Ultrasound

The 7 week ultrasound showed a heartbeat. A nice strong heartbeat of 167.

My blood results showed a plumeted progesterone level of 14. Given that I had an allergic reaction to PIO this time, and that I am on the max does of suppositories, my doc feels that there is nothing to do but wait and see.

It is possible to sustain a pregnancy with a progesterone level of 14 she says very unconvincingly. I am to recheck the numbers this week.

I am not convinced that a pregnancy can be sustained with progesterone levels that low. And although she gave me the speil about the chances of problems going way down once you see a heartbeat, that speil was kind of lost on me. I've already lost one after seeing a heartbeat, a heartbeat and little arms and legs.

Another ultrasound on December 10, we'll see.

How Can Something So Small Make You SOOOO Sick

Dudes, I know that morning sickness is a coveted symptom amongst us but seriously.......

If my Mom were not here I do not know how I would "rescue" my son from any of the umpteen million things he does every day that could break his neck.

To say that Boo is busy is a giant understatement. The kid is 17 months old and goes down stairs the same as you and I (no more on his bum for him), likes to climb onto chairs but prefers to do it by climbing up the back of them and then hoisting himself over, loves to go flying over the back of the couch and his favorite passtime is too jump on the bed regardless of the fact that he has landed on his head on the hardwood floors twice (both times I was standing right there "spotting") and just couldn't get to him in time. We have banned bedjumping as a pass time but that means you absolutely cannot let him out of your sight. Before you can pull your very nauseous ass off the couch he can stop playing with his ball, race up over the steps and climb onto the bed using the rails like a ladder!

My parents are here until January. I sure hope the worst of the nauseousness is over by then. Of course, I would rather still be nauseous than no longer pregnant. But that seemed to go without saying.

5 weeks, 3 days

Ultrasound today showed a gestational sack(with yolk), nicely placed in the uterus. No fetal pole and no heartbeat, but I expected as much at 5 weeks. The sack measured 5 weeks so a little behind but as my doctor said "we are measuring something that is 1 centimeter, the placement of the ultrasound markers at this point can make the difference of a couple days"

I looked up the post of my first ultrasound with Boo. It was the same thing. No fetal pole, no heartbeat at 5 weeks, 1 day.

I go back in 2 weeks to check for heartbeat.

Update

Tuesday's HCG was 499. No more beta's scheduled. Ultrasound scheduled for Wednesday the 12th just for placement. It will be too early for heartbeat.

Have developed full out allergic reaction to PIO. Late this afternoon I broke out in hives from my ass up to my armpits. Am a nasty, itchy, blotchy mess. My doctor is not at the clinic until Wednesday and my nurse co-ordinator is on holiday for a week. Hopefully someone will help me in the morning.

FET Update

Well knock me over with a feather.

I was so convinced the thing had crashed that the day before and the day of my test I didn't take my PIO shot.

Don't buy cheap dollar store pregnancy tests. They claim to have a sensitivity of 25 mIU but the line I got the two days before were literally so light my mother claimed one wasn't actually there.

Despite that my second HCG number, on day 10 post day 5 transfer, was 183.

We are still early but that number is where it is supposed to be.... we are not out yet.

Turtle, Turtle

For Halloween, Boo was a turtle, and so was his best friend and we were able to go around all afternoon at the park saying "Turtle, Turtle" and we are immature and easily amused and found this ridiculously funny. Here are a few pictures.






























































FET - Well I opted to do the PIO instead of suppositories. Mostly I made this decision because in the past my progesterone has not gone up well on the suppositories but have always made the climb with the IM injections. I have had no reactions.

This time no so much. I have bumps under the injection site, I am red and irritated a good 6 centimeter diameter circle around the area and I am very, very itchy. I made an appointment with my doctor about switching over to the suppositories but she said she was reluctant to do so in mid-cycle. I hesitantly told her that I POAS that morning and got a faint positive so she sent me for an early HCG test and progesterone check.

Results were at 7 days post day 5 transfer a measly 30 HCG and 20 for progesterone (and that's on the frigging IM shots). Anyway it smells like a chemical pregnancy to me but I go back on Sunday for confirmation.


Interestingly, the stick I used the first day was a first response and it was really light, the next day I used another first response and it was much darker but still not dark. Today I was out and had to buy more and bought a different kind which had a sensitivity of 50 instead of 25 and it was again very light and even though I know logically that means it is going up, it still freaked me the hell out.

Hope everyone had a spooky Halloween!

Plunged into the dark ages

Hello out there...... hearing faint echos and noticing things are eerily silent.

So... at the end of September I was plunged suddenly and unexpectedly into the dark ages. The dark ages where there was no computer or Internet connection at home. My computer crashed and because I am still home with Boo with no income, we could not afford to just rush out and replace it right away. I have to tell you it was a very dark, and scary place. I felt alone, isolated and sad. And then my Dad arrived for a visit and fixed my computer!!!!!

The reason my Dad arrived was that I planned a surprise 40th birthday party trip for Rick. I could not post about it here because Rick often reads my blogs and I didn't want to blow the surprise. I took him (and all of my family and his brother, sister-in-law and 2 kids) to Kansas City to see the Chiefs play at Arrowhead. Rick loves the Chiefs. Unfortunately their performance in the last several years and this year in particular has been less than stellar. But we were there for their game against the Denver Bronco's and the Chiefs not only won, they won by a lot, I think the final score was 33-16. Kansas City was absolutely lovely and in the next few days I will try to post some pictures of our trip. Rick had a blast and didn't find out that he was going to KC until we arrived at the airport at departures.

I did a FET this month. I am currently 7 days post a day 5 transfer. The blast was graded fairly highly and survived the thaw and had re-expanded before transfer. I am not technically scheduled for a beta until Thursday but I am bound to pee on several sticks before then.

I want to tell you an amazing story. Jenny the Great read my post about losing my sister and saw the pictures I had included and wanted to do something. She had a painting made of one of the picture and now I have a painting of Caden and Aunt Karen snuggling, sitting on his bookshelf. It was such a thoughtful, kind gift and it still amazes me the support and empathy of this community.

I will take a picture of it and post with my next update.