Even though we had no intention of evicting DS from his room (his bedroom is the only other one aside from ours on the main floor of our house), today, DS voluntarily offered to share his room with the baby. I said that the crying might disrupt his sleep, but that we'd certainly appreciate using a corner of his room for baby stuff so we didn't have to always schlep to the basement (where the baby room will be, finished basement, lest you think we are relegating B2 to a dungeon. And we do plan to do have some sort of video monitoring system).
At dinner tonight, too, DS melted me when he was talking about how he'd help out:
"If you and daddy are both working on the computer and there is a spider and the baby is crying, I could get a tissue and kill the spider."
Nevermind that he has actually never done that on his own and always screams "spider!!!" whenever he sees one, but the sentiment still touched me. : )
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Monday, January 30, 2012
Leave IVF Alone!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/gingrich-vows-to-ban-embryonic-stem-cell-research-questions-in-vitro-practices/2012/01/29/gIQAIO9saQ_story.html?tid=pm_politics_pop
Ugh... Newt and government needs to stay out of IVF, including dealing with leftover embryos.
Ugh... Newt and government needs to stay out of IVF, including dealing with leftover embryos.
Sunday, January 29, 2012
13 Weeks!
Today marks 13 weeks. I'm so confused as to when second trimester begins. There are like three different dates according to http://www.ivf.ca/fet5dayduedate.php. Development, gestation and conception.
Starting to tell more and more people and it's still super weird. Still haven't told my dad (I'm not very close to him)! I just still feel weird about it -- it's still kind of surreal. Of course, I am happy and excited too...
A couple days ago, I went to my first trimester screening. It was nice to have another ultrasound and see the baby markedly bigger than before. The tech didn't say anything about the sex of the baby so I didn't ask. The doctor mentioned a new screening (blood test) that just came out in Oct 2011:
http://www.sequenomcmm.com/home/health-care-professionals/trisomy-21/about-the-test/
Apparently, it's way more detailed than the old blood test and it actually looks at the fetal DNA which is floating around in the mother's blood. If my risk factor is currently 1 in 300 for Down Syndrome, then a negative test changes the risk to 1 in 14,000 (if I remember the figures right). The test is supposed to be 99.1 or 99.9% accurate. So I went ahead and did it.
Supposed to have results for the nuchal translucency scan and the blood test in a week.
Until then, I am anxious for the nausea to die down. I still felt a bit blecky tonight, maybe tomorrow will be the turning point.
Not ready for Monday!!! Will tell coworkers on Thursday though...
Starting to tell more and more people and it's still super weird. Still haven't told my dad (I'm not very close to him)! I just still feel weird about it -- it's still kind of surreal. Of course, I am happy and excited too...
A couple days ago, I went to my first trimester screening. It was nice to have another ultrasound and see the baby markedly bigger than before. The tech didn't say anything about the sex of the baby so I didn't ask. The doctor mentioned a new screening (blood test) that just came out in Oct 2011:
http://www.sequenomcmm.com/home/health-care-professionals/trisomy-21/about-the-test/
Apparently, it's way more detailed than the old blood test and it actually looks at the fetal DNA which is floating around in the mother's blood. If my risk factor is currently 1 in 300 for Down Syndrome, then a negative test changes the risk to 1 in 14,000 (if I remember the figures right). The test is supposed to be 99.1 or 99.9% accurate. So I went ahead and did it.
Supposed to have results for the nuchal translucency scan and the blood test in a week.
Until then, I am anxious for the nausea to die down. I still felt a bit blecky tonight, maybe tomorrow will be the turning point.
Not ready for Monday!!! Will tell coworkers on Thursday though...
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
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Monday, January 23, 2012
I miss you Advil.
12w1d. Told DS over the weekend. It was horribly anticlimactic and taught me a lesson. Less is more. I tried to make it special. I put a baggie of baby things (mostly DS's old stuff, which I've saved) and a newborn diaper (forgotten how SMALL -- practically a maxi pad!) together and we set-up the video camera and told him we wanted to tell him something and we thought it'd be fun if it were a puzzle. He took all the stuff out and was totally blank. We said, "You're a kindergartner, you're a gymnast, you're a son, etc. etc. now you're going to be something else too!" Blankness. Finally, we just said it outright. And he said, "Again?" "Um, no, it's not like this happens all the time and dude, you weren't aware when it was you... so..." Later, he said he had a clue (but not before that moment) but that he just didn't want to say it. Moments later, he was chanting, "I'm going to be a big brother! I'm going to be a big brother!" So he just needed some time for the news to percolate. He's also excited to find out whether it's going to be a boy or girl (he is rooting for boy). Told MiL too, she said, "I've known since Christmas!" She just knew, she said. I asked if it was because I was a super porker/super flatulent.
