Toxo free!

The Palo Alto lab says that my toxoplasmosis IgM is actually negative!

I know I've been freaking out about this unnecessarily given the low odds of this having even affected the baby and the high rate of false positives, but nevertheless (as those of you who have been reading well know) it really threw us for a loop. I mean, what else could possibly happen to us (ok, don't answer that question)?

How the hell Quest labs came up with a positive IgM twice I don't know. We are still waiting for the full, detailed report from the reference lab, but the preliminary report says negative. One of the journal articles I did read from the lab's founders says that some 60% of the blood that they're sent that has tested positive elsewhere, tests negative with them. Apparently, the testing kits that labs like Quest use are piss-poor, resulting in the false positives. They apparently do a much more detailed kind of test at the reference lab.

So, we get to be happy and celebrate me being 13w3d pregnant now, right?

Well, although we are exceedingly grateful for this result (and the clean chromosome report), I have to admit it was almost a little anticlimactic. I'm not even sure that's the right word to use...it was more like, "ok, we're done with this. Which shoe is going to drop next?" I really am trying not to be a worrywart. I especially know that's got to be truly annoying to those of you just hoping to get pregnant for the first time or to stay pregnant for 13 weeks. But I hate to tell you that I think this infertility thing makes it hard for us to really, truly enjoy our pregnancies worry-free. Or, at least that's the case for me.

Despite all of that, I'm going to start to try my hardest to enjoy! A little googling for nursery decorating ideas today, maybe? A ticker (I'm a little on the fence about this) for my blog page? Some schedule-thinking about whether my sister-in-law might be here from California in August and maybe for a baby shower? Some name-thinking (ok, honestly, I already know exactly what name I want to give her. I haven't told Mr.Right yet. I'm so afraid of telling him and him hating it.)

Oh, and our OB (who called Mr.Right yesterday to give him the results - it's rather nice to have your OB and your husband on cell phone to cell phone talking basis) thought we should just go ahead and keep the MFM doc appointment next Monday. She initially said we could cancel and then basically said, well, just go and get the ultrasound and reassure yourselves. Yay!!! So, just because we are worrywarts (both of us), we decided to hold off just a little bit longer in telling our parents. So, if all looks good next Monday, we'll then tell Mr.Right's mom and my parents and his sister. (My sister and BIL already know.)

In the meantime, I've got to get back on the donor egg trail. I need to call a lawyer today about getting a contract written up between my sister and BIL and us. My sister is still trying to get to the lab to get infectious disease bloodwork done, but there's really no hurry. It just has to be done before she starts stims in May. She has bc pills all ready to go for her cycle that should start mid-April. Who knows what will be going on with my pregnancy in May, but it will be nice to know either way that (if we succeed) we'll have some embryos on ice for future use.

Thanks again to all of you who have stuck with me and held my virtual hand through this latest crisis. I hope there won't be anymore!!!