Another Week...

I finally got out of the house today for the first time in a week... it was off to a doctor's appointment... Everything looks good with the baby, and the one near my ovary is starting to go away... so NO surgery for that... but because it's not down as far as they would like it, I am on another week of bed rest! Great! I have never actually WANTED to go back to work so bad!

Also, I have scheduled my surgery for my cerclage for September 30th... so I know I'll be out of work for the 30th and October 1st.

Hopefully this little snag will be the only one we catch this pregnancy, and everything else will go off without a problem! Keeping my fingers crossed!

But we did get our first two ultrasound pictures... I will get them up here soon... even though he/she is still just a little pea....

Rare... how does this happen...

Okay... so the term for what we have is, heterotopic pregnancy... this happens in 1 in 30,000 pregnancies. Our second pregnancy is in my ovary, one of the few places it can happen... and the possibility of it happening in the ovary? 0.2% chance! I swear... how is it that I get a rare occurrence to begin with, but for it to also be in the least common spot too? I just guess I have the worst luck!

I have to be thankful that the baby in my uterus was right on target when we went last week... we'll see how the baby is doing on Friday... and I still have my fingers crossed that the one in my ovary is just redissolving into my body so I don't have to have surgery.... few more days

Bed rest hasn't been too bad! I've just been taking it easy... catching up on some TV, being waited on... nothing better than that...

Can I Catch a Break??

So we went to the doctor's for our first ultrasound... We were taking bets on twins or not... empty the bladder and away we go.

I told the ultrasound tech about the concern for twins, so she looked around and searched to make sure... "only one," she said. We saw the little flicker of the heart, so precious. Then she continued to do all of her measurements, and it was back out to the waiting room to wait for the doctor.

When we went back in, the conversation began with, "the pregnancy is in-utero, but...." I don't like "but's".... I guess they saw something in one of my ovaries... that something was probably the twin of the baby that is in the uterus growing... he/she just didn't follow down the tube... So now they have placed me on strict bed rest for one week, and I will go back to the doctor's for another ultrasound in a week to see where we stand. It could go away on it's own, or if it starts to grow, I will have to undergo laproscopic surgery to remove the sac in the ovary. The doctor said that it will not harm the baby in the uterus, that my high risk doctor does a lot of those surgeries.

So now I had to tell my boss that I'll be out for a week, already, at only 6 weeks! Oh boy! This is going to be some journey!

I guess I just have to work extra hard at the one thing I want most in life...

A Family!

Another Jump...

Another test result for our HCG... again, I was expecting about 10,000, but the doctor called, and it is 21,639!!! So our first ultrasound is this Friday, the 20th, at 2pm.... During our preconception appointment we were told that we have a high possibility of having multiples, so I asked the doctor, "you said I should be over 6,000, but this is a lot higher... do you think these numbers would indicate more than one?" And you know what the answer I got was? "well, your numbers did double rapidly... but we won't really know anything until the ultrasound" WHAT!!! Now I'm not going to be able to concentrate until Friday at 2pm!

As much as I would love and embrace multiples, I am worried. The doctor said that more than one would put more pressure on my cervix, which would cause inevitable bed-rest... so we will see on Friday...

More waiting...

A week down of shots... can't say I've lucked out on no bruises, at all... Third blood-draw numbers from the 9th were 2331.... WOW! I was only expecting around 1100! So that's good... Had a timed blood test today to make sure my dose of Lovenox is right, and then I will have a final blood-draw on Monday morning for HCG, which will hopefully be followed by our first scheduled ultrasound!!!

I'm excited, but trying to keep things in perspective... there's a long road ahead of us, and I want to make sure I do everything to the best of my ability.

I have been so over-tired this past week.... napping every day last weekend, then dreading making it through a full work week without an afternoon nap... but I did fine! So we're just over 5 weeks... 35 more weeks to go!

Doubling #'s & Facing My Fears....

1st Blood-draw appointment went well on 8/3... our number 117. I got the call back from the nurse that there is a 2nd blood-draw to make sure the numbers are increasing, and to learn how to give myself the Lovenox shot. OH BOY!!! Anyone that knows me, knows I don't do well with needles! So in I went on Thursday, 8/5... got the blood-draw over with and went in to learn the Lovenox shot... I think the words, "Can I come back tomorrow?" came out... LOL! It was a long drawn out process, I was very stressed and tense.... but eventually I had to do it... Okay... it wasn't that bad! The first shot left me with a nasty bruise... GREAT! I can only imagine what my belly will look like in a few weeks... no "cute pregnancy belly" for me... Oh well...

Made it through shot #2 Friday morning, not as much of a bruise, and a lot easier - no stress or pressure. Work was nerve-racking, waiting for the call from the doctor's office about my numbers... And of course I miss the call, but she left me the voicemail... we're up to 272! More than double, that's great!!! I'm scheduled for blood-draw #3 on Monday, 8/9...

I'm now done with shot #3 too... and this one left NO bruise!!! I must be mastering this! Thankfully!!!!

Everything I went through with Timothy Joseph has made me stronger, as well as more paranoid! But he's given me the strength to face my fear of needles! Never in my life would I have thought that I would have to shoot myself up with a needle every morning, but I'm doing this for a good thing, no a GREAT thing!