We have a heartbeat.....deja vu all over again

Ok, you know it's getting bad when you start repeating post titles. In this case, two: My first "We have a heartbeat" was last June at the exact same date in my previous pregnancy: 6w3d. And, well, "deja vu all over again" I've used at least once, but doesn't this all just feel like that movie "Groundhog Day"? The repeat pregnancies, the repeat losses, ugh.

Enough of that depressing infertility stuff, though. The point is: we saw the sac, fetal pole and heartbeat this morning. Measuring 6w4d (yes, little bean is already a 1 day overachiever!)

It's so funny how different my clinic's office is during post-monitoring hours (9:30 onward). Dr.Dry actually stood and talked with us in the exam room for quite a while. And then the nurse that saw us afterward just wanted to chat and chat and chat about pregnancy symptoms and instructions. I was kind of like, "been here, done this, got the t-shirt" and wanted to get out of there. But, she just kept chatting away. I almost felt like I owed it to her to let her have this happy moment. I suppose I do owe it to her since she's the one that I was pretty nasty too on the phone when she called to tell me we had only 1 mature/fertilized egg in the last IVF round.

Before Dr.Dry left the exam room, we talked about the genetic testing Mr.Right is going to have for our sister/donor eggs scenario. We wanted to avoid having my sister do just one more test, so we're going to have Mr.Right be tested first. Obviously, if anything comes back positive, then we'll have my sister tested just to make sure.

We also talked about the timing of doing the parallel stim cycle/retrieval of my sister's eggs. We decided to push it off by one month from what we had planned. That would mean with this next cycle (in 7-10 days) she would *not* start bc pills, but would delay til the next month. That puts stim cycle in mid to late April. Partly this is just to push this off until we've got the CVS testing done (if we make it that far.)

We also talked about the CVS test. Dr.Dry is going to have us go to a doctor he really believes is the best in the area for the CVS. We'll go for an appointment at 9.5 weeks and then have the CVS test done at 10.5 or 11 weeks. We'll have the FISH results back in a few days, but the full results don't come back for 2 weeks. So, that puts us well into the middle of March. I guess we want to know the CVS results before my sister starts her stim cycle. Although, at this point, unless I have a D&C tomorrow, I don't think I'd be able to do a fresh transfer for at least 3 months. We don't want to drag this on too long for my sister. She's getting older (she'll be 37 in July) and June and onward for her is bad, since she does a lot of field work in the summers for her job.

Anyhow, we were told to come back in 10 days. That would have been Valentine's Day (well, the Sunday before), but Dr.Dry isn't in until Thursday of that week so we'll go back in 2 weeks. We just felt like we wanted him to do the next scan. But it seems like an awfully long time. A two week wait, ugh.

So, this is all good news, right? So, how come I came home today after the appointment and stress ate? (2 large pieces of sausage and mushroom pizza - I mean, what is the point of the organic milk I bought yesterday if I'm going to stuff my face with disgustingly-bad-for-me pizza?????) I don't know, I had it in my mind that I was going to need to be comforted with food today and even though the appointment gave us the best news possible, I was still in that mindset.

Oh well, there's always tomorrow. But two weeks? I guess I'll just have to try not to think about it for the next two weeks.