Tuesday, May 17, 2011

peas and carrots

I am so excited to have a confirmed pregnancy!  I go back in tomorrow to make sure the hormones are progressing as they should and then I go in a week from tomorrow to get the first ultrasound….so amazing!  The baby will not look like much on it, but since I went thru a fertility dr., there is a lot more monitoring than the usual preggie.  He asked if I wanted it and I said yes!  I called the insurance and the most we should have to pay out of pocket if everything goes completely haywire is $10,000.  That is totally doable to me.  The baby will be covered on my insurance for the first 31 days and then I will add it to my plan.  I set up the first appointment at the Birthing Center at 9 weeks.  So, the fertility Dr. will see me until week 8 and then the next week, I will meet with a midwife at the Birthing Center.  All of it is so very exciting.  The Dr. said I would be able to try to hear the heartbeat in two weeks, but we will for sure hear it at the first appointment at the Birthing Center.
On another note, I am cotton weary….aka very tired.  Last night at 8:30 after a day of laying around and watching Mad Men and reading, I could barely keep my eyes open.  I have also been craving juice, carrots and peas…not bad cravings if you ask me.  I have been organizing the house a bit and I am in the midst of cooking Beef Wellington right now.  I will add pictures when it is done.  It is a ton of veggies, mixed with a pound of beef and then rolled into a puff pastry! YUM!  So many exciting changes!
-S

7 comments:

  1. So what was the final beta??? You said 60 and it wasn't finished. ?????

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  2. Final beta was 60.5
    -liz

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  3. Ah, that's so exciting. I can't wait to see the first ultrasound pictures. :D

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  4. for those of us who aren't hip to these things, can you please explain how you could be 4wks and 3 days pregnant if you were inseminated 2 wks and 3 days ago? i'm so confused!

    and yay for 'cotton weary' haha!...<3

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  5. @iamabirdnow... there are a few different ways to count pregnancy weeks, and the most popular is (once you find our you're pregnant) you count from the date of your last period. SO it's like you get a bonus 2 weeks because when you find out you're pregnant two weeks after insemination, you're automatically 4 weeks along (meaning you were techinically 2 weeks pregnant at the time of insemination!). You could also count from day of insem (if you know it), in which case she's only be 2weeks along.

    and by the way, I too cannot WAIT to see the first US pics. YAAAAAY so exciting. And, I know this is a long way off... but do you have a preference for one sex over the other? Or do you not care?

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  6. @Lezbemoms: Good question :D Do you have a preference? ( I secretly wished for a boy *giggle*)

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  7. wait... i'm so confused. s, you are cooking fancy stuff? like without supervision? the world has gone crazy! i must taste test next weekend ;)

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