me cry, which left me feeling miserably pathetic and DH feeling like the biggest a-hole in the world.  After each shot, DH is massaging the area for 5 minutes and I spend the rest of the evening with my best friend, the heating pad. I don't know what else to do to make shots on the left side more bearable. Is there anyone out there who can offer some suggestions or is this something I'm just going to have to deal with, like everything else IVF related?

Eye on the prize, eye on the prize.

All Is Well Again.

We received our fert report yesterday and I immediately logged on to blogger so that I could post about it. I received a notice that my blogger account had been disabled. Immediately, I panicked. I've been blogging since 2005, since before Mike's first deployment to Iraq. I have a LOT of stuff on blogger. Memories that have been long forgotten and "friends" that I lost because I could no longer access my Reader or comment on other blogs.  Doesn't Blogger know that I have many, many uteruses (uteri???) that I keep track of?! I have NO idea what happened but thank GOODNESS This Space For Rent is back up and running. Now I need to figure out how to create a back up, just in case the powers that be decide to eff with me again.

So....our fert report!  Five out of the seven eggs fertilized! We are set to do a 5 day transfer on Wednesday evening and we'll be transferring two embryos. I am SO excited. Last night I asked Mike what lucky socks I should wear and he wants me to lay them all out so we can decide together. <3

My trigger shot hurt like hell so I was extremely nervous for to begin my PIO injections last night. I reminded Mike to squeeze as hard as he could before he put the needle in, since that is what I think went wrong with the trigger shot. I laid down on my bed, gripped my headboard with both hands, felt the squeeze and asked him if he had injected me yet--he was already pushing the PIO in and I didn't even feel the shot. Thank goodness! I can totally handle this.

My boobs still hurt, I still can't button my pants and I've gained five pounds. I don't think I'm as emotionally crazy as I was expecting to be, but I'm sure Mike would disagree. I'm finished with all my paid orders and plan to take it super easy this week. Today I'm working on Christmas gifts though the pain in my butt makes sitting in my sewing chair a little awkward. By the way, I'm talking about the pain from my PIO injection, not Mike. :P

I hope everyone else is doing well and that no other blogs were affected. I about had a panic attack yesterday when I saw that my blog was gone  but all seems to be well in the blogosphere, at least for now.