At our appointment yesterday I tried to nail down my doctor on when exactly she was going to kick me out. I really do not want to leave my RE. I love them, I love my doctor, my nurse and the whole staff. It feels like a second home at this point and I have never had such a wonderful level of care from a medical staff. She said that I will keep doing the weekly u/s's until she sees 3 things, a heartbeat, growth and movement. Well we have the first 2 and should see movement somewhere in the next 3-4 weeks. She said she would like me to have my first OB appt between weeks 10-12 and at that time she will have me on a plan to wean off the drugs. She suggested I might want to make the appt soon though since OB offices seem to have long lead times.
So yesterday I took the big plunge. I made a call that I only could have dreamed of making before. I called my OB/GYN's office and made an appt with my doctor for October 31st. My doctor is on vacation the 2 weeks before that and I didn't want to make it too early! So at the end the nurse asked what I was making the appt for and I smiled to myself and said outloud "PRE-NATAL" she said ok as if it happens everyday, which I am sure it does for her and that was it. Little does she know what a monster huge step that was for me and how much it meant. I HAVE MY FIRST PRE-NATAL APPT SCHEDULED!!! You know why? Because I am PREGNANT! It's still pretty crazy. I am still in awe.
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Side note to those of you that commented on how wonderful my grandma is (grandma read the comments on "Sad Friday", and you will see what I mean.) Yes she does rock, I think it took her a little while to get the whole IF thing but once she really understood she became a part of my wonderful support system.
The main person in my support system (aside from Jamie of course) is someone you won't see comments from. My mom who is just too shy to leave them and sends me email comments instead. Just to toot her horn a little bit, she has read every book on IF and adoption that I have and reads alot of your blogs. She now knows as much about IF, IUI's, IVF, etc as any of us. I hope all of you are as lucky as me to have at least one person like my mom or grandma in your support system. (I am just going to assume you all have a Jamie equivalent!)
6 comments:
I am so proud and so happy for you that you have gotten this far! And I'm also grateful for you that you don't have to leave your RE too soon. I know that has to be a wonderful relief to you!
And on the support note, it really is wonderful when you have those people that make your struggles an important part of their life.
YAH!!!! I think i would have shouted those words loudly!
your family sounds completely wonderful. I wish I could get my mother interested. She prayers (just don't get me wrong)is a huge help but she just doesn't try to get the emotional and technical side of it all.
Shout that PRENATAL, girl! WOOHOO!
I am glad your RE is keeping you for a while before you graduate. I loved the attention I got at my RE and at the OB/GYN, I felt like a number.
Can't wait for more milestones.
Just wanted to say a big congrats again. As scary as leaving your RE is, when you start seeing your OB, you are no longer a 'fertility' patient but just a "normal" pregnant women. That feels pretty darn good too :)
Fenella
Hooray! How cool is that? A prenatal appointment?? I remember scheduling my first prenatal appointment and thinking it was the weirdest thing to do in the entire world. It was very surreal. I'm really happy for you! :) I'm really behind in blogs and probably won't catch up, but wanted to let you know I'm still here to support you!
Woohoo for making a PRENATAL appt!
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