baybeasts :: November

November 28, 2006

but who’s counting?

bean

This scan was done yesterday morning at 6 weeks and 3 days. Sorry it’s so fuzzy. S tried to scan it at work and the results are not real flash. (B1 is on the bottom left corner of the round, black space). We reckon it’s tail up and head down.

So, baby, today you are 6 weeks and 4 days even though you have only existed for thirty two days. Well…there’s also the two months when you were snap-frozen (sorry!), but I don’t think cryo counts as part of your age.

We won’t scan again until 19 weeks. After much debate we are not going to do the 13 week screen for Down Syndrome etc. The false positive rate is quite high and the subsequent miscarriage risks if you do CVS or amniocentesis are also very unappealing.

Morning sickness is interesting. I hope it eases off for Christmas with my family in Queensland. On a brighter note, I am enjoying being nippley, and fuller of breast.

[B1]

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November 24, 2006

Now we are six (weeks)

sorenson

Six weeks today!

Only three sleeps until the first scan. This has been the most excruciating wait of all – there is so much still to know before we can relax. Will there be a heartbeat? One embryo or two? Is everything looking OK? It’s just plain nerve-wracking.

Bean is starting to feel sick as well as completely exhausted – I think this is a Very Good Sign but I don’t think she agrees!

It’s hard to actually feel connected to this, when all we have to go on is a line on a stick (um, actually many lines on many sticks) and the doctor’s word. I am really looking forward to seeing something different on the wang-cam. The fuzzy grainy black and white image of bean’s retroverted uterus is so familiar – it will be very cool if there is a tiny pulsing blob in there.

It’s a very strange time in a few ways. There are decisions to be made, about pre-natal testing and where to book in for the birth and whether to find out the sex and we’ve even got back into the Great Name Debate. But we can’t decide on anything because we don’t want to get too invested until we know that things are looking good. It’s limbo.

We’ll definitely update again on Monday with the results of the scan. Fingers crossed and breath held all across the interweb please!

[B1]

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November 16, 2006

i think i have a little crush

bean

Juliette Lewis is hot. I’ve been panting after Queen Latifah for years, but she’s in third place now. S, of course, is number one.

In more bloggy news, I seem to be a wee bit pregnant.
4 weeks and 6 days pregnant. If this 1.5 mm embryo manages to hang in there, it will be due late July. We are ecstatic and terrified, but at least the odds are on our side now.
I first felt something different from about day 9 post ovulation(dpo) when I felt a few low achy feelings a bit like constipation (or, a lot like the ache I had once with haemorrhoids, or sometimes get with sexual arousal). I reckon it’s from blood congestion. The ache is still there, and much stronger. Sometimes I sit on a pillow.

HCG on 14 dpo was 155 and 17dpo it was 758 which is a doubling time of about 31 hours. Which is good. Scan is in a week and a half from now and we are hoping madly to see a heartbeat.

This is a cool web site-I am up to Carnegie Stage 9. (19-21 days post ovulation)