I'm such a baby, yeah the dolphins make me cry....

Yes, I'm quoting Hootie and the Blowfish....  yes , the dolphins (and beluga whales) at the Shedd Aquarium made me cry....and yes.... I'm pregnant again.

I've held off on posting this until at least Jim and my parents were told. Obviously from Jack's pregnancy we don't wait until 12 weeks to tell our parents so we're following suit with this one. Although most of our family knew soon after our first and second betas, we still held off with telling the virtual world until my Facebook announcement at 12 weeks. This pregnancy though, I don't want to wait any longer than I have to to tell people about this baby. I want as many moments and opportunities to enjoy and appreciate this life as long as I have it with me....hopefully full term happy healthy and can come home to grow up, but if not at least we've celebrated his/her existence to the fullest of our abilities. I wont be , however, making an "official" post on Facebook. If you're reading this, don't worry about hiding any baby related comments they wont be removed. Its not a secret but its not being overly publicized.

So this pregnancy....

Last year with Jack, I started getting positives at 4dp5dt which is super early. You can imagine my surprise back then when my beta was only 31!! This time, I intended to wait but when I woke up at 1:30am Tuesday morning (also 4dp5dt this cycle ) having to pee so bad I just knew it worked. So, I went to Walgreens and tested when I got home.

 

Kind of a squinty but compared to last year at 4dp5dt this one was soooo much darker!!  Then, the next day 5dp5dt was much darker than last years tests too!! Just go back into my blog history of August 27th and August 28th and you'll see!!

 

 Then at 6dp5dt, a day earlier than last year, I got a positive digital test!!

Saturday I was off work thankfully my beta was a weekend.... and #1 came back at a whopping 120! I'm done peeing on sticks, mainly because I ran out but also because I don't want to get too obsessed about this like usual.

I calmly waited it out for beta #2 on Monday....and it was 260!  Not quite as impressive of a doubling time as Jack but still it was 43 hours which is better than the 2-3 days that they're looking for. All the nurses said, wow those are great betas!!  So if they're happy I'm happy.

My first ultrasound was yesterday, which is also my 33rd birthday. This is all so unreal I'm still not really believing this is happening again. Maybe because with Jack I was only used to negative results that I didn't have faith the FET would work. My hands were shaking when I got that first squinty line. This time, poor baby, I was just kinda like, "Boom, there's my line". This whole time going through the process for FET #2 I just "knew" it would work so maybe I just wasn't surprised when I got that line.

Now baby (ies), you're coming home. I don't care what you or Jack or God says...I'm your momma you listen to ME!!!


Some weird things about this cycle vs Jack

• I have the same ticker change date (Sunday) since both FETs were on Fridays
• I started bcp on Jack's 6 month birthday
• My Lupron for this FET started the same day my stims for last year's IVF (where frosties came from)
• The day of FET #2 was the same day I started Lupron for Jack's FET
• Last year I had a friend w/twins 4 weeks ahead , I have a friend this time who lost twins when we lost Jack who is now also pregnant again 4 weeks ahead same ticker change date as my friend with twins.
• I scheduled my first OB appt. and its the same day as beta #2 was last year
• I was due on Mothers Day w/Jack and on Easter for this baby

So far the only symptom that is pretty constant (occasionally peeing a lot...not every day, and little waves of nausea)  is the baby brain. I'm pretty consistently a walking airhead. I've left my phone at home, left my Endometrin at home (luckily I usually have an extra in my purse), left my security card to get INTO work AT work and was locked out, I've refrigerated my Endometrin on accident, left the freezer door open, and had a lot of trouble last weekend attempting to unlock the car door. LOL. The force is strong with this one!!!