It's been awhile, huh?

So sorry for not posting, the last week before break was CRAZY! I had a conference on Thursday and Friday and was without a computer (funny how dependent you become on them). Things are going well, day one of spring break today!!! I woke up at 9:45 after going to bed at 11 (a new record for me). Met some friends out at a bar for "drinks." I made them think it was a vodka 7 but it was just a 7. The waitress totally played it up to which was awesome :)

To catch you all up on my happenings last week that were also crazy and baby-related, I had pain on my left side and called the RE's office (this was when I was 5w4d) completely expecting the "hey crazy lady, you're fine," call. But no, the nurse not only called my cell but also the school and the secretary said that I needed to call them "sooner, rather than later." WTF???!!! So I did and she went on and on about ectopic pregnancy (in the tubes or other weird places). I FREAKED out. I had teachers cover my classes and went in right away for an ultrasound after I called Brian, sobbing. They got me in and low and behold, one beautiful gestational sac with a yolk sac and teeny baby right in the middle of the uterus, phew. I'm so relieved.

So far I've been feeling good (for the most part). Last week marked the severe headache portion of early pregnancy. I had a migraine for about 2 days, gotta love the hormones :) Been having some stretching pain in the groin area, and diagnosed myself with round ligament pain from the uterus stretching. Now we are just waiting for Thursday and keeping the prayers up that we see the heartbeat on the ultrasound. I read once you see it the miscarriage rate drops significantly and then it drops again once you hear the heartbeat and once you are done with the first trimester. It's just so stressful and we just want everything to be ok so badly. We are keeping up the positivity and prayers and hope you all will keep them up to! We're half way through the first trimester, and it has been so much fun!

Thanks again for all your thoughts and prayers!!!

Soccer + baby = zzzzzz

Our first game was last night and we won!!!!! So excited, but I'm still so tired. I didn't get home until 7:45 last night and then ate dinner, hung with the hubby, took a shower and went to be around 9:30 (really late for me lately). 9 days until I get to see the baby's heartbeat and how many there are (secretly hoping for twins, I think it'd be cool, but would be thrilled with one healthy baby).

I also realized how movements, like shooting at the keeper, really irked my abdomen. I don't know if it was just me over thinking and worrying but it was awkward.

Anyways, onto class, 3 days until spring break--seems like an eternity!

Positivity

That's the name of the game right now, positive thoughts, vibes, and prayers. I can't wait for next Thursday when we get to SEE the heartbeat and find out just how many lil guys we have in the oven. I started getting a bit of nausea today, but it comes and goes, however, the bathroom trips, are another story. Up in the middle of the night, have to go 6 times a day--I love it!!!! It makes me feel like something really is going on in there ;)

1 week until spring break, hope I don't go crazy, I need a break as much as they do!

Lots of sleep and cramps

That pretty much rounds up the symptoms that I've had so far. Lots of sharp pains and twinges that I've read about here lately as the uterine area growing and stretching. That's it for now, nothing new to report. We are contemplating telling our closest friends today at dinner. We read that if you'd be comfortable telling someone if something terrible were to happen (God forbid this for anyone) then you are good to tell them about the pregnancy. It's just so early though, just over 5 weeks. I really wanted to wait until after the ultrasound but Brian and I are SO bad at keeping secrets!

12 days to go until the ultrasound!

2ww all over again

13 days until the ultrasound, and that's all I can think about. That and not peeing myself. Seriously, there are great perks to being a teacher--summers and weekends off, snow days, etc. but when you're a traveling teacher (don't have your own room) and you're in the early stages of pregnancy it sucks. I have no time to go to the restroom and so I feel like I don't drink enough water in the morning. In the afternoon it's no problem--lunch, study hall, physics and done, but in the morning it's physics, physics, medical modules, medical terminology--all in different rooms of course.

