Heartbeat

At exactly 6 weeks today, we saw a heartbeat.  The yolk sac was a little hard to spot, but it was there.  The "pregnancy" as Dr.Dry always calls it at this point, is measuring spot on 6 weeks.  The one little thing he did say (and, yes, leave it to me to pick out the eensiest bad thing) was that the sac was measuring a little small.  But he seemed to imply that they sometimes see this with FETs and we just have to wait and see how it grows - like any pregnancy at this point.

So, we go onward.  We're still being cautious about excitement here.  We had a preliminary discussion, Mr.Right and I, about whether we're going to do CVS or not.  I think he's leaning towards it.  Dr.Dry, when asked today by Mr.Right, said he thought he'd do the NT and then an amnio if we wanted to be 100% sure.  I don't know.  There was something about knowing 100% at ~12/13 weeks that we had a chromosomally normal pregnancy that really put us at ease last time.  And I'm not sure how I'd deal with the uncertainty until an amnio since I haven't had to do that before.

On the other hand, it's not my egg and I have a lot more confidence in my sister's eggs than mine - given her age and lack of any history of pregnancy loss.

E went into the ultrasound with us.  Our clinic has a policy of no kids and we very much understand and wanted to respect that, but the only way for me to go to the appointment was to schedule it at 1:15 p.m. and have Mr.Right meet me in the parking lot to look after E.  So, of course, 1:15 is pretty much the first appointment after lunch and there was absolutely no one in the waiting room so I asked if Mr.Right and E could come in and they said, of course.  Then, as luck would have it, we had to wait around until nearly 1:45 for the scan.....argh!  But several torn-to-bits tissues and some crinkly paper later, E did very well.

Another scan in 7 to 10 days.  The nurse who was there was clueless about when I could stop the PIO and transition to endometrin so I'll have to email my regular donor nurse.

That's all from here!  Good news.  I hope it continues to go that way.  But, you never know.  Anything can happen.