Boring Pregnancy Update

Not really much to say here.  16weeks yesterday (or tomorrow, depending on how you calculate from our slightly weird FET).  OB appointment last Monday and heard the heartbeat - no ultrasound at my OB's office.  Ultrasound this Thursday at the antenatal center - on the recommendation of the MFM who did the CVS that we start growth monitoring at 16 weeks.  The OB seemed skeptical about the ability to judge growth at 16 weeks, but gave the referral.  I just want to see our little bean again.  I hope he's doing well.

I've gained pretty much no weight from my transfer day.  I've been up 2 or 3 pounds (in the 1st trimester) and lately down 1 or 2 pounds from that conception day weight, but mostly just holding steady.  The OB doesn't seem concerned.  My husband says my body shape is changing - the lower belly is sticking out more (of course that's mostly just my ultra-flabby stomach muscles that haven't seen a sit up since before the last pregnancy).  I've been running or walking 3 miles every day so hopefully the baby is taking the fat off my thighs!!

I mostly forget that this is a donor egg baby.  Last week at the OB appointment, they had a woman come in after my appointment to see if we were interested in joining a genetics study the hospital is doing.  They had given me a flyer at a previous appointment.  The idea is to follow the development of the baby for 2 years with a few simple blood draws as well as a blood draw from the mother.  I could have just told them that we weren't interested in participating, but I really would have - I think it would have been really interesting and I'd have loved to support the research.  But, of course, the baby is not genetically linked to me (well, it is, familial-y since it's my sister's egg, but....) so I just told them that and said I figured that wouldn't fit into their research protocol.  And I was right.  So we won't be participating.  But I think that was the first time in a week or two that I'd thought about the donor part of this baby.

I was even at my sister and BIL's for my nephew's birthday party this past weekend and my BIL congratulated me since we hadn't seen each other since we'd told them I was pregnant.  And I think I even forgot to think then about the fact that this baby was the product of his wife's eggs.

I hope this continues to be a very boring pregnancy.  It's in that stage where I forget I'm pregnant a lot of the time.  Except for going to bed at 8:30 or 9 every night :-)  Of course, as I've been telling people, I'm not sure if that's because I'm 42 and have a 1 year-old or because I'm *pregnant* and 42 and have a 1 year-old.  Hard to tell sometimes.