Any how, I'm still super excited about everything it still just doesn't feel real. I'm really tired and my boobs feel as though they've been used as punching bags: they are so sore! Brian teases that I'm like an old lady because I go to bed at 8:00, oh well :)

I'm so glad it's the weekend, one more week until spring break (another good perk of teaching).

Tired, all the time

That has been my #1 syptom so far--exhaustion. I'm always tired and I've become the heaviest sleeper ever (which is great). The only other major symptom is incredibly sore boobs. They hurt all the time when anything touches them, bras, clothes, water, anything. I'm so glad that my 2nd beta came back "perfect" according to the nurse, now we just have to wait to see the little guy/girl on ultrasound in 2 weeks. I have a feeling that the 2 weeks are going to drag. At least there's only one more week of school next week before spring break. I hope this nice weather stays so I can go for walks after soccer practice.

Thanks for all the continued prayers and support. . .

Phew!!!!

Got the call from the RE's office and beta #2 is 605. Holy cow I turned into a spastic freak, I couldn't focus on anything and actually convinced myself I felt less pregnant today. What a weirdo am I? Anyways, I put in the times of the appointments and the betas and I have a doubling time of 34.33 hours. Thank goodness. Ok, now I am relieved and can enjoy not having morning sickness yet :)

More waiting

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! The waiting is killing me. I got my blood drawn this morning for my 2nd beta, 1.5 hours ago and I know the wait is going to drive me bananas. It has to double, it has to double, it has to double. . . . That's all that is going through my head. What if it doesn't? What if it's the same? Oh my gosh, I don't think that I could handle it. Please, please let it stick and let us have a healthy and happy 9 months.

So can you tell I'm freaking out?????

HOLY COW!!!

So DH gave me the green light to go ahead and continue my blog, (he thinks it'll pretty cool to look back at) and now that the only other person that reads it knows, he said go ahead. So here we go. . . .

Where did I leave off, hmmmm:

15dpiui--dreaded test day. Hubby got up at 2am to use the restroom (understandable after 9 hours of drinking the day before) and this woke me up. I was up for another hour and a half before I said screw it, I'm going to do it now. I went and got a cup to pee in, grabbed the test from the RE's office, and grabbed the test that I had. I woke him up before actually taking/dipping the test. And then I saw it, 2 beautiful pink lines on the First Response early result test I had left over from last cycle. I yelled at DH to look at it, thought I wanted it so bad I was imagining it. Then I looked at the one from the doctor's office, 2 lines. I took a picture of both, and actually kept both tests.

16dpiui (Monday)--I called the RE's office on Sunday night, and again Monday morning to get an appointment to check my beta hcg. I was so scared. They got me in at 8:45 and called at 2:00 with the results. The nurse asked for me, then said "I have your lab results, (paused)" hello I'm dying here, just tell me " Congratulations, you are very pregnant," what, it's real, oh wow "your levels are good." Of course, being the over-analyzer I wanted to know EXACTLY what they were, and found out that my beta hcg was 239! In doing much research I found this was well within the normal range of 40-425 that was listed on the americanpregnancy.com website.

We are cautiously optimistic. We told both our parents and a nosy fried or two :) There is a ways to go and I don't want to jinx anything. I'm going in again tomorrow to have the beta repeated and hope that the number doubles from yesterday. I would love to get in for an ultrasound to see the gestational sacs (I'll be 5 weeks on Thursday).

Thank you all for your prayers and please keep us in them, this is a long journey and we need all the prayers that you are willing to offer for our now-growing family!

Annoying friends. . .

So yesterday was our annual St Patty's Day pub crawl and it's always the same group of friends that come. Including one girl who is great, don't get me wrong, but because I wasn't drinking she was harassing me about why. I finally had DH buy me a beer and pretended to drink in and then he took mine and I took his empty and continued to pretend. I'm a genius, what can I say??? :)

Any who, today is the big day and I did test, but I'm not going to post the results, those of you that need to know will know soon. The rest of you will just have to wait and see . . .