Intermittent update

Just a quick update as E is about to wake up from her nap:  went in this past Tuesday at 7 weeks, exactly, for another ultrasound.  Baby measuring spot on 7 weeks.  Heartbeat was good.  Sac still a little small, but apparently grew appropriately from the previous week.  I'm trying not to worry about that too much (a round of Dr.Google on "small gestational sac" was a bad idea.)

Next ultrasound is not scheduled until Tuesday after Labor Day which will be 9 weeks exactly.  Had hoped to get in end of this next week, but it just didn't work out.  That will probably be the last appt at the fertility clinic. Then it will be on to the OB's office (hopefully).  I've already imagined the conversation to set up appts there:  "What's the date of your last period? "  "Uh, well, that's going to be irrelevant since it was sometime in June and it's not going to give you the right dating for the pregnancy since it was an FET."  I mean, I'm sure they've dealt with the pregnancies from fertility treatments before but the receptionists and medical assistants at this practice sometimes don't strike me as too bright.  oh well.

And we have a CVS scheduled as well.  September 28.  Which will be 12 weeks 3 days.  We debated about doing it the Friday before - at 11 weeks 3 days.  But, we're planning a birthday party for E that Saturday and, theoretically, I'm supposed to stay off my feet as much as possible for 5-7 days after the CVS so that wouldn't be ideal (especially since we're, of course, not breathing a word of the pregnancy to anyone, including our parents, until we get the CVS results back.)  We went several rounds of discussion about the CVS, but ultimately decided that we just didn't think we could be comfortable waiting out a pregnancy without definitive knowledge of the chromosome situation.  And there's no way I'm waiting until 18 weeks to get that information from an amnio and be faced with terminating then.  Weighing all that against the risk of miscarriage with the CVS - which at the doctor who's doing it is something like 1 in 350 or 400 - we decided we need to do it.  If we get that far, that is.

In the meantime, I tend to forget I'm pregnant.  Oh yeah, except for the daily Lovenox injections.  And the still every 3-day Delestrogen IM injections (although I'm off the PIO, thank goodness!  Maybe with a IM shot in the butt only every 3rd day my husband will actually be able to find a relatively un-bruised place to inject!)

Hope everyone has a fantastic weekend!