About the Advil -- I've had a couple headaches since my BFP status that have been awful. Usually, they are tension headaches and I can feel the source clustering on one of my shoulders. Anyway, nothing helps -- Tylenol does diddly squat. In the past, Advil would help. A massage probably would though... but that's a pricey solution and requires a lot of finagling of the schedule. So it's currently been 24 hours of headache with no relief. Boo (yes, complaining, but not ungrateful).
Also still experiencing nightly wooziness... hopefully, it'll go away in about a week. I'm counting 13 weeks as making the benchmark, not 12...
Hope everyone has a great week! I'm ready to be retired or just really wealthy. : )
About the Advil -- I've had a couple headaches since my BFP status that have been awful. Usually, they are tension headaches and I can feel the source clustering on one of my shoulders. Anyway, nothing helps -- Tylenol does diddly squat. In the past, Advil would help. A massage probably would though... but that's a pricey solution and requires a lot of finagling of the schedule. So it's currently been 24 hours of headache with no relief. Boo (yes, complaining, but not ungrateful).
Also still experiencing nightly wooziness... hopefully, it'll go away in about a week. I'm counting 13 weeks as making the benchmark, not 12...
Hope everyone has a great week! I'm ready to be retired or just really wealthy. : )
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
My DH, the Poet
Very revealing of what DH is putting up with...
A night of wind blowing
Cozy we are
as if it were snowing
a meal of chicken (as good as steak)
under the covers
It's your wind that will break.
A night of wind blowing
Cozy we are
as if it were snowing
a meal of chicken (as good as steak)
under the covers
It's your wind that will break.
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
The Latest -- 11w2d
Had my bonus ob/gyn appointment today -- as usual, I had to wait about an hour. If I had a flexible schedule, I would go earlier in the day or earlier in the afternoon, when she isn't so behind, but I don't have that option as a teacher, unless I blow my annual leave time (which I need to save for maternity leave) for a substitute teacher. Anyway, it's okay, as I do appreciate that I am never rushed and you get all the time that you want. Also, today, she was back to her sane, kind, normal self. Phew.
Dr. R followed up on some things she noticed in my chart from CCRM and confirmed my due date from them, which is 8/6/12. The ultrasound was also on my belly, NOT transvag -- woohoo! I asked about the spotting and she said she wasn't worried about it. The gummy bear now looks like Mr. Peanut -- I have not posted, because the u/s pics aren't great -- and definitely has increased in size. She also pressed on my belly (which just feels like belly to me) and said that my uterus is growing nicely. HR is consistent at 161. So this visit, which was definitely a courtesy/extra one, was very reassuring. Without the movement yet, who knows what the heck is going on there??? It's reassuring, too, to know that my growing belly isn't all just hamburgers. Though my ever-widening butt certainly feels like it.
I mentioned that given how well things are going, perhaps I should go ahead and tell people and Dr. R concurred. She couldn't believe that we hadn't told MiL yet, but she guessed that I had already told my mom. She chuckled at that. So now DH and my plan is to tell DS on Friday and then we will see MiL on Saturday and have him tell her that he's going to be a big brother. : ) Otherwise, I was going to be uber-conservative and wait til 13 weeks.
Next week I have the first trimester screen, so more u/s! But then no more til 20 weeks, poo. And not another appointment for another month. C'mon, who wants to go in on an u/s machine with me??
Dr. R followed up on some things she noticed in my chart from CCRM and confirmed my due date from them, which is 8/6/12. The ultrasound was also on my belly, NOT transvag -- woohoo! I asked about the spotting and she said she wasn't worried about it. The gummy bear now looks like Mr. Peanut -- I have not posted, because the u/s pics aren't great -- and definitely has increased in size. She also pressed on my belly (which just feels like belly to me) and said that my uterus is growing nicely. HR is consistent at 161. So this visit, which was definitely a courtesy/extra one, was very reassuring. Without the movement yet, who knows what the heck is going on there??? It's reassuring, too, to know that my growing belly isn't all just hamburgers. Though my ever-widening butt certainly feels like it.
I mentioned that given how well things are going, perhaps I should go ahead and tell people and Dr. R concurred. She couldn't believe that we hadn't told MiL yet, but she guessed that I had already told my mom. She chuckled at that. So now DH and my plan is to tell DS on Friday and then we will see MiL on Saturday and have him tell her that he's going to be a big brother. : ) Otherwise, I was going to be uber-conservative and wait til 13 weeks.
Next week I have the first trimester screen, so more u/s! But then no more til 20 weeks, poo. And not another appointment for another month. C'mon, who wants to go in on an u/s machine with me??
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