I had an appointment with Dr. L. today. It was fairly uneventful but I did have a quick ultrasound in order to check the heartbeat. With being only 10 weeks along it can be a bit iffy to find the heartbeat with the Doppler but it's pretty easy to see it in the ultrasound.
Needless to say I appreciated being able to see our little one again, even if only briefly. The image at 10 weeks is so much more clear than it is as 6 weeks. While looking for the heartbeat I was able to see lots of movement going on, already this baby is active! One thing that came to mind as I watched the monitor today was how strongly I feel it is a boy. My instincts and every part of me is utterly convinced that we're having a boy this time around. So much so that in 10 weeks when we go for the "Big Reveal" I will literally be floored if it's not a boy!
Tuesday, April 29, 2014
Tuesday, April 1, 2014
April Fool's Day 2014
On Sunday, March 9th I took a pregnancy test. It was negative, again, and I was truly frustrated. You see, with both my previous pregnancies they occurred THE month we began trying. This time around I stopped taking the pill in August and we'd decided October would the THE month this time around. We fully expected it to be much like the previous 2 times, but no such luck!
So by the time I took that test on March 9th I was convinced something was wrong with me and I needed to get in to see my doctor right away. So I emailed Dr. L. to ask his opinion and I figured since he opened his email by addressing me as "Dear Impatient Patient" he did not see my situation as as dire as I saw it. I presented him with all this information I had read about Secondary Infertility and he responded with, "if nothing happens by summer we'll do a work up", "start charting your cycles," "blah blah blah." Basically nothing I wanted to hear.
I was ready to throw in the towel. But instead I downloaded a few Basal Chart Apps and waited for Aunt Flow. I waited...and waited...and waited and after realizing my basal body temps weren't dropping I figured something was up. So on Friday under the guise of needing more tomatoes (I really did need them though) I went to the store and secretly bought another test. Secretly because B thinks I buy WAY too many of those things, and he's right. I was however determined to wait until Sunday to test again, I figured a full week was enough time to wait. However, I'm not patient AT ALL and so I ended up testing Friday night morning around 2am...I got a VERY faint positive. B's parents were visiting so I ever so quietly woke him but to my frustration he couldn't see what I was seeing.
And so I vowed to wait until Sunday using the famous first morning urine! On Saturday night he urged me to take the other test in the pack but I stood firm and refused. On Sunday morning at 3:43am my cell phone rang, it was my mom informing me of my grandma's passing. I was awake for several hours crying and in the midst of my tears I needed to go potty and since it was technically my first morning urine...
I ended up getting a not-so-faint positive but honestly I still wasn't 100% sure (that's what I get for buying a different test than I normally use). But after 2 positives, no sign of Aunt Flow, and a basal body temp that would not drop I drew my own conclusions. And heaven knows I needed some good news that day to buoy my spirits. After testing I remember returning to the living room and talking to Grandma, asking her to watch over "him" until I could hold him in my arms.
On Monday morning I called and scheduled appointments with the nurse and Dr. L. but since I was leaving town for the funeral I knew it would be a few weeks. We told our parents and not many others (unless someone happened to ask, then I didn't lie), we knew we wanted our girls to be among the first to know and so we vowed to keep it a secret until I returned home. Originally we wanted to wait to tell the girls and the rest of our families until the day of the ultrasound but with the appointment being scheduled for April Fool's Day I had to change some plans, it was just too tempting.
So instead we told the girls on Saturday afternoon by having them open the presents we had bought them. They were big sister shirts. It really turned into a type of reasoning activity with Y, getting her to figure out what it meant that she AND Q had identical shirts with Q's shirt saying "Awesome Big Sister" as well. Y eventually caught on, Q really couldn't care less but it was fun nonetheless. We took them out to Don Pablo's for a celebratory dinner afterwards.
When we returned home and put them to bed I prepared an email to send out to all of our close family members to announce Baby Fox #3. Since I love shopping (especially with coupons) I thought it appropriate to use this little idea I found around the internet. It was among the ideas I found way back in October when I was 100% certain that we'd be pregnant but it had to sit around on my computer for several more months just waiting to be finalized.
After all our close family knew it was just a matter of playing the waiting game. Waiting for April Fool's Day to finally arrive, go to my appointment, have the ultrasound and then return home to scan the photo. I posted it on Facebook and many thought it was an April Fool's joke, which was honestly my intention, but then there were those who knew better. I enjoyed it and I'm so glad the secrets out of the bag. I've always been one to share immediately once we knew we were expecting and so to keep it quiet for over 2 weeks was torturous!
We're due just before Thanksgiving, Nov. 24, 2014 and we really couldn't be more thrilled!!!
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