CVS and waiting

CVS Thursday.  All is ok so far.  Awaiting the initial FISH results - probably with a call on Monday.  But, the good news is the nuchal fold is measuring only 1.26 something which is normal (my MFM makes a practice of measuring nuchal fold in a pre-procedure detailed ultrasound even though I didn't do the bloodwork part of the NT testing).  So, there's hope that this isn't a fetus with chromosome abnormalities.  Obviously given that it wasn't my egg, but my sisters's egg (retrieved at age 37) we were already having some measure of hope that things would be normal.

Baby was measuring exactly 12w2d at the appointment and flipping around a good bit.  It never ceases to amaze  me despite the gazillion ultrasounds I've had, just how much you can see even at this point - the nasal bone (yay!), the stomach, the bladder with urine in it, the hemispheres of the brain, let alone 5 fingers on each hand!

We'll find out the sex with the FISH results (hopefully Monday) as well.  We haven't decided whether we'll wait until the more detailed results come back - probably 10-14 days - or go ahead and let our family (including my sister whom I've kept in the dark so far) know that I'm pregnant sometime next week (assuming all is ok with the FISH results).

In the meantime, E turned 1 on Monday.  I can hardly believe it.  She had a great time at her birthday party on Saturday.  She had 2 of her 1st cousins and 3 of her 2nd cousins here to celebrate with her (and 14 people stayed overnight at our house Saturday night!)  She's finally getting more teeth.  She's had 2 bottom teeth since early June, and finally we're seeing I think 4 top teeth on their way.  One is definitely further along than the others and it just seems like it's taking eons for it to make any progress. Up until now, she'd only been using a pacifier when she goes into the crib for naptime or nightime, but she's basically carrying one around a lot of the day now.  And you can see that's she's just chewing away on them.  But I can't get her to chew on anything else (like those plastic water-filled rings you put in the refrigerator - just too much work to carry them around versus being able to be hands-free with the paci, I think!)

We're still cautiously optimistic about this new baby.  There's a long way to go yet.  And it almost feels like we're fertility 'virgins' since my pregnancy with E ultimately went so smoothly.  It's like that's our most recent experience now and you start thinking that's the way this one is going to go.

But I've been letting some sneaky thoughts in now and then - should I move E to the room next door or leave her where she is and put the baby in the other room?  Except if it's a boy, the other room was freshly painted a very subtle grayish lavender and that won't work for a boy and I don't want to repaint that room since it was just done and we could move E's furniture and even her lavender accessories to that room and they'd look just fine and her taupe room wood work with boy-color accessories and on and on and on........  Too early to think about all that.  Although I guess we'll know sex next week.  Anyhow, trying hard not to get too far ahead of myself.

Hope you all have a spectacular weekend!